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| | IAN MAKSIN
"SONGS OF THE
VAGABOND CELLO"
One Performance ONLY!
May 11, 2024 at 7:30pm
Doors at 7pm
World acclaimed cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist singing in 30 languages, IAN MAKSIN comes to the DURANGO ARTS CENTER as part of his North American tour.
BREAKING BOUNDARIES both musical and geographical, cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist IAN MAKSIN has created his own unique musical Metaverse by blending classical, jazz, and world music and by drawing inspiration from very diverse and eclectic musical sources, using his cello as the main unifying force and taking the listener along on this magical journey beyond space and time.
ONE-MAN ORCHESTRA: Ian Maksin uses the loop pedal and other electronic devices to augment the sound of the cello and turn it into a virtual orchestra.
SINGING IN 30 LANGUAGES: What began as a hobby and a passion for linguistics and travel has become part of a unique concert experience. At this time Ian Maksin sings in 30 languages including Ukrainian, Russian, English, Farsi, Armenian, French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mongolian, Bambara (one of the tongues spoken in West Africa) and many other exotic languages.
THE GLOBAL MUSICIAN: Most of this repertoire was amassed by Maksin during his world travels, jam sessions and collaborations with local musicians. Many of his original songs and instrumental compositions are also infused with flavors of ethnic music from countries and regions where he drew inspiration from: Mongolia, West Africa, Middle East, the Balkans, Andalusian flamenco.
About IAN MAKSIN: ianmaksin.com
Instagram: instagram.com/ianmaksin
Facebook: facebook.com/cellomaxx
Youtube: youtube.com/ianmaksin
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| | Silent Sundays with Swanson
Sunday, May 12th, 2:00 PM
MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL!
Mimosa's only $5!!
Bring the whole family and enjoy a Sunday afternoon with silent film classics accompanied live by professional pianist Adam Swanson!
In May, we will screen both a silent comedy short and a feature length movie. Join the fun as Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton create laughs galore with the pitfalls of slapstick comedy and then pay tribute to Mothers everywhere with the tenderhearted 1927 feature film Little Mickey Grogan.
Both films are accompanied with original period music LIVE on the DAC’s beautiful 9-foot grand piano!
The Films: The Garage (Paramount Pictures, 1920)
Starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
Another prime example of a classic silent film comedy short, this was the last film Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton made together. In The Garage, they play auto mechanics who double as fearless firemen! But a rogue customer makes a play for the owner’s daughter. What happens in the end?
Come to Silent Sundays to find out!
Little Mickey Grogan (FBO Pictures Corp., 1927)
Starring Frankie Darro, Jobyna Ralston, and Lassie Lou Ahern. Newly restored and not-yet-released, Little Mickey Grogan is a treasure of undiscovered silent cinema. A perfect feature film for Mother’s Day, a single mother falls in love with two orphan children (played by child stars Frankie Darro and Lassie Lou Ahern). The mother is silent movie star Jobyna Ralston, ( whom appeared in Wings the same year and was the first Academy-Award winner). A true product of its time, Little Mickey Grogan also features Charleston dances, child stars, drama, and more.
Durangoans have a unique opportunity to see this movie before its official release!
Adam Swanson is one of the world’s foremost performers of vintage American popular music, including ragtime, early jazz, the Great American Songbook, and more. He holds a bachelor’s in classical piano and a master’s in musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Adam has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States and abroad, and he is the only four-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. He made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with Michael Feinstein. Adam has performed at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and the Kennedy Center, as well as in Hungary, Switzerland, and Australia. He has worked with such musicians as Toronto’s John Arpin, former rock star Ian Whitcomb, and legendary 1950s recording artist Johnny Maddox, who was one of Adam’s greatest influences. He lives in Durango, Colorado, where he frequently performs in the Diamond Belle Saloon at the Historic Strater Hotel.
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| | The DYT May
Double Feature
"We Are Monsters"
presented by the JR Company
"Imagine a Dragon"
by the DYT Company.
May 17th and 18th at 7pm, Doors 6:30
May 18th and 19th at 2pm, Doors 1:30
Both of these new musicals are written for young performers. Each weaves a wonderful tale with lessons for kids of all ages and are guarunteed to tug at a few heart strings.
We are Monsters - Join a group of regular kids as they discover the entrance to a place where the monsters showcase their talents at a local cabaret. Get ready to join the Werewolf Howl-off and discover what Vamnpires really eat. Long lost friendships, and discovering that differences can bring us closer together, will surely bring a smile to the ooziest of monsters.
Imagine a Dragon - What if the dragon that lived in the cave next to the "Dancing Dragon Inn" wasn't there anymore? What would you do to drum up business instead of closing your doors? Questing Princesses and bumbling Heroes will have you roaring along like dragons in this wonderful new theatrical piece.
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| | 14th Annual
10 minute Play Festival!
May 31, June 1 and 2nd, 2024
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:00pm
We are bringing a new feel to our Annual 10 Minute Play Festival that accepts scripts from both professional and brand new playwrights from around the globe. This year we are requesting plays that embrace our Season of Mystery, Murder and Mayhem! After our panel of readers choose their stand out scripts, DART will fully produce 8 to 10 of these World Premiere 10 minute plays, showcasing the amazing talents of new writers, actors and directors for a winning weekend of never before seen Theatre.
