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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday, December27, 1998 D3 @ From previous page Utah. Three months, or was it six? Official announcements werecon. spicious by their absence. Vernal Tabernacle for use as a Utah temple. This recognized an impor- Performances That Would Have Shined As Brightly tant shift in church policy in sup- on Any Stage: Joyce Cohen as port of preservation and sustaina- bility, respecting the past while Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Pioneer The meeting present and future needs. Depot to Go: Perhaps the most atre Company; Patricia Fraser as questionable public-place decision Felicity in “Relative Values’ at the Utah Shakesperean Festival; Anne Cullimore Decker as Maria Callas in “Master Class’ at the of the past few months was the transfer of control over the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in the Gateway District to the Boyer Company. Longtime home of the Utah Arts Council and with one of the Salt Lake Acting Company. Most Touching Performance by aPi uth Hale in “Thank You. Papa,” most beautiful interiors in a local a play she wrote decades ago, andin October, just days shy historic property, the depot’s uncertain futureis a discouragingsidebar in the development of this historic neighborhood. Crowded Houses: The size of crowdsat Salt Lake’s monthly Gallery Strolls attests to the growing popularity of experiencing art as an event. Eighteen membergalleries and an increasing number of one-womanshowatthe Sundance works bylocal artists, pumpingcolor, energy andline into the visual landscape. Let Me Introduce ... Special mance of SLAC’s ‘Master Class’ of her 90th birthday, returned to deliver on every level on opening night of the new Hale Centre Theatre Most Gracious Famous Audience Member: Glenn Close at- tending a live performance of Dale Orlandersmith’s compelling Film Festival, Most Obnoxious Audience Member: The person who did not restaurants and bookstores feature turnoff his cell phone at a perfor after being asked to do so — by events such as Williams Fine Arts’ Maria Callas. Most Unfortunate Brouhaha: TheCollege of Eastern Utah and Heritage Intermountain Theatre. recent “Maynard Dixon” symposium, Brigham Young University Museumof Art’s lectures that introduce featured exhibits and the ‘The 3-year-old company, founded by Stefano LoVerso and Mary Salt Lake Art Center's “Art Talks” help involvelocal audiencesin dialogueoverart issues. has lost its performing space on campusand maynever light up Center of Interest: For more than two decades,the Salt Lake Art a stage again in Carbon County Most Delightful Professional Production Found in the Least Center has offered contemporary art to an audience much morefa- Expected Place: Heritage Inter- miliar with comfortable landscapes and recognizable, representational sculpture and painting. But, ac- Anne Cullimore Decker's portrayal of famed opera diva Maria Callas in Salt Lake Acting Company production of “Master Class”wasa Utah performancethat would shine onanystage. cordingto director Ric Collier, the Salt Lake Art Center's role is largely educational, and this year’s programs have been a smash. Shows such as “Water” and “Blue,” amongotherimportantex- hibits, pushed the edge, presenting art that posedintriguing questions, was thematically rich, and was supported by graphically interesting andintelligently written catalogs. Will South, research curator at the Utah Museum ofFine Arts, was honored by the Utah Humanities Council with a Merit Award for the catalog on “Making Waves: 100 Years of Controversy.” South was a guest curator working with Collier onall three major shows. hand — it was amongthe costume itemssoldina silent auction. Here's a little irony: The county that is hometo that filmmakers’ haven, the Sundance Institute, is AnOscar for Good Deeds: Some Kelli Peterson battle to create the East High School Gay-Straight Student Alli- ance was chronicled in the documentary “Out of the Past.” The film received a three-minute standing ovation at its one Salt Lake screening. It went on to win the Audience Award. But the Food Was Good ... Redford also was a no-show at the Maypremiereof “The Horse Whis- perer,”staged in Orem. Hisshirt madeit to the benefit gala before- “Waiting for Godot,” then folded when West and his actress wife, Betsy, accepted a teaching posi- Winslet's nude modeling went in Park City getting a facelift and The 30-minute movie showed a group of doctors and nurses (many of them from the Salt Lake area) going to rural Vietnam, at the be- from one theater (which hadits internal reconstruction through When It Was Wiser to Rent the Video Than Attend the Play: The the deep-pocket support of the Steiner Corporation, the GeorgeS. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foun- pretation of “Romeo and Juliet’ @The Wasatch Theater Com- The Juvenile Award: To Donny Osmond, who insisted that the breast-plate pasties usually worn “Titanic” were trimmedof offending breasts. The uproar over Kate short wentto “A Story of Healing.” copyofthefilm pulled once Para- mount got wind of the unofficial recutting) to Sunrise Family Video, hest of the nonprofit group Inter- which would cut customers’ copies ofthe video for $5. The video store plast, to performplastic surgery on children with facial deformities. endured legal threats, and a possible industry boycott proposed by NowOpening: The Hydra 100: Multiplextheaters spread like kud- director John Frankenheimer. converted to 12 screens or more. The Century 16 opened to much hoopla in South Salt Lake, as did the Ritz 15 in West Valley City. On the horizon: Cinemark’s 24-screen Landing. Why Not a Hotel? The strangest use of Utah landscapes wasin the French-Canadian drama (and Canada’s entry for the best foreign-lan- guagefilm Oscar) “August 32nd on Earth.” Jn the movie, a fashion model decides to quit the catwalk and have a baby — and she corrals her best male friend to go from Montreal to the Bonneville Salt Flats to conceive one. Utahns may question the filmmakers’ perception of the state (or at least ask wherethe model bought mescalat 11:30 p.m. on a Sunday), but the visuals are quite haunting The Utah County Version: W Thehistoric Egyptian Theatre dation and Rick Rogers. pany, which wasinvited by James Richard and Marina Martin to produceplays,rent-free, in their Redwood Road deli, Jim’s Soupers. And the New HopeCen@ On Vacation Jack Goodmanis taking a week off. His columnwill return next week. monster, nowbeingbuilt at Jordan @ Continued from D-1 Leadership Has Changed or Is ter opened its doors with a rea- sonable rent offer to the nomadic Plan B Theatre Company. @ The National Endowment for the Arts, which put our tax dollars to artistic use by awarding the Utah Shakespearean Festival a $100,000 matching grant Theater: A Go-Go Yearfor Donny Osmond @ Continued from D-1 life and landscape of West Valley City. HThe $4.1 million donation to Pioneer Theatre Company from Following areother theatrical observations from The Year That Was, listed deliberately without Best and Worst categorization and no claimto being definitive. Most Mysterious Disappearing Act by a New Theater Troupe: Salt City Productions announced big plans to bring “real professional theater” to Salt Lake City, presented “The Odd Couple” in April, and promptly faded from the spotlight. Second Disappearing Act by a New Theater Troupe: THEATRE Inc., under the guidance of L.L, Changing: The Grand Theatre under the direction of Ken Plain, replacement for the indomitable Pat Davis, whoretired in June; Utah Musical Theatre, which has West, presented a laudable also where thousands of copies of year. Severalsmallertheaters were Kurt, Courtney, the Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons family to expand and improve the facilities at Pioneer Memorial Theatre. Utah medical professionals found themselves in the spotlight, when the Oscar for best documentary zu over the Wasatch Front this Movies: mountain Theatre’s tender version of “I Do! I Do!” in July at the CEU's Geary Theatrein Price. Theaters to Watch Now That In a state thatis already rich with the number and scopeof theatrical productions, the opening of the $8 million Hale Centre Theatre was anotherstar in West Valley City’s crown. tion outof the country. yet to name a successor for the gifted Jim Christian, who re signed to pursueothertheater op- Acting Company's dreadful inter- portunities at Weber State University and elsewhere Andfinally Plays Guaranteed to Make Ev- that played Ogdenin April ery Year Conclude on a Life-Affirming Note: Tim Slover's won. derful new drama “Joyful Noise on tour by the seductresses in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” be covered up that premieredat Brigham Young with vests for the Kingsbury Hall cembergift from Pioneer Theatre hike. The Maturity Award: To Theatre League of Utah for betting that Utah audiences would respond with elation to “Rent” — Company. University; and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo,” the De- audiences or he would take a Dance: and theywereright Kage Molds The David Meets Goliath Award: To Grand Theatre executive director Pat Davis, who did not back down when Livent Inc., producers of the Osmond “‘Jo- Ballet West seph,” tried to get her to cancel @ Continued from D-1 the Grand’s production of “Joseph.’ pany also had a significant turnover. And both troupes turned out Shortest Tenure for anArtistic Director: Dennis Ferrin, who was giventhe title at Rodgers Memorial Theatre around Valentine's somesignificant performances. Also in the Year in Dance: was no longer needed Shortest Tenure for the Cha’ tle Role: Jessica Harston as Aurora Most Auspicious Debut in a Ti- Day, then told by Easter that he in Ballet West's “Sleeping Beauty.’ man of a Theater Department: Xan Johnson at the Universityof See next page player? Why not give your home stylish cabinetry to put them in? Our Concept 6 system has a placefor asta ete verything, from / to stereo speakers, and t's available in styles from asual to classic holidaysale 1998 ETHAN ALLEN begins Monday, (Xa Tii eles: al Salt Lake City | 4545 South 900 East | 801.262.2971 save up to 75%.on clothing; Daily 10am-6pm, Friday until 9pm Closed Sunday shoes and accessories CRTear cnn tie ito abe ndde abe. it saeial See 4Nad HU raa cae Inghest new balance on your Ethan Men Credit Cand Account aes each purchase. 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