“As much as it is the beginning of something new, the beginning of our run with Lizard Boy, it really felt like the end of a journey that we really, really needed to get to. Drawing on community traditions around the electronic dance music that inspired the sound of Lydia and the Troll, join us before the show in making and trading Kandi bracelets in the Seattle Rep lobby. “We got to sort of feel them in the room.” “ and both helped me out a lot and we lost them along the way, so it was sort of like this moment of full-circle at opening night,” Huertas said. Venus in Furby David Ivesdirected by Shana Cooperpresented in association with Arizona Theatre CompanyBroadway's sultry export hits Seattle. These two champions of Huertas - and Lizard Boy - weren’t around to see the show when it opened in a real Seattle Rep season. She, along with Manning, edited Huertas’ diary entries and helped him craft them into what became Lizard Boy. Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra with Jimmy Heath: The Endless Search by Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, released 20 July 2010 1. Huertas wrote the show after being encouraged by the Seattle Rep’s late Artistic Director Jerry Manning in January 2012 to keep a journal and start writing a play in which he would play the cello on stage.Īnother champion of Lizard Boy was the Seattle Rep’s late Director of Education Andrea Allen. Lizard Boy opened Wednesday, April 1, in what Huertas characterized as a full-circle moment. An honors graduate of Berklee College of Music, Matheny vaulted onto the 1990s jazz scene as a protege of jazz legend Art Farmer. His former classmate, Kirsten deLohr Helland ’09, is starring alongside him in Lizard Boy. Huertas also used connections made at PLU to cast his show. “How does this language inform what the characters are going through? That’s something I’ve always been very fascinated by.” 12 hours ago &0183 &32 The Seattle Fire Department responded to 911 calls at about 12:45 p.m. Founded in 1963 and winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Seattle Rep is currently led by Artistic Director Braden Abraham and.
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