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The Cradle Will Rock, February 15 – 25, 2018
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Kiss Me Kate, February 13 – 25, 2018
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Trap Door, January 9 – 14, 2018
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Into the Woods, January 6 – 14, 2018
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Senza Luce, April 13 – 23, 2017
Theatre Sheridan
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
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, April 11 – 23, 2017
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Floyd Collins, February 16 – 26, 2017
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Footloose, February 14 – 26, 2017
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Dogfight, December 1 – 11, 2016
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Shrek, the Musical, November 29 – December 11, 2016
Theatre Sheridan
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
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Sunday in the Park with George, April 14 – 24, 2016
Theatre Sheridan
The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, Georges Seurat is struggling to make meaningful art and maintain a relationship with his lover Dot. Amid the scorn of the artistic community, Seurat's artistic ability thrives while his love diminishes. A century later, Seurat's descendant - named George and also an artist - finds himself burnt out and in search of what artistic path to follow, but he finds the answer to his future in the past. A deeply moving love story that connects the past to the future through passionate and intensely personal struggles that are not unlike ones we all face at different times in our lives
Book by James Lapine, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine, originally produced on Broadway by The Shubert Organization and Emanuel Azenberg.
Director: Sue Miner
Musical Director: Adam White
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Grand Hotel: The Musical, April 12 - 24, 2016
Theatre Sheridan
The Grand Hotel is bustling with eccentric and sometimes dubious guests: amongst them a fading prima ballerina being forced to dance again; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron; a cynical doctor suffering from World War I wounds; an honest businessman going bad as he faces financial ruin and a typist dreaming of Hollywood stardom.
Behold these vibrant dramas as they spring to life in a whirlwind of music and dance. As the wealthy, poor, innocent, bitter, kind and cruel, all reveal their lifelong desires and passions, you'll bask in the shimmering elegance that is…GRAND HOTEL!
Book by Luther Davis, music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Based on Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel". By arrangement with Turner Broadcasting Co. owner of the motion picture "Grand Hotel". Additional music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.
Director: Brian Hill
Choreographer: Robert Allan
Musical Director: Michael Barber
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Sweet Charity, February 18 - 28, 2016
Theatre Sheridan
Experience the bold and colourful world of 1960s New York through the eyes of Charity Hope Valentine. The dance hall hostess dreams of a brighter future but she can’t help but give her heart to all the wrong guys. Then she meets the meek but sweet Oscar Lindquist when they get trapped in an elevator. Could he be the man to change Charity’s luck and take her off the market as a heart-for-hire? Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields’ bright music and dance numbers like ‘Big Spender’ and ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now,’ paired with a book by Neil Simon made this Broadway a hit when it premiered in 1966.
Director: Sheila McCarthy
Musical Director: Stephen Woodjetts
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Damn Yankees, February 16 - 28, 2016
Theatre Sheridan
Joe Boyd, a middle-aged married man loves his perpetually losing Washington Senators as much as he hates the perpetually winning New York Yankees. When the Devil appears in the form of the smooth Mr. Applegate, Joe jumps at the chance to trade his soul to become the greatest baseball player of all time and carry his Senators to the pennant. As the Senators go on an historic winning streak and near first place, Joe finally realizes how much he gave up when he walked away from his wife’s love and their workaday life. Will he go back, or will he succumb to the temptations of fame, glory, and the charms of Applegate’s assistant, the luscious Lola?
Fast-paced and devilishly clever, DAMN YANKEES is a home-run musical featuring America’s favourite pastime and an irreverent sense of humour.
Director: Ray Hogg
Musical Director: Ryan deSouza
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The Enlightenment of Percival Von Schmootz, December 3 - 13, 2015
Theatre Sheridan
Fed up with a world filled with plagues, pestilence, and poor personal hygiene, a ridiculously optimistic young man sets out on a quest to end the Dark Ages. As he attempts to bring the light of hope to the world, Percival von Schmootz meets with hilariously disastrous results at every turn. It is only when things look the blackest that Percival is able to discover what true enlightenment means. A cross between Monty Python and Candide, this outrageous satirical comedy examines the ways we search for hope in our impossibly dark circumstances.
