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Five stars of the critically acclaimed musical television series NASHVILLE will perform in Park City this Saturday, August 23, 2014 in the unprecedented Nashville Cafe concert at Deer Valley Resort's Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater. BroadwayWorld was given the opportunity to speak with both Clare Bowen and Charles Esten about the upcoming concert, being a part of NASHVILLE, and how musical theatre has helped shaped their careers.

Two-time Tony Award winner (and six-time nominee) Sutton Foster is coming to Utah! Direct from her critically acclaimed turn in VIOLET on Broadway, she will be gracing the stage of Brigham Young University's de Jong Concert Hall as part of its BRAVO! professional performing arts series, on Friday and Saturday, September 5 and 6, 2014. For more information and to buy tickets, visit arts.byu.edu.

THE PRODUCERS at the Ziegfeld Theater in Ogden is a riotous laugh fest featuring performances that are absolutely top-notch. The production is far beyond what such a new community theatre has any right to achieve.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and five Tony Awards (including Best Play), will be staged from August 15 to 31, in a co-production by Utah Repertory Theater Company and Silver Summit Theatre. Director Mark Fossen shared with BroadwayWorld his passion for the play, this production, and the Utah theatre scene.

The first national tour of WICKED is back at the Capitol Theatre, and it is as crowd-pleasing as ever. Tickets are still available for every performance of the show in Salt Lake City, so whether you have never heard of it or have seen it many times before, you should jump on the opportunity to see it now.

MARY POPPINS at Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley offers up a spoonful of visual surprises that will delight audiences of all ages. With a spoonful of eye-candy sugar, even cod liver oil can taste like strawberry ice. And this production will more than satisfy anyone with a sweet tooth.

BroadwayWorld's top summer theater picks in the Salt Lake City area are 1. MARY POPPINS, 2. THE PRODUCERS, 3. A CHORUS LINE, 4: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, and 5. SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS.

The 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical MEMPHIS is currently playing a smoldering, soul-stirring run at the Capitol Theatre.

Pioneer Theatre Company's production of SWEET CHARITY is a zany, zingy concoction filled with life and all that comes with it.

Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley is currently presenting a solidly mounted production of the classic comedy ARSENIC AND OLD LACE that is sure to please fans and newcomers alike.

The national tour of WAR HORSE, currently playing the Capitol Theatre, is moving and at once epic and intimate. It is deeply theatrical in its simple, cerebral staging, but it is also spectacular in its groundbreaking puppeteering and its effective, restrained use of projections and lighting effects.

Pulitzer Prize nominee Craig Wright recently spoke with BroadwayWorld about his drama GRACE, which played on Broadway in 2012 and will have its Utah premiere this month. Utah Repertory Theater Company and Around the Globe Theatre will stage the co-production April 25-May 10 at the Sugar Space Theatre in Salt Lake City.

The BLUE MAN GROUP national tour, currently playing at Kingsbury Hall, melds spectacle and comedy into an evening that stimulates and satisfies the senses. By the end of the gloriously adrenaline-pumping sensory-overload of a finale, BLUE MAN GROUP defies you not to feel invigorated. Take a chance and see for yourself what the fuss is about. You'll discover much more than you imagined.

Pioneer Theatre Company's DEATHTRAP is well crafted all around, with superior direction, design, and performances. Director May Adrales has triumphed in creating a tightly wound ticking clock of a production that engages and satisfies.

The upcoming production at the SCERA Center for the Arts will be the final farewell performance of THE FARLEY FAMILY REUNION. After years and years of fun and laughter, and thousands of shows around the country, James Arrington has decided that this will be the very last time he'll perform the show. He has answered some questions from BroadwayWorld about the show and this farewell production.

The national tour of BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL, currently playing at the Capitol Theatre, is an infectiously joyful, high-flying celebration of friendship. Highly entertaining through and through, the show's Tony nomination for Best Musical last year is well deserved.

The new production of LES MISERABLES at Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley is a feast for the eyes, ears, and soul. It is the most unique (and among the best) of the productions of this show ever in Utah, and it offers enough beauty in every sense of the word for it to be well worth the time and ticket prices. It is implausible that a better LES MISERABLES will be presented here any time soon.

The delightful Rebecca Watson took the time out of her busy rehearsal schedule to speak with BroadwayWorld about her role as Beatrice in Pioneer Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, opening this weekend.

Pioneer Theatre Company's production of A FEW GOOD MEN boasts superb pacing and performances. PTC Artistic Director Karen Azenberg's adept direction, combined with stellar design work, moves the show along at a brisk pace and always directs the audience's attention to the focal point of what is happening on stage.

Utah Repertory Theater Company's production of BONNIE & CLYDE is the first time the musical has been seen in Utah and is one of the very first post-Broadway productions of the show. Utah Rep is to be applauded for taking the chance to introduce it to Utah audiences and for doing such a bang-up job.