So when I took my 93-year-old mother to see Hale’s holiday chestnut, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” at the new Mountain America Performing Arts Centre in Sandy, my editors and I were as interested in the accessibility of the building as the production.
The two-theater complex is a wonderful, thought-out, state-of-the-art, first-class facility, but there are glitches to address.
In the smaller Jewel Box amphitheater where “A Christmas Carol” is being staged through Dec. 23, the chairs are comfortable, the legroom impressive. The sound system is fantastic — you don’t even realize the actors are miked until a technician forgets to turn up the narrator’s mic, which happened annoyingly often.