If you want to see Jersey Boys you'd better get your tickets TODAY, it's about to sell out!
Mary and I saw it last night, and it's really true big songs don't die!
Dramatic spectacle shows both the strength and character flaws of 4 New Jersey boys who decide to get out of the neighborhood, "Back then there were three ways to get out: join the military, get mobbed up, or become a star-- up and out!"
Strong emotions are on display from start to dramatic finish. "Sell 100 million records and see how you handle it." There is never one drowsey moment in the electric musical story.
Song after song, 27 in all, we're shown the 45 year career, how Frankie Vally became Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons with a brass section! From Sherry and Big Girls Don't Cry, to Working My Way Back to You and Rag Doll, each song is a brush stroke that paints the story: "You can't buy this, it's from the people."
Josh Franklin (Bob Gaudio), Joseph Leo Bwari (Frankie Valli), Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi) and Erik Bates (Tommy DeVito) are too good to be true.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Get your tickets now, Mary and I will be there for the opening December 12!
Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre presents JERSEY BOYS, the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons.
This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide – all before they were 30!
Features The Four Seasons hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
Time Magazine says “IT WILL RUN FOR CENTURIES!”
Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre presents JERSEY BOYS, the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons.
This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide – all before they were 30!
Features The Four Seasons hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
Time Magazine says “IT WILL RUN FOR CENTURIES!”
Friday, November 21, 2008
Wow. Don’t miss this extraordinary production!
Get your tickets and mark your calendar now!
The Miracle Worker opened at the (click here) Denver Center for the Performing Arts last night with a dazzling performance by 13 year old Daria LeGrand, an already accomplished actress who was brought in from Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Helen Keller was originally played on Broadway and in the movie by Patty Duke.
The role of Annie Sullivan, opposite 13-year old Patty Duke by young Anne Bancroft is Kate Hurster from the National Theatre Conservatory with a phenominal performance that might have even outshone the Keller performance, with two such brilliant stars it is all but impossible to know for sure.
The staging, music, and moving performances by the entire cast results in inspiration that is so much needed in these difficult times. What’s a financial crisis compared to what Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller faced and overcame?
Anyone with a family member facing a difficult trial will find powerful medicine: Hope.
You’ll leave the theatre looking forward to tomorrow!
Mark Twain originally called Annie Sullivan the miracle worker, and Annie was connected to the Keller family by Alexander Graham Bell I learned from the very useful InsideOUT which is available for free at the Patron Services desk.
The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.’ Helen Keller
To love and succeed is a fine thing, to love and fail is the next best, and the best of all is to fail and yet keep on loving. Annie Sullivan
Get your tickets and mark your calendar now!
The Miracle Worker opened at the (click here) Denver Center for the Performing Arts last night with a dazzling performance by 13 year old Daria LeGrand, an already accomplished actress who was brought in from Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Helen Keller was originally played on Broadway and in the movie by Patty Duke.
The role of Annie Sullivan, opposite 13-year old Patty Duke by young Anne Bancroft is Kate Hurster from the National Theatre Conservatory with a phenominal performance that might have even outshone the Keller performance, with two such brilliant stars it is all but impossible to know for sure.
The staging, music, and moving performances by the entire cast results in inspiration that is so much needed in these difficult times. What’s a financial crisis compared to what Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller faced and overcame?
Anyone with a family member facing a difficult trial will find powerful medicine: Hope.
You’ll leave the theatre looking forward to tomorrow!
Mark Twain originally called Annie Sullivan the miracle worker, and Annie was connected to the Keller family by Alexander Graham Bell I learned from the very useful InsideOUT which is available for free at the Patron Services desk.
The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.’ Helen Keller
To love and succeed is a fine thing, to love and fail is the next best, and the best of all is to fail and yet keep on loving. Annie Sullivan
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Jack’s Back!
Jack, star of the television show 24, who’s Batman, James Bond, and Superman rolled into one, will be back on the Fox Network, Sunday, Nov. 23rd. Check your local listings for times. It’s a “don’t miss.” http://www.fox.com/24/redemption/
Quantum of Solace
Well, this movie doesn’t fall into the “don’t miss” category.
While the movie follows suit with the handsome, take no prisoners, new James Bond character Daniel Craig, the quantum of solace story never surfaces in the movie. It’s buried underneath all of the rubble of bombed out buildings, cars, bridges, and sour expressions.
The movie needed a shaken—not—stirred martini.
http://www.007.com/
Mary Clement
Jack, star of the television show 24, who’s Batman, James Bond, and Superman rolled into one, will be back on the Fox Network, Sunday, Nov. 23rd. Check your local listings for times. It’s a “don’t miss.” http://www.fox.com/24/redemption/
Quantum of Solace
Well, this movie doesn’t fall into the “don’t miss” category.
While the movie follows suit with the handsome, take no prisoners, new James Bond character Daniel Craig, the quantum of solace story never surfaces in the movie. It’s buried underneath all of the rubble of bombed out buildings, cars, bridges, and sour expressions.
The movie needed a shaken—not—stirred martini.
http://www.007.com/
Mary Clement
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
After a year away, Mary and I are back with Denver When & Where!
The Miracle Worker opens this Thursday at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. I'll be there and you can look here for a complete report the next morning.
What movie, play, or musical event have you attended recently? How was it? Post your comments here. Life is too short for any of us to go to everything!
John Wren
The Miracle Worker opens this Thursday at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. I'll be there and you can look here for a complete report the next morning.
What movie, play, or musical event have you attended recently? How was it? Post your comments here. Life is too short for any of us to go to everything!
John Wren
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