The Avenue’s “Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women,” which just completed a sold-out limited engagement at the Avenue Theater, has been picked up by Denver Center Attractions for a six-month run beginning this September at the Garner-Galleria Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
Denver Center Attractions has also optioned the worldwide rights to the play and plans to produce it in major markets nationally following the Denver engagement, according to a release issued by A.C.E. Entertainment.
“Girls Only” pairs two Denver comedians, Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein. It’s a comedic look at women and their private lives.
And as the name implies, no men are allowed in the audience. That’s to create the most comfortable environment for women.
The Avenue run could not be extended because Gehring is pregnant.
“We’re very happy and very excited to be working with Linda and Barbara,” said Denver Center president Randy Weeks. “We look forward to a successful run of the show and are excited to share this title with our colleagues nationwide to fully realize the potential of this play on a wider scale.”
From Claire Martin’s Denver Post review: “Gehring and Klein introduce themselves as the best of best friends forever. Meeting as adults seems their relationship’s sole misfortune. They are such kindred spirits that each still possesses diaries they kept as adolescents – diaries that form this show’s bedrock.
“Their journals verify adolescence as a period that seems unutterably lonely and interminable and singular, and just as mercilessly so in retrospect. Not a new notion, but Gehring and Klein interpret it with affectionate wit, provoking more squeals of recognition than cringes.”
From the show’s press release: “While women’s issues and women’s rights have become important platforms that receive deserved attention, there hasn’t been a production about the common experiences that shape all women,” said Klein. “From passing notes in class to nursing in public, ‘Girls Only’ celebrates the private pieces of a woman’s inner workings with humor, irreverence and a little silliness.
“Our male friends can rest assured; however, ‘Girls Only’ is not about male bashing but rather a celebration of all things girlie.”
Tickets for the Galleria run are not yet on-sale, and an exact opening date has yet to be determined.
DCA just opened “The Last Five Years” at the Galleria Theatre, which presently has a closing date of June 29.
John Moore: 303-954-1056 or jmoore@denverpost.com
