The Jazz Age-set play unfolds in the fictional lobby of the legendary Beaux Arts hotel, which sits vacant at 2650 Welton St.
A sweet and bitter song is haunting the Savoy Ballroom in Denver’s Curtis Park neighborhood.
Written by artist-activist Jeff Campbell and directed by Theatre Artibus founders Meghan Frank and Buba Basishvili, the Jazz Age-set play unfolds in the fictional lobby of the legendary Beaux Arts hotel, which sits vacant at 2650 Welton St. Lobby clerk Violet knows that much of what Bobby says is likely more boast than truth. Although Violet has a fabulous singing voice, she appears content to be right where she is. And why not? During the era of the play, the Rossonian was the premiere player in the historically Black neighborhood’s rousing nightlife as well as an artery in the nation’s Black cultural highway.
Danette Hollowell, a Denver native and former leader of Danette Hollowell and the Old Souls, came out of the pandemic without her band. “My band is in Austin and New Orleans,” she said, sitting in the Savoy before rehearsal one recent Saturday, with her toddler, Vernon, nearby. “If you didn’t have a stake in the virtual world of music” — which she didn’t — it was especially hard. “I was playing catchup. So, it’s been a slow process just getting my footing back in that world.
The show’s two other cast members have roots in Denver’s Black community, too. Gifted percussionist and dancer Shane Franklin and trumpet player Wesley Watkins are natives. A lanky and thoughtful cool cat about town, Watkins plays Quentin Myles, who is gossiped about long before he arrives onstage. Once his character appears, you’ll wonder if he is a troublemaker, a rebel or a trickster. Likely all of the above.
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