Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh Scotland November 13, 1850. Prone to illness and a recurring cough, much of his early childhood was spent isolated at home. Though he wouldn’t learn to read until he was nearly 8 years old, he loved to dictate poetry and stories to his nurse. He wrote compulsively throughout his childhood. These early years were to be the catalyst for a lifelong calling as a storyteller. 

Treasure Island, originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys, first began to appear in the pages of the Young Folks magazine in 17 weekly installments from October 1, 1881 to January 28, 1882. The story was later republished as the novel Treasure Island and proved to be Stevenson's first financial and critical success. 

Stevenson loaded his pirate tale with a bounty of colorful characters, action and danger all to the delight of young Victorian imaginations. Treasure Island literally defined the elements of classic pirate lore including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, mysterious tropical islands and the quintessential image of the one-legged pirate. Since its first publication Treasure Island has been translated into multiple languages, adapted into numerous films, stage plays and television specials. Even Walt Disney himself would produce his own film version of the story. He would also use it as inspiration for his Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland theme park ride, which would eventually grow into its own film franchise. 

As we approached Ken Ludwig’s stage adaptation of this story, we realized it was both an intimate retelling with a very cinematic scale. We wanted to be true to the epic adventure of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original novel, while really heightening the beautiful way Mr. Ludwig captured the relationship between Jim and Long John Silver. We hired composer J Bateman to score the action, giving it an emotional depth as well as a customized, larger than life film quality. Rob Moffat’s vocal arrangements create both a raw folk sentiment and an ethereal choral grandeur. Kacey Udy has created a heroic scenic playground unlike anything we have ever had on our stage. I am infinitely grateful to the amazing crew I have been able to sail with on this journey. The contribution of hundreds of Hale artists has, I believe, resulted in a priceless treasure. 

At the heart of this ultimate pirate adventure, Stevenson crafted the unlikely friendship between Jim Hawkins and the pirate Long John Silver. Though young Jim sails off to discover the riches promised by a stolen map, it is his greater discovery that transforms him forever; In every man lies the potential for good and evil. Which of these he becomes depends upon the treasure he chooses to pursue. 

— Dave Tinney
 

Over the Sea to Skye

Scottish folk tune. Lyric by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Mull was astern, Rum on the port,
Eigg on the starboard bow;
Glory of youth glowed in his soul:
Where is that glory now?

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,
Mountains of rain and sun,
All that was good, all that was fair,
All that was me is gone.

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Give me again all that was there,
Give me the sun that shone!
Give me the eyes, give me the soul,
Give me the lad that’s gone!

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Thrilled to be back on the HCT stage! Benjamin’s credits include: HCT - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Covey Arts Centre - 1820 The Musical (World Premiere); Carriage House Theatre - Catch Me If You Can (Canada Premiere) and Disney’s Mary Poppins; Jackson Hole Playhouse - Ballad of Cat Ballou; Pardoe Theatre - Into The Woods; Margetts Theatre - Radium Girls and Wendy & Peter Pan. 

Excited to be back on the HCT stage! Matthew’s credits include: HCT - Guys and Dolls (Benny Southstreet) , Les Misérables (Marius), Big River (Huck Finn), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Gideon), and Joseph...Dreamcoat (Simeon). Other credits include: University of Michigan - Passing Strange (Mr. Venus), A New Brain (Mr. Bungee), and My One and Only (Billy). 

Josh is thrilled to return to the role of Long John Silver after portraying the role in our 2009 production of Treasure Island. Other favorite credits include: Guys & Dolls (Nathan Detroit), Les Misérables (Thernardier), Bright Star (Daddy Cane), The Addams Family (Gomez Addams), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Dom Claude Frollo), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Elton), The Heart of Robin Hood (Robert Summers), Treasure Island and To Kill A Mockingbird (Bob Ewell). 

