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Recently I made the decision to take in the Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. Admittedly, I am not an expert or a fan of haute couture, but the buzz around town caught my attention. I opted for the audio tour guide and dove in thinking I would spend 30 minutes or so in the exhibit. Two hours later, I turned in my headset and headed for the gift shop. I enjoyed it and I learned something I had known little about before, but that is not the point of this story.

The point is this: the YSL exhibit visited three cities: Paris, France; Madrid, Spain, and Denver, Colorado.

That is simply remarkable. Denver and not New York? Not Los Angeles?

Chicago? What’s going on…?

A lot.

The Zoo has opened the Toyota Elephant Passage to world acclaim, along with a truly amazing recycling and energy program. The Botanic Gardens completed extensive renovations and expansion. Be sure to check out the Children’s Gardens—many adults are having fun there, too!

The Museum of Nature and Science continues to make significant world-

wide contributions with the discovery of the Snowmass Mammoth. The new History Colorado opened this year, a truly remarkable facility.

Here at The Denver Center, Artistic Director Kent Thompson has elevated the Colorado New Play Summit to a national/international level, contributing new work to stages around the world, while Denver Center Attractions continues bringing new smash hits to Denver directly from Broadway.

The opening of The Book of Mormon takes center stage this August, kicking off its national tour here in Colorado.

The new Denver Center Attractions season includes Broadway hits such as War Horse, Peter and the Starcatcher, Evita and once. (Check out page 26 for a complete list of DCA’s justannounced 2013/14 season.)

These success stories and many more are due in good part to support from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District or SCFD. More than 20 years ago, the voters of the seven-county SCFD saw the rationale in supporting science, arts and culture along the Front Range. The past two decades have brought financial stability and an explosion of creativity to the region, adding to the magnificence of our already wonderful Colorado.

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Randy Weeks, President The Denver Center for the Performing Arts Executive Director, Denver Center Attractions

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. SEAWELL!

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he Denver Center for the Performing Arts Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Donald R. Seawell, celebrated his 100th birthday on August 1 of this year.

All of us at The Denver Center congratulate him on reaching this milestone and wish him continued good health and the opportunity to see the organization he so thoughtfully founded in 1979 grow and prosper into the next 100 years.

All of our days are dedicated to seeing that it does.

We can think of no better, more important or more richly deserved gift.

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Robert S. Garner, longtime Denver Center trustee and theatrical impresario, passed quietly at his home in Denver. Bob’s influence on Denver’s theatrical community goes back to 1961 when he presented Fiorello at the then Auditorium Theatre. The show was a hit and Bob never looked back. In the mid-1970s he joined forces with the Founding Chairman of The Denver Center, Donald R. Seawell, and created Denver Center Attractions, the Center’s Broadway touring division. His influence in Broadway touring circles was vast. If you wanted to know what was happening on Broadway or the road, you asked Bob. Many did. Bet he’s still keeping an eye on things. Cheers, Bob!

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the perpetrators of the hit cartoon series South Park, have taken potshots at everything from Scientology to Barbra Streisand, packed more fart jokes and four-letter words into small spaces than any other filmmakers over the age of ten and risked death threats for an episode in which they poked fun at the Prophet Mohammad.

But only when they got to Broadway did they find something they hadn’t experienced since their days as renegade student filmmakers at the University of Colorado: no adult supervision.

“On Comedy Central we have standards and practices,” said Stone, sitting with Parker at the back table of a restaurant next door to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where The Book of Mormon, was in previews. “They have to answer to advertisers, and we have to answer to them.

And then for the film stuff, we have the MPAA [ratings] to deal with. But here, it’s basically me and Trey and our friends in the theatre next door putting on a show.

Other than New York indecency laws or something, that’s it.”

The indecency police, if there were any left in New York City, might blanch at some of the cruder moments in The Book of Mormon: the flippant talk by Ugandan villagers about AIDS and baby rape or the fellow who keeps complaining about “maggots in my scrotum” or the upbeat “Hakuna Matata”-style ditty that translates as “F--- You, God.” But it’s all packaged in such a buoyant, old-fashioned Broadway song-and-dance show that, once past the four-letter words,

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you just might mistake this for a revival of Oklahoma!

It seems like an epic mismatch: Parker and Stone, the bad boys behind TV’s most notoriously potty-mouthed cartoon show, bringing their irreverent act to the family-friendly environs of Wicked and Jersey Boys. But it shouldn’t be all that surprising. For one thing, Broadway has been fervently trying to attract younger, hipper audiences, with shows like Avenue Q, the profane puppet musical that swept the Tony Awards in 2004—and whose co-creator Robert Lopez is Parker and Stone’s collaborator on The Book of Mormon.

Broadway now opens its doors to rap musicals and raunchy stand-up concerts and drug-fueled punk-rock extravaganzas like 2010’s American Idiot. But the other reason not to be surprised is that Parker and Stone, for all their renegade street cred, are closet lovers of the classic Broadway musical. Parker, 41, grew up in a small Colorado town watching Rodgers and Hammerstein revivals by the local community theatre, the Evergreen Players. He went on to star in high school musicals, majored in music at the University of Colorado and transferred his musical-theatre passion to his college friend Stone (a math major, two years younger), initiating him by taking him to see Miss Saigon in London. hile still in college, they made a film together called Cannibal: The Musical, based on the true story of a prospector in the 1870s who survived his snowbound expedition by

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eating his comrades. Not long afterward, the pair was discovered by Hollywood.

