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Hello. We’re so glad you joined us today. Alongside the two rousing Denver Center Attractions presentations of Memphis and STOMP, which should fill the Buell theatre with plenty of inspired rock’n’roll and inspired rowdy clatter (did you see the STOMP performance that was part of the closing ceremonies of the London Olympics?), the Denver Center theatre Company is happy to offer its annual family show. this yearly tradition of a fea-tured production for middle school students, teachers and families con-tinues with a vivid stage adaptation of Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal-winning book, The Giver. Many of us have read the novel, which has been widely taught by middle schools across the country since its publication nearly 20 years ago. The Giver matches our goals for our Middle School/Family Series: bringing stories and issues of serious interest yet great appeal and high quality to students, parents and teachers in a theatrical way. But
its appeal reaches well beyond the schools to all of us. My expectation is that this production will stimulate all audiences and lead to discussion and debate—in the living room, the kitchen, the family car, as well as on the school bus and in the classroom. Lowry’s book touches on the very conduct of our lives and what we should and should not expect from society at large and from the rules we put in place to govern ourselves. I think you’ll agree that playwright Eric Coble has done an excellent job of adapting this provocative novel that is so justly celebrated in its directness and simplicity for mak-ing us think and for igniting our imagination. It is emblematic of what we constantly strive to achieve as a not-for-profit organization—and we do not forget that your attendance, contributions and all around part-nership are what make it possible for us do so. Welcome to the fall shows of the Denver Center for the performing Arts. n
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X10 THE GIVERAcclaimed author Lois Lowry talks about her creative process and what inspired this 20-year-old celebrated
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As she strides out the front door of her 18th century northern New England farmhouse, it is impossible not to notice the woman’s welcoming smile, eclipsed only by her piercing blue eyes. Lois Lowry, author of nearly 40 children’s books—including two Newbery Medal-winners—does most of her writing here, in a quiet nook snuggled between the garage and the old hand-hewn timber barn that straddles the hill like a fortress, keeping its own watchful eye over the mists rising from the lakes in the valley below. It seems a sure echo of The Giver’s bucolic agrarian landscape. But the genesis of what would become the first of an entire genre of dystopian novels for young people lies, as with all of her books, somewhere deep inside her.
“You know,” she said, “I do a book like The Willoughbys, which is almost silly, and the next time I sit down to write what comes into my mind is something with far deeper ramifications. But I don’t begin with that. I tend to be a very visual person, I started out as a photographer, and so I begin with seeing in my mind the character, the setting, a set of circumstances and out of that grows the story. I’m weak on plot. Really. that’s not my forte.
“I’m always aware when it’s time to start a book,” she continues. “With The Giver it was a time
when my father’s memory was fading and so the topic of memory was much on my mind. Young writers today seem to think they should write a dystopian novel
because that’s what sells. A few years ago it was vampires. Now there are too many vampires and too many dystopias and one wonders what will come next. “I’ve never come at writing a book from the standpoint of what will sell, what will become popular. I just tend to use what wells up inside me as material, and at the time I was dealing with my father’s loss of memory and specifically with the fact that he had forgotten [the death of] my sister.” But when Lowry sat down and began to create a character that would be living in a world where memory had been suppressed, she realized that it would have to be set in the future. “Now that was a problem,” she said, “because I don’t read science fiction and it doesn’t appeal to me much, and yet it
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seemed that this would have to be a sci-fi book. I think it turned out not to be because I didn’t deal at all with the technology.” And yet The Giver, though quite compact, is a logistically complex book. “Kids write to me,” Lowry goes on, “and want to know exactly how something was done—how the colors disappeared, what allowed them to control the weather—and they want me to come up with the backstory that involves the technology. I just didn’t want to deal with that because that’s not the point, and so I write them back about suspension of disbelief and that they’re just going to have to accept that this is how it was. If they want an explanation they’ll have to dream it up themselves.” this notion of the importance of imagination, of the journey, and of the joy and responsibility of discovery, runs deep in Lowry’s work. “I never make an outline or have a book fully plotted when I start writing, so it’s inevitable that the characters will do things I hadn’t envisioned. I sometimes have an end in mind or obstacles they have to overcome, so then there are for me some wonderful surprises along the way as they move toward that.”
