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.
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Fall Theater Season Gets Under Way
Deseret News, 1 September 1995, page W1
Article Summary:
Dan Whitley, who previously leased the Broadway Stage (Off Broadway Theatre), is opening the Lighthouse Theatre in the former Power Plant club adjacent to Cottonwood Mall. The first production, "The Christmas Stranger," opens Thanksgiving weekend.
