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Currently running productions, listed in order of closing dates, as of Sept. 10, 2006:
Open-ended: Second City’s “How I Lost My Denverginity” (Galleria)
Through Sept. 16: Theatre Group’s “Pageant”
Through Sept. 16: Longmont Theatre Company’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Through Sept. 16: OpenStage’s “The Italian-American Reconciliation” (Fort Collins)
Through Sept. 17: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Swing”
Through Sept. 17: Arvada Festival Playhouse’s “The Sensuous Senator”
Through Sept. 23: Next Stage’s “The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow”
Through Sept. 23: Theatre 13’s “Match” (Boulder)
Through Sept. 22: Creede Repertory Theatre’s “Enchanted April”
Through Sept. 23: Upstart Crow’s “Marat/Sade” (Boulder)
Through Sept. 23: Creede Repertory Theatre’s “cowboyily”
Through Sept. 23: Creede Repertory Theatre’s “Snake in the Grass”
Through Sept. 23: Nonesuch’s “Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue” (Fort Collins)
Through Sept. 23: Rocky Mountain Rep’s “Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver” (Grand Lake)
Through Sept. 23: California Actors Theatre’s “Nunsense” (Longmont)
Through Sept. 23: Longmont Theatre Company’s “Dearly Departed”
Through Sept. 24: Union Colony Dinner Theatre’s “My Fair Lady” (Greeley)
Through Sept. 30: Buntport’s “Something is Rotten”
Through Sept. 30: Carousel Dinner Theatre’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” (Fort Collins)
Through Sept. 30: E Project’s “Room Service” (Lakewood)
Through Oct. 1: Arvada Center’s “Souvenir”
Through Oct. 1: Lake Dillon Theatre Comapny’s “The Man From Nebraska”
Through Oct. 7: Shadow’s “Plenty of Time”
Through Oct. 8: Germinal Stage Denver’s “Tartuffe: Born Again”
Through Oct. 14: Curious’ “I Am My Own Wife”
Through Oct. 14: Iron Springs Chateau’s “The Shame of Maudie Jones, or A Fate Worse Than Death” (Manitou Springs)
Through Oct. 21: Bas Bleu’s “The Dresser” (Fort Collins)
Through Oct. 24, 2006: Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s “Forever Plaid” (Mondays-Tuesdays only)
Through Oct. 28: Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s “Sweet Charity”
Through Nov. 5: Cabaret Dinner Theatre’s “ Honky Tonk Angels” (Grand Junction)
Through Nov. 11: Bovine Metropolis’ “The Dark Side of Moo”
Upcoming theater productions, listed by opening date:
OPENING SEPTEMBER 2006
Sept. 14-Oct. 6, 2006: El Centro Su Teatro’s “Serafin: Cantos y Lagrimas”
Sept. 14-Nov. 11, 2006: Metro Playhouse’s “ Once Upon a Mattress” (Grand Junction)
Sept. 15-Oct. 22, 2006: Town Hall Arts Center’s “Cabaret” (Littleton)
Sept. 15-Oct. 22, 2006: Miners Alley Playhouse’s “1984” (Golden)
Sept. 15-Oct. 8, 2006: Evergreen Players’ “Proof”
Sept. 15-Oct. 21, 2006: Playwright’s “The Big Bang”
Sept. 15-Nov. 5, 2006: Heritage Square’s “Svengali” (Golden)
Sept. 15-Oct 1, 2006: openstage etc.’s “Swimming in the Shallows” (Fort Collins)
Sept. 15-23, 2006: Boulder Broadway Company’s “Bat Boy, the Musical” (Lakewood)
Sept. 16-Oct. 15, 2006: Aurora Fox’s “I Hate Hamlet”
Sept. 20-Oct. 22, 2006: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Moon Over Buffalo”
Sept. 21-Oct.15, 2006: TheatreWorks’ “Alice In Wonderland” (Colorado Springs)
Sept. 23-Nov. 4, 2006: The Other Theatre Company’s “Some Unfortunate Hour” (at the Avenue)
Sept. 28-Nov. 12, 2006: Denver Center Attractions’ “The Lion King”
Sept. 28-Oct. 28, 2006: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Living Out”
Sept. 29-Oct. 22, 2006: Fine Arts Center’s “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” (Colorado Springs)