Her almost childlike sense of wonder about what will come next makes it easier to understand Lowry’s
attitude toward the many adaptations of her work to other media. The Giver alone has been adapted at least twice for the stage and performed in dozens of different productions around the country. It’s been reimagined as a musical and, just last January, as an opera. there’s a screenplay in the works. Yet Lowry doesn’t collaborate on these adaptations nor feel the need to. Nor does she try to control the meaning her work has for others. “As the writer of it, I never saw The Giver as having religious or political overtones. Apparently many people do. But while some see religious significance, a lot of other people ask me to sign the book as a Bar Mitzvah gift because they see it as a right of passage, of taking on the responsibilities of adulthood. Of course we all, myself included, bring our own politics or religion (or lack of it) to the book we’re reading, but the writer didn’t necessarily put it there.” Lowry’s fondest hope is that people will end up taking away from Eric Coble’s theatrical version of The Giver the same things they might take away from the book. Nearly 20 years after it was written, it remains one of the few works of its kind that so thoroughly and imaginatively
explores young adult themes of emotional security, individuality and human connection. “One of the wonderful things the book does is allow the reader to bring his or her own imagination to it. I often tell kids that the book they read is not the same book that I wrote. that’s because I saw something in my head and now they have created their own vision and in doing so they’re a participant in a process. “Of course, when you turn it into a visual medium like theatre, you’re taking away a little of that but at the same time you’re also exposing them to something so wonderful that you can hardly fault it. Movies on the other hand, and to an even greater degree television, feed it to them, controlling the visual aspect to the extent that there is very little left to imagine. that’s partly why the producers continue to have so much trouble making a movie of The Giver. So much of it is interior; it takes place inside someone. Recent popular dystopian novels like The Hunger Games are very heavy on violence, action and plot, which The Giver decidedly is not.”
Sometimes, however, the pendulum swings in exactly the opposite direction, with no lack of theatrical
inventiveness. Lowry recounts the time she received an email from an English teacher who was very excited because he had adapted The Giver and they’d had a performance that had been a great success and he wanted to tell her all about it. “I gulped when I began to read his email because of course he hadn’t gotten permission and had violated the copyright,” Lowry says a bit sternly, though her eyes are filled with mirth. “He enclosed
a glowing review from the little local town newspaper, wherever it was, and the remarks of the reviewer included what a wonderful, hilarious reception the dancing hamburgers got!
“I have absolutely no idea what that was about. He must have included the visions Jonas has
and there must have been one about food and he found in that a marvelous theatrical moment in which food could dance past us on stage wearing hamburger costumes.” She smiles graciously, and with an imperceptible shrug looks out at the far horizon. “I feel like once I’ve written a book and put it out there, I’m finished. I’ve gone on to something else. I’ve put it in someone else’s hands and sometimes it will be wonderful and sometimes less so, but I don’t worry about it. Everyone does their best with it. Eric absolutely did. No one can ask for more.” Some gifts really do keep on giving. n
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“I often tell kids that the book they read is not the same book that I wrote. That’s because I saw something in my head and now they have created their own vision and in doing so they’re a participant in a process.”
— Lois Lowry, author, The Giver
In 2007, the Denver Center theatre Company (DCtC) established a family/youth series of productions with The Diary of Anne Frank. The Miracle Worker and last season’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer soon
followed. In an effort to build audiences for the future and continue this strong tradition, DCtC is pleased to once again include productions that are appropriate for family and young adult audiences with The Giver based on the Newbery Medal-winning novel by Lois Lowry. With The Giver, literature comes to life with 39 Student Matinees as well as 24 additional matinee and evening performances. Given its place in the school curriculum, we believe this live performance of The Giver is of great interest to families, students, teachers and the general public. to prepare area teachers to integrate this remarkable theatre experience with curriculum, the Denver Center offered workshops, study guides and a lobby display to include background information about the book, the author and the playwright; thought-provoking questions related to the play’s themes; bibliographies for additional reading and reference, and teaching strategies related to The Giver as literature. n
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“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.”
