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APPLAUSEVOLUME XXVI | NUMBER 5 | MAR – APR 2015
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APPLAUSEM A G A Z I N E
VOLUME XXVI | NUMBER 5 | MAR – APR 2015
EDITOR: Suzanne YoeCREATIVE DIRECTOR: Rob Silk
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: John MooreDESIGNERS: Kim Conner, Brenda Elliott, Kyle Malone
CONTRIBUTOR: Elizabeth Jewitt
Applause is published seven times a year by Denver Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with
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Do you consider yourself a revolutionary? Probably not. Most of us aren’t and those who are might not see themselves that way. We’re all just people — until some of us manage to change the world. In our world premiere Theatre Company production of The 12, the followers of Jesus Christ wrestle with their roles as revolutionaries without a leader. Developed by Tony-winning playwright and lyricist Robert Schenkkan (All The Way) and award-winning composer Neil Berg, The 12 combines the music of revolution (rock and roll) with universal questions of identity and responsibility. Whatever your beliefs, you’ll see some of yourself in this never-been-told story of people trying to find their places in a radically new world. Join us for this dramatic end to our Theatre Company season. You can also keep the rock flame alive with the creative and percussive hit STOMP or meet a revolutionary humorist in Mark Twain Tonight! Speaking of revolution, our Theatre Company’s production of One Night in Miami…. imagines the night Cassius Clay spent with activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke
and football legend Jim Brown before announcing his alignment with the Nation of Islam (and his eventual name change to Muhammad Ali). It’s a powerful spring line up of big personalities and world-changing ideas. Looking ahead you’re in for some treats. Our Broadway highlights include the national tour launch of If/Then, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, the 2014 Tony award-winner A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder and Beautiful — The Carole King Musical among many others. Our Theatre Company titles are nearly confirmed and are sure to match this season in quality, variety and appeal. Thank you for joining us today. I hope this season and next become part of your plans for enjoying our beautiful Colorado. Have fun.
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SSTOMP is Baaaaaaack! Hooooooold on to your hubcaps! It’s been a while since you heard those clomping, clanging racket makers — racketeers? — right here in your own back yard. Yes, STOMP is back in Denver in all its explosive, syncopated glory with those incredible percussionists who treasure the old adage about one man’s trash… The troupe still doesn’t look at everyday objects the way the rest of the world does. In their hands, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters (we’re not sure about Grouchos and Harpos) and the general detritus of the 21st century takes on a life of its own. STOMP, created and directed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, is an exploration of the outer limits of rhythmic invention. It’s a Pipe (read drain pipe) and Drum (read anything) Corps for our age. And speaking of age, it has not withered STOMP’s clatter — or fun. STOMP, that concatenation of sound and skill, is back with its rhythms and drumbeats intact. The same goes for its nonstop movement of bodies, objects, sound — even abstract ideas. There’s no dialogue, speech or plot. But music? Absolutely. Uncommon music, created in nontraditional ways — with every day objects ranging from matchbooks to every household item you can imagine. You’re bombarded by a caterwauling noise that under any
other circumstances you would choose to shut out. But not here. Here all is syncopated and choreographed with the precision of an army bugle corps (minus the bugles) and by the fertile imagination of buskers or street performers from the streets of Brighton — the spot where STOMP’s creators hail from and where they dream up versions of this utterly inventive, unexpected, whacked-out show. So sit back, relax, tap your feet, clap your hands. There’s only fun to be had here — no political statements, no dialogue to misconstrue, nothing beyond the sheer, surprising sights and sounds of the moment, from the ringing of hollow pipes to clashing metal weaving its spell, and industrial strength dance routines involving a lot of supremely well coordinated bodies. Yep, better hold on fast to those hubcaps as you zip yourself downtown to swing along with STOMP!
