Issue #185: January 15, 2007
The Police
Concert Tickets are hot as well as Broadway theater shows like Jersey Boys
Tickets, Disney's Mary Poppins on
Broadway and classics like Wicked Tickets.
- Even though his latest TV series Justice didn’t hit
a home run with audiences, there is no rest in store for
Victor Garber. Look for the theatre veteran to return
to the stage in a revival of Noel Coward’s Present
Laughter scheduled to open at Boston’s Huntington Theater
in May.
- Casting has been announced for the upcoming film of
Mamma Mia! based on the global
hit musical. Playing the lead will be none other
than Meryl Streep and it looks like producer Tom Hanks
has snatched original musical director Phyllida Lloyd
to direct the film. This puts a crimp in the plans
of England’s Royal Shakespeare Company who in cooperation
with The National Arts Centre had Ms. Lloyd on assignment
to bring Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad to
the stage this July.
- Never one to sit around…even at the age of 64…former
Beatle Paul McCartney is currently working on a musical
based on his life and plans are to have it debut in Liverpool
sometime in 2008.
- I’d like to welcome Go
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and In The Wings. If you are looking to book tickets
to Broadway shows either in New York or on the road check
out their site. They also provide ticket information
on sporting and concert events as well.
- Canadian cultural icon Mavor Moore
died December 18 at the age of 87. A prolific gentleman,
Moore worked as an actor, director, producer, dramatist,
impresario, composer, writer, critic, cultural commentator
and academic. He came by these traits honestly…the
son of the indomitable Dora Mavor Moore,
after whom the Toronto theatre awards “The Dora’s” are
named, James Mavor Moore was producing neighbourhood shows
with his brothers, at the age of 10. At 22 he was
the youngest producer at the CBC producing wartime radio
features, working in the international service and in the
information division of the newly formed United Nations
Secretariat in New York. In 1961 he bought the rights
to his mother’s “Spring Thaw” an annual
Toronto theatre revue she founded in 1948. He joined Tyrone
Guthrie for the inaugural season of the Stratford Festival
as a producer and actor in 1954. He was the founding
artistic director of the Charlottetown Festival from 1964
to 1968. It was there that he commissioned Norman
and Elaine Campbell to write a musical based on Anne of
Green Gables. With the help of Don Harron’s book,
the festival has featured its home grown musical during
the summer season for more than forty years. Mr. Moore’s
contribution to Canadian theatre is exceptional, the likes
of which we will probably never see again.
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