Posted: 10/20/15 at 12:47am
With the Bull Durham musical not moving forward- what's next for Will Swensen? I read he is in Utah doing Rocky Horror, surprising he's doing regional theater.
Posted: 10/20/15 at 12:55am
Swenson
Posted: 10/20/15 at 2:24am
Well he's an actor making it work? I don't think it's surprising. Gotta get those Equity weeks and get your health care and pension.
Posted: 10/20/15 at 6:08am
He's also from Utah, and his family owns a theater out there. So it's not surprising he might do something there. (A couple of years ago, he and Audra did a short run of 110 in the Shade in Utah.)
Posted: 10/20/15 at 5:27pm
I looked into it and he is not performing at his families theater, it's another one. I guess his families theater is extremely conservative and would never produce Rocky Horror.
Posted: 10/20/15 at 8:57pm
Doesn't change the fact that he has strong ties to the area and to the theater community out there.
Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:11pm
jbm2 said: "I looked into it and he is not performing at his families theater, it's another one. I guess his families theater is extremely conservative and would never produce Rocky Horror."
It's not that conservative. They did Xanadu.
Posted: 11/2/15 at 12:33am
They did a very edited version of Xanadu. Apparently every show his families theater does has anything "inappropriate" edited out.
Posted: 11/2/15 at 8:04am
The theater where Swenson did Rocky Horror -- Pioneer Theatre Company, in Salt Lake City -- is a very well-known and well-respected regional Equity theater. Artists from all over the country work there. And I believe it was a benefit concert production that only ran for 3 or 4 performances. As others have noted, Swenson has strong ties to the area and it's no surprise that he would agree to participate in a benefit for one of the region's leading theater companies.
Posted: 11/2/15 at 3:16pm
jbm2 said: "They did a very edited version of Xanadu. Apparently every show his families theater does has anything "inappropriate" edited out."
Do you have any proof or documentation of this "editing"?
Posted: 11/2/15 at 4:39pm
Posted: 11/2/15 at 4:48pm
PalJoey said: "jbm2 said: "They did a very edited version of Xanadu. Apparently every show his families theater does has anything "inappropriate" edited out."
Do you have any proof or documentation of this "editing"?
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No documentation but I'm local to the Hale Center Theater in Orem and they indeed edit something in nearly every show they produce. They edit "damns" and "Gods" out of the Scarlet Pimpernel....
Posted: 11/2/15 at 10:08pm
There are two Hale theaters in Utah and I believe both are very open to editing profanity and anything else they find inappropriate out of their shows.
I Was told one of these theaters is the most well attended community theaters in the nation.
Posted: 11/2/15 at 10:11pm
^and that one is receiving a new state of the art and modern theatre. I was watching its YouTube channel and it looks like it has some great productions and the casts seem like they are fantastic and all I'm wondering here is why is it non equity?
Posted: 11/2/15 at 10:23pm
Yep - I saw "Ragtime" at the Hale Theater in West Valley City a few years ago and they indeed edited out the swearing and sexual references, such as Emma's lines: "let me at those sons of bi*****" and "masturbates for a Vaudeville tart." I heard they did the same for the swearing in their production of "Les Miz."
The productions themselves are usually very well done - there's a lot of talent in the area - but the bowdlerization was enough to keep me from going to anything but their family shows when I lived in the area.
I guess it's really not all that surprising - this is after all the home state of CleanFlix, the once popular (now defunct) organization that rented and sold "cleaned up," family friendly versions of movies like "Titanic" and "Schindler's List" and "Goodfellas."
...On the other hand, Pioneer Theater is an excellent, professional theater company.
Updated On: 11/2/15 at 10:23 PM
Posted: 11/3/15 at 3:41am
SweetLips said: "And Audra is touring in Australia."
Will is here with her. At her Melbourne show she said he was in the audience somewhere.
Posted: 11/3/15 at 8:25am
Show biz friends who attended her Melbourne concert-2 hrs,no interval,3piece backing--in glorious voice,best concert ever seen.
Posted: 11/4/15 at 7:39am
SweetLips said: "Show biz friends who attended her Melbourne concert-2 hrs,no interval,3piece backing--in glorious voice,best concert ever seen."
She was magnificent indeed! I had second row seats and it was amazing being so close - it felt like an intimate show with just our little section up front. Plus, it was very nice during the short sing along that everyone around us had been to or was currently attending WAAPA!
(And now back to the actual thread...)
