Outtakes: My night at UC-CS’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”

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Scenic design by Roy Ballard.

 

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Backstage, Dana Kjeldsen helps castmate Robbie Armstrong with his hipster-cool owl eye makeup.

 

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Jessica Parnello plays Rachel, Andrew Jackson’s cutter wife.

 

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Lynne Hastings, who plays the wheelchair-bound but ever-enthusiastic, Jackson-loving Storyteller, gets a pre-show sweater stretch from castmates Jessica Parnello and Robbie Armstrong.

 

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The curtain call.

 

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Omid Dastán Harrison: Rock star, with feelings. Seventh president of the United States.

 

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Erik Brevik, who plays the steroidal Twinkie-scarfing Martin Van Buren in Colorado Springs, with Josh Nelson, who played the role in the Aurora staging presented by Ben Dicke Productions in October 2012.

 
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Thumbs up from the Denver cast.

 

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