page_title: Hale Center Theatre
section_title: Impact of Musical Theatre
hierarchical_section_title: Hale Center Theatre / Theatre Across the Nation / Impact of Musical Theatre
caption_attribution_description: English: 1945 Press Photo of the music-writing team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
context_page_description: Hale Center Theatre is a theatre company headquartered in Sandy, Utah. Their mission statement is “enriching lives through world-class theatre.” In 1985, Ruth and Nathan Hale partnered with their daughter, Sally Hale Rice, and their oldest grandson, Mark Dietlein and his wife to start a theatre in Utah. They converted an old lingerie factory in South Salt Lake to a theatre-in-the-round with 220 seats. After a couple of expansions, they moved into a new, magical facility in West Valley City in 1998. After selling out all 613 seats at Harman Hall on a regular basis, a new partnership was formed with Sandy City in 2017 as they opened the new home of Hale Centre Theatre at the Mountain America Performing Arts Centre.
  Hale Centre Theatre provides traditional play and musical theatre productions on two state-of-the-art stages under one roof in Sandy City. The smaller Sorenson Legacy Jewel Box Stage seats 467 people; the larger Young Living Centre Stage seats 911. The Theatre has a total of 130,000 square feet and is the only professional theatre venue between Salt Lake City, a half hour to the north, and St. George, four hours to the south.
context_section_description: The Hale Center Theatre produces many types of performances each season including revivals of famous or local favorites and providing a mix of musical with traditional theatre. With their new, state-of-the-art facility housing two theatre spaces, there is more capacity to include more 'popular' styles in their repertoire, especially ones that have greater uses for lighting, videos and pre-existing mediums outside the theatre. This has appealed to younger audiences and has continued a 200 year tradition of American musical theatre as a mix of traditional drama and modern music. Examples of these performances include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (performed in 2017), The Scarlet Pimpernel Musical (2018) and The Heart of Robin Hood (2017). With increased performances accompanying greater demand, more expansive advertising methods have been used to maintain and grow the company's local presence including press, media and print coverage on new buildings, partnerships with local companies and businesses, and promotions to schools and students.
caption: Musical composers Richard Rodgers (left sitting at piano) and Oscar Hammerstein II (right) who produced some of the greatest musical theatre of the 20th century. Hale Center Theatre has performed many of their shows over ten times.
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