I was super excited to hear about a new Christmas musical coming this December to Salt Lake City, called The Best Thing About Christmas. The show's writer, Derek Hinckley is living his dream of bringing a musical to the stage and it looks good! If you love heartwarming Christmas stories, I think you'll love this one!
Read more about Derek and the musical below.
SALT LAKE CITY – Wide-eyed and full of big dreams, talent, and passion, Derek Hinckley moved to Nashville with dreams of becoming a hit songwriter. Fast forward 13 years and Derek has fulfilled many of his goals, including becoming a prolific songwriter and performer in a band with his brothers – The Hinckley Brothers. But beginning in 2018, Hinckley decided to pursue another dream: writing and staging a full-fledged musical production. Hinckley has partnered with talented Director Dana Durbano Pearson to bring to audiences, for the first time ever, “The Best Thing About Christmas,” on stage at the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center in Taylorsville.
The musical premieres Friday,
December 10 and runs through Saturday, December 18. The show runs at 7:30 each
evening (except Sunday) with a matinee at 4 PM each Saturday of the run.
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 1 at myarttix.org.
The story, inspired by many of
Hinckley’s personal experiences, features an ensemble cast of 12 performers led
by Hinckley starring as “Dylan.” Dylan
moves his family to Nashville with dreams of people singing his songs by heart,
but life takes a tragic turn one December destroying his love of Christmas.
Needing just one hit to pull him from the brink, he decides to write a
musical script in a last-ditch effort to save his dreams and matter to
someone.
“It truly is a dream come true to premiere
‘The Best Thing about Christmas’ for audiences in Utah,” said Hinckley. “We
feel the story and songs will resonate with audiences from young to old and
help spread a timely message of hope, redemption, and the spirit of Christmas
to people everywhere.”
You can purchase tickets HERE
Watch the music video below!
2 comments:
What an inspiration! Hope many can attend and be uplifted during this Holiday-- as well as many to come!
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