HALE CENTRE THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENTS:

PRODUCTION STAFF & CREW

Producers: David & Corrin Dietlein

Program Director: Ben Hale

Costume Designer: Celia Erickson

Lighting Designers: Ashton Corey

Projection Designer: Boyd Cluff

Set Designer: McKenna Carpenter

Master Carpenter: Tim Dietlein and Kyle Webb

Assistant Carpenter: Travis Dietlein

Set Painting Assistants: Brittany Arwine & Liz de la Torre

Stage Manager: Danny Karapetian

Audio Engineer: Adam Stilson 

Assistant Stage Manager: Travis Dietlein

Production Assistant: Rebekah Raun

PERFORMERS & BAND

Lead Singer: Michael Monroe Goodman

Lead Singer: Ben Hale

Lead Singer: Dave Burton

Lead Guitar: Jake Shepard

Drums-Vocals: Mari Ericksen

Bass-Vocals: Isaac Ericksen


Michael Monroe Goodman
Lead Singer

Michael Monroe Goodman is a singer songwriter from Kentucky who has spent his whole life in music and entertainment. He has three critically well received albums and continues to tour with his band year round. He spent several years with Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet and Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire. He spends most his time writing songs, playing guitar and trying to keep traditional country music alive. 

Ben Hale
Lead Singer

Ben has lead a multifaceted career in live music, recording and musical theater. He’s toured across the United States and Canada for the last decade performing both original music and tributes to the great musical icons Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and more. 

Select credits Include Phantom of the Opera-Las Vegas (Raoul U/S, Swing), Million Dollar Quarter-Las Vegas, Tuacahn, Hale Center Theater Orem and Sandy (Johnny Cash), Ring of Fire- Syracuse and Vero Beach (Johnny Cash/Man 2), 

His debut album was signed to Extreme Music-Sony/ATV and has been featured in over 50 tv shows including placements on Amazon, HBO, Netflix, NBC, TLC, Lifetime, Nickelodeon and Hulu. 

Dave Burton
Lead Singer

Dave Burton is an actor, folk singer, songwriter and storyteller from Mapleton, Utah. You may recognize Dave if you have seen shows at the Hale in Orem Utah or traveled to the Playmill in West Yellowstone Montana. Past favorite roles include Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Chauvelin in the Scarlet Pimpernel and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. He and his lovely wife Natalie run a small fabric and craft thrift store in Utah County where they are raising five adorable children.

Jake Shepard
Lead Guitar

Jake is a Utah guitar slinger by way of New Hampshire. Jake makes you wonder where his hands stop and the guitar starts. He was previously living in Utah grinding the local scene and teaching, until The Rhyolite Sound asked him to move to Las Vegas to join their band. This year alone they played the world famous Troubadour in Los Angeles, headlined a country music festival in France, and opened up for Willie Nelson for his Luck Ranch Reunion. 


He has also recorded work with Lennon Roach and Paige Overton, an album that’s due out this year!  He has also had the privilege of  traveling to Mexico and Alaska playing guitar, the instrument that he LOVES!

Isaac  Ericksen
Bass-Vocals

Isaac Ericksen and his bass have been traveling the country since he was 15 years old. He has shared the stage with many popular Americana and Blues artists all over the nation including KBA winning artist Tas Cru, Tony Holiday, and his Father, Dick Earl. Isaac recently accompanied his father at the 2023 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN where their band, Electric Witness, took 3rd place against hundreds of competitors. Also appearing many times as “Brother Jay” in the musical ‘Million Dollar Quartet,’ Ericksen has worked hard and paid his dues to hone his craft as a musician and entertainer. 

Barber by day, Musician by night; Isaac resides in sunny St. George, UT.

Mari Ericksen
Drums-Vocals

Mari Solana Ericksen was born in New York, but grew up in Utah within a strong musical tradition. From a young age, Mari's training was coupled with experience on stage, on the road, and in the studio, drawing her first professional paycheck at the age of 13. An accomplished drummer, vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter, she has appeared with numerous groups in varying genres from Las Vegas to New York, including Tas Cru and His Band of Tortured Souls, Dick Earl's Electric Witness, Halogyns, Pale Dream, and Anna Beck. Her theatrical pit orchestra credits include Starlight Express, Mary Poppins, and School of Rock, and audiences in Salt Lake City are privileged to experience Mari's live solo act. Mari studied under a Music Performance scholarship at Dixie State University (Utah Tech) and is also a talented freelance artist who loves painting, photography, embroidery, and cake decorating.

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