“My father lost me to the Beast at cards.” Hailey Gillis’ opening line of Tiger Bride lets us know that this is not your average fairy tale. Based on Angela Carter’s “The Tiger’s Bride”, a gothic retelling of the classic “Beauty and the Beast” story, Tiger Bride is a dark, music-filled fantasy that’ll leave you…
“Af dem hob ikh eyn entfer — Got is a foter un Heylik is zayn Toyre!” From the opening lines of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish I felt the shift: changes both large and small which were taking a story I’ve known for most of my life and giving it new and deeper meaning.…
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”― Norman Vincent Peale But what happens if you fall even further? If the stars can’t hold you and you plummet towards the ground? Kathryn Albertson made that rise and fall more times than she could count before finally landing on her own…
I love an overture. Truly, the little amuse bouche of a musical’s score before you see the full production makes the first viewing all the more intriguing, and subsequent listens feel warm and friendly. Though they went out of fashion long before I was born, I do so love an overture. And I know the…
“‘To Bobby with love’From all those good and crazy people, my friends!Those good and crazy people, my married friends!” Being the only single person amongst a group of married friends isn’t easy, just ask Bobby, the main character of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s iconic musical, Company. Though rather than being cast aside by those…
What’s your favourite season? I love the spring, because everything is new and fresh and getting warmer, but not too hot. But what if you lived a world of only winter? Where nothing ever changes and the frozen wasteland goes on as far as the eye can see. Bad Hats’ Narnia, adapted and directed by…
“I steal from the rich and give to the needyHe takes a wee percentage, but I'm not greedy” Twenty four years later, and the beginning of the “Merry Men” song from “Shrek” is still the first thing I think of when I hear the name Robin Hood, shortly followed by the iconic “Oo-De-Lally” song from…
After a brief hiatus, The Confidential Musical Theatre Project is coming back to Toronto! The show and casting is a total secret! Audiences won’t know which musical they’re seeing until they arrive! I got to ask Taylor Long, one of the project’s lead artists, about what the experience of The Confidential Musical Theatre Project is…
Step right up! Don’t be shy! Karnak knows your future, he even knows when you’ll die. Karnak can grant wishes, too, if you want it most. What have you done with the time you were given? Are you worthy of a second chance at life, or did you Ride the Cyclone never to return? Jacob…
“One time some time” there was a group of people who gathered in a church basement as the rain fell steadily on the roof far above them. They’ve come at the request of a man few, if any, have ever met, but they’re all there for the same reason: to help with their addiction to…
A View from the Box 