Melodrama Theater May Open Friday

In 1989, Desert Star Theatrics remodeled the Vista theater and reopened it as the Deseret Star Playhouse, a family-style dinner-theater featuring musical melodramas with light refreshments, soft drinks, and free popcorn on the tables. The stage was enlarged and the theaters seats were replaced with small, cabaret-style tables. They planned to later add pizza and ice cream to the menu and to enhance the sightlines by terracing the floor and adding raised sections along the sides of the auditorium. The opening of the Desert Star Playhouse was scheduled for 3 November 1989, but had to be delayed until 17 November 1989 because of problems in meeting Murray City's building codes.