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STOMP photo by Steve McNicholas 2012
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TTHE 12 A NEW ROCK MUSICAL FOR THE AGESB Y J O H N M O O R E
They are perhaps the three most impactful days in the history of man, and remarkably little is known about them: the 72 hours between Jesus’ crucifixion and what Christians believe was his resurrection. It was the birth of what is now the world’s largest religion, with about 2.1 billion followers worldwide. The DCPA Theatre Company’s new rock musical The 12 imagines what those three days must have been like for his closest followers in the immediate, dangerous aftermath of the death of Jesus. “It’s useful to remember how young these people were,” Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Schenkkan said of the disciples. “These are very blue-collar, gritty, uneducated men. Yet their passion and their ultimate commitment to this individual — and the ideas that he embodied — are so fierce that they all will ultimately give their lives for him. That’s a very powerful idea, and we take that responsibility very seriously.” But The 12 is not a narrative play. Set against the backdrop of composer and co-lyricist Neil Berg’s classic rock ’n’ roll score, it is a big, loud, crank-it-up-to-10 musical. “The culmination of this event in history was, of course, a world-changing revolution of the most potent kind,” said Berg. “Rock ’n’ roll is the anthem of revolution, so that entirely supports this kind of passionate musical expression in our show.” What The 12 is not, both men said, is a treatise on religion. It is not a polemic. It does not take a stand on the certainty of the resurrection — although, Berg teases, “Everyone will have their own very clear idea of what happens at the end.” The 12 is instead an imagined, human story, Berg said, based on a real historical event. It is set to original music inspired by Berg’s love of classic rock bands like Led Zeppelin and The Who. In addition to being a trained writer of musical theatre, Berg has a long history as a touring musician with groups like the still-active Joe D’Urso & Stone Caravan. He has opened for Bruce Springsteen and The Doors, and has played at Red Rocks and McNichols Sports Arena. The score he has produced for The 12, he said, is a perfect match for the angst, the tension and the drive of Schenkkan’s story. “It is going to be authentic rock ’n’ roll, I can tell you that,” Berg said. The 12 has been described as picking up where Jesus Christ Superstar leaves off, and chronologically speaking, Berg said, that is accurate. However, Berg goes on to say that his original musical score “is really an open love letter to classic rock ’n’ roll.”
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The 12 will now join a genre of popular Biblical rock musicals of widely different tones, including Superstar, Godspell, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (coming to The Buell Theatre April 22 – 26) and Children of Eden. “I think The 12 is a different, great addition to that group,” Berg said. “Because the characters are all trapped in one room this story is intense from the beginning. You’re in it. And the music reflects that.” Schenkkan, who also wrote the 2014 Tony-winning best play All the Way, loves Superstar and Godspell, but those musicals are far more stylized than The 12, he said. “This is a more natural and thoughtful approach to the material,” he said. “Our approach is much less sensational. And, I think, more powerful because of it.” It was Schenkkan’s decision not to use Jesus’ name in The 12, and he did it for two reasons. First, like so many details in the Jesus story, we can’t be sure about this but it is unlikely in Jewish society at that time that his followers would have addressed him using his name as that would have been considered disrespectful. More likely he would have been called an honorific like, “teacher” or “Rabbi.” Second, it was done to remove a possible barrier between the story and its potential audience. “The phrase ‘Jesus the Lord’ is so loaded in terms of what it will later come to mean,” Schenkkan said. “By taking the name out of the equation, it puts the focus back on the immediacy of this very human story. “The tendency of the audience will be to look at this event with the weight of 2,000 years of bitterly contested doctrine, and everything that comes with that. We are trying to strip all of that away and say, ‘Wait a minute: What if you were one of these fishermen on the sea of Galilee, and this guy you might have heard something about comes up to you and says, ‘Follow me.’ And for reasons that are not clear even to you in that
moment, you do, because there is something about him that compels you. What does that mean? It is kind of unfathomable.” Berg adds, “When the head of this revolutionary group is suddenly killed, what makes these followers continue on?” Still, Schenkkan understands why potential audiences may feel some trepidation about what is for now a theatrical unknown. “Oftentimes, unfortunately, when writers have dealt with issues of faith, it’s hard not to feel that there is some condescension there. Some smugness. Some superiority,” Schenkkan said. “That’s unacceptable, quite honestly. I think it’s prejudice. “We have tried very seriously to get at this fundamental question of belief and commitment to something which cannot ultimately be proved in rational, scientific terms. And to me, that is a very exciting, dramatic proposition: How does one get there? We have all experienced a dark night of the soul. A time where everything we have believed in whether it is a religious expression or an idea or a cause has failed us. And we have to find a way to go forward. To recover our faith and our belief. That’s at the heart of what we are trying to do here. And it’s why I believe that all of our audience — including members of all various faith-based communities — will find this a story that is not only accessible and respectful, but also very compelling.”
Read John Moore’s expanded interviews with Neil Berg and Robert Schenkkan on our DCPA NewsCenter at denvercenter.org/news-center.
