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Cabaret
Life is a cabaret and you don’t want to miss your chance to catch the live show
By Ava Baccari
Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander / Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Adam Brazier
The company in “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.” Photo credit: Daniel DiMarco.
As Emcee [...]
American Idiot
Punked: Green Day’s hit musical rocks Toronto
Scott J. Campbell (Tunny), Van Hughes (Johnny) and Jake Epstein (Will) in American Idiot. Photo by Doug Hamilton.
Time to get off the couch and into the mosh pit (er, theatre). Green Day’s Tony Award-nominated American Idiot is on stage now at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
Based on the [...]
Hair
A shining, gleaming musical portrait of those soulful hippies and their hair
By Ava Baccari
Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Diane Paulus
The Hair National Tour © Joan Marcus.
There’s something about tresses that the cast of Hair finds so utterly irresistible: theirs, yours. Like rock stars slamming high fives to [...]
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
The Lower Ossington’s Joseph is not quite a dream, but it will do
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Direction/Musical Direction by Robert Wilkinson
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Photo by Seanna Kennedy.
The Lower Ossington Theatre is painting the town red and yellow and green and
brown and blue this holiday season with a fun-filled [...]
Memphis
An electrifying musical about the birth of racially charged, soulful music in Memphis
By Ava Baccari
Directed by Christopher Ashley
Book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan
Choreography by Sergio Trujillo
Bryan Fenkart (Huey) and Felicia Boswell (Felicia) in the national tour of Memphis. Photo by Paul Kolnik.
The devil went down to Memphis, he was looking, it seems, [...]
Ross Petty’s The Wizard Of Oz
The much-loved classic Hollywood musical has gone to the kids—and we miss the old charm
By Ava Baccari
Adapted from the book by L. Frank Baum by Lorna Wright and Nicholas Hune-Brown
Directed by Tracey Flye
Produced by Ross Petty
Ross Petty and Jessica Holmes in The Wizard of Oz—The Wickedly Wacky Family Musical. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
The best line [...]
Mary Poppins
This spoonful of family fun goes down in a most delightful way
Book by Julian Fellowes
Original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
New songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe
Directed by Richard Eyre
L to R: Rachel Wallace as Mary Poppins, Annie Baltic as Jane Banks, Reese Sebastian Diaz as Michael Banks, Nicolas [...]
The Addams Family
The loveable family from your childhood nightmares returns — in a whimsical musical comedy
By Ava Baccari
Presented by Dancap Productions
Music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on characters created by Charles Addams
L to R: Patrick D. Kennedy (Pugsley), Pippa Pearthree (Grandma), Sara Gettelfinger (Morticia), Douglas Sills (Gomez), Tom Corbeil (Lurch), Cortney Wolfson (Wednesday) and Blake Hammond (Uncle Fester) in The [...]
