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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...
By Susan FroydOctober 30, 2014
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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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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the “Thrills” editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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