Baring their souls…and bodies I love it when a playwright can make me laugh out loud and shed a tear, both in the same show. And that’s what special about Calendar Girls: There are many opportunities to laugh out loud, and there is a jolt where you need to reach for your Kleenex. There is […]
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Disco meets Gospel in Sister Act Where were you in ’92? No doubt you took in the movie Sister Act, a surprise hit starring Whoopi Goldberg. It was great fun, filling cinemas, becoming a popular rental, and eventually a TV favourite. The sequel was almost as good. Well, the live stage version, a Broadway tour
Fun on the French Riviera I love La Cage aux Folles: It’s a wonderful story about non-judgemental love and the importance of family. I recently had the opportunity to see the original French movie, and I’ve also enjoyed the American movie, The Bird Cage. Unfortunately, the current Broadway tour, now on stage in Toronto, doesn’t
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She Could Have Danced and Sang All Night My Fair Lady, a musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, is a story about transformation. Linguist Professor Henry Higgins decides to take a common flower girl off the streets and transform her so that she can be passed off as royalty. He believes that he alone
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Old Blues Eyes Times Seven Note: This review was written in September 2012; however, you can now see The Songs of Sinatra on stage at the Drayton Festival Theatre, Drayton, running May 9 to June 1, 2013. Take the Sinatra Seven, add 84 songs, cram it into 2½ hours and you’ll get a very appreciative
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Superior Cast “makes” this production of Annie Now on stage at St. Jacobs Country Playhouse: November 13 to December 23, 2012 I have seen many productions of Annie – the musical based on the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” about the red-head and her dog during the depression years. I’ve seen it at least twice
From Prison Story to Love Story For Johnny Cash and June Carter fans there is a wonderful musical in store for you at Playhouse II in Grand Bend. And even if you are not a Cash/Carter fan or you don’t like country music, this tribute show offers solid entertainment. Director Chris McHarge has polished up
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Beatles History is really the Stu Sutcliffe Story First off, this production has a misleading name. The marquee says Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles. Not so. It’s the Stu Sutcliffe Story. But I suppose if they called it that, no one would come since most people don’t know who Stu Sutcliffe was. Having “The
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Melissa and Andrew are not Ma & Pa Walton Star power has come to Victoria Playhouse in Petrolia. Loud and long applause broke out before the show even started as Michael Learned and Ralph Waite came on to the stage on opening night of Love Letters. This pair is much beloved and warmly welcomed –
Tall Tales from Big Books The lights come up on Christopher Plummer perched on a stack of giant books, which are part huge pile of books twisting their way to the ceiling. He recites some verses about an old man sitting on a gate from a poem written by Lewis Carroll, and then goes on
