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Show Million-dollar music hall to add to Utah's cultural atmosphere LeRoy Prinz, two-time Academy Acad-emy Award Winner, Leighton Brill, who are the executive producers of Vallty Music Hall, have been in New York and Hollywood lining up stage properties, pro-perties, plays and stars for the 1965 season. Musicals being considered, of which several have been definitely decided upon, are: Carousel, Flower Drum Song, Show Boat, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The Music Mu-sic Man, Camelot, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Damn Yankees, My Fair Lady, Kiss Me Kate, Brigadoon, Construction steadily progresses pro-gresses on the new million dollar dol-lar Valley Music Hall along side Utah's new freeway system at North Salt Lake, according to Russ Ballard, president of the theater. Excavation has been completed and footings have been poured, he stated in a report to the theater's board of directors and board of advisors. ad-visors. "With the early start we got . . . and if we get a few breaks in the weather ... it appears certain that we'll meet our goal of July 19 for completion of the building," Mr. Ballard said. We're certain enough so that our executive producers are now lining up shows and stars for the July 19 premier. Construction started December Decem-ber 2 under the personal supervision super-vision of Jack Linkletter, president presi-dent of Linkletter Enterprises and son of the famous radio-television radio-television star, Art Linkletter. Linkletter, Senior, is chairman of the board of advisors of Valley Val-ley Music Hall. Other advisors with the Linkletters in Valley Music Hall are such noted stars as Bob Cummings, Rhonda Fleming and Danny Thomas, most of whom were personally on hand to see the actual groundbreaking ceremonies on October 31. |