“The Prom” runs May 12-17 at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre on the University of Utah campus.
Celeste Rose, left, plays Emma, a high-school student who causes a stir in her Indiana town when she wants to take her closeted girlfriend, Alyssa to the senior prom, in Pioneer Theatre Company's production of "The Prom," to be performed May 12-27, 2023.presents the Utah premiere of the high school-based musical “The Prom” this month, there will be no “don’t say gay” rule in effect.
“The Prom” — which runs May 12-27 at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre on the University of Utah campus — has been on Azenberg’s list of musicals to add to PTC’s repertoire, she said. When the rights became available, after its 2018 Broadway premiere and a movie adaptation starring Meryl Streep, James Corden and Nicole Kidman that debuted on Netflix in December 2020, she grabbed them.
She acknowledges that the musical’s storyline — a lesbian teen wants to take her girlfriend to the senior prom, but runs up against the protests of her conservative Indiana community — remains controversial, more than a decade after the real-life events that inspired it. Josh Adamson, Anne Tolpegin, Branch Woodman and Wendy Waring, from left, rehearse their roles as fading Broadway performers who jump into the controversy of a lesbian Indiana teen trying to attend her high school's prom, in Pioneer Theatre Company's production of "The Prom," to be performed May 12-27, 2023.that the musical “was inspired by several incidents.
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