Salt Lake Theatre

[3] With regard to the planning of the Salt Lake Theatre, Church leader Brigham Young was enthusiastic about the project and styled himself as "designer and general dictator of the whole affair" but in fact the exterior was designed by William H. Folsom, who became architect of the nearby Salt Lake Temple soon after completing this project,[4] and the interior by E. L. T. Harrison based on the Drury Lane Theatre in London.

Barnum, Maude Adams, Edwin Booth, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Al Jolson, and Lillian Russell.

"[5] With the rise of the motion picture business after World War I, the theatre's popularity waned and it accumulated substantial debt.

In the 1960s, a musical was written about the Salt Lake Theatre called Papa and the Playhouse, authored by Albert Mitchell and L. Clair Likes.

Crawford Gates directed composers such as Ardean Watts and Rowan Taylor in writing the musical scores for the production.