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

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Gary Duff and actor wife Margie Lamb check in at the box office. Interesting casting for Lamb: The actor who plays Winnifred, Sarah Grover, played Natalie when Lamb first starred in “Next to Normal” at the Midtown Arts Center in Fort Collins. Zachary Stailey, who plays Dauntless, also played Lamb;s husband, Dan, in her second “Next to Normal,” recently staged by Ignite Theatre at the Aurora Fox.

 

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Carla Kaiser Kotrc likes to spend some quiet time alone before the show on her on-stage throne before the house opens.

 

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Curtain call.

 

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The cast gathers to celebrate with friends in the lobby of the Lakewood Cultural Center after the show. Among the throng are actors Andy Sievers, Lindsey Falduto, Zachary Stailey, Carolyn Lohr and Josh Rigo.

 

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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