MUSICAL RECALLS MORMON TREK.Byline: Daily News A local production of the musical ``Promised Valley,'' portraying the Mormon pioneers' exodus from the Midwest, will open tonight and run through the weekend at Valencia High School Valencia High School may refer to:
This month, Mormons across the United States have been commemorating the 150th anniversary of their migration from Illinois to the other side of the Rocky Mountains, where they established their headquarters in Salt Lake City. ``Promised Valley,'' to be staged in the campus theater, 27801 N. Dickason Drive, will have five performances: 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday, 6 and 8:30 p.m. on Friday, and 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Hart High School Hart High School may refer to:
Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. resident Richard Rich, who wrote and directed the animated film ``The Swan Princess,'' is the play's producer. Other community members contributed their talents to the show. Two dozen women, their sewing tools and materials spread out across a basketball court, came together to cut patterns and stitch the costumes, fashioned after period styles as researched by other volunteers, Hanrion said. ``In two days, the crew of seamstresses were able to complete the majority of the military uniforms, dresses, aprons, bonnets and pantaloons for the cast members,'' Hanrion said. The westward migration, which began in Nauvoo, Ill., stretched 1,200 miles from the Platte River in Nebraska, across the Rocky Mountains to the Salt Lake Valley Salt Lake Valley is a 500 square mile valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably West Valley City, Sandy, and West Jordan; its total population is 948,172 as of 2005. . The wagon train arrived in the valley on July 24, 1847, Hanrion said. The play was written in 1947 by composer Crawford Gates, a music professor at the University of Rochester The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. The university is one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Hanrion noted. ``It's amazing the efforts people have gone through,'' said Barbara Myler, a spokeswoman for Mormon congregations in the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys. ``People grew beards just for their parts - they've been looking scraggly scrag·gly adj. scrag·gli·er, scrag·gli·est Ragged; unkempt. Adj. 1. scraggly - lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door" for weeks,'' Myler said. ``One member worked on costumes to make them authentic. There are whole families who have been working on this,'' she said. |
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