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Show MUSIC HALL BOOKS NATION'S TOP TALENT FOR FIRST HALF OF '66 Show bookings for 1966 at Valley Music Hall, the world's newest theatre round, are nearly complete for the first six months of the year, according to executive producer pro-ducer LeRoy Prinz. For Valley Music Hall, 1966 marks the second chapter chap-ter of the first year that commenced with grand opening July 19, 1965, a landmark date for big-star, Broadway-style Broadway-style entertainment in the Intermountain area. and has been a top seller ever since. Alpert describes the music of his group, featuring piano, trumpet, brass, drums, guitars and trombone ,as "quasi-Mexican, a combination of American Amer-ican and Mariachi." Tickets for Tiajuana Brass are now on sale, and may be ordered from Valley Music Hall, Box 222, North Salt Lake. "We think we have come up with an exciting lineup for the new year," says Mr. Prinz. "As always, 'the show is the thing' at Valley Music Hall. We want the highest quality along with an appeal to a diversity of interests." in-terests." Among the acts signed for the first half of the year are the Tijuana Brass, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ray Bolger, Liberace, Pattl Page, Jimmy Durante, Jack Jones, Jimmy Dean, and the King Family. Musicals (with more to be announced) include the two Meredith Wilson favorites, '"Music Man" and the "Un-sinkable "Un-sinkable Molly Brown," "More than 300,000 people came to see us in less than six months in 1965" Mr. Prinz said. "More than anything, we want all those people to come back again in 1966. Then we want to get everyone who has never been to Valley Music Mu-sic Hall, so they can see what they've been missing. Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass plays a three-day stand at the Music Hall January 27-29. This is the seven-man combo that burst into prominence two years ago with a single recording, re-cording, "The Lonely Bull," |
