From auditions to opening night, bringing a musical to life is full of drama and comedy — and the actors, musicians, dancers, and backstage crews at Canyons’ traditional high schools have spent months rehearsing, building sets, staging scenes, and designing costumes in preparation for performances of their upcoming productions.
Step up to the box office for tickets, find your seats, and get ready for some of the best student theater performances in Utah. The curtain is set to rise on the fall productions at Alta, Brighton, Corner Canyon, Hillcrest and Jordan high schools.
Alta High School’s theater department will present Irving Berlin’s holiday classic, “White Christmas.” The show will be Nov. 18-21 and Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. in Alta’s Performing Arts Center, 11033 S. 1000 East.
The Hawks will transport audiences back to World War II where Bob Wallace and Phil Davis served under General Henry Waverley. Fast forward 10 years, Wallace and Davis are Broadway stars who follow two singing sisters to a seasonal engagement at The Columbia Inn. They discover General Waverley owns the Vermont Inn which is struggling to stay open. The cast schemes to honor the general while helping to make the inn a successful getaway.
Tickets can be purchased at this link.
The Brighton theater department is in rehearsals for “Newsies,” which is based on a 1899 strike of newsboys. Brighton’s show will be Dec. 3-5 at 7 p.m. And extra matinee performance will be at 2 p.m. on Dec 5 in the auditorium at Brighton High, 2220 E. Bengal Blvd.
The musical focuses on a group of newsboys who report on local strikes, only to wind up the headlines themselves. The newsies go up against the New York World’s publisher, Joseph Pulitzer. The unwitting leader of the newsies’ union, Jack Kelly, works with reporter Katherine Plumber, who seeks to tell their story.
Tickets can be purchased at this link.
Corner Canyon Chargers will sparkle in their production of Disney’s “Frozen.” Snow will fall at Corner Canyon, 12943 S. 700 East, on Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 16-17 at 7 p.m. with a 1 p.m. matinee on Nov. 15.
In the peaceful mountain kingdom of Arendelle, Princesses Elsa and Anna grow up isolated as Elsa grapples with powers she doesn’t understand. When Elsa is crowned queen, her powers are revealed and she flees into the snowy mountains where Anna follows to bring her back and thaw Arendelle.
Tickets can be purchased at this link.
Hillcrest’s theater department is performing “Something Rotten!” The show runs Nov. 19-21 and Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Hillcrest, 7350 S. 900 East.
Playwright William Shakespeare is portrayed as a Harry Styles-esque rock star who is constantly competing with his rival playwrights. In the process, they “invent” musical theater.
Tickets can be purchased at this link.
This season, Jordan High will stage “The Pirates of Penzance.” The Beetdiggers’ version of this venerable Broadway classic will be Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Jordan auditorium, 95 Beetdigger Blvd.
In the show, Frederic is mistakenly apprenticed to a pirate, instead of a pilot, and while he cares for his fellow pirates, he sets out to eradicate the profession. During his travels, he encounters the eccentric Major General and his beautiful daughters, and, naturally, becomes besotted with the enchanting Mabel.
