On the adage of better late than never, I caught the musical Seussical at Young People’s Theatre and it’s a charmer. YPT is reviving the production that had a successful run in 2006, and the show can still pack in the crowds. This is a junior version of the Broadway musical and it’s just perfect […]
Cirque du Soleil created Quidam in 1996. It’s been touring as an arena show since 2010. Cirque defines a quidam as a nameless person, a voice trying to express individuality. A little girl called Zoé, played by singer Alessandra Gonzalez, is ignored by her parents, and the circus show is her retreat into her imagination. […]
The Lower Ossington Theatre has become home to shows that feature emerging artists just out of theatre school. In the 1973 Lloyd Webber/Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the enthusiasm of these young people carries the day. Robert Wilkinson is both the director and the musical director and he proves he can use […]
When Soulpepper gets something right, it’s usually very right. The revival of Parfumerie is a case in point. The play contains references to Christmas, so it’s perfect for the season. The delightful story and characters can be revisited again and again. Written by Hungarian master Miklos Laszlo in 1937, the story has been made into […]
The make love/not war message of the 1967 musical Hair seems more potent than ever, given the “occupy” movement of today. The flower children tell us through song, what they are rebelling against/and or/what they are fighting for. There is a shard of a story – tribe member Claude gets drafted and because he doesn’t […]
