musical

SALT LAKE CITY — Dale Wasserman (book), Mitch Leigh (music), and Joe Darion (lyrics) were not the first by a writing team to bring the tale of Don Quixote to…

SALT LAKE CITY — Based on a failed movie with a great soundtrack, the stage production of Xanadu offers a simple plot with plenty of humor and production numbers around…

SOUTH SALT LAKE — After extensive renovations, the Children’s Theatre opened doors last week to their new theater in South Salt Lake. Anyone who remembers the old Avalon will value…

CENTERVILLE — South Pacific has long been one of my favorite shows, so I was quick to take an opportunity to review it at Centerpoint Legacy Theater in Centerville. As…

OREM – I have been a fan of The Secret Garden since reading the book when I was younger. I became a fan of the musical when I saw the…

OREM — In February, I praised community theatre in a UTBA blog post, and Disney’s My Son Pinocchio at SCERA Center for the Arts reaffirmed my love for these productions…

SALT LAKE CITY — This weekend I was excited to see The Wild Party as produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, in their Studio 115 space. I…

OREM — One of the oldest surviving dramatic forms in the Western theatrical tradition is satire. Aristophanes wrote plays that heaped scorn and derision on powerful figures of his day,…

OGDEN — “They won’t buy our milk white bodies so we kinda sell out in some other way,” says the pharmacist to the prostitute in a courthouse where several influential…

SALT LAKE CITY — Every so often, Broadway sees a show that is not only a smash hit, but influences many musical productions for years afterwards. Famous musicals like Oklahoma!,…