Along With Mermaid, Denver Will Hook Scoundrels, Piazza, Forum, Bee, Legends! and Berlin in 2007

Randy Weeks, president and chief operating officer of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, announced the shows Sept. 6 in the Mile High City in Colorado.

The Little Mermaid will feature the score of the Academy Award-winning animated film (lyrics by the late Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken) and new songs by Alan Menken and Glen Slater. Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) has penned the libretto.

In addition to Little Mermaid, the 2007 subscription slate at the Denver Center will include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Legends!, The Light in the Piazza, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Monty Python's Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Irving Berlin's White Christmas.

The Little Mermaid will play The Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the summer of 2007, making it the first Denver Center Attractions show to be presented in the venue.

Denver Center Attractions (which presents in venues in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts) has hosted the opening of several national tours, including Disney's The Lion King in 2002. Exact Mermaid dates will be announced at a later date. See separate Playbill.com story about The Little Mermaid.

"This project is terribly exciting and a huge coup for Denver," Weeks stated. "We are looking forward to taking our relationship with Disney Theatricals to a new level next season."

Francesca Zambello will direct.

Here's the 2007 schedule to be presented by Denver Center Attractions:

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Buell Theatre, Jan. 16-28.

Legends!, the showbiz comedy by James Kirkwood, starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans, The Buell Theatre, Feb. 6-18.

The Light in the Piazza, Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' Tony Award-winning romantic musical, The Buell Theatre, March 27-April 8.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the Stephen Sondheim musical as produced by the Tony Award-honored Denver Center Theatre Company (a rare addition of a DCTC production to the DCA subscription), at The Stage Theatre, May 17-July 8.

Monty Python's Spamalot, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, The Buell Theatre Sept. 18-Oct. 7, 2007.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the musical comedy by David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane, based on the film, The Buell Theatre, Oct. 16-28, 2007.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the stage version of the movie musical, The Buell Theatre, Nov. 20–Dec. 25, 2007.

Show to be announced. For information about the subscription series, call Denver Center Ticket Services at (303) 893-4100 or (800) 641-1222, or visit the ticket office located in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, or visit www.denvercenter.org/bwaysubs.

Single tickets are not available at this time.

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