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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Seattle has a huge theatre community...

Interesting. I'm really pleased to hear that.

Denver does also.

We just got back from White Christmas at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) Buell Theatre. The tickets came as part of our Broadway season, but it was not a tour, but rather a local effort of the Denver Center Theatre Company (a subsidiary of DCPA), in collaboration with the Fifth Avenue (street?) Theatre Company in Seattle and the Theatre Under the Stars (I think) in Houston. The three companies shared in financing and creative staffs on the production.

It was good.

A seventh grader from the Denver School of the Arts played Susan, and her mother bought our daughter and son-in-law orchestra seats because he cast her in a couple of shows (Sound of Music and The Secret Garden) and daughter had leads in both and kind of mentored her. She did a great job.

DCPA has also collaborated with The Royal Shakespere Company as well as others on projects. That is just so smart, and a great use of resources.

The Denver Center was really alive today with White Christmas at the Buell, Nutcracker at the ELLIE (Ellie Caukins Opera House), The Colorado Symphony at Boetcher Concert Hall and The Taffetas at The Stage. All three spaces are in the same complex. There are three other theatres in the complex, but they didn't have showings at the same time.

The theatre district was really busy after the shows and we discoverd a really neat 50's/60's type diner and had dinner. It was packed with after theatre folks.

Great day!

ETA that it's great to see the IATSE (stagehands) strike is over!

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Found some good fares and a friend of son's from "Millie" last year is subletting her apartment, so we're heading for the City 12/19 thru 12/25.

Thinking about what show to see...

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Back.

Saw Young Frankenstein (really funny), Color Purple with Fantasia (left me cold, but she can belt) and the Chorus Line revival (enjoyed it a lot).

Didn't pay full price for any -- ticket lottery for Frankstein ($26.50 per ticket, first row center), TKTS booth for the other two -- $60.50 per ticket for both shows)

Also walked all over Manhattan and my feet will be better some day. I hope. Stayed in a real need little apartment at 56th and 9th -- great location.

Had the chance to get standing room for Jersey Boys, but by the time (about 90 seconds) I checked with wife, they were sold. That would have been $26.50 per ticket. Frustrating.

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NEW YORK – Rent, the acclaimed musical chronicle of counterculture life and death in Manhattan's East Village, will close in June after more than a dozen years on Broadway, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Rent Closing