Highlights video by John Moore and Emily Lozow for the DCPA NewsCenter.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts partnered with the downtown Hard Rock Cafe for a night of holiday hits, rock songs and showtunes featuring cast members from all four current productions: Disney’s The Lion King, A Christmas Carol, Murder for Two and The Santaland Diaries.

Ticket sales for the Nov. 23 event benefited The Denver Actors Fund and DCPA Education’s “send a child to a Theatre Company student matinee” program.

Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ Cubs sing The Jackson 5. Photo by John Moore.

The performers included:
From the DCPA Theatre Company’s A Christmas Carol (playing through Dec. 27):
Napoleon M. Douglas, “Merry Christmas Baby”
James Michael Reilly, “Mr. Cellophane,” from Chicago
Daniel Langhoff and Jake Williamson: “You’re What You Own,” from Rent, and “Waiting for My Life to Start,” an original song by Williamson
Emma C. Martin, “Meadowlark” from The Baker’s Wife

From Disney’s The Lion King (just closed):
Tre Jones, B.J. Covington, Savanna Fleisher and Mikari Tarpley, “I Want You Back,” by The Jackson 5
Tiffany Denise Hobbs, “I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” from Dreamgirls
Tricia Hofacker and Scott Swallen, “Stud and Babe,” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Gerald Ramsey, Traditional Polynesian dance
Blaine Krauss, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” from Gypsy 

From Murder for Two (playing through Feb. 21):
Ian Lowe, “Welcome to Our Home,” an original song by castmate Joe Kinosian
John Wascavage, a one-man “One Day More” from Les Misérables

From The SantaLand Diaries (playing through Dec. 17):
Luke Sorge

The live band included Neal Dunfee, Tag Worley, Jason Tyler Vaughn and Eli Acosta. The director of the DCPA Holiday Cabaret was Ronni Gallup. The Event Coordinators included Heidi Bosk and Hope Grandon of the DCPA, Aaron Quintana of Disney’s The Lion King and John Lindsay of the Hard Rock Cafe Denver

Video and photos by John Moore and Emily Lozow for the DCPA NewsCenter. Visit us at www.MyDenverCenter.Org.

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