Some of BJ’s favorite credits include: HCT - The Mousetrap, Murder on the Orient Express, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Cinderella, Phantom, and The Wizard of Oz; Weber State University - Will Rogers Follies, Sleepy Hollow The Musical, The Lion in Winter,  Tartuffe, Assassins, and JingleJacks; The Grand Theatre - Forever Plaid and First Date; 

Audiences will remember Kelton most recently as Dr. Craven in The Secret Garden. His other HCT credits include A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Darnay), Murder on the Orient Express (Samuel Ratchett/James Arbuthnot), Cinderella (Jean-Michelle), and The Scarlet Pimpernel. 

Making his HCT debut! Roger’s favorite credits include: Sting & Honey - Waiting for Godot (Pozzo), Hedda Gabler (Tesman), and The Winter’s Tale (Autolycus); Utah Rep - Amadeus (Salieri), and Doubt (Father Flynn); 

Carson was recently seen in this year's productions of The Secret Garden and Les Misérables. Other credits include: Hale Centre Theatre- Bright Star (Dr. Nordquist/Ensemble), Cinderella (Fox/Footman), Les Misérables (Courfeyrac), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Father Dupin); 

Ecstatic to be on the HCT stage once again, Bradley’s favorite stage credits include: The Mousetrap, Murder on the Orient Express, Newsies, Cash on Delivery!, and The Diary of Anne Frank with Hale Centre Theatre and A Christmas Carol (Marley) and Tuck Everlasting with Hale Center Theater Orem, 

Doug is thrilled to be returning to the HCT stage after appearing as Major Metclaf in last season’s production of The Mousetrap. Favorite HCT credits include: Big Fish (Edward Bloom), Mary Poppins (Mr. Banks), Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale Sr.), and Ragtime (Father). He holds a BFA in Music Dance Theatre from BYU. “Thank you Brandon!”

A familiar face to Hale Centre audiences, Mark is excited to be playing on our stage again. Credits include: Guys and Dolls (Arvide Abernathy),  A Tale of Two Cities (Mr. Jarvis Lorry), Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot), My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins), 1776 (John Adams), 

Brett is returning to the HCT stage after last season's production of A Christmas Carol. His other credits include Tarzan (Snipes), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour), Into the Woods (Baker), Catch Me If You Can (Hanratty), Spamalot (Patsy). He is currently the Director of Clinical Education in Speech-Language Pathology at the U of U Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. 

Ben is pleased to return to HCT! Favorite performing credits include: HCT - The Play That Goes Wrong  (Dennis/Perkins), Beau Jest (Joel), Over the River… (Nick), Peter and the Starcatcher (Smee), The Heart of Robin Hood (Much), and Newsies (Weisel); 

Kristi’s favorite credits include: HCT - Mollie Ralston (The Mousetrap), Miss Adelaide (Guys and Dolls), Mrs. Brill (Mary Poppins), and Charlotte (Cinderella); Harman Theatre - Olive Madison (The Odd Couple: Female Version); Centerpoint Theatre - Elizabeth Proctor (The Crucible); Good Company Theatre - Madame de Polignac (Marie Antoinette). 

Returning to the Hale Centre Stage, Becca was recently seen in our productions of A Tale of Two Cities,  Bright Star and The Addams Family. Other credits: HCTO- Little Women (Jo March), The Odd Couple (Cecily Pigeon), Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Annie, and Anything Goes.

Beatriz is returning to the Hale Centre Stage after playing in our 2021 production of A Chritsmas Carol. Favorite stage credits include: HCT:  Disney’s Tarzan (Kala), Seussical; BYU: La Gata (Wonderland) and Ronette (Little Shop of Horrors); Sundance Summer Theatre: Rusty (Footloose); 

Rachel is beyond thrilled to be playing on our boards in this production of Treasure Island. Previous stage credits include: A Tale of Two Cities with Hale Centre Theatre along with Newsies, Bridges of Madison County, and Footloose with Grandstreet Theatre. “I’m glad I can swim”

Most recently, Matt was seen as Jacob Marley/ Undertaker in last season’s production of A Christmas Carol. Some of Matt’s other favorite productions that he has been a part of include Wait Until Dark, To Kill a Mockingbird, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Big Fish. Matt graduated from Utah State University in Theatre Arts and spends his days working for Solutionreach. “Happy wife, happy life.”

