Show Length: Approx. 30 minutes
CAST
Trisha Baker, Angie Chatelain, JD Dumas, Heidi Evans, Ashley Grant, Jessica Giauque, Chad Gneiting, Jeff Parsons, Shantel Bingham (swing performer), Gary Brotherson (swing performer)
Production Manager: Brittani Brown Artistic Director: Ken Plain
Guest Choreographer: Jim Christian
Scenery Designer: Chad Davis
NOTES
Here's part of a review written by Ivan M. Lincoln and published in the Deseret News:
"Five men and five women, all very talented, race at break-neck speed through a solidly entertaining salute to the golden age of Hollywood, along with snippets from Broadway musicals that made the transition to the silver screen.
One major element that ties this entire revue together is guest choreographer Jim Christian's snappy routines, from the sophisticated elegance of Rogers and Astaire to the whimsy of Mary Poppins to the patriotic tempos of men marching off to war in the 1940s (with women boogieing in the stateside canteens).
It's pretty amazing to see how production manager Brittani Brown and artistic director Ken Plain's creative staff managed to pack 30 tunes into 30 minutes. With a scaled down version of the famous 'HOLLYWOOD' sign overhead, the cast moves through a quick succession of one great song after another.
Ashley Grant, Angie Chatelain and Jessica Giauque get the revue off to a sizzling start with a medley of James Bond themes, and by the time the big salute to the military rolls around, the 10-member cast has been through at least 15 different costume changes.
Some highlights include Jeff Parsons and Chad Gneiting tapping their way through Moses Supposes (from Singin' in the Rain) . . . Gneiting as Tevye in a medley from Fiddler on the Roof . . . J.D. Dumas in an abbreviated version of The Impossible Dream . . . and Giauque, Heidi Evans and Trisha Baker in a medley of Barbra Streisand hits.
A 'Stage-to-Screen' segment delivers quick tributes to Oklahoma, The King and I and Grease, among others.
(The cast also includes two 'swing' performers — Shantel Bingham and Gary Brotherson — who rotate in and out of the show almost daily, allowing others to take a day off.)
The costuming is terrific, and scenery designer Chad Davis has given the amphitheater stage a classic black and white look reminiscent of Hollywood during the 1940s and early '50s."
SET LIST
Hooray For Hollywood (from Hollywood Hotel)
Goldfinger (from Goldfinger)
Moses (from Singin' In The Rain)
The Way We Were (from The Way We Were)
People (from Funny Girl)
Don't Rain On My Parade (from Funny Girl)
A Spoonful Of Sugar (from Mary Poppins)
Jolly Holiday (from Mary Poppins)
Chim Chim Cheree (from Mary Poppins)
Step In Time (from Mary Poppins)
Over The Rainbow (from The Wizard Of Oz)
Oklahoma (from Oklahoma!)
Shall We Dance? (from The King And I)
I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady)
If I Were A Rich Man (from Fiddler On The Roof)
Tradition (from Fiddler On The Roof)
Liberty Magazine
Summer Nights (from Grease)
We Go Together (from Grease)
The Impossible Dream (from Man Of La Mancha)
WORLD WAR II MEDLEY
-Shoo Shoo Baby
-What Do You Do In The Infantry?
-God Bless America
-Honey Bun (from South Pacific)
And All That Jazz (from Chicago)
Hooray For Hollywood (reprise)
PHOTOS
Photo: Mike PitcherDancers perform Step In Time from the movie, Mary Poppins.
Photos: Mike Pitcher More scenes of the Mary Poppins sequence.
