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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki Arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 PARLEY’S PARK PRESENTS ‘THE LION KING JR.’ LEADERSHIP CLASS 23 JOINS BONANZA FLAT CAUSE, C-2 FORMER PARKITE WILL SHOW WOODTURNING WORKS, C-5 www.parkrecord.com C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, MAY 10-12, 2017 ‘Emma! A Pop Musical’ has a universal theme Students will present “The Lion King Jr.” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10, at Parley’s Park Elementary, 4600 Silver Springs Drive. Tickets are $5. SPRING DUMPSTER DAYS Spring Dumpster Days will run through Saturday, May 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Recycle Utah, 1951 Woodbine Way. Two bins will be placed on Woodbine Way for residential garbage and yard waste. For information, visit www.recycleutah.org. BRAINSTORM FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING: ‘GOD KNOWS WHERE I AM’ CONNECT Summit County, a nonprofit that raises awareness of mental health issues, will presrent a free screening of Jedd and Todd Wider’s “Hope Lives: Preventing Teen Suicide in Utah” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. The documentary is about a woman named Linda Bishop who suffered bipolar disorder. She released herself from the hospital, wandered off and ended up dying alone in a farmhouse. For information, visit www.connectsummitcounty.org. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD YouTheatre rehearses Eric Price’s “Emma! A Pop Musical” -- based on Jane Austen’s “Emma” -- that will open for a three-show run at the Egyptian Theatre on Friday. Youtheatre will give three performances at the Egyptian Theatre MOTHER’S DAY CERAMICS SALE AT THE KAC A Mother’s Day ceramics sale will run from noon to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 12, and Saturday, May 13, at the Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd. The event will feature ceramic work made by studio members and the center’s instructors. Both handbuilt and wheel-thrown pieces will be featured. All proceeds from the sale benefit the Kimball Clay Studio and center’s Education Department. For information, visit www.kimballartcenter.org. EATS PARK CITY: FORK IN THE ROAD FUNDRAISER The third annual Fork in the Road fundraiser, a dinner gala for EATS Park City will be from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, at Park City Mountain Resort’s Legacy Lodge. Tickets are available by visiting www. eatsparkcity.org. WYATT PIKE BERKLEE MUSIC PROGRAM BENEFIT Park City’s Wyatt Pike, 16, who has performed all over Park City, has received a partial scholarship to Berklee College of Music’s five-week performance program in Boston, Massachusetts. will perform a benefit concert, “Berklee or Bust,” at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, at 4363 Willow Creek Drive. The event is open to the public. No RSVP required. Food and drink will be provided. Donations will be accepted. By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Egyptian Theatre’s YouTheatre director Jamie Wilcox knew she wanted to present a different kind of produc- tion for this year’s spring musical. She knew she found it when she came across Eric Price’s “Emma! A Pop Musical.” “It’s always hard to find new material and you kind of want to do something different, because there are a lot of musicals that get done over and over again,” Wilcox told The Park Record. “I love Jane Austen’s books, so when I found this, I immediately fell in love with it.” YouTheatre will present “Emma! A Pop Musical” Friday and Saturday, May 12-13, at the Egyptian Theatre. While the production is based on Jane Austen’s 1815 novel “Emma,” most of the songs have been made famous by modern-day female singer-songwriters and legendary girl groups. “We have songs by the Supremes, Whitney Houston, Katy Perry and Cyndi Lauper, to name a few,” Wilcox said. “Music director Stania Shaw is an opera singer by training, and has had so much fun teaching the kids these pop songs.” While “Emma! A Pop Musical” does feature male roles; it is a very girl-power production. “I’m so happy that we’re presenting this on Mother’s Day weekend, because the moms and grandmas who come will recognize the songs,” Wilcox said. Some of the songs featured in the production maybe decades old, but the musical is set in a modern-day school, called Highbury Prep. “Emma fancies herself a matchmaker,” Wilcox said. “She’s a senior now, and her goal is to find a boyfriend for her friend Harriet, who is a sophomore.” The class structure of the school is like it was back in Jane Austen’s time, Please see Musical, C-4 Students expose movies to the community Miner Film Festival opens May 11 at the Eccles Center By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The annual Miner Film Festival is different than any other movie-going experience, Park City High School film teacher Kyle Fish said. “It’s a fun evening and there is a lot of audience participation, especially when people see their friends in a film,” Fish told The Park Record. “You get a lot more audible reactions than you would get in most movie theaters.” Getting an audience reaction is one of the goals of the Miner Film Festival. “It’s a way to present the students’ works to the community, but it’s also a way to give the artists in our film program an opportunity to show their films to a wider audience on a bigger screen,” Fish said. This year’s festival, which will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, will feature close to 15 short films that range in length from two minutes to 22 minutes. Some of the films came out of film class assignment prompts. Others are passionate projects students made during their free time. “There is no overarching theme,” Fish said. “It was pretty much up to them to take their interests and make films about them. They could made documentaries, narratives or experimental films.” Many of the films have been in production for seven or eight months. “Some (films) started as ideas back in the fall and went through the scriptwriting process during the first half of the school year and then were filmed and edited in the last part,” Fish said. Students also had free rein with the school’s equipment. Please see Students, C-3 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City High School students work a scene for filmmaker Emily Billow at The Park Record offices for a film she entered into this year’s Miner Film Festival. |