Sept. 29-Jan. 27, 2006: Nonesuch’s “Always Patsy Cline” (Fort Collins)
Sept. 30-Oct. 29, 2006: Modern Muse’s “Turn of the Screw”
Sept. 30-Nov 4, 2006: Paragon’s “Hedda Gabler”
OPENING OCTOBER 2006
Oct. 5-28, 2006: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Amadeus”
Oct. 5-Nov. 25, 2006: Theatre Group’s “Debbie Does Dallas”
Oct. 6-15, 2006: Performance Now’s “My Fair Lady” (Lakewood)
Oct. 6-Nov. 18, 2006 Carousel Dinner Theatre’s “The Full Monty” (Fort Collins)
Oct. 6-Nov. 4, 2006: Victorian Playhouse’s “The Weir”
Opening Oct. 7, 2006: New Denver Civic’s “Hats: The Red Hat Society Musical”
Oct. 13-Dec. 17, 2006: Lake Dillon’s “Always…Patsy Cline,” alternating weeks with “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged”
Oct. 13-22, 2006: Longmont Theatre Company’s “Radio on Stage: War of the Worlds’ and Sorry, Wrong Number’ ”
Oct. 13-29, 2006: Arvada Festival Playhouse’s “Doctor Jekyll, No Place to Hyde”
Oct. 13-Nov. 11, 2006: E Project’s “This Boy’s Life” (Lakewood)
Oct. 14, 2006: Union Colony Civic Center’s “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (Greeley)
Oct. 15, 2006: Stories on Stage, at DCPA’s Stage Theatre
Oct. 17-Nov. 12, 2006: Arvada Center’s “Over the Tavern”
Oct. 18, 2006: El Centro Su Teatro’s “The Race Show” (N*gg*r W*tb*ck Ch*nk), a co-production with Speak Theatre Arts), at University of Denver’s Newman Center
Opening Oct. 19, 2006: Crossroads’ “Sisters Sweetwater”
Oct. 20-29, 2006: Buntport’s “Something is Rotten” (at TheatreWorks, Colorado Springs)
Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 2006: Union Colony Dinner Theatre’s “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” (Greeley)
Oct. 20-28, 2006: Greeley Community Theatre Troupe’s “Wait Until Dark”
Oct. 20-Nov. 11, 2006: Theater Company of Lafayette’s “Classic TV Live On Stage”
Oct. 21-Nov. 18, 2006: OpenStage’s “Saint Joan” (Fort Collins)
Oct. 25-Jan. 14, 2007: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Phantom”
Oct. 26-Nov. 18, 2006: El Centro Su Teatro’s “The Day Ricardo Falcon Died”
Oct. 27-31, 2006: Backstage’s “Cannibal! The Musical” (Breckenridge)
Oct. 27-Nov. 11: Coal Creek Community Theatre’s “Grease” (at Manhattan Middle School)
Oct. 27-Nov. 18: California Actors Theatre’s TBA (Longmont)
OPENING NOVEMBER 2006
Opening November 2006: Playwright’s “The Perfect Party”
Nov. 1-Dec. 10, 2006: Germinal Stage Denver: To be announced
Nov. 4-Dec. 16, 2006: Curious’ “Tempodyssey”
Nov. 3-March 3, 2007: Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s “Crazy for You”
Nov. 3-Dec. 3, 2006: Score Marketing’s “Urinetown” (at Denver Wastewater Management Building)
Nov. 3-Dec. 23, 2006: Miners Alley Playhouse’s “Amahl & the Night Visitors” (Golden)
Nov. 3-5, 2006: Shadow’s “The Spirit of Frederick Douglass”
Nov. 9-25, 2006: Theatre 13’s “Defiled” (Boulder)
Nov. 9-12, 2006: Backstage’s “Sylvia” (Breckenridge)
Nov. 10-Dec. 10, 2006: Germinal Stage Denver’s “The Price”
Nov. 10-Dec. 31, 2006: Town Hall Arts Center’s “Cinderella” (Littleton)
Nov. 10-Dec. 31, 2006: Heritage Square’s “Scrooge” (Golden)
Nov. 10-19, 2006: Vintage’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” (at Phoenix Theatre)
Nov. 11-Dec. 30, 2006: Bas Bleu’s “Greetings” (Fort Collins)
Nov. 15-Jan. 27, 2007: Cabaret Dinner Theatre’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (Grand Junction)
Nov. 17-Dec. 23, 2006: Rattlebrain’s “B.F.E.: The Town that Christmas Forgot” (at the Avenue)
Nov. 17-Dec. 10, 2006: Fine Arts Center’s “1940s Radio Hour” (Colorado Springs)
