Follow the Yellow Brick Road… Promoted by the TV reality show and with an updated script, The Wizard of Oz has shaken off its 1939 look and moved into the new millennium. Even some of the old dialogue has been modernized with new jokes and puns. Since its opening earlier this year at the Ed […]
For Crying Out Loud – You’ll Laugh Out Loud Back in the 1990s a group of actresses got together when they became new moms. Like most new mothers, they were exhausted, frustrated and feeling overwhelmed. They decided to write about their experiences, and these short stories evolved into a play – a series of vignettes
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Come to Cambridge! It’s not ostentatious, there’s nothing flowery or especially fancy about it. There’s no plush carpet, no crystal chandeliers dangling from the ceilings. It’s almost austere. But to a fan of live theatre, the new Dunfield Theatre in Cambridge is beautiful. With walls of glass, the building is attractive enough from the outside.
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Flying High in New Digs There is nothing like having a new home – Mary Poppins flies into the Banks’ household and becomes an important part of the family, even though her stay is relatively brief. The production of Mary Poppins is also located in a new home – the Dunfield Theatre in Cambridge. It’s
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Conspiracy Theory Story Lacks Strategy Some stories just don’t translate well to the stage. I think that may be the case with Yankee Tavern. The plot itself seems very intriguing. Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theory? Yet the dialogue seems to bog down, before the mysteries unwind. Yankee Tavern starts the evening with great
Broadway Bound A concert featuring Thomas Alderson and Friends Friday, March 8, 2013, Imperial Theatre Sarnia – 8:00 p.m. Tickets: Adults $24, Seniors $20, Students $15 Call the box office: 519-344-7469 or toll free 1-877-344-7469 Round trip bus from London & Strathroy to Sarnia, $22, Contact Mary: 519-933-0142 Out of town guests: Sarnia Holiday Inn
Sarnia’s beautiful art-deco Imperial Theatre continues to be busy with a full calendar of events. At present, the comedy “Calendar Girls”, a community production by Theatre Sarnia is on stage. “Broadway Bound” – Thomas & Friends On March 8, there is a very special concert at The Imperial that I hope you’ll mark on your
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Like Father, Like Son I grew up the only Anglo-Saxon-Protestant kid in a community of immigrants from Holland. Both sides of my family tree had arrived in Canada more than 100 years earlier, but my playmates’ parents had just left the “old country” recently. The parents would talk to the kids in Dutch and the kids
The McMichael After enjoying the hospitality at Stage West/Ramada in Mississauga and seeing the excellent production, Love Train, we travelled to Vaughn/Kleinburg to The McMichael the following day. The McMichael calls itself a Canadian Art Collection, an agency of the Government of Ontario. It’s set back in a pine forest where the McMichaels, a couple
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All Aboard the Love Train If you only need one good reason to take a weekend jaunt to Mississauga to see a show at Stage West, here it is: Aurianna Angelique. Rather, I should say, here she is. Aurianna is well worth the drive to Mississauga. Her rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love
