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'Molly Brown" first musical in Denver Center new play event

Published December 3, 2008 at 3 p.m.
Updated December 3, 2008 at 3 p.m.

A revamped version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown leads five readings at Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit Feb. 12 to 14.

The Meredith Willson musical, which tells the story of the famous Colorado doyenne, features a new book by Dick Scanlan, writer of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. The reading's director, two-time Tony winner Kathleen Marshall, virtually guarantees national attention for the Summit.

The other four readings are all DCTC commissions, including:

Eventide, adapted by Plainsong playwright from Kent Haruf's sequel to the novel;

When Tang Met Laika, by Rogelio Martinez, about Americans and Russians having to work together on the International Space Station;

Take Me to the River, by Constance Congdon, about a family farm at risk in a water rights dispute between Kansas and Colorado;

and Flooded, by Julie Marie Myatt, about a famous TV weatherman who becomes an oracle as natural disasters increase.

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