Performances
Box Office Ticket Information
The Box Office is located in Room A121 across from the Kay Schomp Theatre and is open for over-the-counter service one hour before each performance. Online tickets can be purchased 24/7, but on-line sales will end ONE hours before each performance. Additionally, unless the performance is SOLD OUT, any remaining tickets can be purchased over-the-counter at the Box Office in the hour before each performance.
If you are not here by curtain time, the Denver School of the Arts reserves the right to resell uncollected or unused tickets to patrons waiting at the box office. If you are unable to use your tickets, you may donate them back for others to use.
Contact
Beki Pineda
720-424-1713
beki_pineda@dpsk12.net
SHAKESPEARE IN SONG
TUESDAY – October 10 – 7:00 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
Dr. Ryan Garrison will be leading our new and returning vocal students in a concert as their first performance of the 2023 school year. This is a chance to observe where they start the new year; in May of next year, you will experience how much they have learned and progressed in their journey to a life with music as an integral part.
This first concert is an homage to Shakespeare and will feature music written to immortalize some of our favorite of his plays. A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM and MACBETH will be remembered in song, including the Three Witches famous “Double, double, toil and trouble” incantation. These will be followed by other collaborations between the students and a full roster of solo performances.
HIGH SCHOOL CLASSICAL GUITAR CONCERT
WEDNESDAY – October 11 – 6:30 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
Our first guitar concert of the year will introduce the music which will be featured at the CMEA concert in January. The High School guitar majors will collaborate on the Spanish classic LA PALOMA and the beautiful Mendelssohn piece, THE VENETIAN BOAT SONG. These will be followed by smaller groups and solos of music from all genres chosen by the students.
VISUAL ART DEPARTMENT FIRST QUARTER EXHIBIT
WEDNESDAY – October 11- 5:30 pm
FREE EVENT
DSA Gallery and Main Hall
The current exhibit on display in the halls of DSA represent the work the VA students accomplished over the summer. Never one to let the grass grow under their feet, they have continued being creative and now, after six weeks, have a whole new set of artwork to show you.
This new display will be showcased in the Front Office Gallery and on the walls and art blocks in the Main Hall. Check out the amazingly creative work of our student artists and sculptors the next time you are in the building.
FALL VOCAL CONCERT
WEDNESDAY – October 18 – 7:00 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
This concert is an exploration of singing and the voice and how music serves a purpose in our everyday lives. The choral groups will be singing pieces from Venezuela and Oman with texts from poets from the 12th century to today. The singers have been exploring the function of music in our society, how it shapes and forms our social hierarchy, and how other cultures use music around the world to shape and define our world and share messages of unity.
KINKY BOOTS – Theatre
THURSDAY – October 19 – 7:00 pm
FRIDAY – October 20 – 7:00 pm
SATURDAY – October 21 – 2:00 pm
SATURDAY – October 21 – 7:00 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
Schomp Theatre
KINKY BOOTS is a musical from 2005 with music by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Hapless Charlie Price has inherited a failing shoe factory and wants desperately to make it successful again. But the kind of shoes they make are no longer popular. Charlie pairs with an unorthodox partner to make a new kind of shoe – kinky boots for drag performers. Along the way, he learns as much about becoming a successful person as well as a successful boot-maker.
MIDDLE SCHOOL CLASSICAL GUITAR CONCERT
FRIDAY – October 20- 6:30 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
The Middle School Guitar Majors will entertain with large ensemble renditions of music from Bach, his friend Georg Telemann, and the Spanish composer, Gaspar Senz. The evening will also feature guitar small groups and solos of music the students have chosen to highlight their talent.
FALL BAND CONCERT
WEDNESDAY – October 25- 7:00 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
In their first concert of the year, the Band Department will impress you with their talent and professionalism. Welcome the new Band Director, Mr. Michael Paulez to DSA and all the new students to our program.
The first concert will feature the Jazz Workshop Orchestra who, in addition to their original riffs, will also perform the Big Band sounds of IN THE MOOD and NIGHT TRAIN. In an homage to the upcoming Halloween weekend, the Concert Band will ride THE HAUNTED CAROUSEL and visit the music of other cultures. The Wind Ensemble will dance with the Witches in a piece by Puccini and finish the concert with a beautiful segment from the familiar Carmina Burana.
ORCHESTRA/VIDEO CINEMA ARTS COLLABORATION
THURSDAY – October 26- 7:00 pm
Adults – $20.00
Seniors-$15.00
Students – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
What happens when you combine talented musicians and creative film makers and tell them to make something spooky? You get SPOOKY!! Our High School Orchestra will be providing the sound track for original short films created by the Video Cinema crew to give you a lead in to Fright Night itself.
Additionally, this concert will include renditions of classical music by Dvorek and Newbold by the Middle School Orchestra. The evening will be rounded out with the world premiere of an original composition created by one of our talented student composers, a piece called “Music for 26 Stringed Instruments.” Plus we will be treated to a special guest performance by Professor Jubal Fulks, violin soloist in “Fratres” by Arvo Paart.
An evening of music and film not to be missed!