This musical was commissioned by The Canadian Musical Theatre Project and workshopped at Sheridan in 2014.
Director: Lezlie Wade
Musical Director: Wayne Gwillim
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Legally Blonde, December 3 - 10, 2015
Theatre Sheridan
A fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the adored movie, LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL, follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery, and scandal in pursuit of her dreams.
Director: Greg Peterson
Musical Director: Tara Litvack
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Brantwood 1920-2020, April 14 - 25, 2015
Theatre Sheridan
This new work by Mitchell Cushman and Julie Tepperman was developed as part of the Canadian Music Theatre Project. Billed as a mysterious, immersive musical experience, it was staged at Brantwood School, in Oakville. Audience members participated as members of Brantwood’s final graduating class, invited back to tour their old stomping ground and immerse themselves in tales of youthful experience spanning ten decades.
Created, Written and Directed by Mitchell Cushman and Julie Tepperman.
Music and Lyrics by Bram Gielen, Anika Johnson and Britta Johnson
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Chess, April 16 - 26, 2015
Theatre Sheridan
A musical with music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, formerly of ABBA, and lyrics by Tim Rice. The story involves two chess grandmasters, an American and a Soviet citizen, fighting over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other—all in the context of a politically-driven, Cold War-era tournament between the two men.
Director: Darcy Evans
Musical Director: Adam White
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A Man of No Importance, February 19 - March 1, 2015
Theatre Sheridan
Alfie Byrne is a bus driver in 1964 Ireland, whose heart holds secrets he can’t share with anyone except his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde. This production won Best Off-Broadway Musical award in 2003.
Director: Keith Pike
Musical Director: Adam White
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In the Heights, February 17 - March 1, 2015
Theatre Sheridan
Set in the Dominican-American neighbourhood of Washington Heights in New York City, this production made its Broadway debut in 2008 and earned thirteen Tony nominations and four awards, including Best Musical.
Director & Choreographer: Marc Kimelman
Musical Director: Robert Foster
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Hello Dolly! November 25 - December 7, 2014
Theatre Sheridan
This classic Broadway musical features the story of matchmaker Dolly Levi, who strives to bring romance to several couples and herself in early 20th century New York. First produced on Broadway in 1964, Hello Dolly! won a record 10 Tony Awards, including best Musical.
Director: Avery Saltzman
Musical Director: Don Horsburgh
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Little Women, November 27 - December 27, 2014
Theatre Sheridan
Based on the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, this production relays the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War.
Director: Thomas Morgan Jones
Musical Director: Aaron Eyre
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A Doll’s House, April 10 – 19, 2014
Theatre Sheridan
It’s Christmas Eve and sweet, cheery Nora Helmer, arms brimming with gifts, is reveling in her role as wife and mother…until a knock at the door threatens to destroy her doll house of a world forever. Blackmailed for a forgery she committed years ago to save her husband’s life. Nora schemes to squelch her secret and the consequences of its revelation to her husband’s burgeoning career. As matters spin out of control, she must make a life-changing decision that has shocked and divided audiences for more than a century.
Director: Ralph Small
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Parade, April 8 – 19, 2014
Theatre Sheridan
This tragic and true story, Parade dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank, who was falsely accused and eventually convicted of murdering a 13-year old employee, Mary Phagan. Filled with beautiful and evocative music, Parade is at once a riveting murder mystery, a gripping courtroom drama, a moving love story, a profile in courage and a searing social commentary. Daring, innovative and bold, Parade won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000.
It is based on the book by Alfred Uhry. Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. It was co-conceived and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince.
Director: Rachel Slaven
Choreographer: Nicola Pantin
Musical Director: James Smith
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Godspell, February 13-23, 2014
Theatre Sheridan
Based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, Godspell remains one of the most popular rock musicals of all time. With a playful and poignant score by Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, Godspell is the timeless tale of friendship, loyalty and love that has touched theatregoers all over the world. Boasting a string of well-loved songs, led by the international hit “Day By Day”, Godspell is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love.
The music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz, and this performance was conceived by John-Michael Tebelak.
Co-Directors: Stephanie Graham & Ari Weinberg
Choreographer: Stephanie Graham
Musical Director: Anthony Bastianon
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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