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The 2013 Tony® Awards are just around the corner and, as is most often the case, there is a scurry to get shows up on Broadway to qualify for the awards. Many Broadway producers plan to “come in” during the spring, thinking that they will have a better chance of getting a Tony nod if their opening is fresh in the Tony voters’ minds.

This year is no exception, and I am watching with great interest for the musicals we might see in Denver a year or so from now.

The top productions vying for Best Musical will be a revisical of Cinderella (my newly minted word for a “new musical adaptation”) that just opened and is doing good business; Kinky Boots (based on the movie); Matilda, based on the book by Roald Dahl, that came to Broadway from

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everyone’s favorite nanny, does not entirely parallel that of the “practically perfect” Poppins, but their confidence, strong wills and eccentricities match up, well, perfectly.

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TRACES LES MISéRABLES

This exhilarating show is back with its amazing feats of big-top cirque shows minus the gibberish and the fol-de-rol. No nets, no wires, all heart—and co-creator Gypsy Snider explains why.

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BALLROOM MARY POPPINS WITH A TWIST The life of P.L.Travers, creator of

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My personal favorite for Best Revival is a new adaptation of Pippin; I was able to catch its pre-Broadway run at Harvard and it’s terrific. There also is a sweet and timely revival of the ever-popular Annie. Tune in to the Tonys on June 9 on CBS to find out who takes home the hardware.

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Sentiment, heroics, a stirring score (and now a movie) have only burnished the 33-year success of a musical that never ceases to astonish.

by Sylvie Drake

Board of TRUSTEES Daniel L. Ritchie, Chairman and CEO Donald R. Seawell, Chairman Emeritus Randy Weeks, President and Executive Director, Denver Center Attractions William Dean Singleton, Secretary/Treasurer W. Leo Kiely III, First Vice Chair Robert Slosky, Second Vice Chair Christian Anschutz Dr. Patricia Baca Joy S. Burns Isabelle Clark Navin Dimond Margot Gilbert Frank Thomas W. Honig Mary Pat Link Edward A. Mueller Robert C. Newman Richard M. Sapkin Martin Semple Jim Steinberg Peter Swinburn Ken Tuchman Lester L. Ward Dr. Reginald L. Washington Judi Wolf Sylvia Young _______________________ Carolyn Foster, Executive Assistant to Daniel L. Ritchie Kim Schouten, Executive Assistant to Daniel L. Ritchie EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Dorothy V. Denny Mayor Michael Hancock Governor John Hickenlooper Kent Thompson

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When you first hear about the French-titled Les 7 Doigts de la Main (The 7 Fingers of the Hand), it’s easy to think of them as Cirque du Soleil wannabes. In their show, Traces, they do all of that fabled physical stuff: acrobatics, tumbling, hoops. Like Cirque du Soleil, they’re based in Montreal, use no animals and share a pedigree that includes the National Circus School in Montreal, a magnet for circus performers.

Yet the truth about 7 Fingers is, in fact, the opposite.

“No net! No wires! All heart!” is how they’ve advertised their show.

They might have added no tent, no costumes, no frills, no cast of thousands—and some real language spoken here. While all of the founders worked with Cirque du Soleil in their youth, they had a desire to create something on their own and it turned out to be something of an anti-Cirque.

“Principally we’re friends who met as co-artists at Cirque du Soleil,” says Gypsy Snider, a co-creator of Traces with “finger” (and fellow San Franciscan and Saltimbanco performer) Shana Carroll. “We were not all on the same show. I was working with two of the fingers, as we call each other, on Saltimbanco; one was working on a project in Germany; three others were on Qidam and Alegria.” hile still with Soleil, Snider and Carroll, developed other projects together. “We wrote stories,” Snider said during an interview. “Shana did choreography.” In 2002 they formed a company.

“It was one of those magical moments when really committed people get together and say let’s do a show. We were seven co-artists and friends who had known each other for a while. We trusted each other.

We knew no one was going to turn away or have an ego trip. We were in the project to make it happen—to the end.

