Hale Center Theater Orem

"How to Succeed in Business was a terrific show. Wonderful talent. I’m looking forward to the next season at The Ruth. Seeing such a good show in a small theater, it’s exciting to think of what the shows will be like in a larger theater. Although, I will miss the intimacy and closeness of the Hale."

"Just a fantastic presentation of How to Succeed in Business. The acting and singing was absolutely amazing. What was even more amazing was all of the people who were there just enjoying themselves they were smiling and laughing during the entire show."

"We’ve gone to A Christmas Carol play at the Orem Hale Center Theater for many years. It’s usually amazing, though the last few years haven’t been as good as in the past, they’ve been decent. 2023’s Christmas Carol was so bad! We are usually brought to tears several times throughout the play and definitely by the end, but this year we didn’t shed a tear. The play was so busy you couldn’t connect with the characters and the self narration was distracting and cringey. I wish they’d go back to Christmas Carols of the past. You guys have so many amazing props and effects that you can use (the floor opening, the fog & snow, the food, etc) and none of them were used. Sound effects from the sides are distracting and not as good as when they come from the actual person in the scene (Marley’s chains). Too many people walking/singing/narrating through scenes made it so you couldn’t focus on what was actually going on. Definitely the worst rendition yet. I will say it’s not the actors’ fault. They did a great job with what they were given. We’re considering going to the Hale in Sandy for 2024 because we’re afraid to waste our money again."

"I LOVED watching A Christmas Carol here! The location is so intimate and the sets are always amazing! I loved the music and the live cello and fiddler! Although I didn’t initially like what they did with the script, it grew on me throughout the show, and by the time intermission hit, I was thoroughly enjoying myself. Scrooge was fantastic. The narration was humorous. Overall a wonderful experience."

"We’ve been going to the Christmas Carol at the Orem Hale Center for 20 years, in addition to a couple other shows a year. We have not seen a single show we haven’t loved until last night. That production was terrible! It’s too bad the director did what she did. The cast was great, and I feel they could have made the production its usual greatness, but the director destroyed it. They cut out the great songs of the show and the “script reading” during the show was lame and insulting. Do you think I, as an audience member, can’t see that Scrooge was horrified, or do you not think the actor can act well enough to show us? (Which they did.) After the show, we were not the only ones that thought it was terrible. Every conversation you heard from fellow audience members was the same. We were excited for the upcoming Hale Center year, because it looked like there were going to be some really good shows. We are rethinking that now if they are going to put out garbage like this!"