Nov. 24-Dec. 23, 2006: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Season’s Greetings”
Nov. 24-Dec. 17, 2006: Aurora Fox’s “Escanaba in da Moonlight”
Nov. 24-Dec. 16, 2006: Longmont Theatre Company’s “Oliver”
Nov. 24-Dec. 16, 2006: Arvada Festival Playhouse’s “Merry Christmas Miss Vickers”
Nov. 24-Dec. 16, 2006: The E Project’s “Little Shop of Horrors” (Lakewood)
Nov. 24-Dec. 31, 2006: Carousel Dinner Theatre’s “Plaid Tidings: A Special Holiday Edition” (Fort Collins)
Nov. 24, 2006-Jan. 20, 2007: Backstage’s “Greater Tuna” (Breckenridge)
Nov. 25-Jan. 7, 2007: Cabaret Dinner Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol” (Grand Junction)
Nov. 25, 2006: Union Colony Civic Center’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (Greeley)
Nov. 28-Dec. 31, 2006: Arvada Center’s “Thoroughly Modern Millie”
Nov. 30-Dec. 24, 2006: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “A Christmas Carol”
Nov. 30-Dec. 17, 2006: TheatreWorks’ “Arms and the Man” (Colorado Springs)
OPENING DECEMBER 2006
Dec. 5-17, 2006: Denver Center Attractions’ “Sweet Charity”
Dec. 7-Jan. 27, 2007: Theatre Group’s “Dirty Blonde”
Dec. 7-17, 2006: El Centro Su Teatro’s “The Miracle at Tepeyac”
Dec. 7-10, 2006: Castle Rock Players’ “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”
Dec. 10, 2006: Stories on Stage, at DCPA’s Seawell Ballroom
Dec. 20-31, 2006: Denver Center Attractions’ “All Shook Up”
Dec 20-30, 2006: Lake Dillon’s “One-Man Scrooge”
Dec. 21-24, 2006: Backstage’s “A Backstage Holiday Revue: The Christmas Trunk & An Elf’s Tale” (Breckenridge)
Dec. 28-Jan. 20, 2007: The Avenue’s “Murder Most Fowl”
OPENING JANUARY 2007
Jan. 5-Feb. 17, 2007: Carousel Dinner Theatre’s “The Music Man” (Fort Collins)
Jan. 6-Feb. 3, 2007: OpenStage’s “Splitting Infinity” (Fort Collins)
Jan. 11-Feb. 4, 2007: PHAMALy’s “Our Town” (at the Aurora Fox)
Jan. 12-Feb. 11, 2007: Town Hall Arts Center’s “I Love You You’re Perfect, Now Change” (Littleton)
Jan. 12-28, 2007: Fine Arts Center’s “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (Colorado Springs)
Jan. 12-Feb. 3, 2007: Spotlight’s “Arsenic and Old Lace” (Lakewood)
Jan. 12-March 3, 2007: Union Colony Dinner Theatre’s “The Taffetas” (Greeley)
Jan. 13-Feb. 24, 2007: Curious’ “Aphrodisiac”
Jan. 16-28, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”
Jan. 17-March 4, 2007: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Clue, The Musical”
Jan. 18-Feb. 24, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “The Pillowman”
Jan. 18-28, 2007: TheatreWorks’ “Topdog/Underdog”(co-production with Pueblo’s Steel City Theatre Company, Colorado Springs)
Jan. 18-Feb. 25, 2007: Cabaret Dinner Theatre’s “The Nerd” (Grand Junction)
Jan. 19-27, 2007: Evergreen Players’ “Fool for Love/Brilliant Traces”
Jan. 20-Feb. 18, 2007: Modern Muse’s “Bad Dates”
Jan. 25-Feb. 24, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “1001”
Jan. 26-Feb. 10, 2007: Longmont Theatre Company’s “Wait Until Dark”
Jan. 27-March 10, 2007: Bas Bleu’s “Dirty Story” (Fort Collins)
Jan. 30-Feb. 25, 2007: Arvada Center’s “The Subject Was Roses”
OPENING FEBRUARY 2007
Feb. 1-24, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “King Lear”
Feb. 1-24, 2007: Shadow’s “Two Trains Running”
Feb. 1-11, 2007: Alliance Stage’s “The Syringa Tree” (at TheatreWorks, (Colorado Springs)
Feb. 2-May 26, 2007: Nonesuch’s “Urinetown” (Fort Collins)
Feb. 2-March 4, 2007: Germinal Stage Denver’s “Diversions and Delights”
Feb. 3-April 22, 2007: Cabaret Dinner Theatre’s “The Full Monty” (Grand Junction)
Feb. 6-18, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “Legends!”
