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BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer
When October rolls around, the ghosts and ghouls creep out at Thompson Event Center in Mesa.
Scarizona Scaregrounds, 1901 N. Alma School Road, returns for another season of frights at night on Friday, Oct. 7.
Starting its seventh year, owner and director of operations Allen Thompson said despite some troubles over the summer, the crew has revamped the Valley tradition.
“At Scarizona, we have been offering Valley residents a fun, haunting experience for years. It’s practically a local Halloween institution,” Thompson said.
The pandemic didn’t affect much in the way of the business as Thompson said they remained open the past couple seasons.
“We survived staying busy and operat-
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Opera gives insight into wounded soldiers’ lives
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When Tess Altiveros was debating whether to take on a new project at the Seattle Opera, the conductor, Michael Sakir, told her, “This opera will change your life.”
She took the job — performing as the central character in a new opera, “The Falling and the Rising,” roles which she and Sakir will reprise for the Arizona Opera Friday, October 14, to Sunday, October 16, in Phoenix and Saturday, October 22, to Sunday, October 23, in Tucson.
“I will never forget him saying that and it did change my life,” Altiveros said. “It changed my perspective. It changed my understanding and made me sit up and pay attention to the fact that I had my own prejudices that I needed to deal with. “The Falling and the Rising” is a five-person opera based on the true stories of American military service members and veterans who have been wounded in the line of duty. (Ziggy
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“Mostly, it enabled a path for dialogue with a group of people that I have never been able to sit across the table with and certainly not make art with. It changed my view on myself as a citizen and my view on this world.” “The Falling and the Rising” is a fiveperson opera based on the true stories of American military service members and veterans who have been wounded in the line of duty.
Conceived of by Army Staff Sgt. Ben Hilget, who was an opera singer before he enlisted, it took shape when he, Zach Redler and Jerre Dye visited the Walter Reed Medical Center to interview wounded soldiers.
“The Falling and the Rising” breaks ground in its goals and its staging. Projections play an important role in the production. It is filled with humor – there are traditional opera singing deliveries of such lines as “You’d better get your ass in gear.”
Hilget said the opera aptly captures the sacrifices that modern service members make. He said he and the other opera creators were immediately floored by the stories that they heard when they started seeOPERA page 45
ing through COVID with a lot of restrictions in place,” Thompson said.
Though visitor numbers were reduced through the pandemic, Thompson said with COVID protocols in place, including temperature checks and social distancing, kept their workforce hanging tough.
“So, our attendance was much, much lower,” Thompson said. “But we continued to stay open and keep our people employed.”
But Thompson said the past couple years has made him rethink a lot of things and along with economic factors such as an increase in minimum wage, materials and insurance, they’ve made a few changes.
Though the monsoons and summer heat only postponed opening day by a week, the show goes on.
With a crew of more than 60 people, Thompson said the 10-acre property will open on Friday with some old classics and new features that he said should be another spooky spectacle.
“We just kind of laid off a little bit, slowed things down and took our time,” Thompson said. “We want to make sure everything’s done right.”
The newest feature “Mayhem in the Madness” is a collective work of props and animatronics from past years with a redesigned layout that gives actors more room.
“It’s not quite as contained,” Thompson said. “So, it’s a little more chaotic inside.”
With “more animatronics than all the other shows in town put together,” Thompson said some technological advancements to certain processes have made it easier to change the show on the fly.
For families with younger children under 12 years old, the Scaregrounds has added the new “Fright in the Lights,” a mile-long Halloween-themed drive through a light show geared toward all ages that want to see to see larger-than-life pumpkins, spiders, ghosts, goblins and more.
“Whether you love all things scary, or you’re looking for an experience that’s tailored to families,” Thompson said. “Scarizona will be here to help everyone get into the Halloween spirit.”
All of this comes from expectations arising over the years that Thompson said has forced him to flex his fright muscles in wanting to bring scarier sights and ghastlier ghouls.
Thompson said he started in the haunting business in 1997 and discovered the enjoyment he took from others delights enjoying the spectacles.
But over the years, Thompson said it’s been more tricks than treats with both
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interviewing people at Walter Reed.
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard, to date, more powerful stories of resilience and strength,” Hilget said. One of the first interviewees was a specialist who had been in a coma after being thrown from a Humvee. He dreamt a life that he didn’t have and even six months after he woke up, he was still trying to figure out what was real and what was not.
“He gained the power of speech back through music therapy – he actually learned to sing before he could speak,” Hilget said. “He spoke with a profound wisdom for someone of his age and still in the middle of trauma.”
They spoke to so many people in a three-day period that he said they could have written 10 operas.
Dennis Whitehead Darling had just finished serving as the inaugural McCleave Fellow in Directing at Opera Memphis, a fellowship designed to fostering the careers of directors of color, when he went to see Opera Memphis’ production of the opera.
“It’s quite beautiful and poignant and painful and emotional and rich with beautiful themes of sacrifice and pain,” Darling said.
