It was their undisclosed lead gift, Semple said, that truly kickstarted the DCPA’s $54 million campaign to completely reimagine the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex and all three theatres in it. That night, the Denver Center hosted a celebration of Wolf and her late husband, Marvin. On Saturday night (September 25), Judi Wolf – lifelong arts patron, educator and passionate advocate for the performing arts – was the show. “I always have the sense that Judi could leap out of her seat at any time, jump onto a stage and give her own performance,” said longtime Denver Center Costume Crafts Director Kevin Copenhaver. With her playful smile, trademark shock of flaming red hair and impeccably tailored outfits that are always on theme, you might say that when Wolf arrives at the theatre, the real show begins.

Her friends say that a lot: “That’s Judi.”

“That’s Judi,” says DCPA Chairman Martin Semple. “It was opening night, and I wasn’t going to miss it.”) “I had tripped walking out of the beauty shop, so I rode to the theatre in an ambulance with ice on my knee and ankle,” she said. (Only in this case, Wolf actually needed it. After all, the famous story’s irascible protagonist Sheridan Whiteside spends the play in a wheelchair. Wolf arrived at the Theatre Company’s The Man Who Came to Dinner in 1990 wearing a cocktail dress while being pushed in a wheelchair. There are method actors, and then there are method dressers. Or when she came to the 2019 Colorado New Play Summit concert performance of Rattlesnake Kate in a cowboy hat, boots and a snakeskin jacket. Like when she wore a toga to the opening of the DCPA Theatre Company’s 10-hour epic Greek cycle Tantalus in 2000. When Wolf arrives in all her sartorial splendor for a night at the theatre (or a charity function, or a boring old meeting, for that matter), she’s easy to spot in the crowd. “The Red Wolf,” as she is affectionately known, held fish-shaped balloons while her household manager blew bubbles in her wake. Like when she floated into The Buell Theatre for the opening of the Broadway-bound The Little Mermaid in 2007 dressed to the gills as Ariel’s mother wearing a stunning, ocean-themed blue and turquoise dress. Judi Wolf doesn’t merely walk into a room.

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