Sunday’s performance was preceded by a theater conversation between Kevin Landis, left; legendary Public Theatre producer Oskar Eustis, who brought “Bloody” to Broadway in 2010; and “Bloody” composer Michael Friedman. Watch for the video podcast to come.
By John Moore
March 20, 2013
Opening No. 46, “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”: Students at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs learned that direct democracy, directly applied, is, like … totes lame(!) in their staging of this inventive, frontier emo-rock musical about the founder of the Democratic Party. It presents America’s seventh president as a modern-day, skinny-jeans rock star who stumbles into populism, Indian removal and tremendous power. Starring Omid Dastán Harrison and featuring Jessica Parnello, Lynne Hastings, Robbie Armstrong, Doug Wolfe, Zach Bailey, Alex Williams, Erik Brevik, Jeff Mills, Dana Kjeldsen, Chloe Kiskiras and Jen Cortes. Directed by Kevin Landis with Solveig Olsen. Remaining performances 7:30 p.m. March 20-23; 2 p.m. March 23 and 4 p.m. March 24. At the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, corner of Union and Austin Bluffs Parkway on the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs campus, 719-255-3232 or theatreworks’ home page . All photos by John Moore for www.CultureWest.org. Thanks Emilie P. Green, Caitlin Green, Murray Ross and Drew Martorella.
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Sunday’s performance was attended by the legendary Public Theatre producer Oskar Eustis, who brought “Bloody” to Broadway in 2010, and composer Michael Friedman.
Omid Dastán Harrison prepares for an afternoon on the wild frontier as land expansionist-turned-emo-rock-star Andrew Jackson, known by some as just, “America’s Hitler.”
The entire lobby of the Bon Vivant Theatre has been turned into a carnival-slash-state-fair-concert kind of setting.
Test your strength … against Andrew Jackson’s crabby corrupt cabinet.
Here’s a fun carny game: Guess which blanket provided to Native Americans by the U.S. military is NOT infested with smallpox??
Fun historical facts about James Monroe … AND Metamucil!
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