“Now Is the Time” to see HCT’s CINDERELLA
SANDY — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a classic most are familiar with. Multiple generations have experienced a film version, whether it starred Julie Andrews (1957), Lesley Ann Warren (1965),…
Get thee to HAMLET at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — “Sweets to the sweet,” states Queen Gertrude at Ophelia’s funeral. This mournful farewell captures my regret as I left the Utah Shakespeare Festival‘s production of Hamlet. It…
Rock on to the Utah Shakespeare Fest’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT
CEDAR CITY — Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat may be a groovy ’60s relic, but it feels energetic in a production currently playing at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. While…
Discover the meaning of rock and roll at HCTO’S MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
OREM — Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical based on the actual impromptu recording session at Sun Studio in 1956. The show is based on a book by Colin…
20 years later, RENT is still paying
SALT LAKE CITY — In the immediate aftermath of the unexpected death of its creator Jonathan Larson, RENT bust onto Broadway in 1996, and it rocked the a musical theatre…
“Lay All Your Love on” Lyric Rep’s MAMMA MIA
LOGAN — Mamma Mia!, here we go again. Ever since the rights came out for this show to be produced locally, the show written by Catherine Johnson and with music…
Hale’s FREAKY FRIDAY is freaky fun
SANDY — If there’s one word that describes Freaky Friday, it’s ebullient. This Disney musical is so packed with cheerful energy, only the stoniest of hearts could escape the theater…
“The Wells Fargo Wagon” brings Terrace Plaza’s THE MUSIC MAN to Ogden
OGDEN — The Music Man, written by Meredith Willson and premiering on Broadway in 1957, became a hit and has been a fan favorite for over 60 years. Now in…
A flawless execution by CenterPoint in MY FAIR LADY
CENTERVILLE — CenterPoint opened My Fair Lady, the classic story based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The musical first opened in…
Aerial Ariel enchants in Tuacahn’s THE LITTLE MERMAID
IVINS — Disney’s The Little Mermaid has been entertaining audiences in some format since 1989. In 2007, the animated movie was adapted for the stage with book by Doug Wright,…