Roundup: Check Out The Top Stories From Toronto You Might Have Missed 5/26 - Vote in the BWW Awards!
By: BWW News Desk May. 26, 2017
Happy Friday, BroadwayWorld! Here are the top stories from Toronto you might have missed this week!
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1) Regional Roundup: Top New Features This Week Around Our Broadway World 5/18 - NEXT TO NORMAL, BEAUTIFUL, and More!
by BWW Special Coverage - May 19, 2017
BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature NEXT TO NORMAL, HEDWIG, OKLAHOMA, BEAUTIFUL, and More!. (more...)
2) SWAN LAKE Principal Casting Announced! Six Debuts, Heather Ogden Returns to the Stage
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2017
Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the principal casting for Swan Lake with six exciting debuts. Celebrating its 140th anniversary, Swan Lake closes the National Ballet's 65th anniversary season at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, June 15 - 25, 2017.. (more...)
3) COME FROM AWAY Leads Toronto Theatre Critics Awards
by Alan Henry - May 25, 2017
Best Musical Tony Award contender COME FROM AWAY won big at the Toronto Theatre Critics Awards including Best New Musical, Best Production of a Musical, and Best Direction of a Musical. Mirvish Productions produced the show at the Royal Alexandra Theatre last December before it moved down to New York.. (more...)
4) BWW Review: Drink to Love and Love to Drink at The Musical Stage Company's ONEGIN
by Taylor Long - May 18, 2017
You don't always get a second chance at love. The Musical Stage Company's ONEGIN presents this cautionary moral tale in 120 minutes of energetic, interactive musical theatre. A mix of old and new, Pushkin's famous poem and Tchaikovsky's renowned opera meet music and lyrics by creators Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone.. (more...)
5) BWW Review: Rent in the 6ix Meets Opera in Against the Grain Theatre's LA BOHÈME
by Taylor Long - May 20, 2017
You've never seen a more boho Boheme. Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) presents Puccini's LA BOHÈME in a real Toronto dive bar, The Tranzac Club. AtG is doing something incredible in the world of opera right now - they're growing. When opera houses around the world are reporting declines in ticket sales and reductions in seasonal production budgets - AtG is selling out their run, offering 'standing room only' tickets. Why? Their approach.. (more...)
6) Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Featured in Special Engagements at 21C Music Festival
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2017
Canadian Opera Company Music Director Johannes Debus and the internationally acclaimed COC Orchestra step out of the orchestra pit of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts to launch the 'Canadian edition' of the 21C Music Festival, performing the opening concert on May 24, 2017 at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music at Koerner Hall. This is the first of two engagements with COC artists at the 21C Music Festival.. (more...)
7) LIP SYNC SLEEPOVER Comes to Crow's Theatre
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2017
On Thursday May 25, and Friday May 26 at 8:30pm, for two nights only, the 'spellbinding' international artist Vanessa Smythe offers her new solo show: LIP SYNC SLEEPOVER at Streetcar Crowsnest, Scotiabank Community Studio, 345 Carlaw Avenue in Toronto for a special limited engagement. With a 'genuine gift for poetic narrative', Smythe's poignant, funny, and deeply personal storytelling show tethers together poetry, music, and movement.. (more...)
8) BWW Review: CANADA: THE THINKING MAN'S AMERICA at The Second City
by Taylor Long - May 22, 2017
It's time to celebrate Canada's sesqui...sesquicen....sequisecent...150th birthday! What better way to celebrate than with The Second City and their new show, CANADA: THE THINKING MAN'S AMERICA. A mash of improv, stand-up and something involving racoons that words can't quite describe - the show delivers the laughs.. (more...)
9) WINNIPEG CLASSIC ROCK FEST Announced
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2017
Classic Rock fans are in for a special treat this summer as the first annual Winnipeg Classic Rock Fest takes over the field at Shaw Park on August 29th!. (more...)
10) Tickets on Sale Next Week for BAT OUT OF HELL in Toronto
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2017
Producers David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl, Randy Lennox and Tony Smith announced today that tickets for the North American Premiere of Jim Steinman's BAT OUT OF HELL THE MUSICAL will go on sale Wednesday May 24, 2017. . (more...)
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