Susannah Flood as a women abandoned for being barren. Kara Lindsay is particularly effective as a mother driven to suicide by the death of a son. The most poignant scenes involve children - women having too many, or not enough. Shifting freely from cloyingly precious to downright harrowing, these poor women must endure blizzards, droughts, twisters, fires and floods. Each tale, in some way, weaves back to quilting itself, which in those days was not merely a hobby but an essential survival skill.Īs theater, “Quilters” is a heartstring-tugging musical that’s at its best when things are at their worst.
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Playing out as an abrupt series of songs and monologues, this fine ensemble is in reality telling the oral histories of four generations of actual frontier women. Just as every picture tells a story (don’t it?), each of Sarah’s 16 blocks tells a chapter in her life. Sterling Tinsley has given Barbara Damashek’s complex chamber score a sweeping reorchestration (adding dulcimer and nickel harp), and, for the first time, director Penny Metropulos has stitched a man into the previously all-female ensemble.īut “Quilters” is still the same patchwork (leave-the-men-at-home) musical about an old woman making her final quilt as a remembrance for her five daughters.
But it’s showing some fresh embroidery for its quarter-century party. “Quilters,” launched by the Denver Center in 1982, resonates because it really celebrates women of any era who have had to endure. And from the moment the senior member of the acting company cocks her head, stiffens her lip and opens her mouth to sing, it’s clear this audience will be in the warmth of Brady’s big bosom for an evening that pays eloquent tribute to the strength and spirit of pioneer women.
“Quilters” is an unapologetically sentimental musical the Denver Center is reviving for purely sentimental reasons. Brady, matriarch and anchor of the Denver Center Theatre Company, who plays her. “She’s the one who makes the light shine,” the ensemble robustly sings of Sarah, matriarch and anchor of the earnest frontier musical “Quilters.” They also sing of Kathleen M. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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