Making his HCT debut! Taylor is honored to join the Hale Centre Theatre Family with this production of Treasure Island. Taylor’s resume includes: The 39 Steps with St. George Musical Theatre; Deathtrap, Baskerville, I Hate Hamlet, Little Shop of Horrors with SimonFest Theatre Co.; and Finding the Fickle Fortune with Pickleville Playhouse. Taylor was trained at Southern Utah University. “Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind” Doctor Who.

Kenichi’s favorite credits include: HCT - Guys and Dolls, Disney’s Tarzan, An American in Paris, Newsies (Finch), The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Kenichi works as a dance teacher at Miss Margene’s Creative Classroom and as Team Lead for new hires with Mountain America Credit Union. 

Making his HCT debut! Angel is excited to be a part of this production of Treasure Island. Other favorite stage credits include: The Jungle Book, Twelfth Night, and Sweeney Todd. “Care less, you’ll be less stressed”

Christian is honored to be back on our Centre Stage. Favorite stage credits include: The Heart of Robin Hood and The Wizard of Oz with Hale Centre Theatre; The Hunchback of Notre Dame with HCTO; and Disney’s Tarzan with SCERA Shell. 

A familiar face to HCT audiences. Previous credits include: A Tale of Two Cities, Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis understudy), Bright Star (Max), and The Addams Family (Lucas Beineke) just to name a few. “Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final”. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Abrin was last seen on the HCT stage in Guys and Dolls. Previous HCT credits include: Les Misérables, Disney’s Tarzan, Mary Poppins, Seussical, Freaky Friday (Adam), American in Paris, The Wizard of Oz, Newsies (Albert/Bill), Tuck Everlasting, AIDA, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Joel), Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, and Oliver! 

Making his HCT debut! Rob is honored to be playing on the Centre Stage boards. Additional stage credits include: The Odd Couple:Female Version (Manolo Costazuela) with West Valley Performing Arts and Twelfth Night with the Parker Theatre. “Believe in yourself. Not in the me who believes in you. Believe in yourself!”

HCT is glad to welcome Kaden back to our stage after last being seen in our 2021 production of Les Misérables. Other notable credits include Phantom and A Christmas Carol with HCT; Musical of Musicals with The Grand; Les Misérables with HCTO along with the 2014 season with Playmill Theatre.  He currently works for Usana in their French Customer Service dept. “Memento Mori”

Brock was most recently seen on the HCT stage in Les Misérables. Favorite credits include: HCT- Disney’s Tarzan, Seussical The Musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Jehan Frollo), AIDA, The Heart of Robin Hood (Guy of Gisborne), and  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Benjamin Pontipee). Other favorite credits include: Harman Hall-Footloose (Ren); 

Making his HCT debut! Scotty is thrilled to join the Hale Centre Theatre for this production of Treasure Island. Along with this HCT, he has performed with Lyric Repertory Company and Good Theatre Company. Scotty graduated from USU with a BFA in Acting.

Armando is honored to return to Hale Centre Theatre after last season’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong (Trevor). Additional performing credits include: A Chorus Line (Paul) and  Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frankenstein) with The Stage Door Theatre (St. George) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (LeFou) with St. George Musical Theatre. 

Keith is no stranger to the HCT stage, having been seen in Disney’s Tarzan, Phantom, The Wizard of Oz, Aida, Joseph and the… Dreamcoat, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Pirate Queen, Oklahoma!, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Brigadoon and Tarzan. 

Excited to be back at Hale Centre Theatre; previously, Caleb was seen on our stage in Disney's Tarzan. Other stage credits include: The Jackson Hole Playhouse - The Ballad of Cat Ballou; \

Aaron is honored to return to the HCT stage. He most recently played in the band for Always…Patsy Cline. He holds a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance and performs/records with Disney, Pixar, Warner-Chappell Production Music, and the Aaron Ashton Band.

Making her HCT debut! Julie is honored to play along with this production of Treasure Island. Favorite Musical Theatre credits include Elf and Fiddler on the Roof with Pioneer Theatre Company. Julie earned her BA from Brigham Young University and MM from Cleveland Institute of Music. “Inhale sky, Excel stars”

Some of Derek's favorite credits with Hale Centre Theatre include: Les Misérables, Tarzan, Cinderella, Oklahoma!, The Pirate Queen, She Loves Me, The Wedding Singer, and Zorro: The Musical.

