Create for me.’ It’s there ready to offer itself for more creativity. I walk into my theater and see my stage which still calls out to me and pleads, ‘Use me. But those challenges appear to be resolved.Īs Becket said so beautifully in her 2006 memoir “To Dance on Sands,” “When I ache, when I’m tired or just lonely living in the town on my own, I know I have to keep on going. Less well understood are the challenges she has faced in recent years from her own health problems and troubles she experienced in the management of the opera house and its hotel. In 2000, filmmaker Todd Robinson’s “Amargosa” about her remarkable life was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary. National magazines and newspaper feature writers made their way to her door.
It was a theater company of one that played to an equally creative mural of dignitaries of her own creation and often to capacity crowds of tourists and desert rats.
In a moment her vision was clear: She would reinvent the hall as the Amargosa Opera House. She noticed a rundown community hall that once had been used as a theater by the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the care-worn mining town. Born in 1924, as a girl growing up in New York City she studied dance and theater and enjoyed substantial success.īut it was a fortuitous flat tire in 1967 in Death Valley Junction that changed her artistic and personal life forever. “Still there is much to do with repairs, reconnecting with her fans and following, all without Facebook or social media.”īecket’s life story is well known to lovers of dance and desert lore. Becket, and she never has to fear people invading (Death Valley Junction) for the wrong reasons,” Scheller writes. Inyo County, Calif., adult protective authorities focused on the treatment she was receiving, and changes were made that appear to have given her new energy to go along with her amazing outlook on art and life. In recent months, Becket’s physical condition and the status of the foundation that operated the opera house and its small hotel entered the news - and not in a positive light. With help from her friend Sandy Scheller and a reliable circle of supporters, Becket is planning a celebratory stage appearance for 2 p.m. The 89-year-old grand diva of the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, Calif., has managed to fend off the ravages of age and infirmity once more. Sinatra’s throat trouble was nothing compared to the medical maladies Becket has endured in recent years. (Amargosa Opera House)Įntertainment history is filled with amazing comeback stories, but the return to the stage of Death Valley ballerina Marta Becket just might top them all. Marta Becket performed her last show at the Amargosa Opera House at Death Valley Junction on Feb.
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