A scene from the 2007 season satirizes the then-recent renaming of the Utah Jazz's Basketball Arena after a nuclear waste disposal company.

Saturday's Voyeur is an annual musical satire formerly produced by Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Each year a new show is written to parody contemporary life, politics, and religion in Utah. Saturday's Voyeur was created in 1978 by Michael Buttars & Nancy Borgenicht. In 1990, Allen Nevins joined the team writing team, and continued to co-write the show each year with Borgenicht. The pair opted to take Saturday's Voyeur from Salt Lake Acting Company in 1992 and 1993, but then returned to Salt Lake Acting Company the following year, where it remained until 2019.

The name Saturday's Voyeur is itself a parody of the production Saturday's Warrior, by Lex de Azevedo. With the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being prevalent in Utah culture it often becomes a dominant topic in the annual production. Poking fun at the doctrine, customs, and church figures of the religion through musical satire is used as comic relief for church members and non-members alike.

In July 2020, Salt Lake Acting Company announced it would no longer produce Saturday's Voyeur. Borgenicht and Nevins retain the rights to the property.

Productions

References

• Pierce, Scott (9 July 2020). "'Saturday's Voyeur' is over. Salt Lake Acting Company won't produce it again". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City: The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
• Hansen, Erica (26 Jun 2010). "'Saturday's Voyeur' shows humor in news". Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved 9 Oct 2010.
• Frost, Bill (4 Aug 1997). "Saturday's Voyeur '97: Comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable". weeklywire.com. Salt Lake City: Copperfield Publishing, Inc. Retrieved 9 Oct 2018.
• Langlois, Jason (13 Jul 2010). "The "Saturday's Voyeur" experience is a must see". utahtheaterbloggers.com. Utah Theatre Bloggers Association. Retrieved 9 Oct 2018.
• In This Week SLC http://www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=2421562
• The Salt Lake Tribune https://web.archive.org/web/20110707054549/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49833258-76/voyeur-saturday-utah-lake.html.csp
• Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 'Voyeur' full of talent, but offensive, 24 Jun 2003

External links

• Official website of the Salt Lake Acting Company