Director’s Note
Dear Odyssey Patron,
We are so happy to be back after a year’s pause!
There may not have been performances but we were busy with our Community Outreach Programs, granting dance scholarships to young dancers who showed promise but didn’t have the means to continue their training and providing dance classes
in schools that participate in the Salt Lake County Youth Services Afterschool Program.
We have planned a full 30th Anniversary Season that will showcase the creativity, innovation, humor and talent that you have appreciated for the last three decades.
We hope you will join us for all of our programs by buying season tickets (information below). The Odyssey continues!!
Thank you for your support and best wishes,
Derryl Yeager Artistic Director
What’s Coming
THRILLER
GRAND THEATRE
Salt Lake City
October 14 to 26, 2024
After a year pause – Thriller will be returning to Salt Lake City with 14 performances at The Grand Theatre! The show will feature many of the favorite pieces from the past - Thriller, The Curse of the Mummy, Dem Bones, Frankenstein, Jason Jam, Children of the Corn, Salem’s Mass and The Lost Boys - plus a few new surprises. Get your tickets early, because these shows will sell out! Thriller has it all - frights, amazement, scares and lots of laughs. Come and join the return of the spectacular Halloween tradition - Odyssey Dance Theatre’s Thriller!
Thriller on tour:
• The Ellen Eccles Theatre - Logan
September 27 to 28, 2024
• Egyptian Theatre - Park City
October 2 to 13, 2024
• Tuacahn Amphitheatre
October 29 to November 2, 2024
Christmas Spectacular SPECTACULAR!
GRAND THEATRE
Salt Lake City
December 19 to 23, 2024
Odyssey Dance Theatre’s Christmas Spectacular SPECTACULAR!
Why go to endless Christmas productions when you can get your complete Holiday Fix at Odyssey Dance Theatre’s Christmas Spectacular SPECTACULAR!
Where you will be treated to every Christmas Season event in ONE production!
See excerpts from A Christmas Carol, Derryl’s It’s A Wonderful Life and The ReduxNut-Cracker, Elf, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, the Rockettes and White Christmas!
Also included would be Mannheim Steamroller, Kurt Bestor and Tabernacle Choir segments - as well as some of those memorable Forgotten Carols!!
It’s a one stop - show stopping performance that is sure to get your Christmas show attendance done in one 2 hour performance!
Live on stage! Odyssey Dance Theatre’s Christmas Spectacular SPECTACULAR!!!
What’s Coming... continued
SHUT UP & DANCE GRAND THEATRE
Salt Lake City
April 2 to 5, 2025
Odyssey’s Spring Repertory Season is a dance lover’s buffet, with something for everyone. Deseret News said, “Odyssey Dance Theatre’s Shut Up and Dance season only proves that it is a company to be taken seriously. Bravo!”
Shut Up and Dance is where the dancers and choreographers get to stretch their artistic muscle and really show off their abilities and different styles in smaller repertoire-style works. Derryl said, “We again stress accessibility but we are not afraid to explore more innovative choreographic styles of movement. The title says it all. Dance is an amazing form of expression that doesn’t require manuals and textbooks to understand. It communicates to all and across all boundaries.
Odyssey has produced original, innovative works and, to date, has created over 60 original works, including seven full-length productions.
This season’s program will include the following:
Act I – New Repertory Works
• World Premiere
Contemporary Work –Former Odyssey Dancer
Christian Denice
• World Premiere Hip-Hop Work – Former Odyssey Dancer Jeffrey Louizia
• World Premiere Work
Chichester Psalms –Derryl Yeager
Act II – The Can Can Club
Premiered in 2007 and back by popular demand, The Can Can Club captures the spectacle that drew the elite in Paris in the 1890’s and spawned the likes of Toulouse Lautrec and the infamous Can Can. Reveling in the bohemian ideals of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and most of all Love, it captures the imagination, dazzles the senses, and touches the heart. Derryl said, “I thought it would be a popular piece, because it has everything: excitement, love, humor, tragedy, the wonderful movie score and of course, fantastic dancing.”
