(upbeat music) - Pioneer Theatre Company presents the Utah Premier of "The Prom", giving audiences the opportunity to see this seven-time Tony-nominated hit.

Musical actor Anne Tolpegin is here as our guest today.

Hi, there, Anne, so nice to have you.

- Thank you, very happy to be here.

- Yeah, so talk about "Prom".

- This is such a fantastic musical, like you said, we're really excited to bring it to Utah.

It's the first time that it's ever been done in the state, and it's a wonderful, wonderful show.

It's nominated for seven Tony Awards.

It's about a young woman named Emma, who grew up in Indiana in a small town.

She wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom, and the local school board shut it down.

So four down-and-out Broadway divas come to rally around her, and it's a beautiful show.

Really fun, lots of great dancing, just heartwarming.

It's a great, great night of theater.

- It's great.

And you play Dee Dee, one of the divas.

- I'm Dee Dee Allen, the diva, yes.

(laughing) Typecast.

No, it's a wonderful, yeah, it's the role that Meryl Streep played in the movie.

- [Mary] Yeah.

- And it's the role that Beth Leavel played on Broadway, and it's a wonderful, fun, ridiculous part.

So we're having a good time.

- That sounds just great.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

So talk about some of the other folks in the cast.

- Sure, we have a wonderful team with us.

We have a number of actors from New York who are, we're all do playing the roles that we do in New York anyway.

We're all Broadway, off Broadway regional actors who know a lot about the business.

And so we're just having, we're all here having a wonderful time playing our diva selves.

(laughing) - Channeling your inner diva.

- Poking fun at ourselves, yeah.

It's wonderful.

- That sounds great.

And you've been on the stage at Pioneer Theater before.

- I have.

I am so happy to be making my fourth appearance at Pioneer.

I was here a couple of years ago with "Sweeney Todd", and a couple years before that with "The Last Ship".

So it's such an incredible theater to work at.

And the audiences here are so spectacular.

I'm thrilled to be back.

- And they love musicals.

- They do.

- Well, thank you you so much for being here.

- Yes, yeah, yeah, thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming production, "The Prom" at Pioneer Theatre, it runs May 12th through 27th.

Find out more, pioneertheatre.org, pioneertheatre.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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