~ Lois LowryFrom her Newbery Medal acceptance speech
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the conventional wisdom on Broadway today is that you can’t have a hit without a star name or a tony winner headlining the cast. If it’s a musical, your best bet is a property with some built-in brand recognition, which helps to explain the trend toward jukebox musicals and adaptations of popular films. Memphis has been a blazing exception to all these rules since its opening in October of 2009. this original musical about the birth of rock’n’roll took the Best Musical tony the following spring and ran for 1,165 performances; it arguably made stars of its lead actors, Montego Glover and Chad Kimball, each also nominated for tonys. (Kimball was replaced midway through the run by Adam pascal, something of a name in musical theatre circles for his originating role in Rent, but hardly box-office gold by himself.) And as it neared the three-year finishing line this past summer, Memphis checked another box in the success column: It recouped its entire $12 million capital investment before closing in August.
“that was the final cherry on top,” says Joe Dipietro, who wrote the book and lyrics for the show. Director Christopher Ashley pointed to another Memphis milestone—the recent release by the tonner Doll Company of a pair of figurines based on the show’s lead characters, Felicia and Huey—as a personal highlight. “this is my first line of dolls,” Ashley deadpans.
Not that Memphis simply arrived out of the blue to open cold in the glare of Broadway. Instead,
its heartening success can be traced back through a long period of gestation and tryouts. the show began in the early 2000s as the brainchild of producer George W. George (son of cartoonist Rube Goldberg, incidentally), whose idea for a musical about the intersection of rock and race in the 1950s was inspired by the real-life stories of Memphis deejay Dewey phillips and his Cleveland counterpart Alan Freed—white men who helped integrate musical tastes at a time when actual racial integration was making significant if
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“It was a story I hadn’t heard before, and one I felt I had to tell,” says Dipietro, who was soon joined by
composer David Bryan, the keyboardist from popular 80s pop/rock band Bon Jovi. the true-life stories that inspired the show, though, stood some tweaking en route to the stage. “God isn’t a great dramatist,” Dipietro quips. “Dewey phillips was essentially the first shock jock; he talked crazy on the radio like no one had before. And he was the first guy to play rhythm and blues on the radio at a time when it was unheard of, even dangerous to an extent.” So far so good—but phillips also “was a big drinker. He had a very dark life and a very early rock’n’roll death. We wanted to tell a story with a broader scope—an epic story.” In a bid to simultaneously soften some of the character’s edges and heighten the significance of his boundary-breaking career, Dipietro created Huey Calhoun, a high-spirited hillbilly deejay in love with African-American music—and, before long, an actual African-American musician, in the person of singer Felicia Farrell. this across-the-tracks romance transpires at a time when anti-miscegenation is not only still the letter of the law, but very much the spirit of the majority white population as well. “that gave us a very human hook for our story,” Dipietro says, fully conceding that in this aspect he borrowed a page from some very non-rock’n’roll forebears. “Rodgers & Hammerstein also placed their stories in dramatic times and put a big love story in the center.” the biggest liberties taken, Dipietro admits, were less in the storytelling than in the music department. “David interpreted early rock’n’roll through his modern ears,” says Dipietro. “the score is not rockabilly, and there are chord progressions that may not have been happening at the time.” Indeed, Bryan’s songs evoke a whole range of rock and pop sounds from authentic 1950s rock to Motown soul and even funk. Director Ashley chimes in, “the clothes are very faithful to the era, and you can’t see a prop on stage that isn’t faithful to the time. But musically we really did decide that in capturing the essence of the music, we wanted to give ourselves permission to use chords and a musical vocabulary that were not strictly from that time.”
Dipietro makes another Rodgers & Hammerstein analogy. “It’s like in The King and I—that’s not actually Eastern music, but a Western interpretation of what it would have sounded like.” One period norm that couldn’t be fudged was segregation, which meant that the cast size grew a bit along the way, the better to accommodate scenes in which a clear separation between groups of white and black characters was an important story point. “In the early days of the show’s development, because it was practical, the onstage television scenes had a mixed black and white dance chorus,” says Ashley, referring to scenes involving an “American Bandstand”-style variety show hosted by Huey. It became clear that such corner-cutting wouldn’t do. “It would have been completely unacceptable for black and white people to dance together in that time; a black person touching a white person onscreen would have shut the show down.”
