Herriman creates a “big, bright, beautiful” SHREK
HERRIMAN — “It’s a big bright beautiful world!” sings Shrek in the opening of the eponymous Shrek The Musical. And it’s hard to find a more appropriate set of words…
WICKED is luminous and inspiring
SALT LAKE CITY — A villain, generally speaking, is a fictional person of bad reputation who stands between the hero and his/her goal. Every kid knows the hero is good,…
A CHORUS LINE has moments of singular sensation
PARK CITY — With songs such as “I Can Do That,” “What I Did For Love,” “Tits and Ass,” and the iconic “One,” A Chorus Line has become a staple…
MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) is the perfect parody for theatre buffs
LOGAN — Mix Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sondheim, Lloyd Webber, Herman, and Kander and Ebb into one epic night of musical theatre parody and the end result is a five act…
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST finds a charming “Home” at Pickleville
GARDEN CITY — I love the classic film Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It’s funny, touching, magical and puts a couple of twists on normal princess stories with the Gaston-Belle-Beast…
A very shaky FIDDLER ON THE ROOF from Windstorm
MURRAY — Fiddler on the Roof is arguably one of the best known and loved Broadway musicals ever since its premiere in 1964. The 1971 film adaptation added to the…
SCERA makes LES MISERABLES a “Master”-fully unique show
OREM — “To love another person is to see the face of God.” As Jean Valjean passes away after a long and eventful life, this line—one of the last lyrics…
INTO THE WOODS was all I could wish for
CEDAR CITY — I have four kids; my oldest is nine. It’s safe to say that I’ve watched my fair share of children’s television in my lifetime, and I have…
Hale’s MAN OF LA MANCHA is a fantastic dream
OREM — Man of La Mancha is, as far as I can tell, a musical that rarely graces the stages of our state. Perhaps this is because the margin of…
A Nice Evening With THE ADDAMS FAMILY
MAGNA — The Addams Family started as a single panel comic in the New Yorker magazine drawn by Charles Addams, was later adapted to a television show, an animated cartoon,…