Artists
Boston Cervinski-Baldwin
Athena Rogers
Allie Renner
Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Emeline Schick-Donaldson
Emily Brooks Grayden Harrison
Tessman
Becca Mitchell
Carson Oliver
Ashley Schrader
Gwen
Ian Sabatine
RyLee Altenburg Sierra Mineo
Artists
Helfer
Naomi Reid
Natalie Riggs
Noah Bradford
Jacob Beaver
Reese Wheeler
Jamie
Kiana Ducusin
Libby Brooks
Tino Smith
Lily Farrar-Creigh
Mos Hernandez
Natalie Hasse
Peiter Mortensen
Thriller PROGRAM
ACT I
Thriller
Choreography - Derryl Yeager
Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh Jamie Helfer
Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs Athena Rogers
Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson Sierra Mineo
Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader Kiana Ducusin
RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks Natalie Hasse Cassidy RiggsHerman Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Grayden Harrison
Reese Wheeler Ian Sabatine Jacob Beaver Mos Hernandez
Noah Bradford Tino Smith
Bubbles the Clown John Boy
Curse of the Mummy
Choreography - Chantele Cook,
Rick Robinson, Derryl Yeager
Mummy – Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Grayden Harrison
Reese Wheeler Ian Sabatine Jacob Beaver Mos Hernandez
Noah Bradford Tino Smith
Maidens – Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh
Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs
Athena Rogers Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson
Sierra Mineo Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader
Kiana Ducusin RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks
Natalie Hasse Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Mummies – Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh
Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs
Athena Rogers Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson
Sierra Mineo Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader
Kiana Ducusin RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks
Natalie Hasse Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Thriller PROGRAM
Black Widow
Aerial Choreography by Aeris Aerial Arts
Matisse Seal Maya Kelley
Miss Alli’s Nightmare
Choreography - Kelly Messerly, Nancy Hansen
Miss Alli – Gwen Tessman/Allie Renner/ Cassidy Riggs-Herman/Veronica Cabling Company Members
Frankenstein & Frankenstein
Choreography - Derryl Yeager
Frank – Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Grayden Harrison
Reese Wheeler Jacob Beaver Noah Bradford Tino Smith
Frankie – Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh
Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Athena Rogers
Sierra Mineo Naomi Reid Libby Brooks
Giggle Girl
Emily Perucca
Dem Bones
Choreography - Michelle Butterfield
Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh Jamie Helfer
Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs Athena Rogers
Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson Sierra Mineo
Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader Kiana Ducusin
RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks
Natalie Hasse Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Thriller PROGRAM
Full Moon
Aerial Choreography by Aeris Aerial Arts
Baron Davis Maya Kelley Willow Waaddoups
Emberlyn Harrison Maddy Stone Ezra Baker Jack Johnson
Sydney Kemp Elissa Petrell Ace Allen Jocelyn Anderson
Ellie Blundell Regean England Jane Fifield Rylee Hunsaker
Poppy Lees Addie Morris Juliette Shorten Via White
Day-O
Choreography – Veronica
Cabling
Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh Jamie Helfer
Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs Athena Rogers
Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson Sierra Mineo
Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader Kiana Ducusin
RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks
Natalie Hasse Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Jason Jam
Choreography - Derryl Yeager
Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Grayden Harrison
Reese Wheeler Ian Sabatine Jacob Beaver Mos Hernandez
Noah Bradford Tino Smith
15- minute Intermission
ACT II
Squid Skid
Lily Farrar-Creigh Natalie Hasse
Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver
