Theatre Sheridan Productions

Theatre Sheridan showcases tomorrow's stars. Alumni perform on stages and work backstage in theatres across the world including on Broadway, in London’s West End and at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals.

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Songs for a New World, May14-23, 2021

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It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice... or take a stand... or turn around and go back. These are the stories and characters of today, the Songs for a New World. The first musical from Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Bridges of Madison County), this moving collection of powerful songs examines life, love and the choices that we make.

Director: Nicole Brewer Music

Director: Adam Sakiyama

Choreographer: Rachel Jett
Pippin, May 8- 16, 2021

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Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father, King Charlemagne the Great). In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.

Director: Saccha Dennis* Music Director: Greg Carruthers Choreographer: Beau Dixon
Spring Awakening, May 8-16, 2021

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Based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play of the same name, Spring Awakening depicts a group of young people making their way through the thrilling, complicated and mysterious time of sexual awakening. Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father, King Charlemagne the Great). In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.

Director & Choreographer—Julie Tomaino*

Music Director—Chris Tsujiuchi
Stars of Mars, February 14 – 23, 2020

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Stars of Mars is a new musical comedy set inside the first human colony on Mars, about a mother and daughter who are worlds apart. When Heather, the first human born on Mars, begins to ask questions about where she’s from, the astronauts and scientists decide to put on a show about the Earth they’ve all left behind. The Stars of Mars is about family, the future, our precious planet, and the rocket science required to put on a show in space.

Director: Steven Gallagher*

Music Director: Christopher Tsujiuchi

Choreographer: Kayla James*
Cabaret, February 11 – 23, 2020

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In the months that precede the outbreak of World War II, American writer Clifford Bradshaw lands in Berlin and soon finds himself at the notorious Kit Kat Klub. There he falls madly in love with the English ex-patriot entertainer Sally Bowles. Their affair is tested as her reckless lifestyle overwhelms him and as the world around them marches towards chaos. Throughout, the Kit Kat Klub’s Emcee taunts and satirizes with dazzling musical numbers in a score that includes Wilkommen, Money (Makes the World Go Around), Maybe This Time, and the unforgettable title tune.

Director: Dr. Marc Richard

Choreographer: Linda Garneau *

Music Director: Patrick Bowman
Nine, November 29 – December 8, 2019

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Guido Contini, a famous Italian film director and ladies man who’s last couple of movies have been panned by the critics is under pressure to make a return to form with his latest film. However, there is one major problem: he hasn’t written a line of the script and has lost all inspiration. In an attempt to find peace and inspiration, he travels to a luxury spa near Venice. Only to be followed by his wife, Luisa, his saucy mistress, Carla, his fierce producer and her whole film crew. What ensues pushes him to face his ultimate fears within life and death.

Book by Arthur Kopit. Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston

Director: Jayme Armstrong*

Choreographer: Alexandra Herzog*

Music Director: Jeannie Wyse
Newsies, November 26 – December 8, 2019

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Disney’s Newsies The Musical - the Tony Award-winning Broadway show is based on the historical newsboy strike of 1899 that shook the ivory towers of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. This band of underdogs lead by Jack Kelly rally to take a stand and strike against the most powerful newspaper publishers in the country. Soon their cause becomes even bigger than any of the newsies imagined when they realize they’re fighting for all the children working in unfair and unsafe conditions across the nation. It will leap onto the stage with soul stirring music, amazing heart, and stunning choreography.

Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Jack Feldman. Book by Harvey Fierstein

Director: Brian Hill

Choreographer: Jeff Dimitriou*

Music Director: Neil Bartram
Chelsea Sunrise, April 11 – 21, 2019

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Inspired by classic sounds of British 1960’s music - The Cocksure Lads lead by Dusty Fosterboard, head off from Toronto to London in hopes of stardom and fame. But what awaits them is the stark realization that we all have our own paths to discover and follow in this lifetime.

Music & lyrics by Mike Ford. Book, music & lyrics by Murray Foster.

Director: Steven Gallagher

Choreographer: Jennifer Mote

Musical Director: Mark Camilleri
The House of Martin Guerre, April 9 – 21, 2019

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This musical has been inspired by the famous 16^th Century court case about Martin Guerre and his return home from an eight year disappearance. But who is he? Only Bertande his ‘loving’ wife knows.

Music and lyrics by Leslie Arden. Book by Leslie Arden and Anna T. Cascio

Director: Leslie Arden

Choreographer: Tracey Flye

Musical Director: Boko Suzuki
My Bonnie Lass, February 14 – 25, 2019

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Set in postwar Scotland and based on a true story; this is a love-letter from Johnny Reid to his grandmother Maggie. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, the power of a mother’s love, and the way the women of her generation persevered.

