Hopebox’s CRAZY FOR YOU is a good show for a good cause
Crazy For You is one of those musicals (Anything Goes and Girl Crazy are others) that exist only to showcase the Great American Songbook. This show is built around the…
A joyous second movement in A COMEDY OF TENORS
SALT LAKE CITY — Lightning, as they say, never strikes the same place twice. This old (and highly inaccurate) saying was coined to say how unlikely it is that an…
No victory for THE THREE MUSKETEERS
CEDAR CITY — As he reaches adulthood, a countryman named D’Artagnan leaves home with the aspiration of becoming a musketeer. Luigi Sottile plays D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers at this…
Things are looking up for CRAZY FOR YOU
OREM — I always look forward to attending productions at the outdoor SCERA Shell Theatre, and I was excited to have the opportunity to review Crazy for You directed by…
Uninspiring script makes ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER struggle
SPANISH FORK — Mark Twain‘s 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic slice of Americana. Between the covers of the book, readers can find a celebration of…
To all a good night at The Zig’s ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
OGDEN — “We love Christmas Carol as much as the next theater, and if the next theater (and the next, and the next . . .) didn’t produce it every…
Orem Hale’s LEND ME A TENOR took some warming up
OREM — I love a good farce. With mistaken identities, slamming doors, running back and forth, and just a dash of innuendo, Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor is a…
A fighting good time at THE THREE MUSKETEERS
CLEARFIELD — The Three Musketeers is a popular story, having been made into numerous films, plays, comics, cartoons, and other stories. The production put on by Clearfield Community Arts is…
CRAZY FOR YOU is crazy cute
RIVERTON— How do you pull a community together over the summer break and unite them in a common cause? Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland knew how in Babes in Toyland.…
Crazy for Orem Hale’s CRAZY FOR YOU
OREM — George and Ira Gershwin are arguably two of the greatest songwriters in American history, and perhaps two of the greatest songwriters in the world. So couple their music…