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Review: Lunchbox Showcases Fascinating Ladies, Both On- and Off-Stage
It’s International Women’s Day on Thursday May 8th*, so it’s fitting that Lunchbox Theatre’s Artistic Director Pamela Halstead should choose this week to open a show that centres around women, both on...
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Theatre Alberta’s Spring Magazine Hits the (Music) Stands – Now Online!
I just picked up my mail and was excited to see that the Spring edition of Theatre Alberta’s All Stages Magazine is all about musical theatre, and high time, too. (I may be a musical theatre snob, but...
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Review: Little Women is (are?) Simply Astonishing
On Friday night I attended the opening night gala of Storybook Theatre’s Little Women with my sister Susan and her husband, Will (two of the most active members of my Calgary Musicals MeetUp Group)....
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Lunchbox Serves Up Two Canadian Musicals in 2012-2013
Ah, June! And with that, time to catch up on more season launches as the 2011-2012 season winds down. As usual, Lunchbox Theatre has a couple of musicals in their 2012-2013 programme of mostly Canadian...
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Forte Musical Theatre Guild Presents Maria in 2012-2013
Maria Rasputin (right) with her parentsThe last of the launches to date (I think): Back in April, I attended a reception at the home of Forte Musical Theatre Guild’s artistic director, Joe Slabe, where...
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Preview: Maria Rasputin Presents – Russian History Meets Circus Spectacle
Shari Wattling as Maria Rasputin. Photo Credit: Kristian Jones “There’ll be puppets and pathos, Terror and tap dance, Drama and drag queens, And ruinous romance, When Maria Rasputin Presents…!” [From...
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Two Calgary Musicals Make the Cut For The 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival
The line-up for the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s prestigious Next Link programme has just been announced and two of the ten shows hail from Calgary! The first is Joe Slabe’s Crossing Swords...
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Preview: If I Weren’t With You – a musical romp in the world of “Not So...
Joe Slabe has another new musical premiering at Lunchbox Theatre this week, and this time he’s starring in it, along with JP Thibodeau (Executive and Artistic Director of Storybook Theatre, recently...
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Good luck getting tickets to any musicals this week
The holiday (musical) theatre scene is winding down with SOLD OUT performances of the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at Rosebud, Peter Pan at Storybook (saw them both last week, as well as Annie at...
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Joe Slabe Musical Theatre Writing Workshop starts March 9
If you’ve always wanted to write a musical yourself, or just hone your songwriting in general, Alberta Playwrights’ Network and Forte have teamed up to present a course in Musical Theatre writing and...
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