Gravity Defied Theatre will present ‘bare: the musical’ on August 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, and 22 at Aurora Fox Arts Center (9900 E.
Colfax Avenue) at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 (advance) and $32 (at door) and are available through the Rocky Mountain Arts Association.
In a pop-opera style reminiscent of ‘Rent’ and ‘Spring Awakening,’ ‘bare: the musical’ centers on the coming-of-age story of a group of high-school seniors at a Catholic boarding school. Knowing that their stay in this insular world is soon ending, they question where they are in their lives and what the future holds in store. Answers are sought in their confessionals and in
less formal venues including the school's stage, a rave, and a well-locked dorm room. At the center of the story are students Peter and Jason, in love yet uncertain of how to respond.
Read more after the jump.
Gravity Defied Theatre is a project of Rocky Mountain Arts Association,
home of the Denver Gay Men's Chorus, Denver Women's Chorus, Out Loud: The
Colorado Springs Men's Chorus, and Mosaic Youth Chorus. Ten members of those
groups help make up the musical's cast of over 25.
Gravity Defied Theatre is Colorado's first all-musicals theatre company
that gives back a portion of proceeds from each production to another Colorado
nonprofit organization; our first beneficiary is the nonprofit group PHAMALy
-- the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League (
www.phamaly.org).
The play offers music by Damon Intrabartolo, lyrics by Jon Hartmere, with
both co-authoring the book. Intrabartolo is a Los-Angeles-based composer,
orchestrator, and conductor who works in the film industry and attended the
University of Southern California. Jon Hartmere has written screenplays for
Nickelodeon and Disney and is co-author for the Paramount Pictures 2010 remake
of Footloose.
The Denver production is directed by Keith Rabin Jr., with musical staging
and choreography by Danny Harrigan, and music direction by Kendall Bridges.
The musical premiered at Los Angeles's Hudson Mainstage Theater in October
2000 and played off Broadway at the American Theatre of Actors in 2004.
Since then, it has been produced in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City,
Philadelphia, Seattle and in Canada and Australia.
