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Crowning achievement: 'Crowns' gets its regional premiere Friday at SLCC's Grand Theatre
Still, Taylor knows her church. She knows the hymns and she knows the way the people move when they sing, and she knows the kind of advice the older women gave to youngsters like herself, back in the 1960s and '70s. Taylor has some idea of what was in the hearts of the women who wore those pretty hats.
So when Taylor was offered the chance to write a script about hats, to turn a photo book into a musical play, she didn't hesitate. She went right to work on "Crowns."
Taylor comes to Utah on Friday for the regional premiere of her play at the Grand Theatre at Salt Lake Community College's South City Campus. Her trip is sponsored by the Sundance Playwriting Laboratory.
In coming back to Utah, she comes full circle, Taylor says. She workshopped this play at the Sundance Theatre Lab in the summer of 2002. "Crowns" played in New York that fall and went on to become one of the country's most widely produced plays.
Scott says, "The cast and I have been talking about those memories that shape us." The script has reminded him to talk to his children about what he values, he says. In the modern world we are more able to cocoon, to isolate ourselves from our neighbors, he notes. "But it's our responsibility to share our stories."
The structure of the play has been challenging to direct, Scott says. There is music, but he wouldn't go so far as to call the play a musical. There are also big blocks of narrative.
Speaking to the Desert Morning News from her home in Los Angeles earlier this week, Taylor explained how the script came about and also talked of her own history.
As she grew up, she discovered she enjoyed writing. In fact, when she started out at Southern Methodist University, she was going to be a journalist. Then she took an acting class and changed her major.
Before she'd even graduated, Taylor was hired to act in a movie, "Crisis at Central High." That story of the integration of public schools in the South came out in 1981 and starred Joanne Woodward.
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