Speaking Of UTAH!!!!!!!!!

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 7/6/12 at 4:10pm

We are thinking of buying a house in Salt Lake City...I am hoping some Broadway Touring Plays will come there.

any thoughts about Salt Lake City....only three hours to Manhattan by plane...

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/6/12 at 8:58pm

Why would you want to spend money in that hateful (though physically beautiful) state?

California or Washington have lovely areas, if you like mountains and skiing.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 7/6/12 at 10:38pm

I have lived in Cailf, Oregon and Washington...It is time to move on...Something about the Mountains in Salt Lake City made me weep. and there is the Sundance Film Festival...but most of the homes are very reasonable.
I also can visit Manhattan twice a year now...three hour plane ride.

I don't know much about the arts in Salt Lake...But I think they have a wonderful ballet company

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/7/12 at 2:52pm

The Pioneer Theatre Company is also located in St. Lake City and has a fairly good reputation amongst the regional theaters.

You also have the Utah Shakespeare Festival about a four hour drive from SLC, which makes for a nice overnight/weekend trip.

I was just in Utah (Provo and Salt Lake City) back in May and it is indeed a very lovely area.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/7/12 at 3:04pm

I visited once and couldn't wait to get out of there.

Yes, physically the area is beautiful, but the people living there are like Mormon zombies, milling around their hive.

Try Seattle

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/9/12 at 4:20pm

Lots of plays (and musicals!) come to the Capitol Theatre.

SLC and Park City are the least Mormon cities in Utah. Not that that's saying a lot, but it's good to keep in mind, I guess.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/9/12 at 4:23pm

Broadway in Salt Lake City

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/9/12 at 5:57pm

Children are not even safe in Utah cemeteries!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/9/12 at 6:00pm

Utah Magazine Celebrates Its (White) "Women of Color"

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/9/12 at 7:53pm

So there's that.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 7/9/12 at 7:59pm

Diva..you are Hysterical...Thanks all especially Phyllis...

My "old man" just put a bit on a home...

Those "white women" will just love this white Spanish-German Jew.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/10/12 at 6:34am

Kristie, I have two close friends who got their PhDs at the U. of Utah and SLC is indeed the most diverse part of the state. But at least when I was there, all anyone talked about was how bad the Mormons are. ("Bad" as in dull, socially, not as in unkind.)

There's no question it's beautiful, however. California is the only one of the lower 48 that can really compete.

Are you sure about the 3-hour flight time? Expedia puts it at 4.5 hours average, 5.5 average gate to gate.

http://flights.expedia.com/Flights_tfaOJFK_DSLC.htm

I think they are measuring the westward leg, which flies against the jet stream and takes longer. Still, unless you bought one of the discarded Concordes, 3 hours sounds overly optimistic to me.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 10:01pm

not unkind?

Anti-gay, They had to be forced to allow African-Americans into their church, they bussed people from Utah to California to go door-to-door to get people to vote down gay marriage....I'd say that's damn unkind.

I will not even vacation there, putting money in their economy is like giving it to Nazi Germany...

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:09pm

I agree with you Elphaba and was the first in this thread to question spending money in Utah.

What I meant in my post above is that the non-Mormons I met there complained that Mormons are dull and stifle creativity and thought; they weren't saying that Mormons go around being personally unkind to non-believers.

I was just trying to be accurate.