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Second-best way to spread Christmas cheer? Watch ‘Elf, The Musical’

Standard-Examiner staffCENTERVILLE — Anyone familiar with Buddy the Elf knows the best way to spread Christmas cheer: “Singing loud for all to hear.”And the second-best way?Watching “Elf, The Musical,” of course.The musical based on the 2003 film starring Will Ferrell will be ...

Dancers discuss #MeToo in performing arts at Weber State University

OGDEN — As an associate professor of theater at Weber State University, Jennifer Kokai said she feels awful when students come to her years after a performance with stories of sexual harassment backstage.“Performers become kind of like a family and really close and love each other and spend ...

Layton’s OPPA to present the jukebox musical comedy ‘Forever Plaid’

LAYTON — The play starts with a horrific, fatal car wreck involving four young men in a convertible and a school bus full of Catholic school girls.And then it gets <em>really</em> funny.“Forever Plaid,” the off-Broadway jukebox musical comedy, opens tonight ...

Opera at WSU tells the story of beheaded nuns during the French Revolution

OGDEN — In 1794, at the height of the French Revolution in Paris, 16 Carmelite nuns were beheaded for refusing to renounce their vocation.That story is the basis for Francis Poulenc’s 1956 opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” being presented this week at Weber State University.Karen ...