Theatre goers will take pleasure in blockbuster Broadway musicals Kinky Boots and Million Greenback Quartet, in addition to many different crowd-pleasing Tony and Pulitzer-winning dramas and comedies, produced by a few of Montréal’s most enjoyable skilled and unbiased English-language theatre corporations, together with Black Theatre Worskhop’s much-anticipated drama Angélique concerning the real-life black slave lady who burnt down Previous Montréal in 1734.
The yr kicks off with the Broadway touring manufacturing of the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots which headlines Salle Wilfred-Pelletier from Jan. three to eight. After profitable Greatest Unique Rating on the 2013 Tony Awards, Cyndi Lauper advised me, “I didn’t cease to assume I used to be the primary lady to win that award [solo because] there have been a number of males concerned, individuals who understood me, like playwright Harvey Fierstein.”
The touring Broadway musical Mamma Mia! additionally headlines Salle Wilfred-Pelletier, for 5 performances solely, from Feb. 17 to 19. British playwright Catherine Johnson wrote the musical a few daughter’s quest to find the id of her father on the eve of her wedding ceremony on the identical Greek island paradise her mom visited 20 years earlier. Over the course of the play, the forged sings 22 ABBA songs that match collectively uncannily, as in the event that they’d been written for the narrative.
Upcoming highlights on the Segal Centre embrace British playwright Michael Frayn’s basic 1982 farce Noises Off from Jan. 29 to Feb. 19. Directed by Award-winning Montreal filmmaker Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky), this play-within-a-play follows the on and off stage shenanigans of a hapless director and his ragtag group of actors who should pull their act collectively to placed on a present.
The Segal additionally presents the Tony-winning jukebox musical Million Greenback Quartet, impressed by the true story of the night time 4 music icons—Elvis Presley, Johnny Money, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins—got here collectively at Solar Data studios in Memphis on Dec. four, 1956, for one of many biggest impromptu recording jam periods in historical past. Songs embrace Blue Suede Footwear, Nice Balls of Hearth, Stroll the Line and Hound Canine. Directed by the Segal’s Inventive and Government Director Lisa Rubin, the Montreal premiere of Million Dollar Quartet runs from April 23 to Might 14.
Over on the Centaur Theatre in Previous Montréal, race and actual property take centre stage in Bruce Norris’ biting satire, the Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park, which travels again to 1959 Chicago to inform the story of a white household upsetting the ‘social order’ of their all-white, center class neighbourhood by promoting their home to a black household. Act II fast-forwards to 2009 when a white couple makes an attempt to purchase and tear down the identical home—now in an all-black neighbourhood—and is met with equal opposition. The Quebec English-language premiere of Clybourne Park is directed by Canadian theatre legend Ellen David and runs from April four to 30.
The Centaur additionally presents the Quebec premiere of the acclaimed Canadian comedy Mattress and Breakfast, a heart-warming play about two homosexual males (performed by Mark Crawford and Paul Dunn) who transfer from city Toronto to a tiny vacationer city to transform the household residence right into a B&B. Enjoying dozens of female and male characters—from narrow-minded rednecks to awkward highschool boys—prejudice exams the couple’s resolve, with some sudden comical plot twists. Bed and Breakfast runs from April 25 and Might 21.
The Centaur additionally presents its 20th annual Wildside Festival, showcasing one of the best in Canadian indie theatre, from Jan. 5 to 15. This yr’s version options seven performs, together with House of Laureen: Backdoor Queens, starring the resident drag artists from Montreal’s fabled Café Cléopatre Cabaret: Anaconda LaSabrosa, Connie Lingua, Dot Dot Dot, Uma Gahd and Noah in a backstage take a look at the truth of drag, efficiency and politics.
Different performances of notice are Snowglobe Theatre’s giant ensemble-cast manufacturing of Shakespeare’s basic comedy Much Ado About Nothing headlining Montréal’s uber-cool indie Mainline Theatre (additionally headquarters of the Montréal Fringe Pageant) from Jan. 26 to 29; Infinitheatre’s manufacturing of playwright Oren Safdie’s Mr. Goldberg Goes to Tel Aviv, a few Jewish-Canadian homosexual writer and Palestinian sympathizer held captive by a Palestinian terrorist, enjoying on the Théatre St. James in Previous Montréal from Jan. 31 to Mar. 5; and the much-anticipated co-production of Angélique by Black Theatre Workshop and Tableau D’Hôte Theatre. Written by late Canadian playwright Lorena Gale, Angélique is predicated on real-life Black slave lady Marie-Joseph Angélique who was owned by Thérèse de Francheville, widow of rich Montréal fur service provider François Poulin de Francheville. After Angélique was bought to a Quebec authorities official for 600 kilos of gunpowder in 1734, she tried to flee and was publicly executed for allegedly setting hearth to Montréal. Angélique runs on the Segal Studio from March 16 to April 2.
Final however not least, two scholar productions well worth the admission are the double function Lear and Exit the King carried out by the graduating class of the Nationwide Theatre Faculty beneath the course of Brendan Healy, on the historic Monument Nationwide from Feb. 27 to Mar. four; and Rebel Daughter—based mostly on the autobiography of Canadian feminist icon and long-time editor of Chatelaine journal, Doris Anderson—produced by the top-notch Dawson Professional Theatre Program of their state-of-the-art Dawson Theatre from April 18 to 29.
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