(upbeat music) - Peery's Egyptian Theater holds a lot of history for the Ogden community, and it just celebrated its hundredth anniversary.

Heidi Miller is here to tell us more about the historic theater and an upcoming event with PBS Utah.

Hi, Heidi, welcome.

So, a hundred years, it makes it very perfect that you are pairing up with PBS Utah, that's looking at a hundred years of filmmaking here in Utah.

- Yes, we are so grateful to collaborate with PBS and bring the film.

- Hollywood in Utah.

- Hollywood in Utah on February 11th.

It's going to be a great event.

They'll be screening that film and then doing a Q and A after.

And we're just excited that our theater that just turned a hundred years is hosting this event.

- It's wonderful, yeah, and the filmmaker, Nancy Green is so good.

You'll really enjoy her at that, she's great.

And it's a beautiful film.

So I know you just celebrated your hundredth anniversary, so tell us a little about the history of the theater.

- Absolutely, so the theater was built in 1924 after the Peery family.

They had a hotel at the same location and it burned down.

So they built the theater in 10 months and it opened in July of 1924.

And the first film that they screened was called Wanderer of the Wasteland, which is now a lost film, so it doesn't exist anymore.

- Oh.

- And yeah, it almost shut down in the eighties just because, you know, it became kind of decrepit and run down.

But due to the community and a lot of amazing individuals, they were able to save it so that it's still here today for us to enjoy.

- And I know the theater houses the Ogden Musical theater company, and tell us about their upcoming production there.

- Yes, so part of that restoration, they pushed back the stage and made a full performing arts stage.

So we have the ability to do performing arts.

So we have Ogden Musical theater, and this year we have a full season.

We have a Tale of Two Cities coming up, then Annie in the summer.

And we do a really cool Dracula performance in October, which is a, a local playwright wrote that.

And then this winter we'll do a Christmas Carol.

- Alright, you've got a lot going on and I congratulate you.

Thanks for being here.

- Thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about Ogden's Peery's Egyptian Theater and the PBS Utah Event, Hollywood in Utah, the film, it's February 11th from six to eight, go to PBSutah.org/events.

I'm Mary Dickson, thanks for watching Contact.

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