Production archive
Production archive
Everything the Vic staged between September 2005 and April 2011.
The Denver Victorian Playhouse staged roughly fifty productions between its reopening in September 2005 and its closure in April 2011, counting visiting companies and children’s work alongside its own programme. This is the index. 29 productions have their own page here, restored from the theatre’s published records; the rest are listed by title, writer and dates, which is all the archive preserves of them.
The season-by-season listings with the theatre’s own descriptions are on the season calendars page, and the first two seasons have a separate page as they did on the original site.
2005 — the reopening season
2006
2006 season
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
Aug 18 – Sep 23, 2006
2007
2008
2008 season
The Glider
by —
Jun 11 – Jul 10, 2008
2008 season
Politix: Showbiz on the Powerbiz
by Janet DeRuvo
Jul 25 – Aug 23, 2008
2008 season
Tales of the Night
by —
Oct 10 – Nov 8, 2008
2008 season
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by after Roald Dahl
Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2008
2009
2009 season
Greater Tuna
by Williams, Sears & Howard
Mar 6 – Apr 25, 2009
2009 season
The Butler Did It
by Walter and Peter Marks
Sep 11 – Oct 31, 2009
2009 season
Alice in Wonderland
by after Lewis Carroll
Nov 13 – Dec 20, 2009
2009 season
A Tuna Christmas
by Williams, Sears & Howard
Nov 13 – Dec 20, 2009
2010
2010 season
The Creation of the World and Other Business
by Arthur Miller
Mar 5 – Apr 24, 2010
2010 season
Tomfoolery
by Tom Lehrer
Jul 23 – Sep 11, 2010
2010 season
Woman and Scarecrow
by Marina Carr
Sep 24 – Oct 30, 2010
2010 season
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
by Tom Mula
Nov 12 – Dec 19, 2010
2010 season
Puddle Jumpers Holiday Fantasment
by —
Dec 4 – Dec 18, 2010
2011 — the final months
2011 season
The Field
by John B. Keane
Feb 25 – Apr 2, 2011
2011 season
The Seagull King (staged reading)
by Michael Griffith
Apr 7 – Apr 8, 2011
Directors’ programme notes
Programme notes rarely survive. Five of the Vic’s were published on its website and are preserved here in full:
- The Holdup — Terry Dodd, 2006
- The Deadly Game — Patricia Goodman, 2006
- Other People’s Money — Janet DeRuvo, 2006
- Steel Magnolias — Robert Kramer, 2006
- The Weir — Terry Dodd, 2006
Awards and nominations
- Best of Denver 2006 (Westword) — Best Theatrical Resurrection, Denver Victorian Playhouse; and Best Production Based On Principle, Dead Man Walking.
- Ovation Awards 2009 finalists (The Denver Post) — Best Actress, Musical Role: Kelly Twedt, The Fantasticks; Best Actress, Comic Role: Rita Broderick, Educating Rita; Best Lighting: Karalyn Star Pytel, The Fantasticks.
- Henry Awards 2010 nominations (Colorado Theatre Guild) — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Boni McIntyre, London Suite; Outstanding Sound Design: El Armstrong, Voices in the Dark.
- Best of Denver 2012 (Westword) — Best Theater Venue We Lost, awarded the year after the theatre closed.
A note on what is not here. The original site carried separate cast-biography and production-photograph pages for many of these shows. The photographs were the theatre’s own pictures of real performances and cannot be reproduced; the cast pages were personal biographies of well over a hundred Denver actors, and nothing is served by republishing them. Cast lists are preserved on the production pages, which is the part that belongs to the production record.