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Whether buying or selling, call any one of these top producers to make your transaction faster, easier, simpler! 435.6493000' www.jessreidrealestate.com Recognized by ft'7/o s IVho in Luxury Real Estate, Member-RELO- the country's largest network of independent brokers. Member of Park City. Rasalch County and Salt Lake City Boards of REALTORS. f you havent yet seen "Jesus Christ Superstar" at puppet theater and a one-man show about Einstein. It the Egyptian Theatre, put down this paper and call was very ambitious. The second year we were back to for tickets right now. There are only a handful of perfor- doing community theater shows. With "Peter Pan" we had one of the original Flying mances before the show closes and the stellar rock band and convincing actors leave for other gigs. This is the sin- Foys of Broadway fame come and teach our performers gle finest production I have ever seen at this theater. I how to be hooked up to a harness andfly.'Hie rule of thumb in those days was anytime the audience members mean thai. And I have a bit of history with the place. outnumbered cast the show went on. And though the If you have seen this musical extravaganza and you agree, open your checkbook and bug your friends and plays were often thoughtful, "Of Mice and Men." associates to support this hometown performance com- "Cuckoo's Nest," "Night of the Iguana," the perforpany. If you want shows at this level you must understand mances were, well, amateurish. We applauded like crazy the costs arc high and the work intensive, but the results, because these were our friends and they had managed to, mostly, memorize a lot of lines. life changing. Don left after a few years and joined briefly the bankDont scoff - the arts do change lives in so many ways. The arts just may be the single most important thing that ing world.. I kept writing. After a few more I exited the separates us from other mammals, that and opposable marriage stage left and became editor here. I was still an thumbs. It also may just be the very thing that separates avid audience member, occasionally a reviewer but nothing more. The theater continued to present fun shows us from just another pretty resort town. with great local talent. Those years, of "Pump Boys and The miners knew that when they formed this tiny town. On site of the Egyptian Theatre once stood the Dinettes," stand out as some of the finest. Richard Scott Dewey Opera House. Imagine that! An opera house in a returned to direct the theater. He pushed his board to rough-and-tumble mining town where bars and dance include equity actors and position itself as a regional halls lined the streets. The company. It was ahead story goes the famed of its time, bu! Swedish nightingale, Jenny Richard knew it was Lind, once sang there. • The arts just may be the single most the way to grow. Fast forward to The Dewey collapsed important thing that separates us from December of "03 when under the weight of heavy other mammals, that and opposable Marialice Klein steps snow hours after a packed in. A former bank performance. Years later, in thumbs." executive and board 1926, the Egyptian was member of the built during the excitement I ^ H H M ^ H ^ mmmmmam^^m^mtm^^m^ following the discovery of Egyptian, she had King Tut's tomb. It was both movie and vaudeville house watched the company struggle in the same boom and and Park City resident Blanche Fletcher played at the bust way the town had over the years. She analyzed the opening. Later it became the Silver Wheel Melodrama options and .in less than six months took a bold plan to Theater. Skiers who came here in the 70s got a full mea- her board. To present a level of performances that would sure of booing and hissing at villains, Jim Santy was both be a notch above what had been done before. a villain and a good guy. His wife Carol often played the Which brings us all the way to this show, the first of piano. the new season for the theater and a solid grand-slam hit I moved to town in 1979, when a fledging community all the way out of the park. Finally. I've heard people say, theater company was presenting Neil Simon shows down a production to match our world-class resort. If we want at the Kimball Art Center. Each night they would move to really compete with other resorts, our world-class the art off the walls, set up lights and chairs and put on a recreation and restaurants and lodging need to matched show. Each night they would break it all down, re-hang by world-class performances. That's where you come in. Giving to the arts is still new here. And it is a fragile the art and repeat the procedure the next night. existence for us all. But think how much poorer we'd be I started dating the theater director, Don Gomes. Then I married him, right there, outdoors in the court- as a community if there were no free concerts on Main yard of the Kimball. That same year the Silver Wheel Street on a summers day, or cool jazz on a hot night at Theater sold to a group of developers anchored by Deer Valley. We contribute to the economy. People eat Randy and Debbi Fields, yes, that Mrs. Fields. But Mike out before and after a show and many come and spend Barnes and the Doilney brothers were involved, too. the night just so they can stay up late in the mountains. Randy s idea was to turn the building into condos. My When folks book trips now, the growing question is. what husband and I begged him to allow the theater to is being presented on that weekend? Tickets are selling become a kind of performing arts center, a rather brash on websites to out-of-state guests months in advance. idea for a town of about Z500 people. Randy told us if we But no arts organization in Park City, unlike many in raised a certain amount of money, he would agree. We Salt Lake City, is a line item in the legislative budget. The did and he spent $400,000 of his own money renovating arts in Park City need your help. So, buying a ticket to see that treasure. this rock solid show will but once you see it I know you'll We had a gala opening in October of 1981. Hal want to help the Egyptian continue this level of perforLinden was the master of ceremonies. Ballet West and mance. the Utah Opera performed. And 90-something Blanche Years ago, during a Sundance Film Festival. Roger Fletcher returned to play the piano. The first production Ebert called