SCERA Shell's HAIRSPRAY is First Musical of Summer Season
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2017
The first emotion audiences will see in the award-winning musical "Hairspray" at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre is unabashed joy. Lovable plus size teen Tracy Turnblad begins the show with an enthusiastic love song to Baltimore as she dances and sings while wearing the signature mile-high bouffant hairdo sported by teen girls everywhere in 1962 America.
TAM's BARBER OF SEVILLE Reminds of Beaumarchais' Modernity
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Jul 24, 2016
The Theater at Monmouth's new production of Pierre de Beaumarchais' delightful, provocative 18th century comedy, The Barber of Seville, (in translation by Elizabeth Griffith) sparkles not only with saucy wit, but also with a striking modernity. The first play from the French master's Figaro trilogy is a comedy of manners about marriage with the underlying theme - embodied in the wily Figaro - of class conflict. And though the historical context is Enlightenment France, Rosine's quest for self-determination and love and Figaro's cheerfully impudent challenging of a hierarchical society ring with relevance.
Monmouth to Launch Classics in Context Scholar Dialogues
by Tyler Peterson - Jul 5, 2016
On Friday, July 8 and Friday, July 22 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. before the Opening Night performances of Love's Labour's Lost and Henry V, Theater at Monmouth will launch a new humanities-based initiative, Classics in Context. Classics in Context will offer audiences a guide to the season through the critical, historical, artistic, and cultural perspectives wound into the words of each individual play. Classics in Context is made possible by the generous support of the Maine Arts Commission and Maine Humanities Council.
Cut 'FOOTLOOSE' at SCERA Shell This Summer
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 1, 2016
It's summer and a great time to be footloose and fancy-free. Well, the audience must supply its own version of fancy free, but the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre can provide the footloose factor when one of the most explosive movie musicals of all time - "Footloose" - takes to the live stage July 1-16.
Cut 'FOOTLOOSE' at SCERA Shell This Summer
by BWW News Desk - Jun 23, 2016
It's summer and a great time to be footloose and fancy-free. Well, the audience must supply its own version of fancy free, but the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre can provide the footloose factor when one of the most explosive movie musicals of all time - "Footloose" - takes to the live stage July 1-16.
Stage Adaptation of SATURDAY'S WARRIOR Opens 4/15 at SCERA
by Tyler Peterson - Apr 4, 2016
When SCERA Center for the Arts presents 'Saturday's Warrior' as the final show of its indoor season, it will play homage to a musical that became a cultural phenomenon and changed the face of Mormon theatrical works more than 40 years ago.
THE SECRET GARDEN to Play SCERA, 3/20-28
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 13, 2015
Captivated by the music and compelled by the story, director Kathryn Little is delighted to take on the spellbinding musical drama 'The Secret Garden' as the culminating stage production for SCERA's national award-winning high school company, Acting Up.
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS Returns to SCERA Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Nov 21, 2014
For the third consecutive holiday season, SCERA is partnering with Liken to present 'The First Christmas,' the story of the nativity where a modern day family is wrapped around the Biblical tale of the birth of the Savior.
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS Returns to SCERA, 11/21-12/13
by Tyler Peterson - Nov 10, 2014
For the third consecutive holiday season, SCERA is partnering with Liken to present 'The First Christmas,' the story of the nativity where a modern day family is wrapped around the Biblical tale of the birth of the Savior.
Photo Flash: SCERA Presents Utah Valley Premiere of LES MISERABLES, 7/3-19
by Courtnie Mele - Jun 18, 2014
Jeremy Showgren might be a popular SCERA director and music director today, but his ties to SCERA and "Les Mis" go back 17 years ago when SCERA got permission to perform the concert version of the epic drama - it was Showgren's very first SCERA show and he played keyboard in the pit orchestra.
Photo Flash: SCERA's THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Apr 18, 2014
The Tony Award-winning musical comedy 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' is anything but drowsy with its energetic cast, charming script, lively music and a clever play-within-a-play approach that has been described as 'a love letter to musical theatre.' This nostalgic spoof of a 1920's song and dance extravaganza will play tonight, April 18 to May 10 at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Thursdays, Todays and Saturdays at the SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 South State, Orem. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Photo Flash: First Look at SCERA's THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
by BWW News Desk - Apr 10, 2014
The Tony Award-winning musical comedy 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' is anything but drowsy with its energetic cast, charming script, lively music and a clever play-within-a-play approach that has been described as 'a love letter to musical theatre.' This nostalgic spoof of a 1920's song and dance extravaganza will play April 18 to May 10 at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at the SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 South State, Orem. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