THE 12MAR 27 – APR 26STAGE THEATREASL interpreted, Audio described & Open captioned performance: Apr 26, 1:30pm Tickets: 303.893.4100 | denvercenter.org800.641.1222 | TTY: 303.893.9582Groups (10+): 303.446.4829
Ace Young as Joseph and Diana DeGarmo as Narrator in “Jacob & Sons” in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Photo by Daniel A. Swalec.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Described as one of the most enduring musicals of all time, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (playing The Buell Theatre April 22 - 26) has gotten a facelift. The history of the show dates back to the first Broadway performance in 1982. The success of the show spurred the Broadway revival in 1993 and made its way into the homes and hearts of viewers with the movie version of Joseph starring Donny Osmond in 1999. The revamped show starring newlyweds and “American Idol” veterans Ace Young (Grease, Hair) and Diana DeGarmo (Hairspray, Hair) features the same upbeat, feel-good vibe Joseph fans know and love, but with a modern twist. Director, choreographer and Tony-winner Andy Blankenbuehler paces the story with high-energy choreography and high-flying footwork with a hip-hop feel sure to have the audience dancing along. So put on your dance shoes and join us for one of musical theatre’s most enduring hits.
“The culmination of this event in history was, of course, a world-changing revolution of the most potent kind. Rock ’n’ roll is the anthem of revolution, so that entirely supports this kind of passionate musical expression in our show.”
— NEIL BERG
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On December 9, residents in Colorado joined together to support local nonprofits on Colorado Gives Day. Thanks to the generosity of these patrons and a matching gift from DaVita, the Denver Center for the Per-forming Arts (DCPA) received $61,000 in one day. As a not-for-profit organization, the DCPA relies on this financial support to produce and present plays on its stages, develop new work for the theatre and reach more than 68,000 students each year. We couldn’t do it without you. “Those donations help us provide matinee performances for students,” said Tiffany Grady, Associate Director of Development. “We recently had nearly 7,000 students attend our production of Lord of the Flies. Many of them were attending a live performance for the first time. “We are so proud to be able to make such a significant impact on our local community,” continued Grady. “We couldn’t do it without our generous donors.”
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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…COMES OUT SWINGINGB Y J O H N M O O R E
TThe morning after Cassius Clay shocked Sonny Liston — and the world — to win the world heavyweight boxing title in 1964, the brash 22-year-old announced he was changing his name to Muhammad Ali and pledging his allegiance to the Nation of Islam. To understand the resulting shock in today’s terms: Just imagine if LeBron James, the most popular basketball player in the world, announced he was going off to fight for Al-Qaeda. “It was that mind-bending, upending and sensational,” said Carl Cofield, director of the DCPA Theatre Com-pany’s highly anticipated staging of Kemp Powers’ One Night in Miami…. The Nation of Islam was never a terrorist organization, but this was more a matter of public perception. The Nation was thought to be a hate group. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had declared it Public Enemy No. 1. The very name terrified Americans then, Cofield said, the way ISIS terri-fies them today. “I think it is an apt comparison,” added Powers, the playwright. “The Nation of Islam never burned crosses or murdered anyone like the Ku Klux Klan. But it was in Hoover’s best in-terest to get the perception out there that these were the kind of people who would come for your kids.” Several weeks before the fight, which Sports Illustrated later named the fourth-greatest sports moment
of the 20th century, the Miami Herald published an article quoting Cassius Clay Sr. saying his son had joined the Black Muslims four years earlier, back when he was 18. “Muslims tell my boys to hate white people; to hate women; to hate their mother,” Clay’s father told the newspaper. The ensuing uproar was so intense, fight promoters threatened to cancel the bout unless Clay publicly disavowed the Nation of Islam. He refused. The fight went on only after Malcolm X, Clay’s friend and incendiary spokesman, agreed to leave town (although he returned the night of the fight). Immediately after Clay dispatched Liston in a mere seven rounds, the new champ bypassed the post-fight celebration and instead retreated to a Miami hotel room with Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke. All that’s known of what happened next be-tween four of the most iconic figures of the 1960s is that they only had vanilla ice cream to eat. “What we definitely know is that the next morning, Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali,” said Cofield, the play’s director. Powers, a longtime journalist and first-time playwright, wrote One Night in Miami… two years ago to imagine what might have transpired in that room — a fictional flight of fancy with a very real historical context. While One Night in Miami… is set five
decades ago to many African Amer-icans, Powers said, “It feels a lot like 1964 right now. “One of the things that inspired me to write the play is that some of the issues the characters are dealing with are, sadly, still very much con-temporary issues,” Powers said. “As I was writing it, I realized that all of the characters have modern contempo-raries. So I do want people to see the modern parallel.” But Powers was not expecting One Night in Miami…, which had its premiere in Los Angeles last year, to become this timely: Trayvon Martin. Ferguson. Eric Garner. Retaliatory cop shootings. At the cineplex, Selma graphically laid bare the atrocities that surrounded the conspiracy to deny African Americans the right to vote in 1964. “The second week after the play opened in LA, the Trayvon Martin- George Zimmerman thing happened,” said Powers. When the play opened a few months ago in Baltimore, he added, “People assumed I wrote it in response to Ferguson. “I hate to say it, but as far as race in America goes, it seems as if there has been a bit of a regression. I just think there are harder lines between differ-ent groups right now.” One of the primary, and still red-hot issues in the play, he added, is the social responsibility of the black artist.
