Gravity Defied Theatre’s first production will be Jonathan Van Dyke’s 'Totally Electric' at the Aurora Fox Arts Center’s Studio Theatre on April 26-May 9. 'Totally Electric' is a new musical written by Jonathan Van Dyke; it has run in many states and this will be its Colorado premier.
More after the jump.
Totally Electric begins at the high school reunion for the West Lake High School Class of 1989. When the award-winning West Lake show choir “The Syncopated Sensations” are unable to perform, the musical flashes back to the 1980s and the Sensations’ last weeks of high school. Through their determination, talent, and friendship — and with the help of some new friends — the Sensations will leave their mark on West Lake forever.
Tickets for Totally Electric will be $18 adult and $15 for seniors (over 55) and students (13 to 21). This will be Gravity Defied Theatre’s Annual Fundraiser Production.
Gravity Defied Theatre’s second production will be The Wild Party at the Aurora Fox Arts Center’s Mainstage Theatre on August 6, 7, 13, 14, 21, and 22 at 7:30 p.m. and August 8, 15, and 23 at 4:00 p.m. Tickets for The Wild Party will be $25 adult, $20 for seniors (over 55), and $18 for students (13 to 21).
Set in the Roaring Twenties, The Wild Party tells the story of one crazy evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown. In a relationship marked by vicious
recklessness (mirroring the era in which they live), they decide to throw the Party to End All Parties!
The Wild Party was originally produced in New York City by the Manhattan Theatre Club with book, lyrics, and music by Andrew Lippa (b. 1964), based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 poem.
The Wild Party won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best Off-Broadway musical of the season and Lippa won the 2000 Drama Desk Award for best music. The show was nominated for 13 Drama Desk Awards including best new musical. Lippa is the resident artist at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City.
He wrote the original music for Aaron Sorkin’s 2007 Broadway play, The Farnsworth Invention. His current project, The Man In The Ceiling, is being produced by Disney Theatrical; Pulitzer-Prize-winner Jules Feiffer is writing the book for this musical.
Lippa is writing and developing the music and lyrics for the upcoming musical The Addams Family, based on the Charles Addams’s New Yorker Addams Family cartoons with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice.
Gravity Defied Theatre’s third production will be [title of show] at the Aurora Fox Arts Center’s Mainstage theatre on November 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 7:30 p.m. and November 7, 14, and 21 at 4:00 p.m. Tickets for [title of show] will be $25 adult, $20 for seniors (over 55), and $18 for students (13 to 21).
Unpredictable, funny, tune-filled and (very) self-aware, [title of show] deals with two hypertalented young New York songwriters trying to write a new musical about two hypertalented young New York songwriters. With actress friends in tow, they’re on a Cinderella journey from the unemployment line to the Great White Way.
Music and lyrics for [title of show] are by Baltimorean Jeff Bowen (b. 1971) with book by Tuscaloosan Hunter Houston Bell. [title of show] won a 2006 Obie Award and was nominated for that year’s GLAAD Media Award. Their “Villains Tonight!” has been produced on the Disney Cruise Line. They are currently developing a television show for the ABC network.
