Photos: My night at Performance Now’s ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

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Carla Kaiser Kotrc joking with castmates Jeffrey Parizotto and Gina Eslinger.

 

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What musical director Ken Goodwin and the orchestra look like from the catwalk at the Lakewood Cultural Center.

 

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Actor Kendra Jacobs doubles as makeup artist as she helps Matt Maxwell transform into The Wizard. That’s Eric Weinstein behind them.

 

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Josh Rigo, who plays the Jester, in the green room, above, and doing some emergency repairs to his slipper before the evening performance, below.

 

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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