She Dies! Opera at its funniest.
Babette wants you to fall in love…with Opera! Join internationally acclaimed Soprano Judeth Shay Comstock as she joins the high art of Opera to the low art of world-class clowns Jim Jackson and Birgitta De Pree with Mark Arnest on the Baby Grand: beautiful singing, hilarious characters and 17 deaths in 70 minutes … more or less. Join us for a healthy dose of the sublime and the ridiculous as we make hilarious comedy out of operatic tragedy.
Thursday Feb 6 & 13 @ 7:30 / $25
Friday & Saturday Feb 7, 8, 14 & 15 @ 7:30 / $28
Sunday Feb 9 & 16 @ 2pm / $28
Any Time FLEX Pass Ticket / $23
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THE CAST:
Judeth Shay Comstock has performed in opera and musical theatre throughout
the region and is so happy to be back at The Millibo. Some recent highlights include Signora Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza and Mrs. Mullin in Carousel, with Central City Opera, and a retrospective of the works of Craig Bohmler with the Aspen Theatre Festival. She was nominated for a Henry Award for her work as Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and received two Pikes Peak Arts Council Awards and the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation. She has also performed with Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Opera Colorado, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
Birgitta De Pree is co-founder of the Millibo Art Theatre and has served as the MAT’s Artistic Director for over twenty years. A graduate of Oberlin College, she received her MFA in performance from the National Theater Conservatory and has spent the last three decades working throughout Colorado as a performer, director, and educator. She is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Birgitta is a five-time recipient of the Gazette’s Best of the Springs “Best Actress” Award. She thanks her daughter and clown husband, Jim, for making this adventure so joyful!
Jim Jackson is an internationally acclaimed clown with over 45 years of laughs in circus and theatre. From 1976 – 2001, he toured his solo shows throughout the U.S., the U.K. and Canada. In 2002 he and Birgitta co-founded the Millibo Art
Theatre where he has produced and directed many theatre, circus, and cabaret performances. He credits his three daughters Julia, Caitlin, and Lisbet
for his best jokes.
MARK ARNEST (Piano) Mark Arnest has been involved in the Colorado Springs theater scene since Theatreworks’ 1988 Monkey Business as composer, pianist, and music director. His last appearance at the Millibo was 2020’s The Notorious Nugget, a musical he wrote with his wife Lauren. Mark loves accompanying silent films (most recently The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and is grateful for his years accompanying melodramas at the Iron Springs Chateau, which prepared him for Balloonacy.
SEATING:
The MAT seats 109 patrons in a proscenium theatre with stadium style seating. Every seat at the MAT has excellent sight lines and acoustics.
All seating is assigned. If you have any special seating needs, or would like to request a specific seat, please call the MAT Box Office at 719-465-6321. We will do our best to accommodate your requests.
Wheelchair seats are A1 & A15
