Arts Council Theater Company
The Juab Fine Arts Council (JFAC) is pleased to bring the newly-formed theater company under our umbrella. We have hoped for an active theater arm for years, and we are ecstatic to bring a greater theatrical performing and/or attendance opportunity to our community through the hard work and persistence of the county's talent pool. The Arts Council Theater Company is directed by Rock White, Alicen Allred, Lori Christensen, and Kristin Back.
In the fall of 2008, the group performed Steel Magnolias to rave reviews from small but enthusiastic audiences in the High School's Little Theater.
Our second production, the musical ANNIE, ran for five performances at the end of February (2009), including two matinees for the Nebo View, Red Cliffs, and Mona Elementary School children.
Jack and the Beanstalk, our third production and first Children's Theater performance, ran for three nights during the first week of June, as part of the 2009 Art in the Park weekend.
Quilters, based on true stories of pioneer women, was performed the week of August 10th, 2009, during the County Fair.
The English comedy, See How They Run, our first performance of the 2010 season, left the audience rolling in the aisles as the main characters randomly sprinted across the stage, one in his underwear, being chased by a neurotic Russian spy. [click on the picture, below, to see a slideshow]
The Sound of Music brought several firsts for the JFAC Theater Company--the largest cast, to date (We had so many audition, with extraordinary talent, that we decided to split the cast and have a Cast A, with Rachel Goates and a Cast B, with Kristin Back, as Maria), and the most ever attending (a total of 1,300 came to see the production, including just over 500 from the three local elementary schools that saw our first dress rehearsal). [click on either of the pictures, below, to see a slideshow]
Our first annual Youth Theater Summer Camp, "Kids Act Up", performed an original musical script by the ever-talented Kristin Christensen called Once Upon a Time: The True Story as Told by Actual Witnesses. [click on the picture, below, to see a slideshow of the performance]
Touted as a Broadway Musical Review of Womanhood, A Womans' Garden was a first of its kind for the JFAC Theater Company, written and directed by our own Alicen Allred and her sister, Heidi Cook, who came down from Idaho to help perform this powerfully moving story of modern-day woman.
The JFAC couldn't have been more pleased with the quality of our recent Nutcracker production and the tremendous turnout of over 1,700 over the five performance dates (our largest audiences, to date)! (A huge thanks to all the mothers of our 80+ cast, made up mostly of children ages 3 to 16, who pitched in and spent countless hours to help make costumes and especially work with the children behind stage during the numerous rehearsals and the actual productions. You're the best!!)
The Foreigner, our first production of 2011, a non-musical English comedy, gave audiences a night of constant laughter as two Englishmen were inserted into the backwoods antics of a remote Georgia town.
Our next production, Suessical, The Musical, a musical rendition of many of Dr. Suess's children's stories, will be performed in conjunction with 2011 Art in the Park the first weekend of June.
(All pictures by Sonya DeMille, Memories Video)