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LOGAN — With some rare exceptions, gone are the days of drive in movies and local radio DJs. Flared skirts and pompadours weren’t always reserved for costume parties and punk…
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LOGAN — With some rare exceptions, gone are the days of drive in movies and local radio DJs. Flared skirts and pompadours weren’t always reserved for costume parties and punk…
LOGAN — It is summertime in Logan, Utah, which means hiking and swimming, and a lot of theatre. Some of that theatre comes from the Lyric Repertory Company, who in…
OGDEN — The Marvelous Wonderettes is a jukebox musical with a book by Roger Bean that has compiled pop style music from the 50s and 60s. It uses a quartet…
SALT LAKE CITY — Do you like music from the ’50s and ’60s? Then the Grand Theatre has the show for you: The Marvelous Wonderettes. It’s the story of a…
PROVO — Campy, jukebox musicals are not usually my cup of tea. While it is important to separate a production’s merit from personal taste, I was surprised that in this…
OGDEN — The Marvelous Wonderettes, the current offering at the Terrace Plaza Playhouse is a lovely musical review of the ’50s and ’60s which follows four young ladies first performing…
CEDAR CITY — It’s hard to imagine a more fitting title for The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. At the risk of sounding cliché, marvelous and wonderful truly…
MIDVALE — The Marvelous Wonderettes is the story of four high school senior girls—all candidates to be prom queen—who entertain their classmates at their senior prom in 1958. In the…
SALT LAKE CITY— The Marvelous Wonderettes was inspired by author Roger Bean’s mother. He was asked to write a new musical and pitched the idea of a show about high…