“The concept,” Snider explained, “was to create a circus company where we could perform, write, direct, coach, administer, do graphics, radio, film, basically fulfill all of our creative desires.” While they created Traces—which has a cast of seven—the production does not necessarily feature the founders, but artists hired by them.

“Traces was our second production and everyone in Montreal was like, ‘We don’t understand, why are you hiring these young people?

Isn’t this a company for you as artists?’ Well, yes, but what these guys do acrobatically, I’m not going to do. I’m 42. It’s over. For me it’s exciting to choreograph. Because we seven were performers, our appreciation is huge. We’re not just coaches; we did it. So when I see you, a young artist, who can do five times more than I could when I was 20, I know how to exploit that. I’m going to make it possible for you to really show what you can do.

“Acrobats aren’t actors,” she stressed. “What we do isn’t acting. It’s trying to find the essence of these seven young people and get them to communicate with the audience in the most unpretentious form.”

And so they do. These acrobats perform in what one might describe

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“What we do in Traces isn’t acting. It’s trying to find the essence of these seven young people and get them to communicate with the audience in the most unpretentious form.”

—Gypsy Snider co-director, choreographer and founder staff to handle their companies on tour.

All of their shows—Loft, Traces, La Vie, Psy—are compact, and all aim for simplicity and portability. They also all combine celebratory themes with life’s darker pathways. The Fingers find that “the juxtaposition of dark and complex themes with the joyful and celebratory language of circus [make] for a rich experience.” embers of the company hail from everywhere—France, Canada, Switzerland, the United States, China. In a twist that speaks volumes about the group’s philosophy, they don’t do auditions; they do workshops. Snider: “We invite people that we’ve heard of through friends and say, ‘Come. We’re going to try some ideas for a couple of weeks. You can help us, we’ll have fun,’ and so we get to know them.

That’s the closest thing to an audition that we do.

“A lot for us rests on gut feeling and work ethic. Obviously, we want personalities on stage, not machines, but we don’t want divas and drama. The desire to work has to be there or a show like this won’t fly. Boredom can’t exist in this business.

Every night must be magic. A bit of joking around is good, but first you must respect the show.”

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addictive. “When I was a kid,” Snider said pensively, “you couldn’t make money doing circus.” She should know. She grew up as the daughter of the founders of San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus.

“My brother and I were in my parents’ shows. There was a slight feeling from my parents—a worry—that if we did [circus] we’d have to struggle like they did. I never felt poverty as a kid, but they had to really work, and it’s hard work. You’re also in charge of all those other people…

“There was a slight desire for my brother and I to leave circus, but… you can’t.

You’re right. It’s like the Mafia. I felt like I would be leaving this unbelievably cool life. The community is so strong. And so small. We’re not a dime a dozen. Perhaps because the [physical] risk factor is so high, the investment and relationship with the people you work with so intense, because your life, literally, can depend on them. That’s huge.”

While Traces is one of the company’s earliest shows, the reasons for touring it now are also simple: “It has been one of our more beloved shows because of the way it reaches out to the audience. It has some of traditional circus. Straight up. And what I love is that if you mess up, you just get up and do it again. You needn’t pretend it didn’t happen and get embarrassed. We want the audience to see how hard it is and that it’s OK to fail, because you can get up and do it again.

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as noncostumes. They look a lot like ordinary street clothes. No glam. Their props are a couple of onstage poles, metal rings, some toys, mats, hoops, a mic. They take turns fooling with an onstage design table and tinkering with the keys of an old piano. Their sense of humor is subtle but pervasive, underscoring their actions even before the lights go up.

Tracing the origins of the show’s title is revealing. It began with Carroll and Snider’s desire to capture “the fire and energy and endless giving” of these young performers.

“When you’re 20 you think everything’s possible,” Snider explained. “You push yourself, but you also have this desperate need to share and communicate, to make a mark. And you begin to realize, ‘Oh, this is what I can do. This is how I’m going to leave my trace.’” nother factor played into this.

Traces was created not long after 9/11 and as Americans, Carroll and Snider felt the full anguish of that event. It left its own trace on the show they were staging. “Terrorism, a climate of fear, global warming, all were becoming a reality,” Snider said, “and here we were with these youngsters on stage. You could see that for them this was kind of the norm. Airplanes flying into buildings.

