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Blood Brothers, February 16 – 25, 2012
Theatre Sheridan
When it debuted in London in 1983, this compelling and provocative musical won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The current West End revival is one of the longest-running musicals in history. The action starts off in Liverpool during the coal-mining strikes of the mid-80s. Deserted by her husband,
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Oklahoma!, February 14 – 25, 2012
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This masterful first collaboration between Broadway luminaries Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, is considered the forerunner of Broadway’s Golden Age and with very good reason! Its sensational score is filled with songs that have become popular standards. Its simple character-based story about Laurey Williams’ dilemma choosing who will accompany
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Love's Labour's Lost, December 1 – 10, 2011
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When the King of Navarre and his three noble companions resolve to take an oath to foreswear the company of women in order to devote themselves entirely to three years of study, Berowne, the most skeptical of them, reminds the King of the immanent arrival of the Princess of France
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Rent, November 29 – December 10, 2011
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Rent is a musical update of Puccinis La Boheme which, in turn is based on Henri Murger's novel, Scenes de la vie de boheme, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. The main theme of Murger's novel is Art Above
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Amadeus, April 14 – 23, 2011
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Court composer Antonio Salieri cannot reconcile Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s boorish behaviour with the genius that God has inexplicably bestowed upon him. A devout Catholic all his life, Salieri renounces God and vows to do everything in his power to destroy Mozart as a way of getting back at his Creator.
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The Most Happy Fella, April 12 – 23, 2011
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The year is 1927. A young and harassed waitress in a San Francisco diner finds an expensive pin left behind along with a note addressed to her in broken English. It is a marriage proposal from Tony Esposito, an Italian grape farmer in Napa Valley. Intrigued, she replies, asking for
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Assassins, February 17 – 26, 2011
Theatre Sheridan
This brilliant Stephen Sondheim musical explores the disintegration of the ‘American Dream’ where privilege degenerates into self-entitlement. The action takes place in a fairground shooting gallery. A collection of misfits explores the notion of notoriety achieved through assassination. Centering on nine of the thirteen people who have tried (four successfully)
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Once Upon a Mattress, February 15 – 26, 2011
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In this hilarious medieval send-up of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Princess and the Pea,“ the mute King Sextimus suffers from a curse that can only be reversed “when the mouse devours the hawk.” The evil and manipulative Queen Agravain stifles all attempts to marry off her doting son Prince
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Happy End, December 2 – 11, 2010
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Set against the backdrop of the greed of American capitalism, personified by tycoons like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan, a gang of entrepreneurial Chicago gangsters, led by top tough guy Bill Cracker, hangs out in Bill’s Beer Hall, and plots to control the local territory. But when
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The Drowsy Chaperone, November 30 – December 11, 2010
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The mousy, agoraphobic, Broadway fanatic ‘Man in Chair’ seeks to cure his “non-specific sadness” by listening to a recording of a (fictional) 1928 musical comedy entitled The Drowsy Chaperone. As he enjoys this rare recording, he is transported into the musical, his dingy apartment transformed into a Broadway set. Frenetic
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Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Musical), April 15 – 24, 2010
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Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Musical) is a sequel to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Set 20 years after (and 1000 years before) that fateful night in that magical woods near Athens, Oberon picks up the stories of Shakespeare’s Faeries and Mortals at a time when the world as most of
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Cabaret, April 13 – 24, 2010
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This is not a musical about Nazi Berlin. Instead, Joe Masteroff’s book takes us into the world of the uncertain and chaotic Weimar Republic – a post-World War I, wild and art-filled nightclub scene mixed with the threat of the unknown. When the show first starts in 1929 we see
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Pippin, February 18 – 27, 2010
