Mary

Fiddler on the Roof

Changing Traditions… Fiddler on the Roof is a show for singers and Stage West’s current production is well cast with amazing voices. George Masswohl is the quintessential Tevye: He has the rich full voice to sing the favourite songs, such as Tradition and If I were a Rich Man. He has the look, and portrays

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The Wizard of Oz

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

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Yankee Tavern

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

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Broadway Bound

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

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Kim’s Convenience

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

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