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 ...
OGDEN — This is not your grandmother’s “Ruthless.”So says playwright Joel Paley, who with Marvin Laird created the play “Ruthless! The Musical” back in 1992. Paley wrote the book and lyrics and Laird wrote the music for the Off-Broadway premiere, and over the years it has been ...
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 — 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 ...
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 ...
My husband and I traveled to New York City this summer hoping to enjoy a few Broadway plays without breaking the bank.And though we are by no means Big Apple experts, I’d say we did a pretty good job at accomplishing our goal.During our nine days in the city, we saw both parts of “Harry ...
