Theatre goers will take pleasure in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s blockbuster Broadway musical Cinderella and the red-carpet world premiere of Promenade Queen: The Musical, in addition to performs based mostly on the novels of Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, produced by a few of Montréal’s most enjoyable skilled and unbiased English-language theatre corporations this autumn.
One of many Canadian theatre scene’s most-anticipated new productions of the yr is Prom Queen: The Musical, based mostly on the true story of Marc Corridor, the Ontario teenager who made worldwide headlines when he took his Catholic faculty board to courtroom in 2002 once they refused to let him attend his promenade together with his boyfriend.
“I feel this musical is a celebration, however can also be a well timed reminder of how far we've come,” says Corridor. “We should nonetheless struggle discrimination and have fun variety. It is very important love and settle for who you're, and love and settle for others. We have now come a great distance, however individuals nonetheless want to listen to these messages.”
Promenade Queen: The Musical world premieres on the Segal Centre for Performing Arts from Oct. 27 to Nov. 20.
Considered one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hottest titles, Cinderella, was initially written for tv, debuting in 1957 starring Julie Andrews. The present made its long-overdue Tony-winning Broadway debut in 2013, and it's this model that may play the Salle Wildfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts for a restricted engagement from Oct.18 to 23. There shall be eight performances in all, together with matinees on Oct. 22 and 23.
Along with the musicals Promenade Queen and Cinderella, there are a number of dramas of word enjoying in Montréal, such because the Teesri Duniya Theatre manufacturing The Refugee Hotel by award-winning author Carmen Aguirre who crafts a poignant darkish comedy a few group of Chilean refugees who resettle in Vancouver following the brutal coup d’état of 1973. The play runs on the Segal Centre for Performing Arts from Oct. 26 to Nov. 13.
The Centaur Theatre in Previous Montréal launches its 48th season with a few intriguing productions. First, there's Constellations by Nick Payne, the London West Finish and Broadway smash (during which Jake Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut in 2015), an emotional and considerate take a look at one romance as it'd exist throughout parallel universes. Directed by Canadian theatre legend Peter Hinton, Constellations runs from Oct. four to 30.
The opposite Centaur play of word is The Watershed by award-winning Montréal playwright Annabel Soutar who applies her documentary theatre strategy to discover the complicated environmental and financial points surrounding Alberta’s oil sands and Ontario’s Experimental Lakes Space. The Watershed performs at Centaur from Nov. eight to Dec. four as a part of a nationwide tour and contains a stellar forged, together with actors Bruce Dinsmore and Eric Peterson.
Montréal theatre veteran Amanda Kellock tailored and directs The Halloween Tree, based mostly on the fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury, about a number of buddies who go trick-or-treating on Halloween night time, and cross time and area to seek out out the hidden secrets and techniques of Halloween to save lots of their pal Joe Pipkin. The Geordie Productions play options an awesome ensemble forged – Eloi ArchamBaudoin, Trevor Barrette, Jimmy Blais, Davide Chiazzese, Lucinda Davis, Jaa Smith-Johnson and Charlotte Rogers – and runs at Montréal’s beautiful downtown D.B. Clarke Theatre from Oct. 21 to 30.
Over on The Most important – Montréal’s historic Boulevard St-Laurent – the town’s uber-cool indie Mainline Theatre (additionally headquarters of the Montréal Fringe Pageant) – presents the musical Hair (from Nov. 23 to 26) and their hugely-popular annual run of The Rocky Horror Show, full with reside band (Oct. 19 to 29). Mainline may even current the difference of Stephen King’s novel Misery, from Nov. 9 to 13.
Three scholar productions well worth the admission are Virginia Woolf’s Orlando produced by the John Abbott School Division of Theatre & Music on the Casgrain Theatre from Oct. 20 to 29; Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing produced by the top-notch Dawson Professional Theatre Program of their state-of-the-art Dawson Theatre from Nov. 14 to 26; and the Nationwide Theatre Faculty of Canada manufacturing of Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project directed by theatre legend Djanet Sears, from Dec. 12 to 17, on the historic Monument Nationwide.
Final however not least, the famend Hudson Players Club presents Simon Levy’s excellent adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic 1925 novel The Nice Gatsby on the Hudson Village Theatre from Nov. three to 13.
Up subsequent:Montréal’s Autumn 2016 opera, ballet and classical music season
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