Last night I attended the play Quilters at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Wonderful!

Denver Center for the Performing Arts

This particular performance was a benefit performance for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, which organized a quilt exhibit to hang in the lobby for the duration of the run, till July 12. This play debuted in Denver in 1982, but this was my first time seeing it. It surprised me. It moved me.  That it is a musical was a surprise; it doesn’t fit the typical idea of a Broadway musical. No mighty choruses, but exquisite singing. Sparse set, but was everything it needed to be. And it was less about quilts than just about women. Women’s lives. The quilts were a vehicle to tie it all together.  The audience was overwhelmingly women and I would guess overwhelmingly women quilt. But one does not have to be a quilter to appreciate the story of the friendships and hardships, the happy times and tragic times, that pioneer women faced. That’s what moved me. See it if you can.