Outtakes: My day at Magic Moments’ ‘Spirit & Soul’

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More than 50 “under teens” are in the cast, and you can tell they are highly stressed out about their impending stage appearances. Highly. … Not.

 

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Nearly 200 actors, and each averages about five costumes. That math hurts my head. And my sewing hand, if I had one.

 

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Dennis Carbrey.

 

 

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K.Q. gives a pre-show pep-talk from the stage.

 

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Usually the cast circles up outside before the show in a spectacle of humanity that wraps around the back of the Anschutz Theatre. Because of the snow, they moved inside the theater and layered up the circle.

 

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By John Moore

Award-winning arts journalist John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the United States by American Theatre Magazine during has 12 years at The Denver Post. Hen then created a groundbreaking new media outlet covering Colorado arts an culture as an in-house, multimedia journalist for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also founded The Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that has raised more than $600,000 for theatre artists in medical need. He is now a journalist for hire as the founder of Moore Media Colorado. You can find samples of his work at MooreJohn.Com. Contact him at culturewestjohn@gmail.com