Utah Theater begins its final curtain call with go-ahead on selling it to developers

A lone electric light continues to shine from the darkened stage of Salt Lake City’s Utah Theater, homage to an old superstition that every theater harbors ghosts.The light ensures safety, but theatrical tradition also has it that ghost lamps, as they’re called, allow theater spirits to dance and perform at night, quenching their impulses to haunt real-world occupants by day.A spokeswoman for the city’s Redevelopment Agency confirmed Friday that the single-bulbed incandescent l