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Babies: Bless Them All, November 14 – 30, 1996
Theatre Sheridan
A musical comedy created by Cliff Jones exploring the hopes and dreams of babies by babies.
Anyone who is a parent or has baby-sat, or for that matter remembers being a kid, can identify with Babies and their challenges and attitudes towards that big, wide, wonderful, scary world that stands
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Little Shop of Horrors, April 10 – 27, 1996
Theatre Sheridan
When Little Shop of Horrors opened in a small theatre off-Broadway in 1982, it caused quite a stir among the critics. No one could agree on what to make of this joyous off-beat lampoon of the ‘B’ movie genre… but everyone had to agree that they loved it. It won
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The Pajama Game, February 7 – 24, 1996
Theatre Sheridan
It's 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and there's a fight going on down at the Pajama Factory. The management wants more PJs per hour, the union want more pay, and Sid, the new shop superintendent whiz from Chicago, really wants Babe Williams, the head of the workers’ Grievance Committee, to
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Lies & Legends; the Musical Stories of Harry Chapin, November 8 – 25, 1995
Theatre Sheridan
More than any other popular songwriter in recent memory, Harry Chapin was a storyteller. He celebrated the extraordinary lives of ordinary folk, and whether through comedy or pathos, reminded us of a shared emotional heritage. Here, the most inherently theatrical of Chapin's narrative pieces have been assembled, allowing the stories
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Style ’95 – 18 Again, September 21 – 23, 1995
Theatre Sheridan
A musical revue with medleys from Dixieland, Country, Louis Jordan as well as songs from the 40’s to the present.
The Music Theatre Department of Sheridan College first assembled Sheridan Style in 1982. The idea was to bring live entertainment to a larger audience and to provide an opportunity for
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The Club, February 16 – 25, 1995
Theatre Sheridan
The Club was first performed in 1976. Not really a play, not really a full ‘book’ musical, it is described in the script as ‘A Musical Diversion’, and all of the music you will hear comes from the period 1894-1905.
The setting is a very exclusive Gentleman’s Club, which could
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Cabaret, February 9 – 25, 1995
Theatre Sheridan
Set in 1920’s to 1930’s Berlin, when avant-garde Germany is shifting to reflect Hitler’s totalitarian regime.
Clifford Bradshaw, an aspiring American writer finds himself wandering into a Berlin nightclub, Kit Kat Club, and meets a cabaret performer, Sally Bowles. Their relationship develops into a romance and is complicated by stirrings
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You Can’t Take It with You, April 7 – 23, 1994
Theatre Sheridan
Written during the Depression by George Kaufman and Moss Hart this comedy explores the eccentric lives of the Sycamores, a New York family, whose interests include collecting snakes, building fireworks, writing plays without hope of publishing, ballet…etc. These activities and the joyful dash of discoveries that the clan explore are
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The Fantasticks, April 10 – 27, 1991
Theatre Sheridan
The Fantasticks, directed by Ron Cameron, is noted as the longest running musical in the world, opening in 1960 and playing to over 10,000 Off-Broadway performances. It is а charming show, and examines the folly and fragility of young love, age, and human nature - а musical for everyone. You
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What Glorious Times They Had – Nellie McClung, March 27 – April 20, 1991
Theatre Sheridan
Surely there has never been a spring more filled with portent in the history of the young Canadian Dominion than this of 1916. Across the sea in Europe, the Great War continues to be waged-while here at home, events less sanguine but hardly less explosive, nor in any way less
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Les Belles Soeurs, November 22 – December 1, 1990
Theatre Sheridan
Les Вelles Soeurs created quite а stir when it was first presented at the Theatre du Rideau-Vert in 1968. Some people found the language incomprehensible (Michel Tremblay used the Joual dialect particular to Montreal's working class) and many felt it presented them negatively.
Les Вelles Soeurs is probably more important
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Fiddler on the Roof, November 14 – December 1, 1990
Theatre Sheridan
There are only a handful of musicals that have as universal an appeal as Fiddler On The Roof. Since its New York premiere in 1962, it has been toured to over 60 countries and has been viewed by more than 45 million people. In their musical about the Jewish dairyman
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Cole, April 11 – 28, 1990
Theatre Sheridan
Cole, an entertainment based on the words and music of Cole Porter.
