Performances are at the Hurricane Fine Arts Center, 92 S. “Aida” runs every Monday, Friday and Saturday from Oct. He also mentioned the possibility of using the technology to attract other performing arts events to Hurricane, including dance groups and concerts. Both will be Southern Utah debuts.Īccording to the press release, Clark Fawcett, the Hurricane city manager, hopes the new technology will help HVTC expand to do more than two shows per year. In 2017, HVTC is next producing “Catch Me If You Can,” a musical based on the film starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, and “Ghost,” a musical based on the film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. “I’m enjoying every minute of it,” Steglich says. And he says Kyle Myrick, the director, is putting together “a tremendous show.” The actor says he has nothing but praise for the HVTC cast involved in “Aida,” especially Morgan and Sammy Myrick, who plays Amneris. Then she heard the music and then it was love. Her brother had seen it in New York and his description of it and the photos in the program were enough to pique her interest. Morgan says she fell in love with the musical years ago before she had even seen it. “Aida” will be HVTC’s first opportunity to show off the new technology when it opens Oct. “Our production value is going to better than ever, so the audiences are hopefully going to be so wrapped up in the performances on stage that they will no longer be distracted by technical shortcomings.” “We always have the best quality shows from the actors, but now we have the technology on our side that we have not had before,” Myrick said in the press release. But DSU needed to reclaimed the dimmers so HVTC used RAP Tax funds to not only purchase their own dimmers, but also additional lighting capable of more colors and special effects as well as the ability to create mood lighting or to isolate an individual actor on the stage. In recent years, HVTC had used dimmers donated by Dixie State University with its lighting system. “Obviously, we’re still community theater, but we have a lot of new upgrades that make it seem less like community theater.” “It makes it sound a lot better,” says McKenzie Morgan, who is playing the title role of the Nubian princess Aida in the musical. ![]() The company even has new microphones to enhance the experience for the audience. ![]() Additionally, the new soundboard gives HVTC more capabilities for balancing the sound throughout the theater. The new box office will provide for a more efficient ticketing experience while the sound booth’s location where the theater’s back five rows once stood places the sound designers in a better spot for creating “the most magical experience” for the audience, according to the press release. “Compared to what we have been working with, this is the equivalent of stepping off a horse-drawn carriage and into a Lamborghini,” he said in the release. Kyle Myrick, HVTC founder and artistic director, raved about the new technology in a press release. Thanks to the RAP Tax funds, the center now has a new lighting system, a new soundboard and sound booth, and a larger box office.
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