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Tuacahn
The Tuacahn Center for the Arts is an arts organization located at the mouth of the Padre Canyon, adjacent to Snow Canyon State Park, in Ivins, Utah. The facility was completed in 1995 and includes a 1,920-seat outdoor amphitheater, a 328-seat indoor theater, a black box theater, a dance studio, a costume shop, a scene shop, and the campus of Tuacahn High School for the Arts. The Tuacahn Center for the Arts contributes to the arts by producing two or three performances on its amphitheater stage, and offers the region a spring and fall concert series, and produces the annual Christmas in the Canyon featuring a live-action recreation of the nativity called the "Festival of Lights." History Tuacahn was founded in 1995 by playwright Douglas C. Stewart. Partnering with philanthropist, and creator of the Franklin Planner, Hyrum W. Smith, he planned to create a space to tell the stories of Utah's ancient inhabitants and pioneer settlers. The two, using a plot of 80 acres previously o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuacahn High School For The Arts
Tuacahn High School for the Arts was the first public charter high school in the state of Utah, United States. Tuacahn High School for the Arts is now permanently closed. It was located in Ivins, just outside St. George. The school offers a full college preparatory curriculum while focusing in-depth on the various areas of the performing arts. Students attending the school choose a studio with which to align their studies: Performance Studio, Music Studio, Media Arts Studio, and Visual Arts Studio. Tuacahn High School students produced numerous music and dance concerts each year as well as plays and musicals in the Orval and Ruth Hafen Theatre (380 seats). Because Tuacahn High School was directly connected to the Tuacahn Center for the Arts The Tuacahn Center for the Arts is an arts organization located at the mouth of the Padre Canyon, adjacent to Snow Canyon State Park, in Ivins, Utah. The facility was completed in 1995 and includes a 1,920-seat outdoor amphitheater, a 328-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivins, Utah
Ivins ( ) is a city in southwestern Washington County, Utah, United States. It is a part of the St. George Metropolitan Area as a suburb or "bedroom" community. The population was 8,978 at the 2020 census, up from 6,753 at the 2010 census.https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/ivinscityutah/PST045218 Although Ivins was listed as a town in the 2000 census, it became a city in 1998. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (0.68%) is water. Ivins is near Tuacahn (an outdoor arts and amphitheater) and Snow Canyon State Park, which draw many people to the area. There are many new planned developments (some with golf courses) near or in Ivins, joining the earlier Kayenta and Padre Canyon developments. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Ivins has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 4,450 people, 1,43 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padre Canyon
Padre Canyon is adjacent to Snow Canyon State Park and Red Mountain in Ivins, Utah, and features a three sided canyon and scenic sentinels carved from the red Navajo Sandstone. Padre Canyon is part of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, a 62,000 acre protected area that contains three distinct ecosystems: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin. Geological features of the canyon include Padre Rock, the Padre Arch, pillared rock formations and sand dunes. About Padre Canyon is in southwest Utah, roughly 50 miles west of Zion National Park with a valley elevation of 3,100 feet above sea level. Padre Canyon is a three sided canyon oriented north to south. To the east is steep sloping hillside that gradually merges upward into vertical Kayenta and Navajo Sandstone cliffs at 4,000 feet elevation. The east side of the canyon descends southward to 3,500 feet and abruptly terminates in the North Black Rocks lava field. The north end of the canyon is a saddle with a trail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Of Rock (musical)
''School of Rock'' is a rock musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes. Based on the 2003 film of the same name, written by Mike White, the musical follows Dewey Finn, an out-of-work rock singer and guitarist who pretends to be a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. After identifying the musical talent in his students, Dewey forms a band of fifth-graders, in an attempt to win the upcoming Battle of the Bands contest. The musical was announced in December 2014 and opened just under a year later on December 6, 2015. Before ''School of Rock''s debut, staged concerts were held at the Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan in June 2015. It made its Broadway debut and world premiere at the Winter Garden Theatre on December 6, 2015, following previews that began on November 9, 2015, with direction by Laurence Connor and choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, and starring Alex Brightman and Sierra Boggess as Dewey Finn and Rosalie M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Count Of Monte Cristo (musical)
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' is a musical based on the famed 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, with influences from the 2002 film adaptation of the book. The music is written by Frank Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Jack Murphy. Development The musical had a New York City workshop in November 2008, starring Brandi Burkhardt, James Barbour, Natalie Toro, Gregg Edelmann and several others from the Broadway production of ''A Tale of Two Cities'', and many known Wildhorn favorites. After the workshop, concept recording was released on December 12, 2008. It starred several European theatrical superstars and the recording went platinum. The show premiered (in German as ''Der Graf von Monte Christo'') on March 14, 2009, in the Theater St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. The production was directed by Andreas Gergen, with Thomas Borchert starring as The Count. The role of Mercédès was played by Sophie Berner. On April 21, 2010, the first licensed interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Bestor