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“Malcolm X thought Sam Cooke could have pushed the envelope to get people more fired up and agitat-ed,” Powers said. “Malcolm X’s orator-ical style was very much in-your-face and it propelled you to action; Sam’s style was more to let you discover the meaning of a song on your own, like an art piece.” Just as Powers finished One Night in Miami…, singer Harry Belafonte in-stigated a public sparring match with the rapper Jay-Z. Belafonte claimed current pop superstars “have turned their back on social responsibility.” He said that simply being a rich black man in the world is not enough. “When I saw that, I was like, ‘Oh my God, that is quite literally the whole question of social versus business responsibility, and which one deter-mines black success,’ ” Powers said. “I knew this play was going to be contemporary. But I had no idea it was going to be this nail-on-the-head contemporary.”
John Moore is DCPA’s Senior Arts Journalist.
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…MAR 20 – APR 19SPACE THEATREASL interpreted & Audio described performance: Apr 19, 1:30pm
FOUR FIGHTERS What do cultural icons Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X have in common? “All four are very much fighters, in their ways, but they have different styles,” said playwright Kemp Powers:
Muhammad AliThe DancerQuick on his feet, he often wore down opponents rather than just knock them out.
Jim BrownThe Pugilist
He punished opponents with straight-on power, often requiring
multiple defenders to bring him down.
Sam CookeThe BobberHe would be a more finessed, defensive fighter, surviving by bobbing and weaving.
Malcolm XThe Bruiser
He dazzles you with rhetoric before delivering the blindsiding knockout you never saw coming.
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Production Supervisor ..................................................................................................... Richard Costabile
Assistant to Mr. Holbrook.......................................................................................................... Joyce Cohen
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transmitting or recording device of any kind shall be used in any manner to reproduce the artist’s performance. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, which houses Mark Twain’s papers, is perhaps the most ambitious publishing enterprise in the annals of American literature, issuing scholarly editions of Mark Twain’s work
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Thank you. — Hal Holbrook
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SELECTION SOURCE
Compliments Collection .....................................................Miscellaneous
Chaucer, Sailor, Tennessee Girl ........................................Miscellaneous
Slow Train, Long Dog .........................................Following the Equator
Charity, Reform, Cats ...........................................................Miscellaneous
My Cigar Habit? ......................................................................Miscellaneous
The Marienbad Cure ............................................................................Essays
A Cyclopedia of Sin ..............................................................Miscellaneous
Smoke Rings ............................................................................Miscellaneous
A Moral Pauper .....................................................Following the Equator
Hunting the Water Closet ............................. Mark Twain’s Notebook
Virginia City ..................................................................................Roughing It
Shoveling Sand ...........................................................................Roughing It
The Ant ................................................................................A Tramp Abroad
The Great Landslide Case ......................................................Roughing It
The Lord Will Provide .......................................................Autobiography
The German Opera ........................................................A Tramp Abroad
A Genuine Mexican Plug ........................................................Roughing It
San Francisco ..........................................................................Miscellaneous
Crippling the Accordion ...............................................................Sketches
The Anarchist Story ...................................................................... Speeches
Baker’s Bluejay .................................................................A Tramp Abroad
The Sweet Bye and Bye ...............................Essays: The Invalid Story
His Grandfather’s Old Ram........................... Mark Twain’s Notebook
Congress: The Grand Old Asylum ................................Miscellaneous
The Press ........................................................................................... Speeches
Down There in Washington ..............................................Miscellaneous
Running For President ........................................................Miscellaneous
The Sandwich Islands ..............................................................Roughing It
The Italian GuideInnocents .............................................................Abroad
My Encounter With an Interviewer ..........................................Sketches
Accident Insurance ....................................................................... Speeches
The Supreme Art .................................................Letters from the Earth
White Suit.......................................................................................... Speeches
Requesting a Hymn Book ..............................Mark Twain in Eruption
Money is God ................................................................................ Notebooks
Decay in the Art of Lying ...............................Essays & Miscellaneous
Advice to Youth .............................................................................. Speeches
Taming the Bicycle ...............................................................................Essays
The Evolution of Man ..................................................................Biography
Insanity: Elections, War and Petrified Opinions .....Miscellaneous
Huck and Jim ....................................................................Huckleberry Finn
Shooting of Boggs .........................................................Huckleberry Finn
