From Deseret News archives:
All the world's a stage ... or so it seems
Fall season offers big names, venue changes and campy movie adaptations
That's the 2006-07 Utah theater season in a nutshell.
One new trend is apparently quirky, campy, tune-filled shows based on old movies. The Utah Shakespearean Festival has "Johnny Guitar: The Musical" in its fall lineup, and the College of Eastern Utah in Price has acquired the first Utah rights to "Poseidon Adventure: The Musical" (the production's official Web site carries the tag line "hell upside-down ... with music").
But maybe the trend isn't all that new. The SCERA Center in Orem is resurrecting a campy musical from 1966 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!" The show has songs by Charles Strouse, the same composer who created "Annie" (also based on a comic), "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Applause."
The two new companies joining Utah's already crowded theater community are the Oquirrh Hills Performing Arts Alliance, setting up shop in the long-vacant and newly restored Historic Empress Theatre in Magna, and the Salt Lake Senior Theatre Company, allied with Salt Lake City's Academy of Performing Arts to produce plays and reader's-theater performances geared to and starring the 55 and older crowd.
At least two theaters are celebrating landmark anniversaries: It's the 20th season for StageRight TheaterCompany and the 10th year for Wasatch Theatre Company.
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