Shadow Theatre Company Announces Uncle Jed's Barbershop!
By: Gabrielle Sierra May. 06, 2011
Shadow Theatre Company in affiliation with DreaMaker Productions, LLC brings the award-winning Uncle Jed's Barbershop to the Aurora Fox Theatre Arts Center. There will be four shows only in Metropolitan Denver, May 27-29, presented as a concert reading to springboard the show off on a national workshop tour. A prelude to our next season and our commitment to new and original works by local playwrights. UNCLE JED'S BARBERSHOP, a new musical created by local playwright Kenneth Grimes with David B. Wohl and Susan Einhorn. The award-winning UNCLE JED'S BARBERSHOP is inspired by the atmosphere, language and music of the late 1920's through the 1960's, evoking rural Arkansas near the Mississippi Delta.
A new musical!
Book & Lyrics by Kenneth Grimes
Music by David Wohl
Directed by Susan Einhorn
Featuring:
Broadway veteran Ken Prymus!
Kimberly Jujuan
Nora Cole
Terry Burrell
&
Denver's own singing sensation Leonard Barret, Jr.
The story of Sarah Jean Carter, who has returned from Detroit to her childhood home of Monroe County in order to attend the funeral of Uncle Jed, her favorite relative.
She meets a spirited girl who turns out to be her childhood self. They embark on a journey that is more than a romp through the past.
In 1928, Uncle Jed was the only black barber in Monroe County. His barber shop was everywhere: on porches, in fields of share crop land, and in kitchens beside pot-bellied stoves.
Sarah Jean and her uncle share adventures on moonlight picnics, frolics to catch fireflies and lessons learned from precious but illusive pennies as Uncle Jed struggles to one day open up his very own barber shop.
Showing at the Aurora Fox Arts Center
9900 E Colfax Ave.
Dates & Showtimes:
Friday, May 27 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 28 at 2:00 pm
Saturday, May 28- Special Benefit for the prevention of AIDS at 6:00 pm
Saturday, May 28 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 29 at 3:30 pm
Tickets:
$23 - single
$18 - senior (60+)/child (8-18) discount
720-857-8000
or
www.shadowtheatre.com
or
www.aurorafoxartscenter.org
Thursday, May 19 at 7:30An evening with the stars of Uncle Jed's BarbershopNo Cover Charge!
1-Drink-Minimum!Twisted Olive
A New Concept Ultra Lounge and Full Restaurant
8270 Northfield Boulevard
Denver, CO 80238-2131
Thursday, May 19th at 7:30 pmMore info: www.shadowtheatre.com
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