When the couple married, Sandra Covey put aside her musical dreams and raised nine children, dragging them to choir performances, ballets and operas.

And now, Sandra Covey's children and grandchildren can come to Provo — rather than drive to Salt Lake City — for theater and music performances.

She joked Thursday that only dead people have buildings named after them.

And she laughed, saying that after a broken foot, cellulitis, a knee replacement and spinal stenosis, she hopes to make it to the official opening in October.

"This is a lifetime dream," she said. "It's really the thrill of a lifetime."

Stephen Covey said he was "enormously impressed" with the facility. "I'm so grateful to be with a person of such love of the arts. Such vision with all that passion behind it and the discipline to make it happen."

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