Stories on Stage presents Making Merry December 12, 2010

STORIES ON STAGE

Making Merry
Stories on Stage presents Making Merry on Sunday, December 12 in the Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Show times are 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Single tickets are $25 adult, $15 Student, tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523.
In Making Merry, the talents of Sam Gregory, Randy Moore, Maggie Roswell and Nick Sugar bring warmth to the season with all the requisite frivolity and fun one expects, but also with stories of heart, humanity, and Peace on Earth, Good Will To All…
The Return of the Smiling Wimpy Doll by Jean Shepherd, read by Sam Gregory
"Popeye had saved the day again."
Jean Shepherd was an American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor. He wrote a series of humorous short stories about growing up in northwest Indiana and its steel towns, many of which were first told by him on his programs and then published in Playboy. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is best-known to modern audiences for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories.
Sam Gregory is a Denver Center Theatre Company member. He has performed on stage at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and regionally with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Repertory Theatre and the California Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Gregory has appeared in daytime dramas One Life to Live and As the World Turns.
Captain Eli's Best Ear by Frank R Stockton, read by Randy Moore
What do two old retired sea captains know about celebrating Christmas?
Frank R Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. His most famous work was the short story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” published in 1882 by Century magazine. This story, with its ambiguous ending, has been adapted into a play, a film version, and addressed by both Robert Browning in a poem and by scholars in the Hindu community.
Randy Moore is now enjoying his 16th season at Denver Center Theatre Company. His credits include: Trip to Bountiful, A Christmas Carol, The Miser, The Winter’s Tale, A Flea in Her Ear. As a 30-year veteran of the Dallas Theater Center acting company Mr. Moore performed as Cyrano, Hamlet, Iago, Sherlock Holmes, and others.
The Demon Foiled by Anne Roiphe, read by Maggie Roswell
Under the spell of Hanukkah, even political spin can become an enlightening truth.
Anne Roiphe is best-known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox, which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. Her work examines the conflict between the desire for family and relationships and that for career and self-determination. Roiphe's seventeen books include Fruitful, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Vogue, Elle, Redbook and The Guardian.
Holly or Challah? by Paul Rudnick, read by Maggie Roswell
No one should ever use the holiday to make non-Christians feel uncomfortable.
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and novelist. His plays include I Hate Hamlet,Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla and The New Century. Under the pen name Libby Gelman-Waxner, wrote a long-running and popular series of columns for Premiere magazine.
Maggie Roswell’s career includes Broadway: Sills and Company; International Tour: Once Upon a Mattress; Los Angeles: The House of Blue Leaves and the films Lost in America, Pretty in Pink. Roswell is also known as the voice of characters Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Ms. Hoover & Lu Ann Van Houten on The Simpsons. She received Emmy and Annie Nominations for her singing and acting portrayal of Sharry Bobbins in The Simpsons send-up of Mary Poppins.
Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide by Dave Barry, read by Nick Sugar
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime.
Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He has also written a total of 30 books, two of which were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom Dave's World.
Prior to moving to Denver Nick Sugar worked in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York. Nick serves on the Board of Directors for The Colorado Theater Guild and Town Hall Arts Center. Nick has been honored with several awards including Denver Post Ovation Award, Director of the Year in 2007 and 2008; 2007 Henry Award, Direction (Dog Sees God); 2006 Henry Award, Direction (The Rocky Horror Show).

Stories on Stage performs in Boulder for the first time at the Dairy Center.
Making Merry in Boulder
Saturday, December 11
2pm, Performance Space, The Dairy Center for the Arts
Tickets may only be purchased through The Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut St, Boulder, 80302)
by calling 303-444-7328 or online at www.thedairy.org
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote, read by Kathy Brady replaces The Return of the Smiling Wimpy Dollby Jean Shepherd, read by Sam Gregory for this show only.
Celebrating their 10th Season, Stories on Stage combines literature with theater to bring short stories to life and features some of America's best actors.
After the performance stay and enjoy complimentary cookies and milk.
Making Merry is sponsored by Les Crispelle and Glenn Tiedt and in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD), The Denver Foundation and Colorado Creative Industries.
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Stories on Stage presents Making Merry
America's best actors from stage and screen performing the words of the finest renown authors.
Sunday, December 12
Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Speer and Arapahoe
1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Single tickets are $25 Adult/ $15 Student
Online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523
Making Merry in Boulder
Saturday, December 11
The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, 80302
2 p.m.
Call 303-444-7328 or online at www.thedairy.org