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The Musical That Just Won’t Die
Evil Dead: The Musical has returned to Toronto. Again. It was actually all the way back in 2003 that it made its debut in the Tranzac Club. Back then, it was known as Evil Dead 1 & 2: The Musical,...
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Fire Walk With CanStage
When it premiered in the 1980s, Fire, a “jukebox musical” set to the music of Jerry Lee Lewis and some Christian spirituals, was considered something of a sensation. Twenty years later, CanStage has...
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Gay Musical Vs. Gay Musical
Happy: A Very Gay Little Musical is the latest show to open at Buddies and also the first musical by Sky Gilbert the theatre has produced in 17 years. And what a tricky little number it is....
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I Think I’m Turning On The Japanese
Sexual Practices of the Japanese opens with actresses Manami Hara and Maiko Bae Yamamoto entering the stage as giggling schoolgirls, their pink kimonos open to reveal their wet dream school uniforms....
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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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The Parkdale Film and Video Showcase Gets Up To Some Mischief
The 15th-annual festival features a weekend lineup of indoor and outdoor screenings—and one act of premeditated sabotage.Seamlessness can be a yawn. This year, the Parkdale Film and Video Showcase has...
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TIFF Throws A Toga Party For Comedies
A new series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox charts the evolution of cinematic comedy.When Animal House first turned the toga into suitable party attire in 1978, the landscape of the film comedy was forever...
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The Musical That Just Won’t Die
Evil Dead: The Musical has returned to Toronto. Again. It was actually all the way back in 2003 that it made its debut in the Tranzac Club. Back then, it was known as Evil Dead 1 & 2: The Musical,...
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Anything Goes is a Real Trip
This touring production manages to make a quintessential 1930s musical work in 2013.Musical theatre has a reputation for sometimes being out of touch and old-fashioned, so the prospect of Mirvish...
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A Tribe Called Red Breaks Out
The Polaris-shortlisted Aboriginal DJ crew gets ready to make people move at the Mad Decent Block Party.It would be fair to say that A Tribe Called Red is having a breakout moment. The Ottawa-based...
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What to See This Weekend at the 2013 Beaches International Jazz Festival
The 2013 Beaches International Jazz Festival may not be especially jazzy, but there's still plenty worth checking out.The Beaches International Jazz Festival marks its 25th anniversary as it wraps up...
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The Lab Cab Festival Moves to Parkdale
The annual multi-arts festival ran out of space at its old venue, so this year it's taking over a whole neighbourhood.The Lab Cab Festival has gotten so big it needs an entire neighbourhood to hold it....
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The Musical That Just Won’t Die
Evil Dead: The Musical has returned to Toronto. Again. It was actually all the way back in 2003 that it made its debut in the Tranzac Club. Back then, it was known as Evil Dead 1 & 2: The Musical,...
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Fire Walk With CanStage
When it premiered in the 1980s, Fire, a “jukebox musical” set to the music of Jerry Lee Lewis and some Christian spirituals, was considered something of a sensation. Twenty years later, CanStage has...
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