Tewder
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Shame, a new live theatre venue in the entertainment district would have been awesome.
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Live Theatre in Toronto
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Benc7
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Mirvish Announces 2011-2012 Season
The Railway Children
Private Lives-starring Kim Cattrall
Chess-The Musical
Mary Poppins
The Blue Dragon
War Horse- (YAY!)
Hair-Broadway Production
"In addition, there are four shows off-subscription and many other shows at the Sony Centre that will be available to Mirvish subscribers on a priority basis and/or at special prices."
PDF Brochure
http://mirvish.com/subbrochure.pdf
http://174.143.72.81/subscriptions/2011/renew
http://broadwayworld.com/article/20...ES_PreLondon_CHESS_HAIR_POPPINS_More_20010101
The Railway Children
Private Lives-starring Kim Cattrall
Chess-The Musical
Mary Poppins
The Blue Dragon
War Horse- (YAY!)
Hair-Broadway Production
"In addition, there are four shows off-subscription and many other shows at the Sony Centre that will be available to Mirvish subscribers on a priority basis and/or at special prices."
PDF Brochure
http://mirvish.com/subbrochure.pdf
http://174.143.72.81/subscriptions/2011/renew
http://broadwayworld.com/article/20...ES_PreLondon_CHESS_HAIR_POPPINS_More_20010101
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Tewder
Senior Member
I hope that Gavin Creel comes along with the Broadway revival of Hair!!
Just saw Billy Elliot in Toronto, by the way. Utterly charming.
Just saw Billy Elliot in Toronto, by the way. Utterly charming.
Good to hear Tewder re Billy; I'm going at the end of March. I've been waiting years to see it 
Tewder
Senior Member
Hmmmmm, 'Private Lives' and 'Chess' for me, I think. Very excited about 'Chess'! One of my favourite shows but I've never seen it on stage.
Davidackerman
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Billy Elliot
I also saw Billy Elliot and loved it. The dancing was wonderful..
Also saw Barrymore- Go see this. It's rare treat to see such a great actor on stage in TO
I also saw Billy Elliot and loved it. The dancing was wonderful..
Also saw Barrymore- Go see this. It's rare treat to see such a great actor on stage in TO
Tewder
Senior Member
Yes, I've seen Plummer twice at Stratford now. Having seen him in the Tempest I feel I can give Barrymore a miss, though I might try and catch a matinee... but would agree with you that anybody who hasn't seen him yet should do so!
Benc7
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South Pacific-Toronto Centre for The Arts
South Pacific, take 2, is every bit as good as last year's production at the Four Seasons. Carmen Cusack reprises her role as Nellie, and thank god she does. Superb! David Pittsinger is new to the role of Emile, and his SPEAKING voice is so basso profondo it made my chair shake. His singing voice brings down the house. (He's replaced in the role by Jason Howard after March 8.) Arron Ramey is a new Joe for this production and a very good one. Jodi Kimura, as Bloody Mary, is back and in terrific form.
If I questioned Aubrey Dan's wisdom at bringing back this production so soon after its successful run downtown I don't anymore; it's an excellent production, and worth the trek up to North York.
http://www.dancaptickets.com/
South Pacific, take 2, is every bit as good as last year's production at the Four Seasons. Carmen Cusack reprises her role as Nellie, and thank god she does. Superb! David Pittsinger is new to the role of Emile, and his SPEAKING voice is so basso profondo it made my chair shake. His singing voice brings down the house. (He's replaced in the role by Jason Howard after March 8.) Arron Ramey is a new Joe for this production and a very good one. Jodi Kimura, as Bloody Mary, is back and in terrific form.
If I questioned Aubrey Dan's wisdom at bringing back this production so soon after its successful run downtown I don't anymore; it's an excellent production, and worth the trek up to North York.
http://www.dancaptickets.com/
Davidackerman
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It's on my list. I have only heard good things about the show. I missed it in NYC with Kelly Ohara, but have the soundtrack and it's great. I am thinking about seeing Asassins tonight. It's a local production but have never seen the show before.
Benc7
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I hope you got to see "Assassins"; it's a terrific show, and one of my favourite productions of the year!
Davidackerman
Active Member
missed it.. I only know one or two songs from it.. Did they have a orchestra or just a piano?
Bernadette is starring in Follies at the Kennedy center.. Now I'm thinking of a trip to DC..
Bernadette is starring in Follies at the Kennedy center.. Now I'm thinking of a trip to DC..
Benc7
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Billy Elliot-The Canon Theatre
For those who don't know,Billy Elliot, The Musical is set in Thatcherite Britain at the onset of the great Coal Miners' Strike. Billy is the son of a coal miner.His brother is a coal miner. Everyone he knows works in, or is beholden to, the coal mines. His future is written for him. That is until he stumbles into a dance class run by the chain-smoking Mrs. Wilkinson (Kate Hennig) and a new possibility opens.
