Tag Archives: musicals

Friday, December 16, 2011

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 [...]

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

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, [...]

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

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 [...]

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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 [...]

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Friday, November 18, 2011

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 [...]

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Ride The Cyclone

A tornado of musical theatre talent hits Toronto

Presented by Theatre Passe Muraille in collaboration with Acting Up Stage Company
Produced by Atomic Vaudeville
Written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Directed by Britt Small and Jacob Richmond

Photo of the company by Fairen Berchard.

Imagine this: you’re nearing the top of a roller coaster, about to go over the edge. [...]

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

2 Pianos, 4 Hands

2 pianos, 4 hands and 4 thumbs up for this charming Canadian musical
By Ava Baccari
Created, performed and directed by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt

Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra in 2P4H. Photo by Rick O’Brien.

Teddy, one of the many incarnations Canadian actor Ted Dykstra plays in 2 Pianos 4 Hands, is worried about languishing over a [...]

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Rocky Horror Show

It’s astounding, time is fleeting and madness takes its toll on stage in the latest production of Rocky Horror at the Lower Ossington Theatre
By Ava Baccari
Written by Richard O’Brien
Produced by Maurice Galpen and Jennifer Walls

Jennifer Walls and Brian Waters in The Rocky Horror Show.

No matter how many warnings you shout at actors in horror flicks, [...]

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Bharati

Passport to Bollywood: Musical explores how sensuality and tradition are intricately intertwined in India
By Ava Baccari
Created by Gashash Deshe
Written by Kamlesh Pandey
Directed by Jojo Khan, Shirili Deshe and Roni Sinai

Bharati, The Wonder That is India.

While Diwali, the South Asian “festival of lights,” is traditionally celebrated at home surrounded by loved ones, the cast of Bharati [...]

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

FELA!

The music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti sways the Canon Theatre
Book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones
Music and lyrics by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Kuti and the Broadway cast of FELA! Photo Credit ©Monique Carboni.

Get ready to dance. The multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway hit FELA! has landed in Toronto. Now playing at the Canon [...]

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Chess The Musical

All’s fair but fuddled in Tim Rice’s game of love and war

Music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
Book and lyrics by Tim Rice

Original UK production. Photo by Keith Pattinson.

Chess is a complex game that requires intense concentration, and so it makes sense that the musical incarnation would require the same level of focus from its [...]

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Friday, August 12, 2011

SummerWorks 2011: Hero & Leander

Presented by Common Descent
Lyrics by Wade Bogert-O’Brien and music by Scott Christian
Book/directed by Kevin Michael Shea

Hero & Leander is a new musical comedy about love, sex and commitment. Based on a classical myth about two would-be lovers forced to hide their passion from the jealous gods Neptune and Venus, this contemporary interpretation of an ancient [...]

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