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Vintage Theatre Productions presents The Spitfire Grill

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Performance
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
Starts at 2:30 PM
Vintage Theatre
1468 Dayton Street
Aurora, CO 80010

Music & Book by James Valcq; Lyrics & Book by Fred Alley

Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff

Directed by Bev Newcomb-Madden 

Musical Director Trent Hines

June 26 - August 16, 2015

Regional Premiere

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off.  Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.

Bev Newcomb-Madden returns to direct an outstanding cast that includes Megan Van De Hey (Percy Talbott), Anne Oberbroeckling (Hannah Ferguson), Kelly Watt (Shelby Thorpe), Tom Auclair (Caleb Thorpe), Mark Lively (Sheriff Joe Sutter), Nancy Van Fleet (Effy Krayneck) and Clint Heyn (The Visitor). 

James Valcq is an American musical theatre composer, lyricist, & librettist, as well as an actor and arts administrator. Valcq is among the “new guard” of theatre composers championed by Playwrights Horizons and Ira Weitzman, who co-produced the 2001 Off-Broadway production of "The Spitfire Grill" for which Valcq composed the score and collaborated on the book with lyricist Fred Alley. The musical won the Richard Rodgers Production Award presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Stephen Sondheim chairs the committee that chose "The Spitfire Grill" as the winner. "The Spitfire Grill" also received Best Musical nominations from the Outer Critics Circle and Drama League, as well as two Drama Desk nominations.

"Soaring melodies!...Well before the show reaches its conclusion, many...city slickers in the audience may be ready to enter Percy's raffle." - The Wall Street Journal

"An abundance of warmth, spirit and goodwill!...Some of the most engaging and instantly infectious melodies I've heard in an original musical in some time." - USA Today

Cost
$32 ($28 advance)
More Information

www.vintagetheatre.org
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