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The PHAMALY Times

April 23, 2010 Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League.

THE ABBEY ROADSHOW

A PHAMALY FUNDRAISER                                                                    One Night Only at the D Note in Olde Town Arvada

Friday, April 30th, 2010 | All Ages Welcome

  • 6:30pm | doors open, first come first served seating
  • 7:30pm – 9:30pm | Abbey Road & music of the Beatles
  • 10:00pm – 12:30pm | Blues, Classic Rock, & oddities you haven’t thought of in years

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at www.phamaly.org or at the door.

The D Note is located at: 7519 Grandview Avenue and offers a full bar and restaurant menu featuring award winning pizza, salads, and pasta.

THE ABBEY ROADSHOW

The music of The Beatles with Captain Quirk & Friends featuring vocalists Daniel Langhoff and PHAMALY’s Regan Linton (2009 Denver Post Ovation Award Winner)

Captain Quirk & Friends is a Colorado group comprised of many PHAMALY band members including bandleader Mitch Jervis on guitar, Austin Hein on bass, Larry Ziehl on drums, and PHAMALY’s award winning musical director Donna Debreceni on keyboards.

Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by The Beatles making it the final album recorded by the band. Released in September 1969, Abbey Road is regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums. Rolling Stone magazine named it the fourteenth greatest album of all time. When The Beatles disbanded, Abbey Road had sold over 7-million copies and was the first Beatles' album to reach the 10-million mark in worldwide sales.

 

REEL ACCESS REAL LIVES

A FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY VSA ARTS OF COLORADO AND PHAMALY

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Reel Access Real Lives is a one-day film festival featuring 6 films that explore artistic genres and celebrate the power of artistic pursuit. History reveals that for artists with disabilities, many academic prospects, inclusion in gallery and museum exhibitions and performance opportunities were extremely limited. For these artists, their creative expressions were marginalized and even ignored by critics and dismissed by the creative community that did not consider them seriously as artists.

Drawing upon their strengths, they open a new dialog on the awareness of issues that transcend the stereotypes that have been applied to them. Films will be followed by discussions led by gallery artists, filmmakers, and the artists themselves.

VSA Arts of Colorado in partnership with PHAMALY is pleased to present the following films about artists who offer new perspectives. This collborative endeavor generously sponsored by SCFD (The Scientific & Cultural Facilities District) and Starz FilmCenter brings together films that draw upon artists strengths and opens a new dialog on the awareness of issues that transcend the stereotypes that have been applied to them.

Featured Films:

2:00pm - 4:00pm

  • Phoenix Dance | directed by Karina Epperlein | A heroic journey of transformation and healing, challenging our expectations of what it means to be "disabled." (22min)
     
  • Life.Support.Music | directed by, Eric Daniel Metzgar | A stirring family saga and a portrait of creative struggle in the face of overwhelming tragedy. (79min)

4:00pm - 6:00pm

  • Ways on Wheels | directed by Ken Galloway | The story of a quadriplegic graffiti artist and his rise from the bottom. (14min)
     
  • Heavy Load | directed by Jerry Rothwell | Michael, Simon and Jim are three adults with learning disabilities who make up the unlikely punk band Heavy Load. (90min)

6:00pm - 7:30pm

  • Festival Reception

7:30pm - 9:30pm

  • Access Denied | directed by Leah Bell | The art and life of Eric McGehearty. (30min)
     
  • There's Still Hope from Dreams - A PHAMALY Story | directed by Mark Dissette | A documentary film following the journey of the theatrical group PHAMALY. (71min)

* each film track is followed by a discussion led by gallery artists, filmmakers, and the artists themselves.  Film previews can be seen at www.accessgallery.org.

Ticket prices: $18 Festival Package includes all screenings and reception OR $9.75 per screening ($7 - seniors, students with ID, Film Society members, PHAMALY company members, Access Gallery Artists)

Tickets for Reel Access Real Lives can be purchased at www.denverfilm.org or in person at the Starz FilmCenter box office.

 

DENVER PERFORMING ARTS COMPLEX SENSORY TOUR

CELEBRATION OF ADA’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY                                  AT THE DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

  • 10:30am | Sensory tour of the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
  • Noon | Lunch with theatre professionals and leaders in the community of people with disabilities.
  • 1:30pm | Accessible Performance of the world premiere production of Mama Hated Diesels in The Stage Theatre. This performance will be American Sign Language Interpreted and Audio Described.

All events located in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex in downtown’s Denver Performing Arts Complex on the corner of Arapahoe and Speer. The tour leaves from the lobby promptly at 10:30am.

$40 includes the tour, a light lunch and the play (a $71 value!). $18 for Students.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS or for further inquiries, contact Jamie at 303.893.6003 or jalexander@dcpa.org.

 

WESTWORD BEST OF DENVER, 2010

PHAMALY RECEIVES 2 BEST OF DENVER AWARDS

Best Actor in a Musical - LEONARD E. BARRETT JR.,                   Man of La Mancha

Leonard Barrett is a jazz singer, which meant he brought new shadings to the familiar songs of Man of La Mancha, an old warhorse of a musical, soaring on the title song and giving "The Impossible Dream" just enough originality to make it unsentimental and fresh. Barely recognizable as Don Quixote in his thick, old-man makeup, yet masterful, powerful and tender, Barrett immersed himself completely in the role, dominating the stage whenever he was on it.

Best Actress in a Musical - REGAN LINTON, Man of La Mancha

To the character of Aldonza, the tavern maid whom Don Quixote mistakes for the Lady Dulcinea, Regan Linton brought a lovely voice and strong acting chops, all animated by an incandescent fire. The scene in which Aldonza is raped by the regulars at the tavern is always ugly, but the way Linton — who's wheelchair-bound — played it will be permanently etched in the memory of those who saw her. Torn from her wheelchair and left limp on the floor, Linton dragged herself back across the stage, inch by painful inch, powered by a terrible rage and an unquenchable instinct to survive.

 

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS

PHAMALY is seeking volunteers to assist with its production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the Space Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex July 15 - August 15, and at the Arvada Center August 26 and 27, 2010.

Volunteer opportunities include:

  • working backstage on the running crew (setting props and set pieces, assisting actors in getting on and off stage)
  • working backstage as hair/make-up artists and dressers
  • working front of house as ushers

Email us at volunteer@phamaly.org to request more volunteer information.