2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
“WE HAVE DIFFERENT LIVES AND FACES, BUT OUR HEARTS HAVE COMMON PLACES”
RAGTIME SHOWBOAT PORGY & BESS PUCCINI’S TRILOGY PETER PAN Dear Friends We are already gearing up for an Zions Bank for their unselfish devotion outstanding 2017 season this coming and support in making the renovation of summer as we celebrate 25 years of this historic theater possible. presenting world-class opera and musical theater here in Logan! We hope you We need your help as we begin our enjoyed the wonderful performances and celebration! Our year-end appeal for special events during our bigger-than- donations is now in full force. Will life 2016 festival this past summer that you partner with us as we enter the generated rave reviews and reminded us next quarter of a century of providing that “all men are created equal.” We are world-class productions on the stage, so grateful to you, our sponsors, patrons, ground-breaking education programs for and donors, for the leading roles you play students, and year-round programs in in our success. THANK YOU! We simply the Utah Theatre? Your donation of any could not do it without you! amount has the power to change lives and help us fulfill our mission: bringing The beautiful Utah Theatre will play a people together to share ennobling artistic major role this coming year, with classic experiences. films, special productions, concerts, and events featuring the Mighty Wurlitzer Gratefully, Organ. With our summer productions now being housed in both the Ellen Eccles and the Utah Theatres, we BOARD OF DIRECTORS are pleased to be able to expand our MICHAEL BALLAM Founding General Director programming. We again thank our friends MARC ENSIGN, BOARD CHAIR LESLIE P. LARSON Larry H. & Gail Miller, the George S. & RICHARD ANDERSON PAMELA MARCH Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, Utah MICHAEL BALLAM PAUL D. PARKINSON State Legislature, Theodore & Elizabeth BEN CLAWSON KEITH SCHMIDT Schmidt, Roy & Carol Christensen, and KRISTAN FJELDSTED SANDEFUR SCHMIDT KATHIE HORMAN BETTY LOU STEWART DAVID KIRKMAN
UTAH FESTIVAL STAFF HONORARY NATIONAL COUNCIL 2016 MICHAEL BALLAM Founding General Director DEON JOHNSON Facilities VANESSA BALLAM Education Director HELEN JOHNSON Facilities FRED ADAMS NATHAN GUNN GORDON NELSON KENDAL BATES Marketing Director PATTI JOHNSON Costume Mistress & Designer Emeritus WANDA ALLEN SHELDON HARNICK KELLI O’HARA JOSEPH BLAIR Master Carpenter PHILLIP R. LOWE Director of Costumes & Wardrobe SHARI BADGER SENATOR ORRIN HATCH LORAINE PACE NANSI BLAU Ticketing Director STACY MERRILL Box Office Manager VANESSA BALLAM LYLE HILLYARD GLENN PETERSON CHARLOTTE CANTWELL Controller TODD MEYERS Technical Director JONATHAN BULLEN JULIE HOLLIST TERRILL HAL PRINCE CASSANDRA COULAM Artistic & Company ROBERT MILLER Music Administrator BRYAN BURR RONALD W. JIBSON JOHN REED, O.B.E. Administrator IT Support & Webmaster BEVERLY CAMPBELL SHIRLEY KEYES CAROLYN NEBEKER RASMUSSEN STEFAN ESPINOSA Conservatory Supervisor KEVIN NAKATANI Education Business Manager MARION CAMPBELL DON LIND, EMERITUS WALTER B. RUDOLPH LILA GEDDES Development Director CHRISTOPHER PULLEY Assistant to Dr. Ballam GARY L. CARLSTON JO LOESSER THEODORE SCHMIDT W. BOYD CHRISTENSEN JAY MITTON HYRUM W. SMITH PAM GEE Opera By Children Supervisor JARED ROUNDS Administrative Assistant CLARK CUTLER ANN MORTENSON JIM M. WALL GARY GRIFFIN Managing Director KYLE STEIN Assistant Technical Director NELLIE HORROCKS Education Assistant BARBARA FJELDSTED CHERI MURDOCK JOHN WORLEY III UTAH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS
Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards is a program Hands-On Education dedicated to recognizing the amazing accomplishments being made throughout the state in high school musical theater productions. Our partnership with Zions Bank OPERA BY CHILDREN Broadway At The Eccles means amazing opportunities for the UHSMTA winners including studying, performing, th OBC is now beginning our 20 school Participants tell it best: and competing at the national competition in Broadway’s year of service. We work directly Minskoff Theatre. with teachers and students in the “Just days before the Opera, one of my classroom to provide a unique teacher students was involved in a bad bicycle development opportunity by integrating accident. arts curriculum into the core learning of students throughout Utah. My class mourned over the fact that he wouldn’t be able to be there. They were Under the umbrella of OBC, four so kind in suggesting that we make a services are offered to teachers and giant get-well card and film the opera schools: so that he could still watch and be part of the performance vicariously. 1. Teacher Professional Development 1,961 STUDENTS workshops. This student’s eyes welled up with 2. Classroom Implementation: tears. His mom asked him if he was 338 AWARD SHOW PERFORMERS mentors and trained teachers crying because ‘it hurt again.’ He facilitate students creating original shook his head no and replied that he 27 HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS operas. was crying, ‘Because so many people 3. Student performances: Perform care about me.’” 23 AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE their opera for the school and community. – First Grade Teacher 2 NATIONAL WINNERS 4. Professional Opera and Musical Theatre Performance Teacher and Student in Attendance program offered free or at reduced rates.