“We didn’t want to do a political show, so we tried to do one in which we put these young, dynamic artists into a context—of the lack of creativity, of the destruction and fear we were feeling.

“So there they are, full of life, running around, but through the whole show you hear clocks ticking. They play with chalk, but then you have a murder scene, that chalk outline of a dead body on the ground. Small yet emotional moments.

They leave a trace.”

This undercurrent is intentionally furtive enough to be well over the heads of children in the audience (and even some adults) busy delighting in the hi-jinx and derring-do of the acrobats. But whether these inferences make their point with everyone is not important. The central idea is that when you reveal even the smallest fact about yourself, you leave a trace.

“We like to feature our vulnerabilities,” said Snider. “A big point for us is that we like to talk about the human condition.

We don’t want beautiful, perfect, godlike artists. We like to say, here’s this kid on stage—it could be your kid, it could have been you—and you leave traces in your life.”

Since their founding, The 7 Fingers have been growing. It now takes a large

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PLT, as she was sometimes called, did not even take credit for “creating” Poppins. Instead, she insisted, the nanny with the upturned nose just came to her one day, much as she blows in on the East Wind in the opening chapter of Mary Poppins (1934). But whether Travers created the “Practically Perfect” Poppins— while convalescing from pleurisy in her Sussex, England, cottage—or merely channeled her, the world is in her debt.

Despite the obfuscation, many facts of the author’s life are indisputable. Pamela Lyndon Travers, as she was fully known in her adult life, was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, in 1899 (although the dust jacket of one of her own books claims it was 1906). She took her professional name—Travers was her father’s first name—during a brief stint as a dancer and actor. In 1924, she left Australia permanently after which she lived principally in England, with periods in Ireland and the US (for a time with the Navajo).

PLT’s early life was fairly idyllic, until her father died when she was only seven. The eldest of three girls, she was remarkably imaginative, given to pretending she was a hen, spending hours brooding on an imaginary nest of eggs.

She loved reading and ingested the Brothers Grimm (especially the gory bits). For a time in her childhood she thought “grim” was another word for story. “Tell me a grim,” she would say.

This child fantasist grew up to become quite self-sufficient, very much an “independent woman,” and years ahead of her time. To quote from Caitlin Flanagan’s 2005 New Yorker piece, “Travers was a woman who never married, wore trousers when she felt like it . . . [and as] she approached 40, she decided that she wanted a child. . . . [So she adopted] an infant, one of a pair of twins, and raised him as a single mother.”

After leaving Australia, where she had supported herself as a journalist, Travers matured into a poet, critic and essayist, and “a serious writer” of fiction and nonfiction books. Her circle of acquaintances included William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and her personal interests ran to mythology and mysticism (she was a longtime disciple of guru G. I. Gurdjieff). PLT reduced her alias to its initials to disguise her gender, hoping to escape the dismissive stereotype of the lightweight authoress. he great success of Mary Poppins was immediately followed by Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935). Mary Poppins Opens the Door appeared in 1944, followed eight years later by Mary Poppins in the Park (1952). These four books—collections of stories with recurring characters rather than novels—are the core of the nanny’s canon. The last of the Poppins tales, Mary Poppins and the House Next Door, materialized in 1989.

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a disapproving authority figure or a satisfying bit of both? hat generations of readers have loved Mary Poppins, and grieved at her successive departures from 17 Cherry Tree Lane, may be the biggest mystery of the conjuring nanny’s hold on our collective hearts. Maybe it is the unexpected complexity that makes us cherish both Poppins and Travers.

They don’t offer us an easy life, just a fascinating one. If their enchanted rose gardens come with thorns, the flowers bloom in colors we have never before seen.

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death, Travers found herself living with her Great Aunt Helen (known as Aunt Ellie), for whom PLT was named. Ellie was an irascible and sometimes bitter spinster, described as variously peremptory and humane, given to sniffing disapprovingly and to quoting every bromide in the book of child rearing. She seems clearly to have been, at least in part, the life model for Mary Poppins. Not coincidentally, she made a habit of carrying a carpetbag.