Book, music and lyrics by Johnny Reid and Matt Murray. Additional music by Bob Foster.

Director: Mary Francis Moore

Choreographer: Brittany Banks

Musical Director: Robert Foster
On the Town, February 12 – 24, 2019

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Follow, Ozzie, Gabey and Chip as they dance their way through the streets of 1944 New York City, all in search of that one ‘dream girl’. This classic American musical soars with the music of Leonard Bernstein, spectacular dance numbers and tunes that will leave you humming all the way home!

Music by Leonard Bernstein. Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Based on an idea by Jerome Robbins.

Director & Choreographer: Julie Tomaino

Musical Director: Daniel Rutzen
The Three-Penny Opera, November 29 – December 9, 2018

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Based on The Beggar’s Opera, written by John Gay in 1728, Kurt Weill version sets us in 1837 London, on the eve of Queen Victoria’s Coronation. Macheath – a.k.a. Mack the Knife takes centre-stage – and becomes swept-up in a whirlwind tale one of which in may just not survive.

Book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Kurt Weill. English adaption by Marc Blitzstein

Director: Allyson McMackon

Music Director: Paula Wolfson
The Phantom of the Opera, November 27 – December 13, 2018

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Theatre Sheridan is thrilled to be presenting our own unique staging of one of the most popular, most seen musicals ever. Enter the Paris Opera House where lurks a masked Phantom hidden from society, tortured & disfigured, and witness the transformation unconditional love can make.

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Charles Hart. Additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Book by Richard Stilgoe & Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the novel “Le Fantôme de l’Opéra” by Gaston Leroux.

Director: Corey Agnew

Choreographer: Jeff Dimitriou

Musical Director: David Terriault
If/Then, April 12 – 22, 2018

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Elizabeth returns to New York City to start her life over. In a city of infinite possibilities, her carefully designed plans collide with the whims of fate tossing her into two parallel paths, one that we live, and one that we wish we would have led. A deeply moving portrait of a modern women is given in this fascinating, ambitious and original new musical.

Music by Tom Kitt. Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey.

Director: Andrew Kushnir

Choreographer: Monica Dottor

Musical Director: John-Luke Addison
Crazy for You, April 10 – 22, 2018

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An exhilarating celebration to the beloved, optimistic musicals of the 1930’s. A world of showgirls and cowboys, in which a city boy and a country girl reconcile their differences, fall in love, and save a theatre, the old-fashion way. All this and more… featuring the fabulous score from the Gershwin brothers’ songbook.

Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Book by Ken Ludwig.

Director: Julie Tomaino

Choreographer: Julie Tomaino

Musical Director: Joseph Tritt
The Cradle Will Rock, February 15 – 25, 2018

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Steeltown, USA, 1937. In the middle of the great depression, Marc Blitzstein writes his blistering attack on the wealth and power of a few held over the working class poor. The industrialist Mr. Mister owns the town and the people in it, until union leader Larry Foreman exposes the greed and corruption that lies just beneath the grit and grim. First banned for public performance, Biltzstein’s revelatory operatic tale is as relevant today as it was 80 years ago.

By Marc Blitzstein

Director: Marc Richard

Choreographer: Alex Gratton

Musical Director: Chris Barillaro
Kiss Me Kate, February 13 – 25, 2018

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Welcome backstage to witness the rollicking world of theatre as a company is preparing for their production of The Taming of the Shrew. Cole Porter has partnered with Shakespeare to create one of the most raucous, rowdy and enduring romances of all time for the stage. Not to be missed…KISS ME, KATE will leave you feeling “WUNDERBAR’!

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Sam and Bella Spewack.

Director: Ann Hodges

Choreographer: Stephanie Graham

Musical Director: Jeannie Wyse
Trap Door, January 9 – 14, 2018

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Trap Door - a musical thriller about disappearances, some that we notice, some that we don't.

1919, Toronto the Good, where booze cans and brothels are hidden in places any God-fearing Methodist can find them: the Music Halls. Enter Teddy, a young woman in search of her sister, who went missing soon after moving to the city. Like her sister before her, she gets work at The Grand Opera and the owner is none other than the infamous real-life impresario Ambrose Small, who sells his theatre chain and vanishes from sight a week after she arrives, never to be heard from again. Where he went, perhaps only Teddy can say. But, then, where is she? Was she ever even there? Trap Door is a haunting true-crime story about a young woman's introduction to the decadence and brutality of city life in the early 20th century.

Book and lyrics by Morris Panych. Music and lyrics by Anika Johnson. Music and lyrics by Britta Johnson.

