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About This Beautiful City
The award-winning* documentary-musical by acclaimed New York investigative theatre troupe The Civilians, This Beautiful City investigates the growth of the evangelical movement in Colorado Springs.
While The Civilians were conducting interviews with people involved with or affected by the mega-church movement and the battle raging over gay marriage, the scandal broke about New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, which shook the entire city of Colorado Springs, providing the play's creators with an unprecedented opportunity to capture an important event as it was taking place, and providing the people of Colorado Springs with the opportunity to express their opinions and concerns as those events unfolded. This Beautiful City is a fascinating and timely look at faith and how it affects the American landscape. "To non-believers, the evangelical movement can look like a loud, friendly party whose invitation we’ve politely declined, but whose windows sooner or later we can’t help peeking into....The Wilbury Group is staging a well-tempered production of This Beautiful City, a fascinating, and scandalous, example of the phenomenon." -The Providence Phoenix "A blazing production directed with intricate precision...This Beautiful City is certainly a worthwhile experience." -Edge Providence "A sparkling ensemble of some of the area's best working actors." -Broadway World *Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical |
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CAST & CREW
THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY Written by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis from interviews by The Civilians, music and lyrics by Michael Friedman Directed by Josh Short Music Direction by Brien Lang & Milly Romanzi Featuring Julia Bartoletti Mycah Hogan Andrew Iacovelli Melissa Penick Jo-an Peralta Siobhan Reddy-Best Patrick Saunders Clara Weishahn Katryne Hecht, Scenic Design Adam O'Brien & Mike Commendatore, Video/Projection Design Sylvi Re, Costume Design Gerritt Turner, Light Design Seth Finkle, Stage Manager Assistant Director, Kate Kataja; Production Manager, Seth Finkle; Movement & Ensemble Work by Kali Quinn Dramaturge, Chantel Ramos; Production Photography, Nile Hawver |
CALENDAR OF PERFORMANCES
Thursday, Sept 18 7:30pm preview
Friday, Sept 19 7:30pm preview Saturday, Sept 20 7:30pm preview Sunday, Sept 21 7:30pm PWYC Monday, Sept 22 7:30pm press/opening Thursday, Sept 25 7:30pm Friday, Sept 26 7:30pm Saturday, Sept 27 7:30pm Sunday, Sept 28 2:00pm Thursday, October 2 7:30pm Friday, October 3 7:30pm Saturday, October 4 7:30pm Sunday, October 5 2:00pm Thursday, October 9 7:30pm Friday, October 10 7:30pm Saturday, October 11 7:30pm ... POST-SHOW TALKBACKS TBD |
interested? JOIN US FOR OUR TALKBACK SERIES!
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Completely free and always open to the public, join us for talkbacks around the themes and topics explored in THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY, immediately following Thursday evening performances.
Thursday, September 25th Coming Into Their Own Alex Ezra Glez, grew up in South America in a non religious family, until a single event changed everything and he began his journey towards a religious life. Marty Finkle was married with 2 daughters. Years later, he felt comfortable enough to tell his wife, kids and family that he was gay. Since then,Marty has been working to get New Jersey to legalize Gay Marriage. He and his partner, Mike Plake were the first couple to have a legal union in New Jersey. Come and hear these engaging stories of those who've seen the effects of organized religion, good and bad, on their own lives. Thursday, October 2nd Meet the Creator: A Visit from The Civilians! Join us for an intimate Q &A with Alison Weller from the New York theatre troupe responsible for the development of This Beautiful City, The Civilians. Alison was one of the interviewers who spent 10 weeks in Colorado Springs talking to the members of New Life Church and everyone else represented in the play. Come hear what it was like to be accepted by everyone and first hand how the Ted Haggard scandal effected the people of Colorado Springs. Thursday, October 9th The American Evangelical Movement What is this "Evangelical movement" thing anyway? Daniel Vaca, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University has an expertise on the Evangelical movement and will enlighten us on this topic. He'll be joined by Pastor Todd Murphy, a self-described Evangelical and a pastor with Providence's Sacred Journey Church to discuss with audiences how religion shapes our lives in today's society. For more information on our talkback series, contact Education Director Seth Finkle at (401) 400-7100 x3, or seth@thewilburygroup.org. |
BEHIND THE SCENES: THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY IN REHEARSAL |
