Tag Archive for: Broadway

Bluey’s Big Play Activity Pack

See Bluey onstage during Bluey’s Big Play! The whole family will be in Denver on November 21 & 22, 2026 Whether your kids are coming to the theatre or you are a kid at heart, download these Bluey-approved activities to enhance your experience. Draw step-by-step portraits of Bluey, Bingo, Mum, and Dad; make paper masks […]

The Mob in Denver

The Smaldone family, Denver’s version of the Mafia, was low key, unlike their more high-profile brethren in New York, Chicago and New Jersey. They wore big hats and spiffy suits, but they didn’t race around town in big cars, mowing down rivals. In fact, they weren’t in the Mafia. Isolated far out in Denver, they […]

Oh, Mary! to play Denver

Tony Award®-winning and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Play Coming for Strictly Limited Engagement   On the heels of a sold-out tour launch in Hartford and record-breaking San Diego engagement, producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia announced today that the North American tour of Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola’s Tony® and Olivier […]

Littleton-born Andrew Flatt at the Helm of “The Beast”

Arapahoe HS & CU-Boulder grad. Previous Denver Center Theatre Company house manager. And now? Managing Director of Disney Theatrical Group In a video marking the 30th anniversary of Disney on Broadway, Julie Taymor, the Tony-winning director of The Lion King, offered a vital PSA. “Going to the theater and being in an audience is something […]

From 1740 Fairy Tale to Modern Musical: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Reprinted with permission from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Study Guide   Beauty and the Beast (“La belle et la bête”) is a traditional fairy tale that was first published in French in the mid-18th century in a version by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. The first English translation appeared in 1757. Since then, the story […]

Beyond the Script: Denver Public Library’s Guide to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Denver Public Library recommends these resources to enhance your experience at Disney’s Beauty and the Beast   READ  Kill the Beast: A Tale of Everyone’s Favorite Guy by Serena Valentino We all know the story of Belle and the Beast, though this title takes a unique spin with the never before heard story of Gaston. […]

Rhythm and Blues of The Carpenters

Harmony, staying power and the price of perfection By Suzanne Cohen You may have heard — or even sung along with — “Top of the World,” “Superstar” and “Rainy Days and Mondays,” songs that helped catapult siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter to pop royalty in the 1970s. Karen’s rich contralto voice and Richard’s instrumental talent […]

Top 10 Things To Know About Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller

Chip is the #1 Christmas music artist in history with over 31 million Christmas records sold; the second highest Christmas artist is Elvis Presley with 17 million. 2019 was the 35th anniversary of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas tour, making it the longest running consecutive tour in the entertainment industry. The music industry told Chip “Don’t do […]

A Musical Renaissance

A Beauty, A Beast, and The Return of the Musical By Jeff Kurtti In 1989, Disney premiered The Little Mermaid, its first major animated hit in more than two decades. With this instant classic, Disney animation entered a new golden age, which would later be referred to as the “Disney Renaissance.” Not only did this […]

Listening to You I Get the Music

…or How I Got To Watch Pete Townshend Play Air Guitar By Constance Harvey Constance Harvey was the press rep at the La Jolla Playhouse when The Who’s TOMMY premiered there in 1992. She was on staff at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts two years later when the first national tour came to […]