… We always hoped we would be a place where the disabled could grow, both as actors and human beings,” said director Steve Wilson, whose 2010 offering, “Beauty and the Beast, opens in previews Thursday at the Denver Center’s Space Theatre.
“But the fact that we could help get Regan into a place where she will be training to become a professional actor — that astounds me.”
Linton, whose spine was ruined in a 2002 auto accident, has been performing for PHAMALy since 2005, winning both the Denver Post Ovation Award (”Man of La Mancha”) and the Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award (”Side Show”) for best actress in a musical.
Not best actress in a wheelchair. Best actress, period. “And we have others who are just as talented,” Wilson said.
In “La Mancha,” Linton played the prostitute Aldonza. Now she’s playing LeFou — a man with a lisp. “And you wouldn’t know it was the same actor,” Wilson said.

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