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Show The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 19-21, 2017 C-3 Jennings ends her 11-year Follies gig on a high note Music director has fond memories of her role in musical LOCALS MUD SEASON SPECIALS Breakfast Items 10 for $10 includes Coffee & Juice Lunch Menu Items $10 includes Soda 2 for 1 Dinner Entrees Complimentary Charcuterie Board for All Locals By SCOTT IWASAKI with Purchase of Entree. The Park Record Shelle Jennings spent the past 11 years helping groups of locally based amateur and semiprofessional actors and singers make fun of Park City. This year, the Park City Follies went without Jennings, who decided to finish her turn as the program’s musical director “I loved working with these folks and doing this, but it’s a young person’s job,” Jennings told The Park Record during an interview at hear home in the Snyderville Basin. “I have found as I have gotten older that I have a choice. I can either do the late-night stuff and not do the early-morning stuff, because it was hard to do it all.” When The Park City Follies opens for its annual run on Thursday, April 20, at the Egyptian Theatre, the new musical director will be Katy Lillquist, who has Jennings full blessing. “I knew I had given it my all and that there would be someone else in this town who would step forward,” Jennings said. “Katy is the perfect young woman to do this, because I’m a dinosaur and just a pianist.” Lillquist, on the other hand, uses a keyboard that is programmed with different sounds. “I don’t much like the keyboards because I don’t know what to do with all of that stuff,” Jennings said. “I think this has opened up entirely new and different opportunities for [Park City Follies Director] Paul Tan and the cast to use as well.” Jennings, who worked with Lillquist on the transition, said Local Park City news every Wednesday and Saturday $3 Mimosas / $3 Beer Selection $5 Bloody Mary's / $5 Margaritas All of these available through Memorial Day. Church Public House 628 Park Ave † 435.604.0850 † ChurchPublicHouse.com REAL... REAL... REAL... LIFE People Stories Tanzi Propst/park record Longtime Park City Follies Music Director Shelle Jennings feels she made the right decision to not participate in the musical this year. It was nice to say to myself that I made the right decision and that I was happy I did it...” Shelle Jennings Former music director of the Park City Follies she is at peace with her decision to step away from The Follies. “We still had the read-through at our house earlier this year because it’s always so much fun, but after everyone left and my husband Jim and I were clean- ing up, I said aloud, ‘I’m so glad I listened to my inner voice at the end of last year, because it is so much work in such a short period of time,’“ Jennings said. “It was nice to say to myself that I made the right decision and that I was happy I did it.” The past 11 years with The Follies has been an adventure, and while she doesn’t remember particulars about her first night of rehearsals in 2006, Jennings does remember the occasions. She had been part of the production of “The Full Monty” that ran at the Egyptian and was recruited for The Follies that year. “At that time, [‘The Full Monty’] director, Dana DurPlease see Jennings, C-4 Introducing... Subscribe today Contact our circulation office: 435-645-7139 www.marketatparkcity.com Please look for our insert in today’s paper! Call 435–649–9014 to subscribe today! 435.649.9014 circulation@ParkRecord.com |