Huck, Jim and ‘Lizbeth .................................................Huckleberry Finn
Huck’s Conscience .........................................................Huckleberry Finn
Lost in the Fog .................................................................Huckleberry Finn
Lynching and China .............................................................................Essays
A Helluva Heaven.................................................Letters from the Earth
Slavery: A Holy Thing ......................................................Autobiography
Man, That Poor Thing .................................................................Biography
Noah’s Ark...............................................................Letters from the Earth
Chief Love .............................................................Mark Twain in Eruption
The Creator’s Pet .................................................Letters from the Earth
The War Prayer .................................................... Europe and Elsewhere
The Christian Bible ................................................................Miscellaneous
Circumstances .....................................................Mark Twain In Eruption
Our Civilization ....................................................................Autobiography
A Ghost Story ........................................................................... Short Stories
Sunrise on the River ...........................................Life On the Mississippi
The Get Rich Quick Disease .............................................Miscellaneous
The Thin Skin ...................................................... Mark Twain’s Notebook
The Virgin Mary ......................................................Ladies Home Journal
Praying for Gingerbread ..................................................Autobiography
Boyhood on the Farm ......................................................Autobiography
Taking Along the Window Sash .............................Innocents Abroad
My Trained Presbyterian Conscience.........................Autobiography
How I Stole My Name .........................................Life on the Mississippi
Livy ............................................................................................Autobiography
How to Be Seventy ....................................................................... Speeches
My Ancestor Satan ................................................................. Short Stories
The Hartford Home .............................................................................Letters
Susy’s Prayer .........................................................................Autobiography
Halley’s Comet ...............................................................................Biography
Mary Ann ........................................................................................... Speeches
NOTE: While Mr. Twain’s selections will come from the complete list below, we have been unable to pin him down as to which of them he will do. He claims it would cripple his inspiration. However, he has generously conceded to a printed program for the benefit of those who are in distress and wish to fan themselves.
These selections are quotations directly from Mark Twain’s writings, edited together by Mr. Holbrook to create his performance.
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HAL HOLBROOK
When the calendar turned to 2014 it laid down a milestone for the longest running show in American Theatre history – the 60th year for Mark Twain Tonight! Clive Barnes of the New York Times reviewed Hal Holbrook’s third New York engagement in 1977: “Hilariously funny. We see him not as the precursor of Will Rogers or even H. L. Mencken, but clearly as a prototypal Lenny Bruce, so anti-establishment you wonder why they allowed him into his century.” Holbrook has shown us Mark Twain the social critic, whom George Bernard Shaw called “America’s Voltaire.”
The show doesn’t stop evolving. Three new numbers have added another hour to its revolving repertoire of material: one on the Christian Bible, another from the feuding clans in Huckleberry Finn killing each other off, and another on the fate of the laboring class in America. “Mark Twain never stops surprising me,” says Holbrook. “He keeps firing me up and asking questions.”
It was a fateful decision for Holbrook when he sat at his desk in a small $79 a month New York apartment in 1954 and began searching Twain’s writings for material that might work on the stage and feed his family. One key decision he made: Don’t update him. Portray Mark Twain as the aging character the world recognizes – a wild white head of hair, beetle brows and moustache, the white suit, and never break the illusion that it is Twain himself speaking in his own time. Let the audience update him. That has made the show more powerful because human behavior doesn’t change. Neither does its foolishness. That’s the joke.
This total disguise of himself, which took as much as four hours when he was younger, has given Holbrook the benefit of another career as himself in motion pictures like Magnum Force, Wall Street, Creepshow, Water for Elephants, Lincoln and Into the Wild for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Television films and series earned him five Emmy Awards, a total of twelve nominations. With ninety-eight stage plays in New York and regional theatres around the country, he has said “I’ve been on the road most of my life.”
He is not a Hollywood actor or a New York actor. He’s as much an American actor as any in our theatre’s history because he has never stopped touring America coast to coast in 66 years since graduating college in Ohio and setting out for Texas on the school assembly circuit with Ruby Holbrook, his first wife. The solo Twain was originally created in a Greenwich Village nightclub, where Ed Sullivan saw him and first gave him national television exposure. Three years later an unheralded 34-year old actor debuted Mark Twain Tonight! just off Broadway to critics who had no idea what to expect. The New York Times: “There should have been posters up all over town to herald his arrival. Mr. Holbrook’s material is uproarious, his ability to hold an audience by acting is brilliant.” It was called “one of the treasures of the American Theatre” by Life Magazine. Seven years later he played New York again, won the Tony Award and Mark Twain Tonight! was seen on CBS Television before 30 million people.
