Photos and video podcast: Re-opening of Equinox’s ‘Bat Boy, the Musical’

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Michelle Fitzgerald takes the cast through vocal warm-ups.

 

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Robert Harbour prepares to run the light and sound boards.

 

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Richard Nixon has not missed a performance at the Bug Theatre in decades.

 

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Equinox Theatre board member — and box-office manager — Jonathan Ruiz — takes the final necessary precautions before lettingĀ  audience members into the Bug Theatre, some of whom had started to gather outside an hour before the performance.

 

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The “re-opening” audience begins to file in.

 

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The curtain call.

 

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After the show, cast members James O’Hagan-Murphy and Lauren Cora Marsh greet audience members Haley Johnson and Channel 12 culture host Eden Lane, who devoted her most recent half hour episode to the “Bat Boy” story.

 

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By John Moore

Award-winning arts journalist John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the United States by American Theatre Magazine during has 12 years at The Denver Post. Hen then created a groundbreaking new media outlet covering Colorado arts an culture as an in-house, multimedia journalist for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also founded The Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that has raised more than $600,000 for theatre artists in medical need. He is now a journalist for hire as the founder of Moore Media Colorado. You can find samples of his work at MooreJohn.Com. Contact him at culturewestjohn@gmail.com