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Children's Musical ART DOG

December 4th -23rd

November 19, 2015
Salt Lake Acting Company Celebrates the Holiday Season
With Its 7th Annual Children’s Musical:
ART DOG
By John Olive
Music by Susan Ennis
Based on the Book by Thacher Hurd
 

As the first snow of the season begins to fall, Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) is preparing for the most wonderful time of the year. From December 4 through December 23, 2015, the SLAC lobby will be filled to the brim with artwork from the young artists of Bad Dog Arts and the theatre rumbling with thrilled young voices chattering excitedly as they await the opening music of ART DOG. This year marks SLAC’s seventh year producing professional plays for children (of all ages), and of partnering with local schools and organizations that serve the needs of children in the community.

 

Based on the colorful book by Thacher Hurd, the musical version of ART DOG is written by John Olive (book) and Susan Ennis (music). By day, Arthur Dog is a mild-mannered museum guard; by night, he is Art Dog – a mysterious artist who makes the city his canvas. However, when Leonardo Dog Vinci’s Mona Woofa goes missing from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, Art Dog is a prime suspect.

 

Returning again this year is director Penelope Caywood who has directed six of SLAC’s seven children’s plays. She has worked as Artistic Director for Youth Theatre at the U for the past nine years and is excited to tackle ART DOG.

 

Caywood says, “ART DOG is doggone fun! The idea of a hero who uses painting instead of punches to win the day is a brush stroke of genius.  It makes me wish I'd written it. So I feel really lucky that at least I get to direct it.”