Hal Holbrook was born in Cleveland in 1925. When he was two his mother disappeared, his father followed suit, and young Holbrook and his two sisters were raised by their grandfather in South Weymouth, Massachusetts where his people had settled in 1635. He was sent away at the age of seven to one of the finer New England schools, beaten regularly by a Dickensian headmaster, and at twelve was sent to Culver Military Academy where he learned self-discipline and discovered acting as an escape from rigid authority. He believes Culver saved his life.
After three years in World War II, Holbrook completed his college education at Denison University in Ohio, where the Mark Twain characterization grew out of an honors project which gave him and his young wife an immediate job after graduation, playing scenes from Shakespeare to Twain on the school assembly circuit in the Southwest.
His first solo appearance as Twain was at the Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954, a desperate alternative to selling hats or running elevators in New York to keep his young family alive. When a radio and television soap opera, The Brighter Day, rescued them, Holbrook still pursued the Twain character in a Greenwich Village nightclub. While doing the soap opera in the daytime, he developed his original two hours of material in the curve of a baby grand piano at night and Ed Sullivan caught his act.
The New York stage debut three years later was such a stunning success, he quit the soap; the State Department sent him on a tour of Europe where he was the first American dramatic attraction after World War II to appear behind the Iron Curtain.
Then he pursued a new career as himself, playing Shakespeare, Abe Lincoln in Illinois Off-Broadway, and booking Twain in between. He joined the original Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York and built a career as an actor in a variety of roles with no connection to Mark Twain – Man of LaMancha, King Lear, Shylock, Willy Loman onstage, and in 50-odd feature films. He has no set program in Mark Twain Tonight! It changes and evolves and he sometimes chooses the material he will do as the show goes along.
Hal Holbrook sailed the 1980 singlehanded race to Hawaii and extensively in the South Pacific to New Zealand on his 40-foot sailboat, Yankee Tar. He has five children, lives in Los Angeles and sometimes in Tennessee at the home where his dear wife, Dixie Carter, grew up. She passed away in 2010.
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MARK TWAIN: BIOGRAPHY(SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS)
1835 Born in Florida, Missouri (November 30).
1839 Moved to Hannibal, Missouri.
1853 Left home to become itinerant printer.
1857 Became apprentice pilot on the Mississippi River.
1861 After two weeks in the Confederate Army, resigned commission and went to the Nevada territory with brother Orion.
1862 Prospected unsuccessfully, then joined Virginia City Enterprise as a reporter — first used pen name “Mark Twain”.
1864 Joined the San Francisco Morning Call.
1866 Visited Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), became lecturer, wrote travel letters to the Sacramento Union and the San Francisco Alta California.
1867 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County published. Joined excursion to Mediterranean.
1870 Married Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York (February 2). Settled in Buffalo as editor of The Buffalo Express.
1871 Moved to Hartford, Connecticut.
1872 Susy Clemens born. Roughing It published.
1873 Collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner on The Gilded Age.
1874 Clara Clemens born.
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer published.
1878 Family lived in Europe.
1880 Jean Clemens born. A Tramp Abroad published.
1882 The Prince and the Pauper published.
1883 Life on the Mississippi published.
1884 Published U.S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs. Began investment in Paige Typesetter.
1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published.
1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court published.
1891 Family moved to Europe.
1894 The Tragedy of Pudd’n Head Wilson published.
1896 Lecture tour around the world. Susy Clemens died in Hartford (August 18). Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc published.
