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Contributed by Rachel Hanson
Ballet West has opened their 09/10 season with Song’s of the Valley, Three Preludes, and The Dream. Each ballet is quite different -- and all but one is a nice start to what promises to be an interesting season.
.. Wow. The North Carolina-based comedy duo Rhett & Link came to Salt Lake City, and now we have our own cheesy America-is-living-hard-times commercial, complete with Mormon missionaries.
I caught the penultimate show of Judge Memorial High School's production of Rent last Friday. This was the production that had a few Utah Catholics upset for what they saw as promoting homosexuality. The play's director, Darin Hathaway, came out on stage before the performance and noted that they'd sold 3,000 tickets. "It's not a gay show," he said. "It doesn't glorify Aids. [...] You'll see the face of God in each kid on this stage."
Only 16 months after Heather Ferrell became Executive Director of Salt Lake Art Center, the facility is going to be searching for a new leader again.
Want to own your own cinema?
Take a leaf out of the book of Scott and Jennifer Fotheringham. They bought a delapidated little cinema in Beaver, which dates back to 1926 and turned it into a family business. Main Street Theatre (55 N. Main), so named for its location, is a gorgeous throwback to the days when the one-screen cinema with a 35 mm projector was the heart of small town life, before megaplexes in nearby cities sucked away their clients with a multitude of first run movies.