We traveled to St. George during a little heat wave that made it quite hot in Southern Utah, but had a great time anyway. We took Mark and his girlfriend, Lauren, and saw both shows. “Aladdin” was awesome and had lots of surprises with a revised script from the movie version and lots of bells and whistles. They had lots of live animals, a flying carpet, great dancers and singers, flames and explosions, and 3D glasses for the audience. We really enjoyed the show and the Genie was amazing. The next night was “Hairspray” and it was also totally awesome. The actors were great and there were some fun stagings. The choreography for “I Can Hear the Bells” was simply hilarious and all the dancing was high-energy and fun. I couldn’t sit still in my seat during some of the songs and just had to tap my feet and shake my shoulders.
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Tuacahn 2011
We made a quick trip down to Broadway in the Desert this year with Mark. We left at noon on Friday, saw the show Friday night, and drove home Saturday after a little shopping in the St. George outlet stores. We went to see the regional premiere of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and it was GREAT! The theater installed a water curtain for the show and all the underwater scenes utilized the curtain, they flooded the stage, there was lots of aerial work done in the underwater scenes to give the illusion of swimming, and it was all really cool. The costumes were really awesome and the wheelie shoes for the sea people made them glide along the stage. The talent was excellent, as always, and we saw some familiar faces; overall, it was a great production. We took Mark on the backstage tour before the show because the last time we went with Brian, Mark was on his mission. It’s fun to see the costumes and sets behind the theater. We also learned that the tunnel underneath the stage was expanded this year to go forward to the front edge of the stage and two trap doors were installed so that Ariel and others could come up right in the front and people could disappear down. Those were cool effects.
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I haven’t been very good at tagging in the past, but I went through old posts and tagged each year’s Tuacahn post so now we can see all our adventures in one search! Whoopee!
Tuacahn 2010
We made our annual summer pilgrimage to Broadway in the Desert last weekend and had a great time! The Tuacahn shows in St. George this year are “Cats” and the regional premiere of “Tarzan, the Musical”. This was the first time we had seen “Cats” and the dancing was really amazing. Some of the leads were fantastic. “Tarzan” was awesome. They had really stunning aerial work going on in almost every scene, the leads were great and it was really fun. Great quick vacation.
Tuacahn 2009
This year’s trip to Tuacahn involved Scott, Sue, and Brian and we saw Disney’s “Aida” which was really wonderful. They flooded the stage for the Nile scene and the costumes were really great. There was lots of great singing and dancing, as always. This was a quick trip, just down and back. Alas, I forgot to take photos!
Tuacahn 2008
We headed down to Tuacahn this year to see both shows and without Mark because he’s on his mission in Texas. This year we saw “Les Miserables” and “The Sound of Music”, both of which were good. “Les Mis” was wonderful, spectacular, and had great singing and acting. “Sound” was also very good and gave the lead actor a real change playing calm Captain von Trapp after emotional Jean Valjean-quite a repertory performance. We had the pre-show dinner both nights and watched the show on the plaza. This year we went on the backstage tour before the show and that was really fun, especially for Brian. I got a really cool shot of Brian on the stage without him knowing it and he looks pensive. Thinking about his future in musical theater??
During the day between shows, we went to the Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum which had really interesting dioramas and lots of dead animals. We did the audio tour and learned tons about the different habitats.
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