Carousel Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad
From the delightful children's books comes an award-winning play, featuring Todd Talbot as Frog and Allan Zinyk as Toad. This an especially great production for the little ones under five years of age. Lots of great costumes, colours and wonderful cookies!
It's a story about life and friendships, and some of the scarier things that can happen as we move through the year.
Catchy music and a deft directorial hand make this a winner.
www.carouseltheatre.ca
Playhouse Theatre Co.: Dangerous Corner
At a dinner party, a guest makes a chance remark that ignites a series of devastating revelations leading to a tangle of infidelities, dark secrets and possibly murder. What secrets does the musical cigarette-box hold? J.B. Priestley's thought-provoking play will keep you spell-bound -- for an evening and probably longer.
"Telling the truth is about as healthy as skidding around a corner at sixty."
www.playhousetheatre.com
Pacific Theatre: Godspell
The award-winning hit musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak comes to Vancouver in a special presentation by Pacific Theatre. It's the Gospel According to Saint Matthew as you’ve never seen it before! Pacific Theatre celebrates the greatest story ever told with one of the most popular musicals ever staged – a sparkling new “Revised Version” that brings all the heart and hilarity of the original with glorious new musical arrangements.
Directed by Sarah Rodgers, with musical direction by Nelson Boschmann.
www.pacifictheatre.com
Arts Club Revue Stage: My Granny the Goldfish
Anosh Irani first delighted Vancouver audiences with his hit show "The Matka King." It showed us a side of Mumbai (Bombay) we had only heard about.
Irani returns with another funny, insightful and "Hallmark moment" slice of life introduction to a remarkable family. There's a hypochondriac son (Shaker Paleja), taking up residence in a Vancouver hospital; his whiskey-swilling "Granny" (Balinder Johal) who arrives from Bombay armed only with a whiskey bottle and the desire to "save" her grandson. Mix in a couple of very dysfunctional parents, played by Veena Sood and David Adams and you have the ingredients for a very entertaining evening of theatre.
The Marriage of Figaro is a musical treasure
Vancouver Opera keeps piling up the successes. After its historic production of John Adams' Nixon in China, they've chosen one of the major comic operas to delight us.
Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" is above all a superbly crafted piece of theatre, filled with joy, laughter, gags, insights into human nature, love and sublime music. The all-Canadian cast, directed by Chris Alexander and starring Daniel Okulitch as Figaro, Nikki Einfeld as Susanna, Rhoslyn Jones as Countess Almaviva, Aaron St. Clair Nicholson as Count Almaviva and Megan Latham as Marcellina was extremely well-rounded, both in vocal ability and acting skills.
Okulitch made a dashing, handsome Figaro and Einfeld was superbly grounded in her role of Figaro's fiance, the much put-upon Susanna.
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