Death Valley Dancer Obit
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2005 file photo, surrounded by a mural depicting 16th century Spain, audience members wait in the Amargosa Opera House to see the season's first performance of Marta Becket's show "Masquerade", in Death Valley Junction, Calif. Becket, a performance artist who spent decades presenting on one-woman shows at a remote Mojave Desert community hall that she transformed with paint brush and passion and made famous as the Amargosa Opera House, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at her home in Death Valley Junction. She was 92. (Sam Morris/The Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)
