Orpheus Hall
Vernal, Utah
C. W. Showalter, and Andrew King opened the Orpheus Hall on Thanksgiving Day, 30 November 1911. The amusement hall had a spring dance floor, but was also used for roller skating, basketball, banquets, and movies. It was named after the Greek god of Mirth, “a famous musician who is reputed to have had power to entrance men, beasts, and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.” At 11:00 PM on New Years Eve, 1928, the hall was renamed Imperial Hall. In a ceremony on 20 April 1965, Governor Governor Calvin L. Rampton took a sledge hammer and delivered the first blow in the demolition of the hall as part of a community beautification campaign.
Menu
Performers offered a stage in Midvale
Deseret News, 18 March 2010, page B6
Article Summary:
Midvale officials agreed to let the West Jordan Arts Council theater troupe use its stage for “See How They Run” after the Sugar Factory Playhouse was closed because it was seismically deficient. Midvale's performing arts center, 695 West 7720 South, is “significantly smaller” than the Sugar Factory Playhouse.