He is now directing the Arizona Opera production. As someone who contemplated going into the military and whose father, uncle, brother and stepsister all served, this opera touches on his ties.
He said he feels people get a better un“Rising and Falling” looks at both male and female soldiers who were wounded in combat.(Ziggy
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derstanding of what it takes to serve in the military and the sacrifice, duty and honor involved.
“There are no live scenes of people being shot at, but it does deal with injury and that sort of falling that the soldier goes through emotionally and physically,” Darling said.
“Then it’s about this wonderful triumph of the rising of how they somehow find this miraculous strength to overcome any sort of emotional or physical pain. It honors their sacrifice.”
Altiveros said the music and score are designed to attract civilians and soldiers. She describes it as accessible and melodic.
“It’s meant to help us appreciate and acknowledge the sacrifices that are made, the good parts and the bad parts about enlisting and the hardships of it,” Altiveros said.
While not traditionally a subject of opera, the stories of sacrifice and injury translate well to the art form, Altiveros said.
“The stakes are so high — there is a risk of life and death and injury and things like that, but real human relationships are affected and in a very large way,” Altiveros said.
“Anytime you can tell that story of human relationships on stage, it lends itself to opera. Opera can heighten that sense of emotion.”
She recently spoke with art producers who were concerned about whether this competition and standards raising scare standards. “People’s level of expectations are definitely higher than it used to be,” Thompson said.
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opera would be too heavy and traumatic for audiences who are stressed in a postpandemic world. She was eager to allay those fears.
“It’s not that this does not address (traumatic) topics – the whole premise essentially is when a female soldier is hit in a roadside bombing, and they put her in a medically-induced coma. The entirety of the rest of the opera is her wandering through her subconscious and coming across these different soldiers’ stories,” Altiveros said.
“That is the background for these stories to happen, but it’s meant to leave you feeling uplifted. It’s not a downer.”
Altiveros said she cries in almost every single rehearsal because she is so moved by the stories, and she is certain the audience will be moved too.
“But it’s not meant to traumatize,” Altiveros said. “It’s meant to leave you feeling really hopeful about and grateful for the work that our soldiers are doing. It’s not meant to take you to a really, really dark place and then leave you there. I want to make sure people know that.”
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What: The Arizona Opera’s “The Falling and the Rising” by Zach Redler, libretto by Jerre Dye Where: Herberger Theater, 222 E. Monroe St., Phoenix. When: Various times Oct. 14-16 Coast: ee website for details Info: azopera.org
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History debates aside, this apple tart wins any argument
So I find myself, once again, in the middle of a “who done it?” Who really did invent the flakey, delicate butter-ladened layers of dough we’ve come to know and love as puff pastry?
The French will say it was invented in 1645 by a French apprentice bakery cook named Claudius Gele, who brought the recipe to Florence where it became wildly popular.
Ah, but the Italians cry foul and say that puff pastry was already being made in Italy long before that- – as early as 1525 – -and they say there is a document to prove it!
For this beautiful apple tart made with puff pastry and caramel sauce, I’m staying out of the argument and focusing on thawing the dough, slicing the apples and baking!
At least I know where apples come from. Thank you, Johnny Appleseed! Maybe.
This apple tart is a simple and elegant sweet that is perfect with coffee in the morning or as a satisfying dessert any time of the day. The only important doahead is to take the puff pastry out of the freezer and let it thaw in the refrigerator overnight.
I think that once you make an apple tart like this, it will become one of your treasured treats. I say let the French and Italians duke it out over this one and we’ll make apple tart and not war!
Ingredients:
• 2 sheets (1 package) puff pastry dough, thawed • 4 medium Granny Smith apples • 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice • 1/8 teaspoon salt • 3/4 cup sugar • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Peel, core and cut apples into 1/4 inch slices. Place in a bowl, squeeze lemon juice and salt over apples and gently toss. Set aside.
Carefully unfold both sheets of thawed puff pastry. Place dough on two baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Cut each sheet into 4 equal squares.
Fold dough over about 1/8 of an inch around
Caramel sauce Ingredients:
• 3/4 packed brown sugar • 1/2 cup half and half or heavy cream
Directions:
In medium saucepan over medium-high heat, bring sugar, cream, butter and salt to boil whisking constantly until sugar dissolves. Boil until caramel each square to form a thin border. Place slices of apple (overlapping) diagonally across the pastry. Add 2-3 slices on either side of the diagonal slices. Repeat until dough and apples are used up. Sprinkle each square with sugar. Dot each square with 1 tablespoon of chilled butter.
Bake for 30 minutes or until pastry is golden brown. Remove from oven and while still warm, brush caramel sauce over apples. Makes 8 squares. (Can be frozen after cooking.)
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter • 1/8 teaspoon salt
begins to coat spoon whisking often, about 7-8 minutes. Brush caramel sauce over Apple Tart while still warm.
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