POP MUSIC
Live Nation offers Club Passport
After a summer of hit-or-miss ticket promotions, Live Nation debuted its most interesting offer last week in the shape of the Club Passport.
The gist: Buy the passport for a flat $49.99, and it gets you into certain shows at Live Nation-owned clubs through the end of the year. In Denver, that’s the Fillmore, with shows ranging from Colbie Caillat to Insane Clown Posse. (See a full list at .)
But is it a good deal?
If you’ll see at least two shows, yes. But read the fine print. The promo pitches “unlimited* club shows,” but that asterisk means that the promoter is picking the shows. (In Denver, shows with Paramore, Snow Patrol, the Black Crowes, Pixies, 3OH!3, Yonder Mountain String Band and others aren’t passport- friendly. Yet. Shows are added weekly.) Admission is also “based on availability,” and pass holders are asked to reserve tickets online and pick them up from the box office at least 30 minutes before showtime.
Sound like a pain? Cheap concert tickets still come at a price.
Read more on this at The Post’s music blog, Reverb: . Baca
THEATER
“Girls” at one year and counting
Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein enjoyed reading their high school diary entries to each other so much they made a show about it.
After nearly 350 performances of “Girls Only” (which, as you may have guessed, is a girls- only show), the pair is celebrating a year at Garner Galleria Theatre in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
That comes out to 50,000 women who have seen the improv-heavy comedy at the DCPA, heard 5,576 awkward diary entries read, pulled 1,312 mementos from Barbara and Linda’s “memory boxes” and had 6,560 feminine products tossed at them.
“It was something we always had hoped for and didn’t think was out of the range of possibility,” Klein said of the show, which originally ran for 40 performances at Denver’s Avenue Theater. “What has surprised us is the enthusiasm with which the community has embraced us and the speed with which it happened.”
The next step? Fielding offers from producers to bring the show elsewhere.
“We’re on the brink of going national and it looks like international next year,” Klein said. “They’re very interested in a successful show like this, especially in this economy.” John Wenzel
UNDERGROUND
Fire closes Orange Cat Studios
Fire has robbed Denver of one of its most versatile underground art spaces.
Orange Cat Studios, at 2625 Larimer St. in the burgeoning warehouse district, has closed indefinitely after a fire swept through the high-ceilinged brick building two weeks ago.
“It didn’t appear to be electrical or chemical in nature,” said artist Sean Rice, who ran the space. “The fire department ruled out arson but left the cause as unknown. We have postulated that it may have been an errant cigarette tossed in a closet crevice that smoldered for half a day, but who really knows?”
Rice said he had recently dropped his insurance coverage due to the sluggish economy and would need $20,000 just to clean up the mostly cosmetic and smoke damage and reopen the space. A painter and sculptor, he also lost an estimated $6,000 to $10,000 worth of his own tools in the blaze.
For the past four years, the Orange Cat has fostered visual artists, comedians, musicians and fashion designers who have gone on to display and perform at much larger venues.
Los Comicos Super Hilariosos, a popular monthly comedy show at the Orange Cat, is searching for another home.
“We’re looking at new venues and have a few leads and we intend to come back strong Oct. 30, but alas, no Los Comicos this month,” said co-founder and Onion columnist Adam Cayton- Holland. “It was good while it lasted.” John Wenzel
