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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Tuacahn Theater to Show 'Fantasticks' 8 Times
Deseret News, 4 October 1995, page C7
Article Summary:
The Tuacahn Center for the Arts will present eight performances of “The Fantasticks” at its indoor Orval and Ruth Hafen Theatre. “The Hafen Theatre's stage floor was damaged in the recent flooding, but has been dismantled, dried and replaced. The show's cast and crew also found time to rehearse between shifts of shoveling mud out of the premises.”