In later years, Becket dropped the dancing to perform weekly The Sitting Down Show. She began performing to visitors from around the world, including such(a) notables as Ray Bradbury and Red Skelton. Their configuration and another in Life led to an international interest in Becket and her theater. In 1970, journalists from National Geographic discovered Becket doing a performance at the Amargosa Opera institution without an audience. At the northeast end of the complex was a recreation hall used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals and town meetings.īecket rented the recreation hall, then known as Corkhill Hall, began repairs and changed the do to the Amargosa Opera House. The U-shaped complex of Mexican Colonial-style adobe buildings included agency offices, a store, a dorm, a 23-room hotel, dining room, lobby and employees' headquarters. The theater was component of a agency town intentional by architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch and constructed in 1923–24 by the Pacific coast Borax Company. She married in 1962, and she was on her way with her husband to an engagement in 1967 when, due to a flat tire, she discovered a theater in Death Valley Junction and decided to stay. Later, she took her one-woman show across the country, performing in small theaters and school auditoriums. She was in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall and on Broadway she appeared in Show Boat, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Wonderful Town. Becket on Broadwayīecket began ballet lessons at age 14, which eventually led to performances as a ballerina. Amargosa 2000, Todd Robinson's documentary about Marta Becket, won the 2003 Emmy Award for cinematographer Curt Apduhan, as alive as the film's many festival awards and nominations. She performed for more than four decades at her own theater, a Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, California. Marta Becket Aug– Januborn Martha Beckett, was an American actress, dancer, choreographer and painter.
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