Physically, Mary Poppins is described as resembling a Dutch doll that was one of PLT’s playthings as a girl.

Travers assigned her own father’s occupation—bank manager—to Mary Poppins’ employer, George Banks, along with her father’s money troubles. Two of the Banks children, as Lawson points out in her book, are named after two of PLT’s relatives in Australia. Even the Royal Doulton bowl that figures so prominently in “Bad Wednesday” from Mary Poppins Comes Back was an artifact from PLT’s childhood. And her childhood nurse sported an umbrella with a carved parrot head for a handle.

That Mary Poppins is so widely considered a loving caregiver is one of the central mysteries of the books. Jane and Michael Banks are simultaneously devoted to her and terrified of displeasing her. Far from rosy-cheeked and flirtatious, as she seems from the film, the literary Poppins is described as strict, stern, remote and rigid—and she can stop a child in its muddy tracks with her blueeyed glare. side from the frequent dreamlike adventures that take her charges out of the ordinary world, the Poppins program of parenting is not the kind of rearing you would expect children to enjoy—not today; not in Depression-era London, when the books are set; not in 1910, the period of the film.

What is unique about Mary Poppins is her ability to impose order to the chaotic Banks household and a modicum of normalcy (between episodes of sorcery).

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did—or at least the film rights to Mary Poppins, a favorite of his daughters. It took Disney 20 years to convince the strongwilled and proprietary Travers to approve a script and sign on the dotted line, and it cost Disney five percent of the Mary Poppins gross. (Adjusted for inflation, the movie ranks as #23 on the list of all-time box-office earners.) t took producer Cameron Mackintosh nearly as long to wrangle the stage rights. By the time he knew her, he says, “she was a frail old lady. But you could see that she had a steel rod going down her spine… She asked me lots of questions about her characters and what kind of musical I wanted to do on stage.

When I started to dig for information I felt very like Michael and Jane Banks waiting to be told, ‘You’ll do.’”

When Mackintosh finally acquired the theatrical rights, he met with Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions, to talk about the possibility of a joint production. He gave Schumacher the treatment he had worked up for the stage musical and Schumacher gave Mackintosh an armful of documents from the Disney vault.

“It was amazing,” recalled Schumacher, “that Cameron had focused on many of the characters and episodes from the books that Travers wanted to include in the Mary Poppins film sequel that was never made.”

As is frequently the case with people who do not like to talk about their personal lives, that of Travers seems unusually freighted with frustration and conflict—especially in her relationships, both requited and not. Even her 50year collaboration with illustrator Mary Shepard—herself the daughter of Ernest H. Shepard, who first drew Winnie the Pooh—was not always placid. Perhaps Julie Andrews described Travers best: “I liked her,” said the Oscar-winning Andrews. “She was an eccentric and rather tough old girl but a good-hearted one, I felt.”

Countless details from PLT’s life found their way into her books. After her father’s

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The SNA Parton Party, held for more than 20 years in the Augusta Room, is always an exciting way for SNA guests to preview many of the unique auction items available at one of Denver’s most popular fundraisers. The Westin has been a long-time SNA partner and has been instrumental in gathering gift certificates from sister properties from all over the world that helped the auction raise more than $640,000 this year for The Denver Center’s Arts in Education programs.

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Once more, with feeling The musical of Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo’s epic saga, retains all of its sheen in 33 years of undimmed popularity—and counting. b y S y lv i e D r a k e

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One cannot discount the contributions of the team that created the musical, from bookwriter Alain Boublil’s ability to condense and adapt such a massive epic for the stage, to Herbert Kretzmer’s superlative English translation of the original French, to the stirring anthems by Claude-Michel Schönberg who created a score that seems drawn from the novel’s rib. sonore or “loud echo” of his day. Although he ostensibly belonged to no church, a religious thread frequently ran through his work. He claimed Les Miz as “religious.”

But it is an eloquent compassion, wedded to innate wisdom and a sense of balance that are at the core of the grandeur of his prose.

