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Moroni Opera House
325 West Main Street
Moroni, Utah
435-436-9300
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SCERA Showhouse
Orem, Utah
In 1989, Richard Cook, president of Buena Vista Pictures, said of the SCERA, "It's our favorite theater . . . it is a spectacular place to see a motion picture. It gives the kind of presentation that we wish all our films would play in. It's big, it's clean, it has wonderful sound, great sight-lines. And they've been so loyal to our company and exhibited our pictures for so many years.''
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Photo by Grant Smith, 25 June 2005
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Moroni Opera House
(Monson House)
325 West Main Street
Moroni, Utah
435-436-9300
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The Moroni Opera House is the oldest public building in Moroni and one of three surviving nineteenth-century opera houses in Utah.1 & 4
The Moroni Opera House, also known as the Monson House, was built in 1891 by Mons Monson and T. J. Morley. The theater was the "best-equipped opera house in the county" and had a 35-by-25-foot stage, a balcony, orchestra pit, and a seating capacity of 1,000.1
The Moroni Opera House was used for live theater, movies, and community events. The opera house closed in 1915 after Kozy Theater was built.1
In the 1930s the theater was used as a feed processing plant.2 The stage was later removed and all the props destroyed when the building was remodeled into a flour mill.3
The Moroni Heritage Development Commission began a restoration of the opera house in 1991 with help from the George S. And Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, National Heritage Foundation, Utah State Historical Society, and Community Impact Board.2 The Moroni Opera House is now used for live theater, dance performances, wedding receptions, and community events.
1. "Chapter 15: The Communities of Sanpete", A History of Sanpete County, by Albert C. T. Antrei and Allen D. Roberts, Utah State History CD-ROM
2. "Preserving the Past & Future", utahheritage.com
3. "Chapter 14: From Homesteading to High Technology", A History of Sanpete County, by Albert C. T. Antrei and Allen D. Roberts, Utah State History CD-ROM
4. The two other nineteenth-century opera houses are in Beaver and St. George.
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