I can't think of a show that depends so heavily on the performance of a single performer; it's up to the kid playing "Billy Elliot" to "sell" the character and the musical. A lot of pressure to shoulder for any actor, much less someone who's thirteen years old. The "Billy" I saw was played by Marcus Pei and, man, he sold it from the get-go! Just the right amount of frustration and anger, with a great deal of talent and an utterly engaging charm. I believed him!
Maggie Thatcher is skewered at every opportunity, especially during the Christmas pageant, a number worth the price of admission on its own. But it's the moment of poetry, when Billy dances with his future self, that I'll remember.
The rest of the cast is terrific! Special shout-out to Jack Broderick who played Michael, a cross-dressing chum of Billy's, with scene-stealing flare.
http://www.mirvish.com/shows/billyelliot
2:45 includes one 15 minute intermission
For those who don't know,Billy Elliot, The Musical is set in Thatcherite Britain at the onset of the great Coal Miners' Strike. Billy is the son of a coal miner.His brother is a coal miner. Everyone he knows works in, or is beholden to, the coal mines. His future is written for him. That is until he stumbles into a dance class run by the chain-smoking Mrs. Wilkinson (Kate Hennig) and a new possibility opens.
I can't think of a show that depends so heavily on the performance of a single performer; it's up to the kid playing "Billy Elliot" to "sell" the character and the musical. A lot of pressure to shoulder for any actor, much less someone who's thirteen years old. The "Billy" I saw was played by Marcus Pei and, man, he sold it from the get-go! Just the right amount of frustration and anger, with a great deal of talent and an utterly engaging charm. I believed him!
Maggie Thatcher is skewered at every opportunity, especially during the Christmas pageant, a number worth the price of admission on its own. But it's the moment of poetry, when Billy dances with his future self, that I'll remember.
The rest of the cast is terrific! Special shout-out to Jack Broderick who played Michael, a cross-dressing chum of Billy's, with scene-stealing flare.
http://www.mirvish.com/shows/billyelliot
2:45 includes one 15 minute intermission
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Davidackerman
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Billy''s friend (the dress-tap sequence) who I saw was Dillon Stepehens also Brilliant.. Yes for anyone reading go see it. And you don't have to understand the politics of the time to love the show
Benc7
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They had a band, and the actors played instruments, similar to the productions of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company" of a few years ago.
Benc7
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Oleanna-Soulpepper Theatre
Ok, so David Mamet's play, written in 1992 and inspired by the confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas(anyone remember Anita Hill?) was meant to piss people off. There are two characters: John, the professor,(Diego Matamoros) and Carol, the student (Sarah Wilson). She's out of her depth, inarticulate, dishevelled, not understanding "anything". He tries to help her, or at least, he thinks he is. Next scene, she's brought sexual harassment allegations against him to the tenure committee. She's more together now, better dressed, better spoken. By the second act it's John who is the inarticulate mess, and she is dressed in a power suit, calling the shots.
I understand that these aren't meant to be real people; they're metaphors for political correctness gone crazy. But jeez, the style of the writing just irritated me to no end; too stilted, too obviously DIALOGUE. And the final scene, a release of physical violence that has been simmering all along, was stepped on by the the sides of the set lowering. (The set reminded me of a gallery in the ROM Crystal, all angles; I half expected a dinosaur to show up) I get what that was supposed to mean, but it distracted me from the action on stage and diminished it.
2 acts, one intermission
http://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/11_season/oleanna.aspx
Ok, so David Mamet's play, written in 1992 and inspired by the confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas(anyone remember Anita Hill?) was meant to piss people off. There are two characters: John, the professor,(Diego Matamoros) and Carol, the student (Sarah Wilson). She's out of her depth, inarticulate, dishevelled, not understanding "anything". He tries to help her, or at least, he thinks he is. Next scene, she's brought sexual harassment allegations against him to the tenure committee. She's more together now, better dressed, better spoken. By the second act it's John who is the inarticulate mess, and she is dressed in a power suit, calling the shots.
I understand that these aren't meant to be real people; they're metaphors for political correctness gone crazy. But jeez, the style of the writing just irritated me to no end; too stilted, too obviously DIALOGUE. And the final scene, a release of physical violence that has been simmering all along, was stepped on by the the sides of the set lowering. (The set reminded me of a gallery in the ROM Crystal, all angles; I half expected a dinosaur to show up) I get what that was supposed to mean, but it distracted me from the action on stage and diminished it.
2 acts, one intermission
http://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/11_season/oleanna.aspx