Local church brings Broadway to Logan
Saturday night Broadway is coming to Logan.
The First Presbyterian Church of Logan will perform in concert at Logan High’s Little Theater. Curtain time is at 7 p.m.
Titled “Almost Broadway!,” this will be the third fund raiser the First Presbyterian Church has staged. The money will be collected by Mark Riffe and J.R. Dennison, both physics professors at Utah State University “from a free-will offering to a large glass pig that is passed around during intermission,” said Tim H. Henney, who is co-producing the event with Evelyn Falk.
Money collected in 1998 went to repair the church steeple, and in 1999 the money paid for the bells used by the church’s bell choir, The Westminster Bells, which will open this year’s show. This year, the money will go toward paying for new stackable chairs for Westminster Hall.
“Many groups besides the church use the building,” said Henney, “as you probably know – the Hispanic congregation, the Korean congregation, AA, Scouts, basketball players in the gym and so on. The chairs have been at the church since Jim Bridger and his buddies sat in them at the early mountain rendezvous,” Henney said jokingly.
For this performance only, the church choir will turn into Broadway singers and belt out (and dance to) tunes like, “Food, Glorious Food” from “Oliver,” “It’s a Hard-Knock Life,” from “Annie,” and songs from “Grease” and “Brigidoon.”
“There will be 15 or 16 songs in all, with a short intermission midway,” Henney said.
Many have come together to make this event possible, including members of the First Presbyterian Church, the community and members of the USU faculty.
“It’s just a fun thing to bring people together for an upbeat, happy event that can unify a community,” Henney said.