Events
| Name |
Organization |
Dates |
Location |
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Harlem Globetrotters
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EnergySolutions Arena |
02/13/12 |
EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Presented by Jaks Theatre Company at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center February 16-February 18, 2012 AKS Theatre Company is proud to present "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", A Broadway musical comedy about a window washer, J. Pierrepont Finch, who, with the aid of a trusty self-help book How to Succeed in Business, enjoys a an eventful rise up the corporate ladder.
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Jaks Theatre Company |
02/16/12 -
02/18/12 |
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City |
Gleek School Musical
Presented by The Off Broadway Theatre at The Off Broadway Theatre February 10-March 10, 2012 Welcome back to high school with this fun-filled OBT parody that combines elements of the popular television hit Glee and the classic High School Musical movie series. This production features great singing and dancing, fantastic basketball special effects, as well as Hamlet, The Musical done in two minutes and fifty-three seconds. It's a sure-fire comedy that teens and tweens will absolutely love, and so will the teenager inside of you parents and grandparents.
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The Off Broadway Theatre |
02/10/12 -
03/10/12 |
The Off Broadway Theatre, Salt Lake City |
Seven
Presented by Pygmalion Theatre Company at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center February 3-March 11, 2012 "Seven" is a soul-stirring documentary play in which seven renowned playwrights tell the true stories of seven women from seven different countries who have surmounted tremendous obstacles to combat trafficking, violence, and other human-rights abuses. Award-winning women playwrights Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deveare-Smith, and Susan Yankowitz interviewed bold women's rights activists from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Guatemala, Nigeria,...
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Pygmalion Theatre Company |
02/03/12 -
03/11/12 |
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City |
The Elixir of Love
Presented by Utah Opera at Capitol Theatre March 10-March 18, 2012 The story of L'elisir is of Nemorino, a love-struck youth who cannot seem to hold the attention of his dream girl, Adina. He buys a magic potion but it doesn't seem to work. It only begins to take effect on the other women of the town after news spreads of his rich uncle's passing and this convinces Nemorino that he needs to buy more to use on Adina. But Nemorino has much to learn about elixirs and love, and the confusion he sows with his potion threatens to ruin everything.
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Utah Opera |
03/10/12 -
03/18/12 |
Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City |
The Third Crossing
Presented by Plan-B Theatre Company at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center March 8-March 18, 2012 In Colonial America, it was believed that the third crossing of black and white bloodlines yielded white children. Playwright Debora Threedy employs the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, whose children were the third crossing but remained slaves, as the springboard to examine interracial relationships in America.
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Plan-B Theatre Company |
03/08/12 -
03/18/12 |
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City |
Flash Gordon Conquers The Evil Planet
Presented by The Children's Theatre at The Children's Theatre March 2-March 24, 2012 Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip.
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The Children's Theatre |
03/02/12 -
03/24/12 |
The Children's Theatre, Salt Lake City |
Disney's Beauty And The Beast
Presented by Broadway Across America - Utah at Capitol Theatre March 20-March 25, 2012 Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this eye-popping spectacle has won the hearts of over 35 million people worldwide. This classic musical love story is filled with unforgettable characters, lavish sets and costumes, and dazzling production numbers including "Be Our Guest" and the beloved title song.
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Broadway Across America - Utah |
03/20/12 -
03/25/12 |
Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City |
The Scarlet Letter
Presented by Plan-B Theatre Company at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center April 12-April 22, 2012 Hester Prynne is led from prison in Purtain Boston with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter A on her breast. A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery. Hester's scholarly husband sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. He is believed to have been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband, Hester has given birth to a child. She will not reveal her lover's identity, however, and the scarlet letter is her...
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Plan-B Theatre Company |
04/12/12 -
04/22/12 |
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City |
The Adventures of Sheer-Luck Homes and Snotson
Presented by The Off Broadway Theatre at The Off Broadway Theatre March 30-April 28, 2012 This hilarious Sherlock Holmes send up was performed here at the Off Broadway Theatre a few years ago, and it has been a definite actor favorite. This parody pits the wise cracking Sheer-Luck Homes against his arch nemesis Gory-hearty. Sheer-Luck along with his bumbling side-kick Snotson must solve the mystery of a killer who literally scares his victims to death. Is he up to the challenge? The game's afoot.
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The Off Broadway Theatre |
03/30/12 -
04/28/12 |
The Off Broadway Theatre, Salt Lake City |
Ring Around the Rose
Presented by Repertory Dance Theatre at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center September 10, 2011-May 12, 2012 Ring Around the Rose is Repertory Dance Theatre's wiggle-friendly series of performances for children and families that explores the magical world of the arts, including dance, theatre, music and storytelling. Ring Around the Rose is made possible in part by grants from the Utah Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Salt Lake City Arts Council, and the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks program.
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Repertory Dance Theatre |
09/10/11 -
05/12/12 |
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City |
Of Mice and Men
Presented by Utah Opera at Capitol Theatre May 5-May 13, 2012 Like the novel, the story centers around George and his childlike companion Lennie as they struggle to find a path to their simple dream, the dream of a house and farm they can call their own. It is not to be however as Lennie's simple kindness and fear of upsetting those around him unwittingly lead to tragedy and the end of the plans he and George share.
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Utah Opera |
05/05/12 -
05/13/12 |
Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City |
Cinderella
Presented by The Children's Theatre at The Children's Theatre May 4-May 26, 2012 Once upon a time, there was a widower who married a proud and haughty woman as his second wife. She had two daughters, who were equally vain. By his first wife, he'd had a beautiful, young daughter, who was a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper. The Stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter to complete all the housework. When the girl had done her work, she sat in the cinders, which caused her to be called "Cinderella". The poor girl bore it patiently, but she dared not...
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The Children's Theatre |
05/04/12 -
05/26/12 |
The Children's Theatre, Salt Lake City |