Inspiration and Motivation Ben Vereen is a verifiable, Tony award winning, Broadway triple-threat. He has appeared in hits such as Pippin, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. He has a long list of TV shows to his credit, most notably the landmark mini-series Roots, and more recently How I Met Your Mother. So what’s he doing […]
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Sex for Dummies Note: Now on stage at St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre, St. Jacobs. “Sex for Dummies” is now available on stage at Playhouse II in Grand Bend…not the book, but all the information that a couple who have been married 25 plus years might need. It’s a clever comedy that provides lots of laughs,
Spectacular Show with the Wrong Message Stratford Festival’s production of Carousel now on stage at the Avon Theatre is spectacular. The sets and costumes are beautiful and the singing and dancing powerful. Carousel is the story of Julie Jordan, an innocent and naive girl who marries the good-looking carney, Billy Bigelow, who runs the carousel.
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Heartbreaking Truth This year’s Schulich Children’s Play at Stratford Festival is The Diary of Anne Frank. Seems a strange choice? It’s not in the same class as previous productions for children, such as Alice through the Looking Glass, or You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Yet, having seen The Diary of Anne Frank, I now
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Solving a Problem Like Maria Solving a problem like Maria is no longer a problem. The Stratford Festival has it solved. Stephanie Rothenberg is the perfect Maria. She makes this favourite Rodgers & Hammerstein musical come alive on Stratford’s Festival stage. I always questioned the lyrics of “How do you solve a problem like Maria”.
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The Play’s the Thing In high school, I wrote an essay entitled something like “Hamlet’s madness: Feigned or real?”. I honestly can’t tell you now which side I supported, but after seeing Stratford Festival’s production of Hamlet which opened the 2015 season, I have the answer. It’s both. Jonathan Goad’s Hamlet is brilliant. He portrays
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When the Tupperware Falls out of the Cupboard As the season opener at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia last year, Church Basement Ladies sold out early. Following the adage “Don’t mess with success”, Co-Artistic Directors David Rogers and David Hogan have gone down the same path this year, presenting A Second Helping – The Church Basement Ladies
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An Epic Tale of Titanic Proportions I went to Titanic~The Musical not expecting to like it. After all, this is a story of a great tragedy – how could they turn it into a musical? But to my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed the production now on stage at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre. The show’s
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Beware! The Black Stache! At first blush, Peter and the Starcatcher seems very un-Shaw-like. Not their usual fare. But on second thought, when you take into account that it is the prequel to Peter Pan, it fits Shaw’s updated mandate just fine. Peter and the Starcatcher is now on stage at the Shaw Festival’s Royal
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Those Crazy Sixties Sweet Charity is the story of a dance hall girl living a rough life but remaining thoroughly optimistic. The Shaw Festival’s production, now on stage at the Festival theatre, is well cast and they make it a very entertaining evening. Charity earns her living at a sleazy dance hall, where she and
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