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And, In the Spiced Indian Air, By Night…
There are those of us whose parents started bringing us to the Dream in High Park when we were six, who have probably seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream a half dozen times, studied it in school on a...
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Welsh On Welsh
When Dylan Thomas began writing Under Milk Wood, his famous “play for voices” about the sleepy Welsh community of Llareggub and its inhabitants, he intended it to be performed as a radio play with a...
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Vintage Toronto Ads: And So The People Came
Source: Toronto Tonight!, February 9–23, 1989. You’re flipping through the entertainment options for a night on the town in 1980s Toronto. Let’s see…a cabaret musical about sex that employs a...
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Vintage Toronto Ads: Day by Day in a Cutlass Supreme
Source: Maclean’s, October 1972. If your friends could see you now in a redesigned ’73 Cutlass Supreme, they’d be impressed by the new set of wheels you got to chauffeur that special person you’re...
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Vintage Toronto Ads: Jack of Hearts’ Flying Circus
Victor Garber as a playing card and a television classic that one angry letter-writer saw as an affront to an entire nationality.Source: the Toronto Sun, February 28, 1974. In brief: Jack was a musical...
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Not That Creepy, Not That Kooky
The Broadway musical inspired by Charles Addams' iconic characters has been critically panned, but that hasn't stopped ticket sales. Now, a touring production hits Toronto.Wednesday may be all grown...
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Historicist: “Jesus, think of the hangovers that went into this.”
The dazzling, disastrous premiere of Camelot at the O'Keefe Centre.Opening night at the O'Keefe Centre, October 1, 1960. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 796. Toronto had been...
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Canuck Casts Shine in The Wild Party and Once
The stories and music come from other places and times, but Canadian companies make two musicals their own, and for the better. Queenie (Cara Ricketts) and Burrs (Daren A. Hebert) thrown one Wild...
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Toronto Fringe Festival 2015: Highlights & Lowlights
Sex T-Rex’s Kaitlin Morrow rides a dragon, flaming sword aloft, while Conor Bradbury leaps for a wing. Photo by Sharon Murray. The weather cooperated, the buzz was shared by many shows, and the...
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Working on Shows, And Community, With Musical Works In Concert
The concert series for musicals in development aims to cultivate audiences as well as new shows, and use them to fine tune potential hits in the making.Viktor Pokinko and Kholby Wardell will perform...
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Visiting the Colourful Cat Ladies of Grey Gardens
Lisa Horner and Nicola Lipman give memorable performances in the musical version of the Maysles Brothers’ classic documentary.Lisa Horner, left, as Little Edie and Nicola Lipman as her mother, Big...
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Turn Flaws Into Funny
Second City's new show classes up the stage without losing previous shows' bite; Stupidhead dreams up laugh out loud singing stand-up. The Second City Toronto main stage has received a considerable...
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