Feb. 8-March 17, 2006: El Centro Su Teatro’s “Drive My Coche”
Feb. 8-March 17, 2007: Backstage’s “Steel Magnolias” (Breckenridge)
Feb. 9-25, 2007: Performance Now’s “42nd Street” (Lakewood)
Feb. 10-March 10, 2007: Paragon’s “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune”
Feb. 13-18, 2007: openstage etc.’s “Boston Marriage” (Fort Collins)
Feb. 15-March 3, 2006: Theatre 13’s “The Deer and the Antelope Play” (Boulder)
Feb. 16-March 11, 2007: Fine Arts Center’s “Little Shop of Horrors” (Colorado Springs)
Feb. 16-March 11, 2007: Vintage’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (at Buntport)
Feb. 16-April 1, 2007: Lake Dillon: Musical to be announced
Feb. 18, 2007 : Stories on Stage, at DCPA’s Stage Theatre
Feb. 23-March 25, 2007: Aurora Fox’s “Almost, Maine”
Feb. 23-March 25, 2007: Town Hall Arts Center’s “Footloose” (Littleton)
Feb. 23-April 7, 2007: Carousel Dinner Theatre’s “Evita” (Fort Collins)
Feb. 24-March 24, 2007: OpenStage’s “Enchanted April” (Fort Collins)
OPENING MARCH 2007
March 1-18, 2007: TheatreWorks’ “The Importance of Being Earnest” (Colorado Springs)
March 2-17, 2007: Theatre Company of Lafayette’s “Woman in Mind”
March 7-May 6, 2007: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Guys & Dolls”
March 9-May 5, 2007: Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s “Ragtime”
March 9-April 1, 2007: Evergreen Players’ “Moon Over Buffalo”
March 9-24, 2007: Longmont Theatre Company’s “Solid Gold Cadillac”
March 10-April 21, 2007: Curious’ “A House With No Walls”
March 10-April 7, 2007: Modern Muse’s “Seascape”
March 15-March 31, 2006: Theatre 13’s TBA (Boulder)
March 16-April 7, 2007: Next Stage’s “Match”
March 17, 2007: Union Colony Civic Center’s “An Evening with Lily Tomlin” (Greeley)
March 22-April 21, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”
March 27-April 8, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “The Light in the Piazza”
March 28-April 15, 2007: Fine Arts Center’s “The Complete History of America Abridged” (Colorado Springs)
March 29-April 21, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Pure Confidence”
March 30-May 6, 2007: Union Colony Dinner Theatre’s “Steel Magnolias” (Greeley)
March 30-April 22, 2007: Backstage’s “Hidden” (Breckenridge)
March 31-May 12, 2007: Bas Bleu’s “The Imaginary Invalid” (Fort Collins)
OPENING APRIL 2007
April 1, 2007: Stories on Stage, at DCPA’s Stage Theatre
April 6- May 6, 2007: Town Hall Arts Center’s “1776” (Littleton)
April 6-May 6, 2007: Germinal Stage Denver’s “Razzle Dazzle: A Saroyan Circus”
April 7-May 5, 2007: OpenStage’s “Picnic” (Fort Collins)
April 12-May 19, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “The Sweetest Swing in Baseball”
April 13-May 13, 2007: Aurora Fox’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
Opening April 13, 2007: Carousel Dinner Theatre’s “Singin’ in the Rain” (Fort Collins)
April 15, 2007: Union Colony Civic Center’s “Aida” (Greeley)
April 17-May 13, 2007: Arvada Center’s “Do I Hear a Waltz?”