Cole Porter, one of the outstanding American composer-lyricists of the 20th century, was born in Peru, Indiana in 1891, the only son of Samuel and Kate Porter.
His early life was dominated by the strong personalities of his
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Half a Sixpence, February 14 – March 3, 1990
Theatre Sheridan
"Half a Sixpence" is the story of Arthur Kipps, a simple, honest, lovable orphan, apprenticed to Shalford's Drapery Emporium and Fancy Goods Bazaar, in Folkestone, England at the turn of the century. Through a series of remarkable coincidences, he inherits a fortune, proposes to Helen (a young lady of rank
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The Servant of Two Masters, November 22 – December 9, 1989
Theatre Sheridan
An Italian comedy based on Goldoni’s classic comedy in which a fiancé, Federigo Rasponi, comes back from the dead to be reunited with Clarice who is in the process of marrying her true love. The fiancé, is Federigo’s sister in disguise, who is plotting vengeance for her brother and trying
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Babes in Arms, November 15 – December 2, 1989
Theatre Sheridan
A story of the teenage children, of out-of-work vaudevillians, who stage a show to avoid being sent to a work camp.
Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart
Director: Ron Cameron
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Doin’ It With Style, May 25 – June 4, 1989
Theatre Sheridan
The Music Theatre Department of Sheridan College first assembled Sheridan Style in 1982. The idea was to bring live entertainment to a larger audience and to provide an opportunity for our students to experience working and touring in a musical revue. Auditions and interviews are held in January for the
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42nd Street, April 5 – 29, 1989
Theatre Sheridan
It is a tried-and-true tale of the lowly chorus girl who becomes an overnight sensation in the production “42nd Street”. Peggy Sawyer, the chorus girl, obtains a dancing part in a chorus of a new show entitled “Pretty Lady”. This new show is bound for Broadway, and as it does
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The Rover, March 9 – 18, 1989
Theatre Sheridan
The Rover is a restoration play set in the 1930's. Such (period up-dating is often controversial, so a word might be said about it here. The 1930's and the real Restoration (1660-1685 approximately) have a lot in common. In the midst of the Great Depression, 30's movies were inevitably stylish
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Brigadoon, February 8 – March 4, 1989
Theatre Sheridan
Bigadoon was the first major Broadway hit for Turner and Loewe who described it as “a whimsical musical fantasy.” Set in a magical Scottish village which appears out of the Scottish mist once every hundred years and disappears again, two American tourists stumble upon the fantasy village and develop love
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Woman of the Year, November 17 – December 10, 1988
Theatre Sheridan
The show focuses on the relationship between busy TV personality, Tess Harding, and her relationship with the handsome cartoonist, Sam Craig. As Tess is about to win a ‘Woman of the Year’ award, she realizes that she values her relationship with Sam more than her hectic career which is ruining
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Crimes of the Heart, February 12 – April 2, 1988
Theatre Sheridan
Three sisters are reunited in Hazelhurst, Mississippi after a decade. The eldest MaGrath sister stayed at home to take care of the grandfather, the second pursued singing in L.A. and is an alcoholic, and the last has just been arrested for murdering her abusive husband. The reunion and the Mississippi
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Nine, January 28 – February 20, 1988
Theatre Sheridan
Nine, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of the 1982 Broadway season, concerns the travails of Guido Contini - an Italian film director and the twenty-one women in his life, who first appear as an orchestra he mentally conducts. Guido, whose last three films have been flops, is suffering from mid-life
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The Return of the Curse of the Mummy’s Revenge, December 11, 1987 – February 6, 1988
Theatre Sheridan
A musical by Pembroke, Ontario’s, James Saar, that includes sarcophagi, mummies, creepy special effects and a strange love story set in ancient Egypt. The play starts with an introduction to the ancient tragic love story of Ankara and Kharum, who have been sealed in a tomb together 4,002 years ago.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, November 26 – December 5, 1987
Theatre Sheridan
The Duke of Athens, Theseus, is marrying the queen of the Amazons. A four day extravaganza is planned out and Athenians gather to celebrate the occasion. Two sets of star-crossed lovers must work through the repercussions of defying family expectations.
Into this mix are a band of fairies including the
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