Signed to a script deal by producer Scott Rudin (who’s now one of two lead producers of their Broadway show, along with Anne Garefino), Parker came up with another musical idea: Des Moines, about an insurance man in a small Iowa town who sings and dances in a Rodgers and Hammerstein idyll—until he’s transferred to the big, bad city of Des Moines and the music comes to a screeching halt.

Rudin didn’t like it. n 1997, however, the two hit it big with South Park, the Comedy Central cartoon show about a quartet of profanity-spewing third-graders, which has provided a vehicle to satirize everything from self-important Hollywood stars to Facebook mania. It also spawned a 1999 feature film, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, a cheerily old-fashioned (if foulmouthed) musical that nabbed an Oscar nomination for Best Song—and a fan letter for its score (co-written by Marc Shaiman) from Stephen Sondheim.

Parker and Stone have long been fascinated with Mormonism, which they first took on in their 1998 movie Orgazmo, about a Mormon missionary who becomes a porn star, and later in a 2003 South Park episode in which a Mormon family moves into the neighborhood and disarms everyone with its sheer niceness.

Then, while making their 2004 puppet movie Team America: World Police, Parker and Stone went to see the musical Avenue Q and met the show’s co-creator Lopez—who not only was a big South

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“…we wanted to do a traditional Broadway musical, not some new take —Oh, we’re going to do a musical for people who don’t like musicals, none of that. We wanted to do the biggest version of a Broadway musical, with this kind of crazy, unconventional material.”

— Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon book, music & lyrics (L-r) Casey Nicholaw, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez . Photo: joan marcus.

Park fan (he credited the show in his Playbill bio) but also had been toying with his own idea of a musical about Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith.

The three got together and began developing the musical in spurts, in between the six or seven months a year that Parker and Stone were absorbed in South Park.

As a creative team, Parker and Stone (dressed in complementary black and white T-shirts, respectively) seem perfectly in sync—though Stone is the more intense and voluble, Parker the more laid-back and contemplative. (He writes most of the music, and he co-directed The Book of Mormon with Broadway vet Casey Nicholaw.) “Matt is fierce. He just goes for it,” says Garefino, their longtime South Park producer. “Trey goes for it too but does it in a sweeter way.”

But neither comes off as a Broadway insurrectionist. “The highest thing we were going for, and this sounds kind of corny, but we wanted to do a traditional Broadway musical,” says Stone. “Not some new take—Oh, we’re going to do a musical for people who don’t like musicals, none of that. We wanted to do the biggest version of a Broadway musical, with this kind of crazy, unconventional material. And that seemed like the hardest challenge and the craziest and the most subversive thing to do.” n truth, The Book of Mormon is less incendiary than an average episode of South Park. It focuses on a team of fresh-faced Mormon missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert a band of villagers beset by poverty and

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pestilence. Though the show makes mild fun of the wackier elements of the Mormon creation story—Smith’s discovery of holy golden tablets in upstate New York—it steers clear of more hot-button issues associated with the religion, like polygamy. (A joke on the topic was once in the show, says Lopez, but it was cut after “it didn’t get a laugh.”) wo weeks before the show’s opening, Parker and Stone were still tinkering—moving scenes around and adding song lyrics. They’ve had to adjust their seat-of-the-pants working method from South Park—where most episodes are conceived, written, animated and edited in the space of a week—to the demands of dealing with real live actors.

“In South Park we can say, ‘Let’s try this.’ We’ll go in and look at it, and then we can change it in half an hour. It’s not a big deal,” says Parker. “But I’ve had to learn that, oh, you can’t give the actor a new line too many times. He’s going to start getting confused. So you have to make sure you’ve thought about it.”

The Los Angeles-based pair has had fewer problems adapting to living in New York City. Stone and his wife bought an apartment in Chelsea, and even Parker, who is more comfortable in open spaces, was thinking of keeping the midtown apartment he and his girlfriend rented for the duration. But after The Book of Mormon’s March 24, 2011 Broadway opening, they were heading back to L.A. to face the usual scramble as they prepared to churn out the final episodes for South Park’s 15th season.

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“Every season, we run out of ideas about two shows in,” says Parker. “I hope some funny things happen.” On the other hand, their new Broadway excursion just might have opened up new territory. They attended the third preview of SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark, the high-flying, trouble-plagued musical that was having to postpone its opening for the sixth time. Said Parker, charitably: “Our third preview didn’t go so great either.”

Remember, he’s the sweet one. n ©2011. Time Inc. All rights reserved.

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Highlander Hybrid 28 MPG rating1

Prius c 53 MPG rating2

Prius v 44 MPG rating 5

Prius Plug-in Hybrid 51 MPG rating3 95 MPGe rating4

3rd Generation Prius 51 MPG rating6

Camry Hybrid 43 MPG rating7

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Options shown. 12012 EPA-estimated 28 city/28 highway/28 combined mileage for Highlander Hybrid. Actual mileage will vary. 22012 EPA mpg ratings 53 city/46 highway/50 combined mileage for Prius c. Actual mileage will vary.

3 2012 EPA mpg ratings 51 city/49 highway/50 combined mileage for Prius Plug-in Hybrid. Actual mileage will vary. 42012 EPA mpg ratings combined miles per gasoline gallon equivalent. Estimate includes consumption of electricity and gasoline energy during EV mode operation. Actual results will vary for many reasons including driving conditions and how you drive and maintain your vehicle. 52012 EPA mpg ratings 44 city/40 highway/42 combined mileage for Prius v. Actual mileage will vary. 62012 EPA mpg ratings 51 city/48 highway/50 combined mileage for 3rd Generation Prius. Actual mileage will vary. 72012 EPA-estimated 43 city mileage for Camry Hybrid LE. Actual mileage will vary.