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FANTASTICKS, GODSPELL & More Set For Butte 2009 Season

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The Butte Theater Announces 2009 Season 

Group Discounts - Thin Air Theatre Company new season at the Butte Theater 139 E. Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek. The news season starts June 5.

Save $3 per ticket when you reserve groups of 20 or more - call 719-689-6402 for group reservations. More info at ButteOperaHouse.com.

2009 Schedule:

The Fantasticks - June 5-Sept. 26 (alternating days and times with Godspell).

The Fantasticks, a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones, the world's longest-running musical, for 42 years.

Godspell - June 12-Sept. 26 (alternating days and times with The Fantasticks).

Godspell (an archaic spelling of the word gospel) is a 1970 musical, a series of parables, based on the Gospel of Matthew interspersed with a variety of modern music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns.

The Lost Soul of Cripple Creek - Oct. 2-31, a melodrama adapted from the 1867 Victorian melodrama Lost in London by Watts Phillips. This new adaptation tells the story of a poor Cripple Creek miner who journeys to Denver to reclaim his wife and to have his vengeance on the villain who stole her. It is a thrilling story of honor, revenge, and enduring love, even from beyond the grave. The show will be followed by an al new Halloween Olio.

A Cripple Creek Christmas Carol - Nov. 27-Dec. 31

A Cripple Creek Christmas Carol, a favorite holiday happening in Cripple Creek was first played in Cripple Creek in 2002 and is based on the classic by Charles Dickens.

 

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