the Egyptian "a little jewel box of a theater." was "My Fair Lady," with Gary Cole as the handsome He was talking about the structure but I think it is fair to suitor. Tile show was graoSl with the" costuming work of say this is a jewel box p i a company. It's up Tina Lewis, former, councilperson, and winner of riurnef-1' 'keep "ft'that way./Each and every sh^w day, even this Sunday in the Park... ous national heritage awards. That same year we brought in the Chinese Magic Teri Orr is a former editor o/The Park Record ami Circus, Tim Weisbcrg, Kenny Rankin, some children's director of the Park City Performing Arts Center. By Jay Meehan JESS REID J By Teri Orr >"CVJ • C»l4d- Alto*.) CHRISTIE'S tJKLAT ESTATES n P h e Heber airport is busier than this one," he notes nance had been effected and, more than likely, no symJL as he glances out the window of the Boeing some- pathetic vibrations from our end were going to carry Ihing-or-other as it taxis gateward. His use of exaggera- much weight. We were lo ride it out until a carpet of restion to make a point comes easy. It runs rampant in his olution provided traction. DNA. His particular spiral helix came tightly wrapped in It appeared that sometime even earlier in the mornirony... and it fits like a glove. ing, road construction crews had been out adding length, There is indeed tranquility to the tarmac that belies and slush, to that final hill adjacent to Deer Crest on U.S. the bustle aboard the aircraft to repossess carry-on and 40. It was taking forever to reach the top and the jury still deplane. Our arrival is absolutely the only thing going on wasn't in on whether our uphill trek would prove suchereabouts. Everything moves at a mosey. Island time cessful. rules. It's about a leisure space where haoles hardly hula. TTien, as if by miracle, snowplows appeared. Lights However, forewarnings had been arriving back in were a-flashin' while plow-blades cleared lanes and salt Utah all week concerning Kauai's horrendous weather- discharged from the spreader on back. Twas a beautiful it is the wettest spot on earth, remember, and, according sight, it was. The snow removal process was in place. Rescue was at hand. to the island locals, the bar was being raised daily. It actually looked like travel would be a piece of Which brings us to the almost biblical weather that has been hammering the hemisphere the past few cake... if we were to give up and head back to Heber, months and its most recent manifestation, an overnight that is. The plow convoy Was tending to eastbound 40 in snowstorm that arrived earlier that morning back in the spectacular fashion, but anyone attempting to reach the Wasatch Range. Hazardous travel warnings had even airport via westbound ianes remained on their own. kept the snowplows off the roads. There was good news, however. The top of the hill .__ wasfinallyin sight, but Four-in-the-morning whether or not our saw the lights of Heber in momentum would be the rear-view and a total • • Mantras appeared one-after-the- enough to get us there whiteout through the other. Those with pure hearts have the was another story. We windshield. The . road kept up the creep, but it heading up the hill alongstrength of 10. Love is all you need. •was evident one false side Jordanelle looked Blessed are the meek for they shall be move could prove our about as inviting as the undoing. We became Great Couloir on Everest. mired in a snowdrift for eternity." The vehicle spun sideways ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the little engine that and it became evident that ^•"^^^^•"^^^^^^^^^ could - we think we neither of us was exhaling. can. we think we can. As we finally topped the hill, our celebration was No problem, we thought. We were on a mission of high import and a little weather wasiit about to deter us short-lived. The realization that one had to travel even from our appointed rounds. Mantras appeared one-after- slower going downhill in such conditions stared us, like a theother. Those with pure hearts have the strength of 10. thousand miles of brake-lights, in the face. We were Love is all you need. Blessed are the meek for they shall behind schedule, couldn't travel at a higher rate of speed, and still had the even steeper Parleys Summit in our be mired in a snowdrift for eternity. The veliicle chose that moment to spin sideways in the future. It was then mentioned that Interstate SO would opposite direction. Maintaiaing momentum became the surely be easier sledding than the while-top we currently only option. Keep the tires spinning. Tlirn in the direc- traversed, but, once again, getting there would be the tion of the skid. Locate tracks left by some other idiot, issue. My sidekick and navigator opted to direct our timid steed away from the suspended on-ramp and onto who had departed even earlier, and drive in them. Why is this road not closed? A daunting question 1-60, via a somewhat more arcane route. Parley^ had indeed received more tender loving care indeed. And what if it is? Equally intimidating. Visions of the Donner Party danced in our heads. There was noth- than U.S. 40, but it still wasn't a given that we would ing else to do but put our fool in it and keep the RPMs make it through to Nome with the serum in time. But, of up. It was decided that if we were to make it through our* course, we did, and, as we deplaned in the tropics, winks and chuckles and sighs were exchanged. present difficulties, we would enter next year's Iditerod. Bluesboy McGee met us at the baggage pickup in The phrase "spinning out of control" suddenly achieved relevance. Now that headlights approached shorts, slaps, and T-shirt with a local weather update. It's from ourrear, we began taking up both lanes... and both not like hurricanes havent flattened this rock more than shoulders. Promises were made to deities who deal in once in recent memory, and a repeat would have been a such matters. It was as if refusing-to-accept-the-highly- perfect ending to our most bizarre day. probable was a form of prayer. If denial weren't comfortWith a daunting expression he explained that the Ting, what good would it be? shirt was an afterthought - brought on by a temperature The harmonic upon which we rode was clearly going drop into the upper 70s. He hoped we had packed to drag out its little scenario until some obscure reso- accordingly. They were suffering from a cold snap. |