1897 Following the Equator published.
1900 Lived in New York.
1904 Olivia Langdon Clemens died in Florence, Italy (June 5).
1907 Received LLD from Oxford University.
1908 Moved to “Stormfield”, the house he built in Redding, Connecticut.
1909 Jean Clemens died (December 24).
1910 Mark Twain died in Redding, Connecticut (April 21).
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IIn a career that spans more than 70 years and ranges from regional the-atre to TV and film, the world inevita-bly thinks of Hal Holbrook primarily as Mark Twain. This recognition is all thanks to his irrepressible solo per-formance in Mark Twain Tonight!. To hear Holbrook tell it, this was all an accident. Born in Cleveland in 1925 where his first role in the theatre was in The Man Who Came to Dinner at Cleveland’s Cain Park Theatre, he grew up in Massachusetts and later graduated from Ohio’s Denison University. By the time Holbrook left Denison, he was married and he and his first wife, Ruby Johnson, had developed a two-person show consisting of characters from Shakespeare to (yes) Mark Twain. They took it on the road, touring the 8am school assembly circuit in a freezing Southwest, doing 307 shows in 30 weeks, and racking up 30,000 miles on their station wagon, with costumes that often had to be defrosted before they could be worn. The Twain characterization might have perished right there, but Hol-brook was cast in a soap opera in New York and became sufficiently bored with it that he began to ex-
pand his repertoire of Twain material in sheer self-defense. When TV’s Ed Sullivan saw the polished one-man piece in a small New York theatre and offered Holbrook national exposure on his hugely popular variety show, there was no turning back. The down side of that success was that young Hal was being offered mostly old-man roles. The up side, though he didn’t know it at the time, was that Mark Twain Tonight! would become the singular, solo creation that he’s played all over the country (including Broadway, where it earned him a 1966 Tony® Award). This turn of events threatened, but was not allowed to impede a much richer and fuller career. On stage he tackled everything — from comedy to drama, musicals to Chekhov, Miller to Shakespeare, careening from Hotspur and Shylock to the vaulting King Lear, without flinching at the sheer magnitude and range of his undertakings. “I was introduced to acting that way, playing everything,” he told this writer in 1996, when he came through Denver in the title role of Death of a Salesman. “I dove into the theatre to get be-hind disguises,” he confessed.
WILL THE REAL GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST PLEASE STEP FORWARD?MARK TWAIN, SAMUEL CLEMENS OR HAL HOLBROOK?B Y S Y LV I E D R A K E
“If I’d learned just to play myself
I might have become some kind
of movie star, but I thwarted that
by taking on roles that allowed me to get at the heart of
a character.”
— HAL HOLBROOK
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Gilgamesh Taggett as Oliver Warbucks and Issie Swickle as Annie in “I Don’t Need Anything But You” Photo by Joan Marcus.
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ANNIEThink you’re an expert on the musical Annie? Brush up on your trivia before heading to The Buell Theatre April 29 – May 10 for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts presentation.
1. Little Orphan Annie originally appeared as a ____________ in the 1920s.
a. Children’s Bookb. Comic stripc. Radio ad
2. Finish the lyric: “It’s a _________ _________ life, for us!”
a. pretty easyb. tough knock c. hard knock
3. Which of the following musicians recorded the song “Tomorrow”?
a. Barbra Streisandb. Jack Toppingc. Idina Menzeld. All of the above
4. How many Tony Awards did the original 1977 production of Annie win?
a. 7b. 4c. 5
5. How many times has Annie been made into a movie?
a. 1b. 2c. 3
6. What is the name of the stray dog that Annie adopts?
a. Sandyb. Maxc. Rover
7. What US President is featured in the show (Hint: the show takes place in December 1933)?
a. Harry S. Trumanb. F.D.R.c. Woodrow Wilson
8. What does Annie wear that reminds her of her parents?
a. a ringb. a locketc. her mother’s scarf
“As a kid, I’d scare the neighborhood as the Hunchback of Notre Dame. If I’d learned just to play myself I might have become some kind of movie star, but I thwarted that by taking on roles that allowed me to get at the heart of a character.” Yet the most amazing of those characters remains his portrayal of the pugnacious, cigar-chomping Mark Twain, a wit and writer Holbrook deeply admires and with whom he is on very intimate terms after 60 years of being him on stage. Not only does he find Twain’s perceptions brilliant, but also extremely modern. When we met on a wintry Los An-geles afternoon in his home library, Holbrook was fired up. On cue, eyes, energy and indignation blazing, he expounded not only on the astonish-ing career he has made out of playing one of America’s greatest citizen-phi-losophers (a journey chronicled in his 2011 autobiography, Harold, the Boy Who Became Mark Twain), but also on his boundless admiration for what he sees as Twain’s prophetic vision of this country’s often rogue and diffi-cult trajectory and uncertain future. “He was the first tremendously successful author in this country,” he said. “In the 1870s, after the Civil War, his career took off, he came east, and the country took off. The Industrial Revolution began, fed by Mr. Lincoln saying go ahead, put down the trans-continental railroad. Mark Twain, still in his thirties, became the confidant of Andrew Carnegie, of Mr. Vander-bilt — he sailed on his yacht — of young John Rockefeller: [Jay] Gould, J.P. Morgan. “In those days they all belonged to clubs — the Players Club, the Lotus Club. They all knew each other, had lunches, made fun of each other, had fun with each other. Twain watched them, looked at them, went home and wrote about them. He saw the great turn that had happened in this country, from an agrarian to an indus-trialized nation, which became, in a
period of 30 or 40 years, an industrial giant.” Yet Twain saw an America that lost its way. To quote from the show, “It’s a civilization that has destroyed the simplicity and repose of life, its poetry, its soft romantic dreams and visions, and replaced them with a money fever, shorted ideals, vulgar ambitions and a sleep that does not refresh.” No wonder Holbrook stands in awe. “You could start the American Dream with Abraham Lincoln as the epito-me of the Great American Story,” he said. “You go from Lincoln to Twain and the disintegration that he began to write about in The Gilded Age and other late works, and you know he was beginning to see the erosion of the purity of our values. “If you think that Mark Twain was just becoming a road exercise for me, think again,” he added. “I can get out there and say something that means something to me and, I believe, to the American public that may not even understand the magnitude of what is going on. It’s become my sword. We all need to think a little bit about what we are doing to ourselves, to our children and especially to our country.” The words will be Twain’s. The pas-sion? All Holbrook.
