18 August 2010
PARK CITY — Walk the red carpet, and join The Egyptian Theatre Company for The Awesome 80′s Prom. This improv-driven show takes us all back to 1989, where we can experience prom in all its glory. During the course of the evening, each character makes their entrance, the candidates for King and Queen are announced, [...]
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16 August 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — Larry Kramer’s 1985 AIDS play The Normal Heart is sadly relevant and was a fitting joint venture for Plan B Theatre Company and the Utah AIDS Foundation. The two organizations came together to celebrate their anniversaries, the 20th for Plan B and 25th for the UAF. Sponsored by Julie Brizzee and Jane [...]
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16 August 2010
OREM — 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of Annie Oakley’s birth. Annie Get Your Gun is a fictionalized account of the high-spirited Oakley and the romance she develops with Frank Butler, a famous marksman in Wild West variety shows.
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12 August 2010
SUGAR HOUSE — Experimental theatre in Salt Lake and Utah counties is generally an extremely rare occurrence. There is a “mainstream theatre” niche that the general population seems to have bought into exclusively. However, to my very pleasant surprise, I discovered The Sugar Space. The Sugar Space is an unassuming, self-proclaimed “hole-in-the-wall” performance space in Sugarhouse, [...]
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11 August 2010
CENTERVILLE — The Music Man put West Side Story to shame in the 1958 Tony Awards. Maybe West Side was ahead of its time, and too jaded for pre-Vietnam America . But The Music Man had two things that West Side didn’t: a plot made from whole cloth, and an actor giving the performance of [...]
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10 August 2010
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — The Cottonwood Heights Arts Council, which is only about two years old, has chosen Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, to be its first production. Joseph is a beloved musical, especially to Utah audiences. Thoughts of Donny Osmond and past productions are not [...]
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09 August 2010
MAGNA — Once again, I was sent out to the Empress Theatre and once again I enjoyed every interaction I had there. The staff and cast were delightful to mingle with, and as hospitable as always. I was sent to review High School Musical Jr., a stage adaptation of the beloved movie. If you haven’t heard [...]
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05 August 2010
OREM — At the conclusion of Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck explains to the audience, “It was like the fortune predicted long ago: considerable trouble and considerable joy.” And there’s considerable joy—both displayed on stage and experienced by the fortunate audience—in the Sundance Summer Theater’s must-see co-production with Utah Valley University.
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30 July 2010
MURRAY — Desert Star surprised me with their production of My Big Fat Utah Wedding. Not every show there is a winner and my last experience left me unimpressed. This evening, though, reminded me why I (and probably the season pass holders, as well) keep coming back to this Murray City star.
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