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 isles as the main characters randomly sprinted across the stage, one in his underwear, being chased by a nurotic 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, 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, for the cast list]
To be performed in February of 2011, The Foreigner, a non-musical comedy, is set in a fishing lodge in rural Tilghman County, Georgia, two English men, Froggy and Charlie, arrive as guests. After pleadings from his sick wife, the shy Charlie agreed to accompany Froggy on the trip. When people at the lodge try to talk to Charlie, he cannot find words due to his terrible shyness. Froggy then claims that Charlie cannot talk because he is from an exotic country and does not understand English. Due to his supposed lack of ability to understand English, Charlie soon discovers scandals amongst some of the residents of the lodge.