Les Misérables was a very long book, full of plots and subplots, and took years to complete, but it was only following the accidental death by drowning of his grown daughter Léopoldine—a terrible blow— that he immersed himself in earnest into the writing of it. Memories of his daughter probably informed the character of Cosette, just as memories of his own student days informed that of Marius. Aside from his phenomenal agility with language, Hugo’s genius was a transcending talent for getting to the universal through the particular, weaving the smaller human tales into the sociopolitical fabric of his day.

Les Misérables was published in 1862 and took France and all Europe by storm.

It was immediately translated into several languages. The author was astounded by the novel’s success. Even if people rarely plough through its almost 2,000 pages any more, it remains his best-known work, largely because its popularity has been reignited by the musical’s charismatic appeal.

Toward the end of the novel, Hugo writes

this: “The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details...a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life, from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God…” So much for the lofty ambitions of the book. But one cannot discount the contributions of the team that created the musical, from bookwriter Alain Boublil’s ability to condense and adapt such a massive epic for the stage, to Herbert Kretzmer’s superlative English translation of the original French, to the stirring anthems by ClaudeMichel Schönberg who created a score that seems drawn from the novel’s rib. ore than 150 years after the novel’s publication, we still thrill to this account of an escaped convict’s struggle for a chance at redemption because its sensibility is true to any age. Hugo’s gift for evoking an ambience of mystery, his operatic characters, the quest for justice where none exists, the depiction of a people in revolt, all contribute to this modern attraction.

Jean Valjean may have all the earmarks of a hero but he goes them one better: he is a flawed, deeply injured and profoundly moral man who, in his vulnerability and compassion, becomes the idealized model of a person with whom we all want to identify.

French playwright Paul Claudel called Hugo’s vision his “panic contemplation” of the universe. Writer Léon Fargue called him “un poéte d’avenir” or a poet of the future. That future is now and Hugo’s masterwork remains as fresh, provocative and rousing as ever. n

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With the release of the film made of the musical based on Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, and considering that musical’s 33-year record run on stage, one has to ask: Why? Why does this show never seem to lose its luster? Is it the pathos? The action drama? The deep well of sentiment (as opposed to sentimentality) on which it draws?

The pervasive heroics and genuine heroism of the piece?

The answer is all of the above, as well as producers—chiefly Cameron Mackintosh—who are good at keeping the production strong and fresh.

But hang on to that word heroism.

In this second decade of the 21st century there is a hunger within for genuine heroes or, as Maya Angelou so wisely put it, sheroes. Les Miz has more than one of each, whereas our modern world is pretty much devoid of larger-than-life characters. It is a world where the late Joseph Campbell found “every last vestige of the ancient human heritage of ritual, morality and art… in full decay.”

Strong condemnation, but it is true that we have lost our dragon-slayers. We reinvent them in comic strips, on You Tube, film and television—or substitute a cult of celebrity in their stead. Thin gruel by comparison.

The English language classifies hero as masculine, but Angelou was more than half-right. The word is in fact derived from a woman’s name: Hero, the legendary Aphrodite who threw herself into the sea when her lover Leander drowned swimming the Hellespont just to be with her. Granted, that was more of an emotional than a moral response, and not all of Webster’s definitions of heroism are particularly exalted. The one that comes closest to paydirt is this: “Bravery, nobility, fearlessness, valor.” pply these words to Les Miz and you feel the richness—in Jean Valjean’s innate nobility and valor; in that half-pint Gavroche’s fearlessness; in Fantine’s bravery in the face of overwhelming odds or Eponine’s readiness to take a bullet if it can save Marius for whom she has an unrequited love—and even in the final act of Inspector Javert who can no longer bear to live with what he has become.

In the end, it is the totality of Hugo’s massive canvas that works—the contradictions of its operatic scope and its intimate humanity in a marriage of social, political and emotional upheaval with intensely personal stories of private pain and struggle.

And what stories they are. Not content to spin strictly subjective tales, Hugo wanted his entire world to reverberate through his writing. He said he wanted to be the écho

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