Get CBS4 Critic-at-Large Greg Moody's take on the latest theatrical shows, movies and more. You'll also find out about cool stuff to do around Denver each week.
THE PICKS (May 12-16)
Go, Speed Racer -- go, Speed Racer -- go, Speed Racer, go!
Yes, Speed Racer -- go anywhere but into movie theaters. Oops. Too late! Won't be there long, though. It's dying at the box office, Narnia opens this weekend and Indiana Jones opens the 22nd -- poor Speed is going to get smooshed.
THEATER
DOUBT (Tony Award Winning Drama!)
Now on stage from the Denver Center Theater Company. Doubt offers something different -- raw emotional power on stage and questions that linger long after you leave the theater.
A CHORUS LINE
The classic broadway dance musical opens a new national tour at the Buell.
3 MO' DIVAS
Marion J. Caffey's celebration of the female voice. Three great talents in a show that is part concert, part theater, part comedy. Very different, very exciting. Some of the solos are worth the price of admission alone.
FOR TICKETS TO SHOWS AT THE DENVER CENTER CALL (303) 893-4100. GO ONLINE AT denvercenter.org.
BULLY
OPENS MAY 23
Backstage Theater
Breckenridge
A theatrical look at the wit and wisdom, life and mind, of Theodore Roosevelt.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURE
A new adaptation based on the classic 1899 play
Through June 1
Miners Alley Playhouse
Golden
(303) 935-3044
minersalley.com
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
Boulder's Dinner Theatre
(303) 449-6000
A great musical with a tremendous cast. AK Klimpke has made Will his own over the years. I can't see any one else playing the role. Delightful.
THE BASEBALL SHOW
Heritage Square Music Hall
Golden
(Great fun for the entire family! Check out their weekend children's theater as well!)
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Garner Galleria Theater
(303) 893-4100
A touching musical journey through relationships. A real change of pace for theater goers.
COMING SOON TO THE GALLERIA: GIRLS ONLY
(303) 893-4100
GIRLS ONLY will return this fall to the Garner Galleria Theater. The Denver Center will produce the show and tour it around the country ... if not the world. And we saw it first! Well, I didn't. I'm a boy. But -- many women in Denver did. I think they're really going places.
ALTAR BOYZ
Now Open
Arvada Center
MOVIES
Opening 5/9
SPEED RACER
RATED PG
Neon pulsating high intensity comic book nonsense from the dudes who brought us the Matrix trilogy. Headache inducing. So over the top, it's not even fun. No plot either. Anybody got a fresh idea? Hollywood could certainly used one.
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
RATED PG-13
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz are mismatched newlyweds who must get along after winning a Vegas jackpot. Eh.
Open 5/2
IRON MAN
RATED PG-13
Robert Downey Jr.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jeff Bridges
One of my favorite Marvel characters in a film that kicks off the summer season perfectly. One of the reasons I love him is that Tony Stark is a guy with no superpowers, no radioactive spiders chomping at him, just a billion or two dollars behind him so he can build himself a flying supersuit. Jeff Bridges makes a good corporate bad guy, too. Although I have to wonder about Gwyneth Paltrow's "Pepper Potts" character. Is that a comic book name or what?
MUSIC & EVENTS
COLORADO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Orff Carmina Burana
Duain Wolfe, conductor | CSO Chorus
Colorado Children's Chorale
Fri-Sat | May 16-17 · 7:30 p.m.
Sun | May 18 · 2:30 p.m.
Brahms Schicksalslied
Orff Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana, a 13th century manuscript taken from a Benedictine Abbey, remains one of the most popular works for chorus and orchestra with the text comprised of 24 medieval, secular Latin poems about life's struggles and pleasures.
CSO Presents HealthOne Pops
Randy Newman
Fri | May 23 · 7:30 p.m.
Legendary singer/songwriter Randy Newman joins the CSO for an evening of his motion picture and pop classics including "Short People," "Girls In My Life," "I Miss You," "You Can Leave Your Hat On," "You've Got a Friend in Me," "Political Science," "It's Money That I Love" and "Sail Away," as well as music from the films Avalon, Toy Story, The Natural and more!
NYLON
SUMMER MUSIC TOUR
MAY 12
Gothic
DURAN DURAN
May 12
Wells Fargo Theatre
LODZ GHETTO ALBUM
PHOTOS OF GHETTO LIFE
Mizel Museum
350 S. Dahlia
JERRY SEINFELD
June 7
Buell Theatre
ticketmaster.com
MILE HIGH MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 19/20
Dick's Sporting Goods Park
New Acts Have Been Added: Whigs, Jason Mraz, Lupe Fiasco, Mike Gordon, The Sixers, Ferras and more. Don't Miss This!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
TICKETHORSE.COM
MILEHIGHMUSICFESTIVAL.COM
GET 'EM NOW -- THIS IS GONNA BE HUGE!
GOLD
Now Open
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Marvel at a melange of memoribilia made from this marvelous malleable metal. My, my!
INSPIRING IMPRESSIONISTS
Opens February 23
Denver Art Museum
LANNIE'S CLOCKTOWER CABARET
16th and Arapahoe
(303) 293-0075
Check this place out. There is ALWAYS something going on!
DVD This Week
THIS WEEK:
MAY 13 RELEASES:
THE GREAT DEBATERS
RATED PG-13
Denzel Washington in an inspiring true story.
MAD MONEY
RATED PG-13
Katie Holmes in a thoroughly depressing comedy.
INDIANA JONES -- THE ADVENTURE COLLECTION
RATED PG
Raiders, Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade, all in one box. Give the timing of this release (May, big summer movie time) you'd figure that Indy is coming back in a new adventure. But that's silly! Harrison Ford would be like ... 90 or something, wouldn't he?
AS ALWAYS -- SHOP AROUND FOR THE BEST DEALS!!
RESTAURANT
CHEEKY MONK
534 E. COLFAX
I just love the idea of this -- a bar with a focus on the art of the Belgian Brew. 16 Belgian beers on draught.
BOOKS
THE TEN CENT PLAGUE
by David Hajdu
$26
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
How the burgeoning comic book industry of the 1950's was destroyed by "right minded" people concerned for the welfare of "our children." Most of their self righteousness was based on bad science, bigotry and political posturing. Hmmmmmmm -- sound familiar?