Sylvie Drake most recently served as Director of Publications for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She is a former theatre critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to culturalweekly.com.
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Platt’s The There There tested our presumptions of tolerance by presenting one couple’s love story over 60 years. The same script was read by two men the first weekend, and by a man and a woman the second. Rebeck’s The Nest had pointed things to say about the different ways men and women see the world inside a story about a community of tavern regulars. Catherine Trieschmann’s comedy Holy Laughter looks at a very different kind of community in conflict. Her community looks at a flawed young Episcopalian priest who struggles to keep her church — and the minds of her few remaining parishioners — open. Tanya Saracho’s FADE is a semi-autobiographical story about an inexperienced young Latina who is hired to write for a TV detective show in Hollywood. The expanded Summit offered a plethora of new activities, including playwriting workshops led by Matthew Lopez and Paula Vogel, and two playwright “slams,” one curated by the local Rough Draught Playwrights. Visitors also attended world premiere performances of Benediction and Appoggiatura. Saracho left Denver saying, “I don’t know how to describe the essence of this place. Nurturing is not enough. I need a better word. Everyone here at this Summit is just trying to get your play born…so it’s like everyone is your midwife.”
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Our main driving principles at Abend Gallery and Gallery 1261 are col-laboration and the power of art to support charitable endeavors as well as other artistic disciplines. That’s why Abend Gallery partners with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) annually for Saturday Night Alive. Numerous works by gal-lery artists are donated to the Satur-day Night Alive auction and valued at more than $20,000 a year. There are many other ways in which this practice manifests in our galleries’ programs. In terms of collaboration, Abend has recently launched a series of guest-curated exhibitions. This past February, we partnered with curator Ivar Zeile and Plus Gallery by offering Ivar our main gallery space for a pop-up exhibition, paired with our in-house curated show. We used this platform to explore the possibilities of galleries working together in a shared con-text. Currently, Abend is featuring an exhibition by guest curator Mark Sink as part of his annual Month of Photography, a biennial celebration of fine art photography with hun-dreds of events throughout Denver and the region, taking place in March and April. The exhibit at Abend runs March 10 to April 17. Future guest curation and collaborative events at the gallery are planned for 2016. We also partner with local char-ities, such as Project Angel Heart and the Central Visitation Program. At Abend Gallery we host Art for
Life, a one-night auction featuring more than 100 artists donating over 100 works for auction that benefit Project Angel Heart, an outstand-ing charity dedicated to providing meals to individuals coping with life-threatening illness. Many of our artists from Abend and Gallery 1261 participate by donating works as well as performing live demonstrations during the event. In 2014, Art for Life raised more than $100,000 through auction and ticket sales to support Project Angel Heart’s home-deliv-ered meals program. This year, Art for Life will be held on May 29. Visit projectangelheart.com for more information. For more than 10 years, Gallery 1261 has hosted a silent auction benefit for the Central Visitation Program (CVP). The CVP is “a low-fee supervised visitation program that provides a safe and comfortable environment in which children and non-residential parents may visit.” We donate our space each year as well as a portion of the proceeds from any art sale during the event. The annual event at the gal-lery has typically provided more than 10% of CVP budget each year. This year the fundraiser will take place on November 6. Visit CVPDenver.org for more information. We are proud of our continued partnership with the DCPA, support of local charities and promoting the arts community of Denver.
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