From The Q Salt Lake:
She’s back! The secret is out! The large, sold-out audiences that saw
Dottie S. Dixon in her stage premiere in May 2009 have demanded her
return. In conjunction with Pygmalion Theatre Company, The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon-The Second Coming returns to the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center during the month of October 2009.
Playwrights Charles Lynn Frost and Troy Williams, and Pygmalion
producer Fran Pruyn indicate that since there has been such a call for
the play to return, it would be completely unfair should they not bring
it back as the opening production of Pygmalion’s 2009-10 season. “The
show was the most widely attended and talked about production we’ve
ever produced,” said Pruyn.
Frost and Williams found the collaborative effort with Pygmalion the
“perfect partnership” for initially bringing the show to the stage.
People from all walks of life attended the show in May; people from
diverse cultures, religions, ages, political leanings, sexual
orientations and genders. Both Frost and Williams agreed they “were
blown away by how different every single audience was.” As they talked
to audience members following each performance they pleasantly found a
blend of “gay, straight, Gen Y, X, boomers and most surprisingly older
Mormon women” who told them “the play spoke with truth and honesty, and
was not cynical or malicious; rather it was warm-hearted, compassionate
and relevant.”
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