Brian Stokes Mitchell & Elaine Stritch to Host Garth Drabinsky Film SHOW STOPPER Premiere Screening, 12/16

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Elaine Stritch will host the premiere screening of Barry Arvich's "Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky", an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012. The screening will take place on Sunday, December 16th, 2012.

Show Stopper is filmmaker Barry Avrich’s newest installment in a revealing series of films on powerful entertainment moguls, (Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, The Last Mogul: The Lew Wasserman Story), and chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of Garth Drabinsky’s dream fuelled by a hunger for success, excess and adulation.

Entertainment mogul Garth Drabinsky's incredible story is the most dramatic and unprecedented rise to and descent from power in Canadian show biz history. Featuring interviews with artists who loved him, industry players who battled with him and the media who spillEd Gallons of ink chronicling his prodigious career, Show Stopper is punctuated with the voice and words of Garth himself, drawn from numerous interviews and press conferences over the last thirty years.

Runtime is 96 minutes.

Photo courtesy TIFF.net.