​​Skye's the Limit! Productions
Executive Producer, Director
Bo Smith has had decades of experience in the musical theatre, performance, and film genres in Seattle Washington, the artsy rainy city renowned for original art, inventive music, and gifted innovative theatre and film. Indeed, it is commonly said, that if you want to go to the theatre, don't go to Broadway, go to Seattle Washington! And Bo Smith has been right in the middle of this action all along the way and for most of her life.
Among other things, she is best reknown for her one of a kind set designs which surround the audience in shadow and mood transporting them into the heart and location of the time period and action. Without mercy she leaves them, sifting in their seats, as all lines are blurred between performance and reality, actor and audience.
Her directing style offers us a unique perspective which is more like "live film" than theatre and you can't be helped but be drawn in by "feeling" it all around you well before your eyes can view the performances. Reviews remark it a "truly disorienting experience in a tiltilating and electrically charged way."
She comes from a dual background of the arts coupled with the sciences, specializing in neuro or brain science and delightfully uses this very successfully against or for her audiences. While she has is experienced in all genres, she is best known for horror and intrigue in musical theatre, performance theatre, and film.
She has now brought to Utah her gifts and unique perspective. Of late she was the Executive Producer of the production of Sweeney Todd which was awarded the "Best Show in Utah" Halloween 2013 in which her unigue and "pleasantly disturbing" set design and costuming was especially praised. She now has designed and is in the process of making this years halloween production which, smirking, she hints will be even more real and thrilling than the previous years shyly describing it as an almost "haunted house Sweeney Todd," experience than typical musical theatre performance commonly done in Utah.
She produces theatre solely to promote the arts and to create and is adament about using her productions and talents to help the battered and hungry in our communities and healing Utah, one show at a time. Bo is passionate that any gifts and means she is blessed must be given back, to uplift the poor and needy, rescue the battered and homeless, and give reprieve and release to the brudened, even if for just one night, at one show.
BO SMITH
ABOUT WHY,
When asked, Bo explains that she produces theatre solely to actively promote the arts and the gifted talent present here in Utah, desiring to give them more challenging and intriguing roles in which to grow and showcase their artisties, and simply to create, which she admits is a unquenchible drive. Bo is equally passonate about the "drive" to use producting and her talents to, not only help but cure, the many battered and hungry soles in our communities, which she shares consists of a growing number of women with their children, or "healing Utah, one show at a time." Bo is passionate that any gifts and means she is blessed must be given to uplift the poor and needy, rescue the battered and homeless, and give reprieve and release to the audience, even if only for just one night, one show, to free and lift their minds and spirits away from their often burdensome day to day worries and concerns.
"We are commanded to share our gifts and when we do, something magical happens. Suddenly, a room full of complete strangers, uncomfortable with sitting so close, to so many not known, and only talking with their companion sitting at their side, waiting, not so patiently, for the "performer" to come and relieve the mounting stress and uncomfortability of the situation with turned down lights and shadow and distraction, can go from this state to one of cheering and touching and conversing to all those around after the performance is finished is remarkable and seems impossible. Then as the performer leaves, the same ignoring people pretending not to be there before, now rise and reach out with their hands and bodies, jeering, complimenting, and talking to them as if they had always been best friends. Something made them go from complete uninvolved strangers to best buddies in no time at all. What had they experienced that was no altering? Even many years afterwards, on the streets, people in the ignoring and shifting audience back then, will run and hug the performer as if their life has never been the same and true love is in those hugs and exurbiance, the bond cemented, the bridge made permanently between strangers not because of anything in common or any history or future, but only because one shared the gift of performing a talent and the other received it and now this small service has bonded them in a very intimate and real way forever when the act itself was so little and effortless on the part of the performer but the gift so profound to make a change forever in how the two will now view, treat, and feel about each other, forever. This is the importance of commandment of sharing talents and of the arts, with others. It forms a magical bridge between two hearts where none can nor will ever exist between the children of God and that is truly a miracle we can see every time and a true gift from God meant for all. "
Bo Smith