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Show Summer Festival To Give Story of Mormon Pioneers The story of the fulfillment of a dream of a new state will be unfolded with musical pageantry pageant-ry In the University of Utah stadium bowl beginning July 4 with the Summer Festival production pro-duction of "Promised Valley". Featuring a brilliant spectacle of colorful costuming and special spe-cial scenery, the musical extravaganza extra-vaganza will be presented by a cast of over 100 dancers, singers and actors. Presented as a University of Utah Centennial feature, "Promised Valley" will be performed at 8:15 p. m. nightly night-ly on July 4 to 8 inclusive, and again on July 21, 22 and 24. Weaving the story of the Mormon Mor-mon pioneer trek across the middle mid-dle western plains to the Salt Lake valley will be the show's stars, Norman Scott, basso with the New York Opera company, and Dorothy Kimball Kedding-ton, Kedding-ton, Salt Lake City soprano, accompanied ac-companied by a supporting cast of singing and dancing talent of the intermountain west Drama director of the musical play will be C. Lowell Lees, head of the University department of speech. Maurice Abravanel, conductor con-ductor of the Utah State Symphony Sym-phony orchestra, with be musical musi-cal director, and William Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, director of the San Francisco Fran-cisco ballet, will be in charge of choreography. Written by Arnold Sundgaard, with music composed by Crawford Craw-ford Gates, the play was given its premiere performance three years ago in stadium bowl during dur-ing the Utah Centennial celebration. cele-bration. Originally composed as a tribute to the people of the state of Utah, the show depict the life of the pioneers in the early stages of the settlement of the new territory. Since its first performance, "Promised Valley" Val-ley" has received national acclaim ac-claim for its dramatic and musical musi-cal qualities. Gounod's opera "Faust", will be the second Summer Festival production for 1950. Starring Mr. Scott as Mephistopheles, the opera op-era will feature nationally well known young stars of the operatic opera-tic theater such as Jon Crain, concert tnd operatic tenor; Dorothy Dor-othy Sarnoff, soprano with the New York Opera company, and Theodor Uppman, young baritone bari-tone star of the concert stage and radio. There will be four performances of "Faust" beginning begin-ning at 8:15 p. m. on July 14, 15. 17 and 18. Tickets for both productions may be obtained by writing or calling at the Summer Festival box office, Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah. |