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Pippin was created by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked) and Roger O. Hirson as a college project, it was a cute and sentimental story about a travelling theatrical troupe putting on a play about a young man finding meaning in his life. It was fairly innocent and innocuous – until Bob
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Anything Goes, February 16 – 27, 2010
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Billy Crocker, a young lovesick Wall Street broker, stows away aboard a trans-Atlantic liner bound for England in order to win the heart of the hapless heiress Hope Harcourt. Using a series of clever disguises Billy successfully avoids being discovered. But havoc erupts when he is mistakenly identified as Public
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Metamorphoses, December 3 – 12, 2009
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A Tony Award-Winning transformative play, in a stunning retelling of Ovid's classic stories of love, lust, and change, Metamorphoses uses familiar and forgotten tales to illuminate our world. The play, sometimes comic, sometimes achingly sad, "somehow manages both to lift you out of the moment you're living in and speak
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Carnival, December 1 – 12, 2009
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The action takes place on the outskirts of a small town in the south of France, soon after World War II. Lili, an innocent young woman, seeks employment in a seedy carnival touring the south of France. She soon becomes the pawn in a fierce rivalry between Marco the Magnificent,
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The Rivals, April 16 – 25, 2009
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Rich socialite Lydia Languish is obsessed with the romantic ideals of love and is drawn into a relationship with a poor soldier named Ensign Beverly. Much to her chagrin, it is eventually revealed to her that her beloved is in fact the heir to a vast fortune. This hilarious romp
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Grease, April 14 – 25, 2009
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This notorious rock-and-roll saga about the Burger Palace Boys and the Pink Ladies is sure to get you dancing in the aisles! Get caught up in the antics surrounding ‘greaser’ Danny Zuko and his prim and proper sweetheart Sandy Zumbrowski. Get carried away with all the zany characters that make
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Big Time Operator, February 19 – 28, 2009
Theatre Sheridan
In this Big-Band fantasy, womanizing nightclub singer Flash discovers that he is the father of a seven-year-old boy whose mother has recently passed away. What happens when this unwitting parent introduces his shy but astoundingly astute son to the colourful denizens of the Voodoo Lounge? Will the boy be corrupted
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Brigadoon, February 17 – 28, 2009
Theatre Sheridan
In the post World War II era, two disillusioned Americans, while on a hunting trip in the Highlands of Scotland, stumble on a mysteriously anachronistic town tucked away from tourists. Brigadoon is apparently so remote that it isn’t even listed on their map. Their cynicism is mellowed by the simple
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A New Brain, November 27 – December 6, 2008
Theatre Sheridan
Gordon Schwinn, a talented but frustrated songwriter, suddenly discovers he has a brain tumor and needs a risky operation. Using his fiercely sarcastic wit, he faces the dire possibilities that he may die without ever realizing his artistic potential or, perhaps worse, that he may never regain the use of
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Two Gentlemen of Verona, November 25 – December 6, 2008
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Two best friends leave their rural hometown of Verona to seek their fortunes in Milan. They soon find their friendship tested when they fall in love with the same girl. But even more trouble ensues when the girlfriend one left behind, disguises herself and follows her feckless lover to the
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Jerome Kern All the Things You Are, April 10 – 19, 2008
Theatre Sheridan
Celebrated American composer Jerome Kern often has been critically hailed as the ‘Father of Musical Comedy.’ His enduring popular hits and hauntingly melodic ballads for both Broadway (They Didn’t Believe Me, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man O’ Mine) and Hollywood (The Way You Look Tonight,
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Urinetown, April 8 – 19, 2008
Theatre Sheridan
The groundbreaking satirical musical spoof is set in a bleak futuristic city suffering from a severe shortage of water where private bathrooms have been outlawed. Citizens must pay crippling fees to use public latrines, which are run by a monopolistic corporation. Those who cannot pay get dragged off to “Urinetown”,
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The Barbecue King, February 14 – 23, 2008
Theatre Sheridan
Originally conceived by composers Steve Thomas and Mark Brownell in 2000, The Barbecue King was initially developed in small sections at the Alumnae and Tarragon Theatres. The Barbecue King became a bit of a period piece as the middle class characters represented here have been steadily priced out of cottage
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