For Hale Centre Theatre, Dave has previously directed Chitty Chitty Bang, The Secret Garden, Guys and Dolls, Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, Disney’s Tarzan, Disney’s Mary Poppins, Bright Star, Seussical, The Addams Family, Cinderella, Matilda, An American in Paris, The Wizard of Oz, Wait Until Dark, Newsies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, AIDA, The Heart of Robin Hood, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Sister Act, The Pirate Queen, Peter and the Starcatcher, She Loves Me, Hello, Dolly!, The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Zorro the Musical, and Oliver!,. 

Rob graduated with a degree in music dance theater from BYU and has performed and taught regionally in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California. He received an MFA in directing from the University of Idaho. He returned to Utah to teach musical theater at UVU in 2012 where he directed Cabaret, Anything Goes, 9 to 5, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 

J Bateman is a music producer and film composer. He has produced several international best-selling fitness albums, and has both composed and produced music for ESPN, NASCAR, HealthRider, NordicTrack and Billy Blanks’ TaeBo. 

Cristian is thrilled to call Treasure Island his debut project with Hale Centre Theatre. He received training through Dueling Arts International and the Society of American Fight Directors and received his MFA from UNVL. Some favorite credits include: Fight Director - Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Tuacahn and Two Gentlemen of Verona with UMBC; Stunt Coordinator - Passage to Zarahemla and The Good Samaritan; Stunt Man - Leo Foo Village Wild West Show.

Jess is thrilled to be at the helm of Treasure Island.. Other HCT credits include The Mousetrap, The Play That Goes Wrong, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Phantom, Steel Magnolias, and Matilda. 

Kacey is the Creative Director and Resident Scenic Designer at Hale Centre Theatre. He has designed over 100 productions at HCT and loves the challenge of working on our unique stages. Kacey oversaw many of the design aspects of the new building in Sandy and feels fortunate to be able to design on the stages that he helped create. 

Peggy has designed & sewn for HCT since 2005. She lists some of her favorite designs as The Heart of Robin Hood, Peter and the Starcatcher, Big Fish, Tarzan, Les Misérables, The Civil War, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, Aida (2006), The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Matilda. 

Jaron has been the Resident Lighting Designer for the oldest operating summer theater in the nation: The Cape Playhouse, where his credits include Little Shop of Horrors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Deathtrap, Clue, Altar Boyz, Steel Magnolias, Art, Red, The Foreigner, Murder for Two. 

Michelle has always loved telling stories. Being Hawaiian has helped her gain experience in events from a young age. She decided to dive into finding out more about sound and how it functions. This path led her to her MFA in Sound for the Performing Arts from Purdue University. 

Michelle is extremely passionate about details, research, beautiful and interesting “things,” anything to do with flowers, and opening packages. She recently designed her 84th show with our production of A Christmas Carol 2021; some of her other favorite designs have included The Drowsy Chaperone, Over The River..., Les Miserables, Tarzan, Tuck Everlasting, My Fair Lady, AIDA, and She Loves Me. 

Krissa has been with HCT for a number of years, and has designed hair and make-up for The Secret Garden, A Tale of Two Cities, Bright Star, Seussical, Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, An American in Paris, AIDA, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, She Loves Me, and Peter and the Starcatcher. 

Previous HCT credits include Projection Designer for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Secret Garden, Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, Disney’s Tarzan, Murder on the Orient Express, Million Dollar Quartet, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Bright Star, Seussical, The Addams Family, Cinderella, Freaky Friday, Matilda and video content for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Daddy Long Legs.

As an accomplished artist and associate Designer, Madeline’s work was recently seen in our productions of Guys and Dolls, Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, Disney’s Tarzan, Murder on the Orient Express, Million Dollar Quartet, Baz Lurhman’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Bright Star, Seussical, Matilda, and Cinderella. 

Nick is thrilled to be working with HCT on the design and programming of automation for this production! HCT credits include: Guys & Dolls, The Secret Garden, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Christmas Carol, and One for the Pot.