The 2024 season of the new Tri-Theatre Alliance will kick off on Friday, Feb. 23 with the premiere of ‘Catch Me If You Can’ by Music Theatre West at the Utah Theatre. Pictured here are Zack Grob as the show’s juvenile con-man, surrounded by a bevy of his airline hostess conquests. ‘Catch Me If You Can’ will run through Saturday, Mar. 9.
LOGAN – Local performing arts groups are joining forces to put the “community” back into Cache Valley’s community theater scene.
Rather than competing, according to Celeste Baillio, the managing director of Music Theatre West, the theater groups will now cooperate and support each other.
Baillio made the announcement of the newly formed Tri-Theatre Alliance during a Feb. 15 broadcast of “For the People” on KVNU. That alliance will now combine the artistic and production efforts of the Cache Theatre Company, the Four Seasons Theatre Company and Music Theatre West.
The idea, she explained, is for those groups to share resources, talents and marketing efforts while providing a year-round schedule of entertainment for Cache Valley audiences.
Years ago, the Cache Theatre Company was the area’s only community performing arts company and that troupe only scheduled one production a year. Gradually people with more ambitious artistic dreams branched off to form the Four Seasons Theatre Company and Musical Theatre West.
Now, those groups are reuniting to bring local audiences what Baillio said will be an “incredible 2024 season of entertainment,” including previously announced productions and some new attractions.
The Tri-Theatre Alliance 2024 line-up will begin with Catch Me If You Can by Music Theatre West, debuting at the Utah Theatre on Friday, Feb. 23. That musical is scheduled to run through Saturday, Mar. 9.
Next up will be the recent musical Anastasia, being performed by the Four Seasons Theatre at Sky View High School in Smithfield. That show will run from Wednesday, April 3 to Saturday, April 13.
The next production in the Tri-Theatre Alliance’s schedule will be the newly announced Daddy Long Legs by the Cache Theatre Company.
Local film fans will recall the 1955 movie of the same name starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, with music by Johnny Mercer. But this musical by composer Paul Gordon is based on the original 1912 novel about an orphan and her mysterious benefactor.
Daddy Long Legs is slated to run from Friday, May 31 to Saturday, June 8 at Lionheart Hall.
Also in June, The Four Seasons Theatre Company will present the Disney musical Tarzan, running from Thursday, June 20 to Saturday, June 29 at Sky View High School in Smithfield.
All three local troupes will be dark during the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre’s season in July. But Music Theatre West and the Cache Theatre Company will keep busy conducting theatre camps for children, with productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Junior to give young actors and actresses a chance to strut their stuff.
After that hiatus, the Tri-Theatre Alliance schedule will resume with an unusual non-musical production of The 39 Steps by the Four Seasons Theatre Company. The famous movie by Alfred Hitchcock will be transformed into a comedy in which a handful of performers play literally hundreds of roles.
The 39 Steps will run from Thursday, Aug. 1 to Saturday, Aug. 10 at Sky View High School in Smithfield.
In mid-September, the Cache Theatre Company and Music Theatre West will combine to stage the newly announced Something Rotten! The hilarious musical farce lampooning William Shakespeare will be performed Friday, Sept. 13 to Saturday, Sept. 21 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.
In October, the Four Season Company will try its hand at a musical that’s been done-to-death but is always fun – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. That show will be staged at Sky View High School in Smithfield from Friday, Oct. 4 to Saturday, Oct. 12.
Finally, the Tri-Theatre Alliance schedule will climax for 2024 with the Four Seasons Theatre Company’s semi-annual production of A Christmas Carol. That production will run from Thursday, Dec. 5 to Saturday, Dec. 14, also at Sky View High School in Smithfield.
Sky View High School is located at 520 South, 250 East in Smithfield.
Lionheart Hall is located at 480 North, 100 East in Logan.
The Utah Theatre is located at 18 West Center Street and the Ellen Eccles Theatre is located at 43 South Main Street, both in Logan’s downtown theater district.