This year, adjudicators evaluated 41 productions in 18 counties across Colorado involving 3,500 students. And the two students named Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress will represent Colorado at the national Jimmy Awards in New York on June 27. It’s a night of performances, camaraderie and awards honoring the best performances and productions from across the state this past school year. Tonight (Thursday) is the biggest night of the year for Colorado high-school musical theater, with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts again hosting the Bobby G Awards at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Photo by John Moore Bobby G Awards for high-schoolers “We’re just done.”Ī performance from 'Newsies' at the 2019 Bobby G. “Other than the pandemic, we have been busier since 2015 than we ever were before,” said Moore. Jesters, Moore emphasizes, is not closing for lack of business. “People are excited to have a full-service experience that includes dinner.” “We feel extremely fortunate,” said Jalyn Courtenay Webb, Director of Sales and Marketing. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, a 330-seat jewel in Johnstown, has been sold out for every performance in 2022, a run spanning “The Sound of Music,” “Curtains,” “Murder on the Orient Express” and now “Singin’ in the Rain, which is 90 percent sold-out halfway through its 10-week run. Friends of Jesters started a GoFundMe two months ago to try to raise the $2 million, but the effort stalled at around $11,000.ĭinner theater has been on the decline in Colorado for 20 years, but where it lives, it is largely living large. There’s been plenty of interest from developers, Scott Moore says, and he has no illusions that a buyer will emerge who will keep it as a theater. They bought the property, which had been a lumberyard, for $390,000 in 1999 and spent another $400,000 turning it into a theater. Owners Scott and Mary Lou Moore put the 9,000-square-foot building up for sale two months ago at a list price of $2 million. A photo from Jesters Dinner Theater's 2010 production of 'Aida.' Courtesy Jester Dinner Theatre
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