Director: Morris Panych

Choreographer: Sheila McCarthy

Musical Director: Ryan deSouza

Producer: Michael Rubinoff
Into the Woods, January 6 – 14, 2018

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A ground-breaking musical that explores what the Brothers Grimm didn’t have the courage to tell us….

Revealed in the first act of this remarkable musical is an intricately woven tale of no less than five classic Fairy Tale characters, all in search of their “happily ever after” ending. But what happens after everyone’s wishes are granted?

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine.

Director: Brynn Cutcliffe

Choreographer: Josh Graetz

Musical Director: Adam White
Senza Luce, April 13 – 23, 2017

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Commissioned by The Canadian Musical Theatre Project and workshopped at Sheridan in 2015, Theatre Sheridan is pleased to present a full stage production of this magical musical.

This musical fable tells the story of Senza Luce, a village deep in the mountains of Northern Italy. Hidden from the outside world and shadowed over by the towering peaks of the Italian Alps, the villagers of Senza Luce have lived in perpetual darkness for centuries, never knowing sunlight. When one forward thinking youth devises a brilliant way to bring light to their darkened lives, the village and its citizens are thrown into turmoil.

Music and lyrics by Neil Bartram. Book by Brian Hill

Director: Brian Hill

Musical Director: Neil Bartram
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, April 11 – 23, 2017

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From the authors of Guys And Dolls comes one of the most delightfully irreverent musicals of all time, a satire of big business and all it holds sacred.

Follow the rise of window-washer J. Pierrepont Finch, in his hilarious journey to chairman of the board at the World Wide Wicket Company, circa 1960, a ridiculous company where no one really knows what anyone else is doing. But when Finch meets his true love Rosemary, art mixes with business creating a combustible parody of the workings and morals of the business world and all the quirky characters in it.

Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. Based upon the book by Shepherd Mead.

Director: Sheila McCarthy

Choreographer: Julie Tomaino

Musical Director: Callum Morris
Floyd Collins, February 16 – 26, 2017

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Based on a true story, Floyd Collins follows its title character, who chases a dream of fame and fortune by turning a Kentucky cave into a tourist attraction.

In 1925, Floyd Collins himself became the attraction when he becomes trapped 200 feet underground. As reporters and gawkers from across the country descend on the property, alone, Floyd fights for his sanity and ultimately his life. This haunting musical, one of the most acclaimed in recent years, tells the transcendent tale of a true American dreamer and the contrast between the cynicism of the media and real emotions discovered by Floyd and his family.

Book by Tina Landau. Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields, additional lyrics by Tina Landau.

Director: Marc Richard

Musical Director: Ryan deSouza
Footloose, February 14 – 26, 2017

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Footloose The Musical will have you dancing to the rock’in rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical.

Small town Bomont, led by Reverend Shaw Moore, ban rock & roll music and dancing after a fatal accident which took the lives of four boys coming home from a community dance. Ren McCormack recently moved from Chicago, quickly finds himself at odds with the community and declares to take on the town by throwing a dance which ignites a revolution amongst his classmates. Breaking every taboo, Ren and the Reverend’s daughter Ariel, bring dance back to the heart of the town in this high energy, enthusiastic powerhouse of a show!

Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie. Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford. Music by Tom Snow, lyrics by Dean Pitchford. Additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim Steinman.

Director: Connolly, David

Musical Director: Anthony Bastianon
Dogfight, December 1 – 11, 2016

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A story of the loss of innocence for a soldier, his date, and all of the United Sates.

November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines take part in a “dogfight” – a cruel game on the women they invite to the party, wherein the soldier who brings the least attractive girl wins. But when Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, she turns out to be more than he bargained for as she rewrites the rules of the game. A lesson in compassion, Dogfight begins as a rousing song and dance adventure and ends as an intimate story about finding the beauty and comfort of love.

Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. Book by Peter Duchan. Based on the Warner Bros. film and screenplay by Bob Comfort

Director: Ann Hodges

Choreographer: Stephanie Graham

Musical Director: Chris Barillaro
Shrek, the Musical, November 29 – December 11, 2016

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Based on the smash hit animated film series, this live adaptation brings the hilarious story of everyone’s favourite ogre to the stage. In a far away kingdom turned upside down by the insecure and conniving Lord Farquaad, an ogre – not a handsome prince – shows up to rescue the feisty princess Fiona. Throw in a wisecracking Donkey, a fire-breathing Dragon, a Cookie with attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there’s one on hand and his name is Shrek. Perfect for children and families, Shrek the Musical marries the bawdy humour of the original film with spectacular musical numbers added for the Broadway production.

Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and book by William Steig. Book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Music by Jeanine Tesori.

Director: Keith Pike

Choreographer: Nicola Pantin

Musical Director: Joseph Tritt