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Musicals and dramas set to open this week

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20050403
Author:Ivan M. Lincoln Deseret Morning News

Dramas and classic musicals are among this week's stage openings.

"ENCHANTED APRIL," Matthew Barber's stage adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's popular 1922 novel (filmed in 1935 and 1992), has its Wasatch Front premiere Friday through May 21 at Hale Center Theater in Orem. The plot revolves around four disillusioned British women who rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak existence.

Syd Riggs is directing a mostly double-cast ensemble that includes Hannah Stoehr and Erin Smith as Lotty Wilton, Anne Swenson and Tracy Whitlock as Rose Arnott, Maureen Eastwood and Karen Baird ...

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