Leslie Baden Papa, a veteran of the closing Hartman Group, is opening Vivacity Media Group next week to pick up the slack.

Fellow Hartman colleague Whitney Holden Gore, who is taking the VP slot, will join her.

Papa was with Hartman since its 2009 start-up, working earlier at Barlow Hartman.

She headed publicity for plays such as “Evita,” “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” “American Idiot,” and “Bring It On.”

Gore also worked the Broadway, TV and entertainment beat, counting credits for “Romeo & Juliet,” “Jekyll & Hyde” and “SMASH.”

Prior to Hartman, she was publicist at Cohn Dutcher Assocs.,where she promoted music and performing arts clients such as The New York Pops ad Chicago’s Ravinia Festival.