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
Eliot Hall at Salt Lake First Unitarian Church
1977: Saturday's Voyeur
Glass Factory Theatre
1978: Roadshow '78
1979: Roadshow '79
1980: (name?)
Marmalade Hill Center
1982: (name?)
Salt Lake Acting Company
1987: 10th Anniversary Roadshow
1988: Christmas Roadshow '88
1989: Christmas Roadshow '89
1990: Summer Roadshow
Green Street at Trolley Square
1992: (name?) 1993: (name?)
Salt Lake Acting Company
1995: Spirit of the Hive
1996: Phatman of the Opera
1997: Jordan Riverdance
1998: 20th Anniversary Cruise
1999: The Zoodoo Voodoo Follies
2000: Saturday's Voyeur 2000
2001: Mahana You Ugly
2002: The Sorghum Chronicles
2003: Saturday's Voyeur 25th Anniversary
2004: Saturday's Voyeur 2004
2005: Saturday's Voyeur 2005
2006: Bendover, a Tale of Two Cities
2007: The Rocky show
2008: 2009: 2010: The Year That Was 2011: The Wackos are Coming! 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: The Sh*t Show 2018: Saturday's Voyeur 40th Anniversary 2019: Dark Light
References
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