Catch a Buzz

While a tense Denver Center Theatre Company stage adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies goes on around the corner at the Space Theatre, Off-Center@The Jones will be making a delightful mockery of it, beginning with tonight’s 8 p.m. premiere of >Lord of the Butterflies, a musical parody featuring factions of drag queens and lesbians — and lots of dancing — in place of the original’s lost-boys-gone-wild. But believe it or not, Off-Center co-curator Emily Tarquin says Lord of the Butterflies really does stick to Golding’s most significant plot twists, even if it comes with a generous sprinkling of song, dance and too much lipstick.
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