La Cage makes 3 Stars
Review: “La Cage aux Folles”
*** RATING | Musical sparkles in Arvada
By John Moore
Denver Post Theater Critic
Article Last Updated: 11/29/2007 12:11:50 AM MST
You’ll not find a play or musical with a clearer mantra than this: “I am what I am.”
The Arvada Center’s “La Cage aux Folles” is a garish, audacious and flamboyantly fun musical comedy, but its goal is so heartbreakingly humble: tolerance. The stakes here aren’t nearly as high as in its forebear, “Cabaret,” but their parallel pleas echo, from World War II Berlin, past the 1980s French Rivera, to Arvada today.
This is a smart, heartfelt old musical that doesn’t feel old, because we still haven’t quite gotten the message.
Read the rest of John Moore’s Denver Post Review… CLICK HERE
‘Plaid’ makes a checkered comeback
‘Plaid’ makes a checkered comeback
By Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News
Friday, November 16, 2007
The boys in plaid are back, in an utterly contrived and too-long show that’s nonetheless beautifully performed, directed and choreographed. Read the whole review at Rocky Mtn New Website.
Q&A with Our Very Own Miss Nelson, Amanda Earls
The “Miss Nelson” books were my real-life favorites growing up. Miss Nelson is a completely nice, wonderful, warm-souled woman, and her kids are a complete nightmare. So she has the idea to dress up as a crazy, mean witch lady named Miss Viola Swamp. I get to be so terrible to these kids. She whips everybody into shape so when Miss Nelson comes back, they are a much better-behaved class.
Check out John Moore’s “Running Lines Pod Cast” to hear the rest of this interview…
9NEWS on Defiance
Kirk Montgomery with 9News reporting live from Coors Field.
At 2 minutes and 10 Seconds he does a little piece on Defiance.
Authority has key role again…
Defiance
Grade: B-
On a North Carolina Marine base in 1971, Lt. Col. Morgan Littlefield is wrestling with the ranks. In the waning years of Vietnam, the only soldiers enlisting are barely fit for service, and those returning from overseas are wrecked. Racial tensions, spurred by the Black Power movement and the death of Martin Luther King, are at a boil.