While the show’s vision of racial harmony is ultimately uplifting and forward-looking,
in restaging the racial divisions of the time, the creators had to navigate some awkward moments in rehearsal. “the language you use is very tricky,”
says Ashley. “In rehearsal, we played with a lot of different names—including some really offensive ones—for the two groups. We finally settled on ‘Beale Street’ for the black community and ‘Main Street’ for the white community.” After productions at North Shore Music theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and theatreWorks in palo Alto, California, in 2003 and 2004, Memphis had a pre-Broadway co-production. this took place at California’s La Jolla playhouse (2008), where Ashley is the Artistic Director, and at the 5th Avenue Musical theatre in Seattle (2009).
though its clear Broadway triumph clearly bucked some of Broadway’s trends toward stars
and adaptations, Memphis may in fact have been the beneficiary of a kind of brand recognition, after all. “the title was always Memphis,” Dipietro says. “It’s one of three American cities that when you hear the name you think of music—the others being Nashville and New Orleans.” Of course, the home of Graceland, Sun Records, and Beale Street blues also happens to be a historic site of America’s civil rights struggle, and the city where that movement’s most iconic warrior was slain. As Dipietro puts it, “A lot of people, when they hear the title, think it’s about Elvis presley or Martin Luther King Jr.” For a show about rock and race, those twin expectations aren’t very wide of the mark. “the musical’s not about either of them,” says Ashley of Memphis’ two fallen Kings. “But it couldn’t have happened without either of them.” n
Rob Weinert-Kendt is associate editor at American theatre, and has written about theatre and the arts for the New York times, the Los Angeles times, Variety, the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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“The clothes are very faithful to the era, and you can’t see a prop on stage that isn’t faithful to the time. But musically we really did decide that in capturing the essence of the music, we wanted to give ourselves permission to use chords and a musical vocabulary that were not strictly from that time.”
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Bet you saw that “largest STOMP cast ever assembled” if you happened to watch the closing ceremonies of the fabulous
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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
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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
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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Nov 23 – Dec 24, Buell theatre
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War HorseJan 8 – 20, Buell theatre
England, 1914. World War I erupts. Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse whom Albert’s trained since he was a skittish foal, is sold to the cavalry and shipped off to fight in France, breaking Albert’s heart. Joey’s soon caught up
in the heat of battle, serving on both sides before finding himself lost in a no-man’s-land of exploding shells and menacing barbed wire. Albert, not quite old enough to enlist, nonetheless embarks on a treacherous mission to find Joey and bring him home. Astonishing life-sized puppets, created by South Africa’s Handspring puppet Company, bring to life galloping, charging horses strong enough for men to ride. this is a production of spectacular inventiveness—and a remarkable saga of courage, friendship, loyalty and allegiances that you will not want to miss. n
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JEppESEN CrAIGfLIGHT
MISSIoNAt Jeppesen there are
no limits to the horizons, heights and depths of our passion…for flying…for
sailing…for enabling safe and efficient transportation
all around the world. CraigFlight Missions are
a way for us to share our passion for flight with the
patients and alumni of Craig Hospital of Denver as they
continue to soar with no limits…to their drive…
their ambitions…and their accomplishments.
When Jeppesen founder, Capt. Elrey B. Jeppesen, took to the skies nearly 80 years ago, his passion for flying was matched only by his compassion for
others who love to fly. An avid aviator and keen navigator, he transformed his hand-drawn maps in his little black notebook into a global intelligent information and integrated service organization that continues to enable safe and efficient transportation around the world today. “the passion and commitment to safety that drove Capt. Jepp defines our mission today,” said Jeppesen president and CEO Mark Van tine. “Everything we do is geared toward helping our customers fulfill their journeys in the most optimal manner possible.” With that in mind, Jeppesen works to find innovative ways to connect the mission with the community. As part of the Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship program, Jeppesen proudly supports the Denver Center for the performing Arts’ Arts in Education program, helping connect local youth with artists and educators in a meaningful way. Locally, volunteer pilots and ground crew participate in CraigFlight Mission, a program providing patients from Craig Hospital’s therapeutic Recreation program an opportunity to get into the cockpit of a small airplane and soar around the Denver skyline. Craig Hospital, in Englewood, specializes in spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries. While the flight is pure fun for all involved, Craig patients also are indirectly educated on transportation issues, accessibility and caring for themselves in a variety of situations—important milestones toward their independence. “Jeppesen has incredible employees who are committed to being active participants in our community. Flying is one of the venues we can use to connect with people. When we buckle a Craig patient into the cockpit of an airplane, we take off hoping that we can share a bit of our passion for flying with them. But when we land, we realize they’ve shared their own sense of spirit, courage and determination with us. the experience is simply inspiring for everyone involved.” n
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