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Strike up the band. Well, strike up the piano anyway.
The Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre has announced it is emerging from a yearlong COVID pandemic hiatus to perform four âintimateâ stage productions this summer.
Because of concerns about placing a large number of musicians in an orchestra pit and risking spread of coronavirus, the theater company this spring decided to forego the elaborate musicals it is best known for and move from Loganâs Eccles Theatre to the smaller Utah Theatre on Center Street.
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âYou know, when we first started planning all of this, things were a little different than they are now,â UFOMT Managing Director Gary Griffin said. âBack then masks were required and everything so we couldnât really use the orchestra. As a result, the shows that we decided to do are smaller shows more suited to a smaller theater like the Utah. Weâd be lost in the Eccles, but weâll be back there next year.â�
After canceling 2020’s performances due to the coronavirus, the Lyric Repertory Company used the past year to come up with a reimagined summer season and implement numerous changes to highlight
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