'Gleek School Musical'

A fun-filled theater mashup that satirizes and sends up "Glee" and "High School Musical"? It was only a matter of time, surely. First on the block, at least in Utah, is The Off Broadway Theatre with "Gleek School Musical," a stage rendition of all that we love about two of television's best-loved paeans to U.S. high-school life — and all that we love to make fun of about them. Written and directed by Eric J. Jensen, with Kimberly Lochner providing music direction, the show offers the requisite singing and dancing, "Hamlet" done in a musical style, and a lesson in what happens when special effects are applied to basketball.

When • Through March 10. Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.

Where • Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $8-$16. Call 801-355-4628 or visit www.TheOBT.org or www.laughingstock.us for more information.

Three 'Tall Tales'

American folk tales get such short shrift these days that more of us know who Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are than Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed. Don't let this happen to your children. If you care about American culture, take them to see "Tremendously Tall Tales" at the SCERA Center. This collection of American folk tales turned into stage drama will fill them in on all they need know about Bunyan, the lumberjack, Appleseed, the planter of orchards, and John Henry, the railroad man. Telling it all in humor and high style is the hardscrabble theater troupe of Eddie B. Brown's All-Star Yokels. This production is directed by Robinne Booth, with music direction by Martha Glissmeyer and choreography by Shawn Mortensen.

When • Monday, Feb. 20, and Friday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Where • SCERA Center for the Arts, Showhouse II, 745 S. State St., Orem

Tickets • $4-$6. Call 801-225-2787 or visit www.scera.org for more information.

'The Beaux' Stratagem'

Few plays, Restoration-era or otherwise, have as long a history as George Farquhar's 1707 play "The Beaux' Stratagem." It's the story of Archer and Aimwell, two young men so down on their luck they plan on seducing young heiresses for their money. Farquhar's play generates most of its laughs from the cross-currents of its characters' motivations, right down to the very moment the young lovers finally marry. The play apparently earned the interest of Thornton Wilder, who attempted to adapt it for modern times with Ken Ludwig. With the project resurrected in 2004 by Ludwig himself, the play had its premiere at The Shakespeare Company of Washington, D.C., in 2006. Now the drama students of Judge Memorial High School present their production.

When • Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-25, 7:30 p.m.

Where • Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 650 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $10. Call 801-517-2100 or visit www.judgememorial.com for more information.

'Duel Ality 2.0'

Another Language Performing Arts Company, the wife-and-husband team of Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic, presents another in its series of rarefied theater productions. This time the production is "Duel Ality 2.0," a "telematic" cinema project that explores the concepts of relationships and personal duality.

When • Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 26, 4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, 7 p.m.; and Sunday, March 4, 4 p.m.

Where • Intermountain Networking and Scientific Computation Center, VisLab Black Box Theater, 155 S. 1452 East, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City.

Tickets • $7. Students free. Reservations recommended. Call 801-531-9419 or visit www.anotherlanguage.org.

Tradition!

It's always difficult trying to find suitable husbands for your three daughters, but almost impossible when the Tsar and other assorted Cossacks are knocking at your door in pre-revolution Russia. "Fiddler on the Roof," the musical by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein, has been justly famous since the day it opened on Broadway in 1964, right up to the year the 1971 film was unleashed onto a moviegoing public, and beyond. In fact, few musicals elevate their subject matter the way this one does, right down to the way it lends incredible poignancy to domestic issues of marriage, getting married and just plain getting by when all the world seems against you and your cultural traditions. Ogden High School students present their own take on Tevye and his daughters.

When • Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24-25, 7 p.m.

Where • Ogden High School, 2828 Harrison Blvd.

Tickets • $5. Call 801-737-8700 or visit www.ohs.ogden.k12.ut.us.

Jacob and sons

Utah's favorite musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," comes to Ogden's Terrace Plaza Playhouse in a production directed by Sally and Ryan Paskins, with Ogdenites Dave Clegg and Justin Stanford as Joseph.

When • Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25, 7:30 p.m.

Where • Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden

Tickets • $7-$12. Call 801-393-0070 or visit www.terraceplayhouse.com for more information.

Then we'll rollerskate

Australian pop star Olivia Newton-John immortalized the 1980 fantasy-buzz film that was Robert Greenwald's "Xanadu." Then Jeff Lynne and John Farrar took a scalpel to the cult classic film to find that not too much needed changing, except for the addition of some great songs. So in 2007 the musical "Xanadu" was born. Whether you've seen the 1980 film or not, Hale Center Theater Orem's production will take you there again, telling the story of Sonny's aspirations to open a roller disco against all odds, with help from a girl named Kira, who is, in fact, a Greek muse.

When • Through April 7, 7:30 nightly (except Sundays) with 3 p.m. matinees most Saturdays.

Where • Hale Center Theater Orem, 25 W. 400 North, Orem

Tickets • $16-$20. Visit www.haletheater.org/theater/ for more information.

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