Jeff Tonita and company sing “Live, Laugh, Love” …and then I can think about other things again. After a week of rehearsals and performances mixed in with other stuff, I was more tired after last night’s show than I think can remember ever being before. But a good night’s sleep took care of that, and …
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It’s the second night of Follies!
Last night’s opening performance of Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Stephen Sondheim’s rarely-stage musical masterpiece Follies went very well. We had a decent-sized audience for a Wednesday opening and they seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. So now it’s on to the second night. You can’t buy tickets online for tonight’s performance any more, but you …
My preview of the Youth Ballet of Saskatchewan’s year-end performances…
…is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. An excerpt: More than 350 dance students from age three on up will take to the stage of the Conexus Arts Centre this weekend as the Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan, celebrating its 25th anniversary, presents two year-end performances. “There’s a little bit of duplication, but not very much,” says …
Follies opens tonight!
It’s opening night for Lyric Musical Theatre of Regina‘s production of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical Follies. We’re quite certain this is the first time the show has ever been done in Saskatchewan, and there’s a strong possibility it’s the first time there’s been a fully-staged version of it in Canada (although there have certainly been …
It’s Magic!
I have occasionally made reference to the fact that I can sing, and now I have vidographic proof! This is from Lyric Musical Theatre’s fundraising brunch, which ran the last two Sundays at the Hotel Saskatchewan. Enjoy! Got a little choked up there at the end because I made the tactically problematic though strategically sound …
A blast from the past
Someone sent me this photo of Midnight Sun, the a cappella group I sang with in the early 1990s (some rather poor recordings of our music can be heard here). I’m the one closest to the camera, and as you can see, I haven’t aged a– Oh, never mind.
Photo of the Day that was Actually in the LeaderPost Yesterday: Let There Be Light
This photo by Roy Antal was in the Regina LeaderPost yesterday. Yep, that’s me at the left, with Rob Huber behind the piano and Robert Ursan seated. The three of us will be the hosts for Saturday night’s “Let There Be Light” fundraising show for the Regina Performing Arts Centre.
Photo of the Day that was Actually in the LeaderPost Yesterday: Let There Be Light
This photo by Roy Antal was in the Regina LeaderPost yesterday. Yep, that’s me at the left, with Rob Huber behind the piano and Robert Ursan seated. The three of us will be the hosts for Saturday night’s “Let There Be Light” fundraising show for the Regina Performing Arts Centre.
Photographic proof I was in Beauty and the Beast
Just in case you thought I was making up all that stuff about appearing in Persephone Theatre‘s production of Beauty and the Beast up in Saskatoon in December, I present photographic proof! Here I am as Monsieur D’Arque, keeper of the insane asylum, a.k.a. (in the eyes of the four-year-old son of one of my …
The first sentence I wrote today…
I’ve been a bit slack on these entries, but I have a good excuse: this is opening week for Persephone Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast, so my focus has been pretty much entirely on the show. We had our first show in front of an audience Tuesday (an invited dress rehearsal), then previews Wednesday and …
The first sentence I wrote today…
I’ve been a bit slack on these entries, but I have a good excuse: this is opening week for Persephone Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast, so my focus has been pretty much entirely on the show. We had our first show in front of an audience Tuesday (an invited dress rehearsal), then previews Wednesday and …
Photo of the Day: The New Persephone Theatre
We moved into the new Persephone Theatre today. It was certainly an interesting experience, since construction continued unabated while we checked spacing for Beauty and the Beast on stage. Dust hung so thick in the air that, as you can see in the second photo below, many of us were wearing dust masks most of …
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