Kurt Bestor (born 1958) is an American keyboardist and composer specializing in new-age, film scores, and jazz. He is known for his instrumental Christmas arrangements. His best-known songs are "Prayer of the Children", "Mama Don't You Weep". He is also known for composing music for the 1993 movie ''Rigoletto'', and for writing music for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic games, as well as various official the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints videos. A longtime Utah resident, Bestor plays concerts in Salt Lake City and the Western states. Childhood years Kurt Bestor was born in 1958 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He took piano lessons from his mother as a child. His grandpa played the trumpet in Western Big bands and his uncle played with the trumpet in Jack Benny's band. Later on Kurt Bestor and his family moved to Orem, Utah in 1966, where he attended Orem High School and learned how to play the trumpet. When Bestor watched the 1975 film ''Jaws'', he later recalled "I knew that's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Cardon
Sam Cardon is a composer whose credits include 15 large-format films: ''Titans Of The Ice Age'', ''Mummies'', ''Mystic India'', ''Texas'', ''The Big Picture'', ''Forces Of Nature'', ''Lewis and Clark'', ''The Legendary Journeys'', ''Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure'', ''Mysteries of Egypt'', ''Olympic Glory'', ''Whales'', ''Building the Dream'' at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California; ''Treasure of the Gods'' at Zion National Park, ''Utah'' and ''The Secret of San Francisco'' at Pier 39. In addition, he has written or co-written the themes for ''National Geographic Explorer'', ABC ''Sunday Night at the Movies'', ''Good Morning America'', and provided three hours of original music for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, and music for the 2002 Winter Olympic game Closing Ceremonies at Salt Lake City. He has also written music for over 40 independent films: ''My Girlfriend's Boyfriend'', ''Highway To Dhampus'', ''The Velveteen Rabbit'', ''Little Secrets'', ''Beau Jest'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Hamblin
Jacob Hamblin (April 2, 1819 – August 31, 1886) was a Western pioneer, a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a diplomat to various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin. He aided European-American settlement of large areas of southern Utah and northern Arizona, where he was seen as an honest broker between Latter-day Saint settlers and the Natives. He is sometimes referred to as the "Buckskin Apostle," or the "Apostle to the Lamanites." In 1958, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Early life and family Hamblin was born in Salem, Ohio, to a family of farmers. He grew up learning farming. He was baptized a member of Church of Christ on March 3, 1842, at the age of 22. Hamblin and his first wife, Lucinda, had four children. When Hamblin proposed moving west with the Latter Day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley, Lucinda refused to go. In February 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also worked to establish the learning institutions which would later become the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. A Polygamy and the Latter Day Saint movement, polygamist, Young had at least 56 wives and 57 children. He Black people and Mormon priesthood, instituted a ban prohibiting conferring the Black people and early Mormonism, priesthood on men of black African descent, and led the church in the Utah War against the United States Armed Forces, United States. Early life Young was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Clara, Utah
Santa Clara is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States and is a part of the St. George Metropolitan Area. The population was 7,553 at the 2020 census, up from 6,003 at the 2010 census, and 4,630 at the 2000 census. The city is a western suburb of St. George. History In 1854, Jacob Hamblin was called by Brigham Young to serve a mission to the southern Paiute and settled at Santa Clara in the vicinity of the modern city of St. George, Utah. The town is among the oldest in the area. The first settlers built Fort Clara or Fort Santa Clara, in the winter of 1855–1856. In the fall of 1861, Swiss Mormon colonists arrived at the new settlement. Shortly afterward, in early 1862, they were victims of a severe flood in the Santa Clara River that destroyed the fort and most other buildings, along with irrigation dams and ditches. This event was part of the Great Flood of 1862. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from 600 BC to AD 421 and during an interlude dated by the text to the unspecified time of the Tower of Babel. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as ''The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi''. The Book of Mormon is one of four standard works of the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the movement's earliest unique writings. The denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement typically regard the text primarily as scripture and secondarily as a record of God's dealings with ancient inhabitants of the Americas. The majority of Latter Day Saints believe the book to be a record of real-world history, with Latter Day Saint denominations viewing it variously as an inspired record of scripture to the lynchpin or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher party, Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train. The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, Utah, Mountain Meadows, and was perpetrated by the Mormon settlers belonging to the Utah Territorial Militia (officially called the Nauvoo Legion) who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute people, Southern Paiute Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans. The wagon train, made up mostly of families from Arkansas, was bound for California, traveling on the Old Spanish Trail (trade route), Old Spanish Trail that passed through the Territory. After arriving in Salt Lake City, the Baker–Fancher party made their way south along the Mormon Road, eventually stopping to rest at Mountain Meadows. As the party was traveling west there were rumors about the party's beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