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| | DURANGO PLAYFEST
FESTIVAL PARTY 2024
Help us kick off PlayFest’s 6th annual festival with drinks and heavy appetizers in the lovely Rochester Hotel Secret Garden. Mingle with the playwrights, actors, and directors, and learn more about this year’s plays. Your attendance helps us continue to bring world-class theatre to our own backyard.
$100
June 25 @ 6 – 8 pm
Rochester Secret Garden – 726 E. 2 nd Avenue, Durango, CO
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| | DURANGO PLAYFEST
HOP THA A
During his late-night commute on the A train, Harlem native Tyrone tries to impress Niesha, his coworker at a
nightclub, who just wants to read her book and pass the ride in silence. But as they travel uptown, the two forge
an unlikely connection that extends beyond the confines of the subway car.
Visit durangoplayfest.org for actors’
names and bios.
June 26 @ 7 – 9 pm $30
June 29 @ 1 – 3 pm $25 General /FLC ALUMNI $15/ $10 students
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ALL THAT REMAINS
A couple living on a small island off the coast of Maine invites the neurotic husband's college roommate and his conservative trophy wife for a weekend visit -- only to discover that long-buried secrets unmoor both couples
and the "good old days" may not have been so good after all.
Visit www.durangoplayfest.org for actors’ names and
bios.
June 27 @ 7 – 9 pm $30
June 28 @ 3 – 5 pm $25 General /FLC ALUMNI $15/ $10 students
June 29 @ 4 – 6 pm $25 General /FLC ALUMNI $15/ $10 students
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CIRCLE FORWARD
Seventeen years after the loss of her young husband from cancer, Mia meets a teenager who believes he is the reincarnation of her late husband. When the teen and his mom come to Mia's house for lunch, his uncanny
memories force Mia to face her doubts, her past, and the whole truth.
Visit durangoplayfest.org for actors’
names and bios.
June 28 @ 7 – 9 pm $30
June 30 @ 1 – 3 pm $25 General /FLC ALUMNI $15/ $10 students
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| | DURANGO PLAYFEST
MRS. EINSTEIN
A young Albert Einstein meets the brilliant Mileva Marić when they are physics students at the Zurich Polytechnic. Their deep emotional, intellectual and physical connection results in a ground-breaking scientific theory – but only one of them gets the credit. We know what becomes of him.
This is a play about her.
Visit durangoplayfest.org for actors’ names and bios.
June 29 @ 7 – 9 pm $30
June 30 @ 4 – 6 pm $25 General /FLC ALUMNI $15/ $10 students
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| | I Hate Hamlet
Written by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Monica DiBiasio
July 12 - 28, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Television star Andrew Rally is about to start rehearsals to play Hamlet—and he is terrified. Unsure of himself, worried about his career, Andrew doesn’t know what to do. In the midst of his confusion, he is visited by the ghost of legendary actor John Barrymore. Barrymore explains that all actors who take on the role are visited and mentored by their predecessors, and that he cannot leave Andrew until he takes the stage as Hamlet. Andrew’s girlfriend wants him to be a romantic hero of the stage, his friend wants him to accept a lucrative new TV gig, and Barrymore wants him to accept his own great theatrical mantle. As Andrew grows under Barrymore’s larger-than-life wing, he is forced to confront the ultimate question: who he wants to be, or not to be.
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| | The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Written by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Jenny Fitts Reynolds
August 16 - Sept. 1, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In the small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote. Staged in metatheatrical manner by the Music Hall Royale, a traveling Victorian theatre troupe full of just as many colorful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
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| | Wait Until Dark
Written by Frederick Knotts
Directed by Michael Grais
September 13 - 29, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Frederick Knott's thriller is the story of Susy Hendrix, a recently blinded housewife who unwittingly possesses a doll filled with illicit drugs. Harry Roat, a brutal and sophisticated criminal, coerces two small-time thugs into helping him con Susy into giving up the doll. A battle of wits ensues as Susy and the young girl upstairs launch a counterplot against the thieves. The drama plays on the themes of darkness and light as Susy navigates through her sightless world, and the crooks signal each other with light through the Venetian blinds.
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| | The
Rocky Horror Show
Written by Richard O’Brien
Directed by Jenny Fitts Reynolds
October 25,26,31 and Nov. 1 and 2
Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 7pm AND 10pm
Sunday at 7pm
One fateful night, Brad Majors and his fiancée, Janet Weiss — a wholesome, well-behaved, utterly normal young couple in love — innocently set out to visit an old professor. Unfortunately for them, this night out is destined to be one they will never forget. A thunderstorm and a flat-tire force them to seek help at the castle of Dr. Frank ’N’ Furter, an alien, transvestite scientist with a manic genius and insatiable libido. Brad, Janet, and Frank’ N’ Furter’s cohorts are swept up into the scientist’s latest experiment. The night’s misadventures will cause Brad and Janet to question everything they’ve known about themselves, each other, love, and lust. A loving homage to the classic B sci-fi film and horror genres with an irresistible rock’n’roll score, The Rocky Horror Show is a hilarious, wild ride that no audience will soon forget…which is why we are so pleased to host it and shout out with you!
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| | The 4th Annual 24 hr Theatre!
November 15 and 16, 2024
Join us for the mayhem that IS 24hr Theatre! Writers will receive prompts, suggestions of set, characters, dialogue, on Friday evening at 7pm. By 7pm on Saturday those prompts have been turned into scripts, cast, rehearsed, and are ready to hit the stage for a night of One Night Only theatrical magic! From page to stage in 24 hours!
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