Hiss-torical Setting For Melodrama Troupe
Deseret News, 3 November 1989, page W1
Summary:
In 1989, Desert Star Theatrics remodeled the Vista theater and reopened
it as the Deseret Star Playhouse, a family-style dinner-theater
featuring musical melodramas with light refreshments, soft drinks, and
free popcorn on the tables. The stage was enlarged and the theaters
seats were replaced with small, cabaret-style tables. They planned to
later add pizza and ice cream to the menu and to enhance the sightlines
by terracing the floor and adding raised sections along the sides of
the auditorium.
The opening of the Desert Star Playhouse was scheduled for 3 November
1989, but had to be delayed until 17 November 1989 because of problems
in meeting Murray City's building codes.