In many ways, I have an unserious job. I get into a gorilla suit and I try to make people laugh as they roam the halls of Casa Bonita. But I love it. I believe in the magic of the Pink Palace. I find purpose in it. The Entertainment cast strives to bring joy to every guest who walks through those doors. It is an honorable profession, now more than ever.
Casa Bonita is, non-ironically, one of Colorado’s most important cultural institutions. It has brought joy and created that magic for fifty-one years, building relationships over multiple generations. Carrying on that legacy is a responsibility I take seriously.
And I love the people I work with. Every day, I feel creatively challenged by them to make that CB magic real. I have become a better improviser, actor and person because of the people I have met working at Casa. So it hurts me when I see CB Management’s continued mistreatment of the Entertainment cast.
October sees the reduction of over a thousand hours for the Entertainment cast in the form of the removal of the roaming characters: Amazon Annie, Black Bart, Captain Isabella and the Sheriff. Management gave us two weeks’ notice and left it up to us to figure out how to deal with the loss of income…