April 19-28, 2007: TheatreWorks’ “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” (Colorado Springs)
April 19-May 5, 2007: Theatre 13’s TBA (Boulder)
April 20-May 20, 2007: El Centro Su Teatro’s “Bowl of Beings”
April 20-29, 2007: Performance Now’s “Gypsy” (Lakewood)
April 21-May 19, 2007: Paragon’s “How We May Know Him”
April 22, 2007: Stories on Stage, at DCPA’s Stage Theatre
April 27-May 19, 2007: Longmont Theatre Company’s “Two By Two”
April 28-June 23, 2007: Curious’ “Mall Mart: The Musical”
April 28-May 27, 2007: Modern Muse’s TBA
OPENING MAY 2007
May 4-20, 2007: openstage etc.’s “True West” (Fort Collins)
May 9-June 3, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “Wicked”
May 9-July 8, 2007: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Evita”
May 11-June 3, 2007: Fine Arts Center’s “Into the Woods” (Colorado Springs)
May 11-27, 2007: Vintage’s “The Heidi Chronicles” (at Buntport)
May 11-26, 2007: Theatre Company of Lafayette’s “The Diviners”
May 17-June 9, 2007: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (with DCA)
May 18-June 24, 2007: Town Hall Arts Center’s “My Fair Lady” (Littleton)
May 18-July 22, 2007: Union Colony Dinner Theatre’s “Oklahoma” (Greeley)
May 25-June 17, 2007: Lake Dillon’s “The Glass Menagerie”
May 25-June 17, 2007: Lake Dillon’s “For Whom The Southern Bell Tolls” (late nights)
May 25-June 3, 2007: Castle Rock Players’ “Fiddler on the Roof”
May 26-June 23, 2007: OpenStage’s “The Threepenny Opera” (Fort Collins)
May 31-June 30, 2007: Shadow’s “Soul Survivor”
OPENING JUNE 2007
Summer 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “The Little Mermaid”
June 1-Sept. 29, 2007: Nonesuch’s “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” (Fort Collins)
June 1-9, 2007: Backstage’s “Crazy Bag” (Breckenridge)
June 2-July 14, 2007: Bas Bleu’s “Sylvia” (Fort Collins)
June 8-July 8, 2007: Germinal Stage Denver’s TBA
June 8-10, 2007: Vintage’s “Fool for Love” (at Center Stage, Evergreen)
June 8-June 30, 2007: Spotlight’s “Run For Your Wife” (Lakewood)
June 22-July 29, 2007: Aurora Fox’s “A Year with Frog and Toad”
June 22-July 1, 2007: Performance Now’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (Lakewood)
June 26-July 29, 2007: Arvada Center’s “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”
June 28-Aug. 12, 2007: Backstage’s “The Accounting Division of Dynacorp Presents Office Space: The Musical” (Breckenridge)
OPENING JULY 2007
July 6-Aug. 5, 2007: Evergreen Players’ “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”
July 11- Sept. 9, 2007: Country Dinner Playhouse’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”
July 13-28, 2007: Theatre Company of Lafayette’s “Tales from the Great American Roadway”
July 13-Aug. 4, 2007: Spotlight’s “Caught in the Net” (Lakewood)
July 14-Aug. 11, 2007: Paragon’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
July 20-August 19, 2007: Backstage’s “The Smell of the Kill” (Breckenridge)
July 27-Aug. 19, 2007: PHAMALy’s “Urinetown” (at DCPA’s Space Theatre)
OPENING SEPTEMBER 2007
Opening Sept. 2007: Next Stage’s “Mr. Marmalade”
Sept. 18-Oct. 7, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ Monty Python’s “Spamalot”
OPENING OCTOBER 2007
Oct. 5-27, 2007: Spotlight’s “A Murder is Announced” (Lakewood)
Oct. 12-27, 2007: Theatre Company of Lafayette’s “Original Plays about Sputnik”
Oct. 13-Nov. 10, 2007: Paragon’s “The Night Heron”
Oct. 16-28, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”
Oct. 19-Nov. 11, 2007 Evergreen Players’ “Our Town”
OPENING NOVEMBER 2007
Nov. 7-11, 2007: Castle Rock Players’ “The Lion in Winter”
Nov. 20-Dec. 25, 2007: Denver Center Attractions’ “White Christmas”
OPENING DECEMBER 2007
Dec. 6-9, 2007: Castle Rock Players’ “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”
Dec. 7-22, 2007: Theatre Company of Lafayette’s “Harvey”