Thriller PROGRAM
Children of the Corn
Choreography - Eldon Johnson
Scarecrows – Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Reese Wheeler
Ian Sabatine Grayden Harrison Noah Bradford Tino Smith
Becca Mitchell Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Allie Renner
Children - Company
Bubbles the Clown John Boy
Phantom of the Opera
Aerial Choreography by Aeris Aerial Arts
Mark Webber Matisse Seal
Covid Cotillion
Choreography - Derryl Yeager, Carson Oliver
Lily Farrar-Creigh Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner
Sierra Mineo Naomi Reid Natalie Riggs Peiter Mortensen
Carson Oliver Reese Wheeler Ian Sabatine Mos Hernandez
Giggle Girl
Emily Perucca
Salem’s Mass
Choreography - Chantele Cook
The Priest – Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Grayden Harrison
Reese Wheeler Ian Sabatine Jacob Beaver Mos Hernandez
Noah Bradford Tino Smith
The Accused – Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh
Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs
Athena Rogers Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson
Sierra Mineo Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader
Kiana Ducusin RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks
Natalie Hasse Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Thriller PROGRAM
The Avenged – Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh
Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Natalie Riggs Athena Rogers Gwen Tessman Emeline Schick-Donaldson Sierra Mineo
Naomi Reid Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader Kiana Ducusin
RyLee Altenburg Emily Brooks
Natalie Hasse Cassidy Riggs-Herman
Thriller Anniversary Video
Chucky-Rama
Choreography – Derryl Yeager
Bubbles the Clown
John Boy
Slitherins
Aerial Choreography by Aeris Aerial Arts
Christina Jachmann Holly Jarvis/Chloe Kent Jadyn Boyce
Lost Boys
Choreography - Derryl Yeager
Peiter Mortensen Carson Oliver Grayden Harrison
Reese Wheeler Ian Sabatine Jacob Beaver Mos Hernandez
Noah Bradford Tino Smith Boston Cervinski-Baldwin
Becca Mitchell Natalie Hasse Emily Brooks
The Meal – Boston Cervinski-Baldwin Lily Farrar-Creigh
Jamie Helfer Becca Mitchell Allie Renner Athena Rogers
Sierra Mineo Libby Brooks Ashley Schrader
Transfiguration an Andrew Yeager Film
Thriller PROGRAM
Trick or Treat
Choreography – Derryl Yeager
Athena Rogers & Company
Thriller Finale
Choreography - Derryl Yeager Company
Youth Casts
September 27, 2024 - 7:30pm
Tueller School of Dance
Director - Tina Comadena
Faculty - Nikila Lopez, Jordan Farmer & Nicole Wiley-Assistant, Laycee Mozingo-Assistant
CHUCKY CAST
Aisley Simmons Carolina Carter Colette Johnson
Dominique Lopez Ellie Karren Eleanor Lutz
Lily Nydegger Marley Heath McKiah Smith
Olivia Miles Shaylee Amussen
ZOMBIE CAST
Battee Ballard Izzy Christensen Khloe Johnson Kaylea Johnson
Tenley Rasmussen Taitym Andrus Jett Tueller Isabelle Saunders
Addee Harris Kodie Sparks Quinn Brammer Kennedy Tawzer
Layla Carlsen Izzie Fryer Arleah Kooyman Bethany Nielson Naya Paz Jace Schaaf Bella Young
September 28, 2024 - 2:00pm
Dance Illusion
Director - Lisa Preece
Faculty - Jane Miller
CHUCKY CAST
Harper Forrey Addie Johnson Sophia Kendrick Reese Kane
London Klc Cosette Miller Ember Miller Lilly Smith
Miley Stembridge Indee Ward Mataya Wright
Thriller PROGRAM
ZOMBIE CAST
MackLynn Buttars Oaklie Clark Alyssa Cox Ava Cox
Janie Francom Albani Gifford McKenzie Gleisberg
Sadie Johnson Ashlin Lamb Oaklie Lamb Jayda Lamborn
Brielle Miller Jaycee Preece Tylan Reeder Tori Stolworthy
September 28, 2024 - 7:30pm
Starrsteppers
Director - Tina Simmons
Faculty - Jenni Noack, Heather Davis, Blaire Paull, Savannah Salvesen, Kayla Rittel, Miranda Vanderbeek, Morgan Simmons, Star Lyon
CHUCKY CAST
Emily Andersen Daisy Davis Kinsley Davis Skyla Hagman
Mia Johnson Evie Kennedy Gracelynn Larsen Jaylynn Larsen Clover Lyon Oaklee VanAmen Dezeray Vanderbeek
ZOMBIE CAST
Jordyn Anderson Kaycee Anderson Emma Bradley
Raylynne Bruderer Leila Henderson Cosette Lyon Amelia Mann
Jolisa Martin Regina Mendez Haddi Noack
Chaenonalae Paull Katriel Reeve Alyssa Robison Kamree Simmons Morgan Simmons
Guest Artists
JOHN BOY (Bubbles the Clown) is an actor/ recording artist/comedian from New York City.