23 DISTRICTS 24 CHARTERS 296 SCHOOLS 5,170 TRAINING HRS 2,947 TEACHERS 61,339 STUDENTS The Academy UTAH FESTIVAL ACADEMY
From lectures to full participation, performance events to themed gatherings, Academy events enhance your Utah Festival experience by helping you gain background and backstage insight from industry professionals.
54 EVENTS The Utah Theatre INSTRUCTORS Thanks to major donations movies to be screened with live 37 from Larry H. & Gail Miller, the organ accompaniment. The George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Utah features concerts, chamber Foundation, Michael & Laurie operas, lectures, musicals, PARTICIPANTS Ballam, the State of Utah, John plays, receptions, and more. 3005 & Nancy Schellkopf and many It also serves as home to the others, the renovation is complete Utah Festival Conservatory of and the Utah Theatre is now the Performing Arts, the Festival open and serving the public. The Academy, and Opera by Children. restoration transformed a run-down movie house into a 350-seat, The renovation includes a fully state-of-the-art facility dedicated expanded stage, fly loft, new to creativity and excellence in the lighting and sound systems, performing arts. orchestra pit and organ chamber, rehearsal space, and dressing The Conservatory The Utah has become a high- rooms. class venue for theatrical and musical productions as well Although the initial renovation is UTAH FESTIVAL CONSERVATORY as classic movies. It is also complete, we still need your help home of the Mighty Wurlitzer to complete the final details of this The Musical Theatre Conservatory is for aspiring Organ, which provides the rare spectacular venue. young performers ages 4-18 who desire to take opportunity for classic silent their skills to the next level. The Conservatory offers professional year-round training in acting, dance, and musical theater, with specially designed Jr Spring Production of Anything Goes 2016 classes for students striving to enter the musical MAJOR DONORS FOR THE theatre field. The classes instill self-discipline as UTAH THEATRE RENOVATION well as enhance performance skills and audition techniques. Classes are customized to age and skill LARRY H. & GAIL MILLER $ 1,800,000 level to achieve maximum growth and experience. GEORGE S. & DOLORES DORÉ ECCLES FOUNDATION $ 1,250,000 STATE OF UTAH $ 1,050,000 MICHAEL & LAURIE BALLAM $ 1,025,000 JOHN & NANCY SCHELLKOPF $ 1,000,000 STUDENTS THEODORE & ELIZABETH SCHMIDT $ 830,520 170 MIKE OHMAN $ 750,000 ROY & CAROL CHRISTENSEN $ 711,000 CLASSES ZIONS BANK $ 400,000 30 SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION $ 255,000 FOUNDATION FOR BETTER EDUCATION $ 50,000 SPRING PRODUCTIONS CITY OF LOGAN $ 32,500 2 THE ANSCHUTZ FOUNDATION $ 30,000 MERIT MEDICAL $ 25,000 2016 SEASON SPONSOR Thank You Donors! FY 2016 DONORS (OCTOBER 1, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2016) MODERN MEDICIS GRAND IMPRESARIO $1,000,000 and Above $5,000 to $9,999 Michael and Laurie Ballam Adobe Richard & Moonyeen Anderson LEGACY Chris Ballam $100,000 to $499,999 Cache Valley Radio Group* Cache Valley Bank Cache County Rapz & Restaurant Tax Sue J. Ellis Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Marc & Heidi Ensign Saints Foundation Donna & Ralph Friz • Deseret Management Corp. Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation A special thanks to some of our most generous A special thanks to our 2016 • Beneficial Life Insurance Company Bob & Anne Gregerson Lifetime Donors. Left to right: Ted Schmidt, corporate sponsor Zions Bank • Bonneville International Corp. Craig & Becky Johns Roy Christensen, Michael Ballam, and Gail Miller and CEO Scott Anderson. • Deseret Book Company Barbara M. Lutz • Deseret News Publishing Company Nebeker Family Foundation • Deseret Digital Media, Inc. Marilyn & Ray Phillips • KSL Broadcast Group Council for Investment in Education LIFETIME DONORS Lifetime donations of $50,000 or above • Temple Square Hospitality Corp. Dean & LuAnn Quayle Roy & Carol Christensen Questar Arts Foundation $1,000,000 and Above Sharon Mayberry* State of Utah Kenneth Randall Estate Media One of Utah* Theodore Schmidt River Heights City* Michael & Laurie Ballam Michael & Sharon Ohman* Schmidt Family Foundation Utah Festival Opera Guild Cache County Lynne Paoletti Zions Bank Robert & Ginger Wallace Foundation Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Saints Foundation Dr. R. L. Smith ORPHEUS CLUB IMPRESARIO • Deseret Management Corp. Sorenson Legacy Foundation $50,000 to $99,999 $1,000 to $4,999 • Beneficial Life Insurance Company Zions Bank • Bonneville International Corp. The Anschutz Foundation Christine Allred • Deseret Book Company $50,000 - $100,000 George S. & Dolores Doré Bruce & Karla Axtell • Deseret News Publishing Company Eccles Foundation Shari Badger • Deseret Digital Media, Inc. Hiram & Lawanda Allen Oral L. Ballam • KSL Broadcast Group Harry & Susan Ames* Kevin & Nansi Blau* • Temple Square Hospitality Corp. CIRCLE OF THE LYRE Ashton Family Foundation $25,000 to $49,999 Don & Jean Bradshaw George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Judy Brady & Drew W. Browning Sally Browning Larry H. & Gail Miller Bryan & Gayle Burr Vanessa Ballam* Shae Bunker* John & Nancy Schellkopf* Evan & Marion Campbell W. Boyd Christensen Shirlee Burgener State of Utah Mr. & Mrs. William H. Child FM100* BYU Broadcasting* W. Boyd & Jean Christensen Charles & Kathie Horman Cache Valley Dermatology $100,000 to $1,000,000 C. Comstock Clayton Foundation Media One of Utah* • Kelly Hubbard, M.D. Comcast Spotlight* Nancy Schellkopf* • Adrienne McMaster, P.A. Richard & Moonyeen Anderson Florence J. Gillmor Foundation • Jeff Baugh, P.A. The Anschutz Foundation Alan & Jeanne Hall Foundation Cache Valley Women’s Center Vernon Buehler CIRCLE OF THE ROSE Gordon & Rosemary Hine $10,000 to $24,999 • Anne S. Blackett, D.O. Cache County School District* KSL Broadcast Group* • Gary K. Fowers, M.D. Margueritte Caldwell Fred Lampropolous Michael & Carol Bailey* • David A. Kirkman, M.D. Roy & Carol Christensen Logan City School District* Judy Brady & Drew W. Browning • Barry A. Noorda, M.D. Foundation for Better Education Steve & Cheri Murdock Bryan & Gayle Burr Café Sabor* Florence J. Gillmor Foundation SADI Advertising & Design* Mr. & Mrs. William H. Child Campbell Supporting Organization Dell Loy & Lynnette Hansen Jack & Deann Parson C. Comstock Clayton Foundation Helen Champ Charles & Kathie Horman Sandefur Schmidt Florence J Gillmor Foundation Mike & Sheila Deputy ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. Ruth S. Silver Alan & Jeannie Hall Foundation Alice Edvalson Lyman Jensen* Paul Siu* Deon & Helen Johnson* Marian Ensor Deon & Helen Johnson* Faye Sonne Stucki Family KSL Broadcast Group* Liz Fairman* Neon Fitches Jones Brent, Valdon & Paula Aaron & DeAnn Lichfield* Flairre* Logan City Utah State University* Mills Publishing* Janet S. Flinders Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Sandefur Schmidt Cecelia Foxley Marriner Eccles Foundation *In-kind Young Toyota Scion* Clarence & Joan Funk *In-kind 2016 SEASON SPONSOR FY 2016 DONORS (OCTOBER 1, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2016) FY 2016 DONORS (OCTOBER 1, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2016)
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– MICHAEL BALLAM Founding General Director