Tuacahn

This year we went down to Tuacahn to see “My Fair Lady”.  We did the pre-show dinner because that’s become our tradition and watched the pre-show on the plaza.  They had constructed some pretty awesome sets for this production.  They made a large iron bridge that spanned the stage and was used for several things.  It was the columns for the Covent Garden scenes below, it was the vantage point to see the Ascot race, it held up the Higgins house set, and was just really cool.  They had horses do the race on the road in back of the stage and that was fun.  Great show.

This year we had an adventure at Tuacahn.  We went down to see “South Pacific” and there were some wildfires going on in Southern Utah.  We had a little bit of rain and there was some smoke but we didn’t think it was going to be too bad.  But the fire was in a nearby canyon and the smoke increased steadily during the pre-show dinner and pre-show on the plaza and we were getting a little concerned when we started seeing ash fall on us.  The show started but the smoke was getting worse and worse, and finally during the first act they called off the show because it was getting too dangerous and the actors couldn’t see very well.  That’s the first time we’ve gotten a rain check there.

We had a busy rest of the summer and couldn’t go again until early September and Mark ended up not being able to go with us.  We were all sad about that, but they gave us a gift card to use next year for the price of his ticket.  We found out it’s very pleasant weather at the end of the run.  Note to self.  The show was great and we loved it!

Here’s a photo of us leaving the hotel in St. George to drive out to Tuacahn.  We saw Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” which was really good and had wonderful sets and costumes.  We also saw “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” which was super fun.  It was set in St. George and started with the Narrator telling her one-room schoolhouse about the story of Joseph and the brothers were local farmers, the Ishmaelites were bikers, and Joseph gets sent to Egypt which is Las Vegas.  It was totally hilarious.  Potiphar was a casino owner, his wife was a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, and the Pharoah was Elvis, of course.  It was so fun!  When the brothers remember “Those Canaan Days”, they sat at an outdoor movie and watched a B&W of themselves.  So clever.  The whole show was great.

After enjoying two days there, we headed off to New Mexico to see where Scott is living when he’s not with us in Alpine.

We went down to Las Vegas to see Star Trek: the Experience and did some other fun stuff while we were there like, M&M’s World, the Secret Garden at the Mirage Hotel, and Brian braved the roller coaster at New York, New York.  We also had dinner one night at the Rainforest Cafe at the MGM Grand and saw the lions there.  Scott had to spend some of the time at the hotel working, so me and the boys wandered on our own some of the time.  (click on a photo to see them all larger)

On the way home from Vegas, we stopped off in St. George to see “The King and I” at Tuacahn and had a great time.  I love that venue!  While we were in Southern Utah we visited the Brigham Young  winter home, did some swimming at the hotel, went to Zion National Park, and visited the ghost town of Grafton where Scott’s ancestors settled.