As a performer, John Boy has toured North America in the Broadway National Tour of “Cats” (Rum Tum Tugger).
New York City credits include: Missed Connections: A Craig’s List musical (Broadway workshop), Poserville (Julian), Alice In Cyberland (Cheshire Cat), and Tarnish (Greg).
Regional theatre credits include: Cats (Rum Tum Tugger) at Tuacahn Amphitheatre, ODT’s Thriller (Bubbles the Clown), Hair (Berger), Big River (The Duke), Annie (Rooster), and Joseph... (Gad/The Baker).
John Boy is also an award winning choreographer who has had the pleasure of working with Kristin Chenoweth and the original Broadway cast of “Wicked” (benefits and promotional events). Other choreographer credits include: The Glamazons (America’s Got Talent), Nudists In Love (NYFringe), Pippin (University of Illinois), Hair, and Godspell.
John Boy is currently working in NYC on new music. His debut cd, “Choked Not Broken” and “The Nocturnal Circus” (featuring the hit song “Skinny Me”) are available worldwide.
For more info on John Boy or for more fun with Bubbles and updates on future shows, go to: www.theboyexperience.com, Instagram @theboyexperience, facebook.com/johnboymusic, or follow Bubbles the Clown on Instagram @Bubblestheklown1, TikTok @Bubblestheklown1, Facebook at Bubblestheklown or Twitter: @bubblestheklown.
Last but not least, don’t forget snapchat at snaptheklown .
Guest Artists
Emily Hayes Perucca has enjoyed a live entertainment career that has taken her around the world as a singer, dancer, actor, director, choreographer, and show owner. Some of her favorite performing jobs include Eponine in Les Misérables at Tuacahn Amphitheater, princess-ing in numerous stage shows at Disneyland Resort, and singing and dancing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes. In recent years she has primarily switched gears to producing and directing (www.ladiesoflyric.com) so that she can spend more time in her favorite roles as “mom” to 2 boys and “wife” to her babes. Giggles for life!
Guest Artists
DARLA DAY, owner of Aeris Aerial Arts, co-creator of 90&9, and the show ‘Fighter’ is a professional aerial acrobat and circus performer. She has performed across the country with Cirque USA, Cirque Du Soleil, J&D Entertainment, Ke$ha, David Tutera, MTV, SONY, Cindy Lauper, Dallas Cowboys, Celebrity Super Bowl Parties, Odyssey Dance Theatre and more. She has directed, choreographed and produced Cirquestyle shows in Salt Lake City and all over the world for the past 15 years. She was creative director for an International show in Tokyo, Japan starring Lauren Allred from The Greatest Showman. She has directed shows for USANA, NUSKIN, VIVINT, XYNGULAR, MORINDA (TAHITIAN NONI), The Governer’s Galas, Younique, America First, and more. She was the aerial director for an episode of Wonderama, The aerial director for Vocal Point’s, “Greatest Showman” Music Video and appeared as ‘Zendaya’, Director for the One Voice Children’s Choir Music Video, “I’m not Broken”, Aerial Director for One Voice Children’s Choir, “This is Me Music Video”, Aerial Director for Lexi Walker’s , “When a Child is Born” music video, Co-Director for Symphonique presented by UVU, and more. She choreographed, co-choreographed, and created the aerial acts in Thriller as well as trained the aerialists. She has loved being part of Thriller for the last 12 years. She’d love to see you come train how to fly at her studio! www.aerisaerial.com
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all those who made this performance possible, including:
Cache Valley Center for the Arts
- LOGAN -
Client Services Manager
Angie LeVere
Technical Director
Brian Jurena
Lighting Designer/Technical Director/Stage Manager
Lukas Orton
Assistant Stage Manager
Matt Jennings
Associate Artistic Director
Veronica Cabling
Dance Captain
Darby Jones
Costumes
Cheryl Yeager and Daurene Turpin
Merchandise Director
Nick Mitchell
Photography
Greg Baird and Lily Farrar-Creigh
Special Thanks to:
Production Sponsor: Athlecare
Hotel Accommodations: Historic Hampton Inn & Suites
Ogden by Hilton
Comfort Inn & Suites
Logan, near the University