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Crown Theatre
30 West Main Street
Price, Utah
84501
435 637-1705
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Proscenium
Sandy, Utah
Scott McQuarrie, a Utah County developer, approached Sandy City in 2006 about building a 2,400-seat Broadway theater southwest of City Hall. The development was named “The Proscenium”, after the Greek innovation to better frame theater performances. The announcement created a rivalry between Sandy and Salt Lake City, which had also had plans for a Broadway theater. Funding for the Proscenium dried up after the credit market tumbled in late 2008.
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Photographer: Matt Lutthans
Date: 9 August 2011
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Crown Theatre
(Eko Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Utah Theatre)
30 West Main Street
Price, Utah
84501
435 637-1705
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18 December 1912
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8 January 2009
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The Eko Theater brought silent motion pictures to Price in 1911, with shows on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for ten cents per person. In 1914 the Bonita Theater opened just east of the Eko Theater at the corner of Main Street and Carbon Avenue. The Eko was named the Lyric and the Utah before becoming the Crown Theatre.[1 & 2]
About 2009, the non-profit organization which runs the Rio Theatre in Helper raised $5,000 and began renovations at the Crown Theatre to convert the cinema for live performances. The theater sat idle after funding ran out.
1. Eastern Utah Advocate, 22 October 1914, 19 November 1914.
2. A History of Carbon County, by Ronald G. Watt, "Chapter 5 Community and Economic Development, pp. 71-106
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