Stories on Stage presents Words and Music September 11, 2010

STORIES ON STAGE
WORDS AND MUSIC
Saturday’s Out of the Box Series at the Denver Civic Theatre!
DENVER, CO – Stories on Stage will be performing at the Denver Civic Theatre presenting “Words and Music” as part of their Saturday Out of the Box Series. “Words and Music” will feature stories read by Robert Gossett and Leonard E. Barrett, Jr. along with live jazz. Show times are 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 11 at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive. Single tickets are $25; tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online atwww.storiesonstage.org.
Leonard E. Barrett, Jr., accompanied by Ken Myers on piano, entertains with selections from his jazz repertoire including "Paper Moon," "Love Letters" and "Route 66" as we mix live music, song and great stories. The world of Jazz is a thing so rich, so crazy and so beautiful that any attempt at describing it through words alone must, eventually, fall on deaf ears.
Albino Crow by Chris Abani, read by Robert Gossett
Chris Abani is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggenheim Award. He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Robert Gossett currently stars in the hit series The Closer and has been seen in episodes of Bones, ER, NYPD Blue, Charmed and Touched by an Angel. Off-Broadway credits include Fences, A Raisin in the Sun and The Last Minstrel Show just to name a few; film credits include Arlington Road, White Man's Burden, The Net and Batman Returns.
Body and Soul by Wesley Brown, read by Leonard E. Barrett, Jr.
Wesley Brown’s work includes three acclaimed novels (Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, and Push Comes to Shove) and three produced plays (Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, and A Prophet Among Them). In 1965, Brown worked with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party on voting registration. In 1972, he was sentenced to three years in prison for refusing induction into the armed services and spent eighteen months in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. He is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where he taught for 27 years and currently teaches literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
Leonard E. Barrett, Jr. has been awarded the Denver Post Ovation Award for “Best Actor in a Musical”, 2004; Westword’s “Best Crossover Actor,” 2004; Westword’s “Best Year for an Actor,” 2006. He has performed in Man of La Mancha, Guys & Dolls, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz, Urinetown, Side Show (PHAMALY); Unforgettable (Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret); Ragtime and The Producers (Boulder Dinner Theatre).
Celebrating their 10th Season, Stories on Stage combines literature with theater to bring short stories to life and features some of America's best actors.
Words and Music is sponsored in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD), The Denver Foundation and Colorado Creative Industries.
Stories on Stage presents Words and Music - A joyful evening of live music, song and great stories. Saturday, September 11 at 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. * Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive. Tickets $25 - Online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523 - (* Note location change for Out of the Box Series).