A canopy of leaves covers the ceiling under which the audience sits, adults in chairs, kids on the floor.ĭirector-choreographer Ryan Hazelbaker exploits the ideas of play and pursuit by having the gorillas run, scamper and cavort, while the British explorers walk, talk, take notes and point guns.Ĭredit the handsome and agile Marek Zurowski for wonderfully realizing the boy-man Tarzan. A bamboo forest serves as a lush backdrop with massive artificial trees arching forward laden with vines, a.k.a. Pagosa Center has a huge, high-ceilinged lobby, which has been transformed into a jungle. For more than a century, the fantasy has captivated Western imaginations, but I walked into the theater with a tinge of skepticism. The fictional tale centers on an English boy raised by apes in an African jungle. Mounting its second season of four musicals, only a summer company of dedicated theater rats – all graduates of solid drama and musical comedy programs across the country – would attempt something as crazy as staging multiple musicals in repertory, meaning they’ll be the star in one and chorus in another.įrom “Damn Yankees” to “The Secret Garden” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” the range is impressive, although I was skeptical of “Tarzan.” My taste doesn’t run to Disney’s sugar-coated classics, but I wanted to see how the company mounted this version of the Edgar Rice Burrows 1912 story. Thingamajig Theatre at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts Last weekend, on one of my many summer road trips for scenery, hiking and culture, I attended an imaginative spinoff of a Disney musical, fresh interpretations of two American classics and a first-rate concert. On the way home, you might be singing “Luck Be a Lady Tonight.” You’ll see some of Colorado’s natural wonders and some of the most professional stage performances to be found in the Southwest.
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