The no-longer-controversial stage production “Puppetry of the Penis” returns to Denver for its third run, after stops here in 2003 and in 2005. It pulls into the Paramount Theatre on May 14 for a one-nighter at 8 p.m.
I don’t suppose that this show needs much explanation. Like “Waiting for Godot,” the title kind of gives it away. The signature presentations in the show are the Pelican, the Loch Ness Monster, the Eiffel Tower and the ever popular Hamburger.
During its 2003 run at Denver Civic Theatre, the producers held open auditions. Two Denver men, Joey Dixon and Preston Levato, passed muster and went touring with the show, arriving in Denver for the 2005 run.
Alas, they are not in the cast coming here next month and calls to the production people came up empty. No one was able to tell us what happened to these guys.
When I last talked to them in 2005, they were ready to continue touring with the show, especially Levato, who graduated from Kent Denver prep school. “Be sure to mention that in the paper,” he said. “I want to get back at them for all the time I was in detention. I don’t know what the longevity of this show is. I’ll do it as long as they’re crazy enough to watch it and I’m mean enough to do it.”
The first time the show came to town there was much hubbub about nudity on stage. That issue seems to be solved. But they better not smoke.
Done skiing.
Snowmass is closed for the season — but Nike is taking it over this weekend to shoot half-pipe runs with the likes of snowboarders Louie Vito, Danny Kass and Elena Hight, and skiers T.J. Schiller, Jossi Wells and Simon Dumont.
Lindsey Vonn, meanwhile, spent Friday at the Denver Police Academy gym training for an Under Armour commercial. It’s part of UA’s “Protect This House. I Will” campaign. Vonn’s episode should start airing in July.
City spirit.
Oprah was in Fort Collins last weekend to meet with Shelley Forney, whose daughter Erica was killed in 2008 while riding her bike home from school. She was hit by a driver talking on her cellphone. Oprah is set a launch on Friday the “National No Phone Zone Day” . . . Chauncey Billups was on hand to see his wife, Piper, honored as an Outstanding Metro State Alumni on Wednesday night . . . Sez who: “There are two great days in a person’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why.” William Barclay
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Derby Day
Sorry, race fans, Denver’s biggest Kentucky Derby Party, on Saturday at Botanic Gardens, is already sold out. At $100 a ticket, this daytime gala brings out the city’s young, beautiful and preppy.
It started at the boathouse at Wash Park with about 150 people — and now it pulls in more than 2,000 to raise money for the Sean “Ranch” Lough Foundation.
“It’s girls in big hats and sundresses, guys in seersucker,” said organizer Drake Harris after the move to the gardens. “Who can beat it?”
, a cancer support group, hosts “Jockeys, Juleps and Jazz” for the race, 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Invesco Field at Mile High. Go to . And the Saddle Up! Foundation hosts a party at the foundation’s arena in Parker — so you can see the Derby with real horses. Go to .
