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Welcome
Salt Lake City and Cache Valley!
Maestro
Arts & Reviews Expands to Utah
Maestro
Arts and Reviews is pleased to announce the launching the Salt
Lake City/Cache Valley Edition of their publication. Keep checking back as
we publish articles and reviews about local theater,
opera, dance and more.
Recent
Interviews
Daniel
Henning - Founder of Young Playwrights Festival
Ian
Kitz - Actor/Producer: The Playground
Jesper
Andreasson - Lead Singer, Guitarist from CITRUS
Matt
Kapuchinski - Composer/Musician, COOL DRY PLACE
Rain
Pryor - Fried Chicken and Latkes
Kristen
Vangsness - The Learned Ladies
A
Decade of Quality from the Utah Festival Opera
The successful operatic career of Michael Ballam came to an unexpected detour when an unknown illness claimed his voice. In order to heal, Ballam returned home from Europe. The results of his extended stay in Logan, Utah were exponential.
Read entire article.
Forty
years of dance with Ririe-Woodbury
Maestro
Arts & Reviews is pleased to profile a dynamic dance company
in the Salt Lake City area. Before founding Ririe-Woodbury Dance
Company in 1964, Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury helped create
Choreodancers, a company of professional dance performers and
teachers. After the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company name became
permanent, the company choreographed and performed in Utah and
throughout Arizona, California and Colorado. Read
entire article.
The
Utah Symphony brings the classics to Salt Lake City
Maestro
Arts & Reviews is please to profile the Utah Symphony. Founded
in 1940, the Utah Symphony has become a vital presence on the
American music scene through its distinctive performances
worldwide and its well-known recording legacy. The
orchestra became recognized as a leading ensemble largely
through the efforts of Maurice Abravanel, its Music Director
from 1947 to 1979. Under his direction, the orchestra made
its first recordings of works by Varese, Milhaud, Gottschalk,
Honegger and Satie, as well as the first complete cycle of
Mahler Symphonies. Read entire
article.
 Fans
of Wicked Can Now Go Backstage
"Behind
the Emerald Curtain," billed as "an exclusive
behind-the-scenes journey through Wicked," will be
available to Wicked fans in the near future.
A spokesperson for Wicked
told Playbill.com that the New York City tours will be an
ongoing event and will begin at a date to be announced shortly. Read
More
Wicked
and Frog and Toad Stars Complete Cast of Musical Miracle
Brothers
 Jay
Goede, William Youmans, Clifton Oliver, Nicole Leach and Gregory
Treco join the previously announced Off-Broadway cast of the
world premiere Kirsten Childs musical, Miracle Brothers. Read
More
RENT
FILM TO HIT MOVIE THEATERS IN NOVEMBER 2005. Directed
by Chris Columbus, Revolution Studios' "Rent," based
on the Tony and Pulitizer Prize-winning Jonathan Larson musical
of the same name, will be released by Sony/Columbia Pictures Nov. 11,
2005. Read More. Watch
Trailer.
Tony
Award Winners!
The
2004-2005 Tony Awards were held on June 6, 2005. Among the many
winners are: Monty Pythons Spamalot, The Light in the Piazza,
Doubt, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Read
entire list.
'Peter
Pan' To Fly Back to Broadway in Fall; Rigby Says Farewell to the
Role
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Cathy
Rigby's farewell appearance in the musical Peter Pan is
expected to be seen on Broadway in late 2005, producer Tom McCoy told
Playbill On-Line. Currently flying high in a touring revival that
coincides with the 100 anniversary of the creation of J.M. Barrie's
boy who wouldn't grow up, former Olympic champion Rigby is expected
cap off the tour with a limited Broadway engagement between
Thanksgiving 2005 and January 2006. Read
more.
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Elton
John to Compose Music for "Billy Elliot" the Musical The
makers of the surprise British hit movie Billy
Elliot have announced
plans to present a stage version titled Billy
Elliot: The Musical in
London's West End next March. Today's (Wednesday) Guardian
newspaper said that the
production, with music to be written by Elton John, will have a
budget of $11 million, twice what it cost to produce the film.
It will mark the entry of the film company Working Title into
stage productions. Like the film, the stage production will be
directed by Stephen Daldry, written by Lee Hall, and
choreographed by Peter Darling. Working Title Co-chairmen Eric
Fellner and Tim Bevan will produce. No decision has been made
about who will play the lead.
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