Tag: plays

Watch my magical, fantastical play-with-music, The Music Shoppe, on YouTube!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Music, Plays
May 21, 2019
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At the end of April, Regina Lyric Musical Theatre presented my fantastical play-with-music, The Music Shoppe, in four performances at the Shumiatcher Theatre in the MacKenzie Art Gallery. The response was fabulous–people loved it, gave it standing ovations, told me how much they’d enjoyed it, etc. However, only a limited number of people were able to see it …

“The Music Shoppe is what happens when a science-fiction author writes a musical”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Plays
April 20, 2019
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The Music Shoppe, the play-with-music I wrote and am directing for Regina Lyric Musical Theatre, runs this coming week (April 25-28, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday) at the Shumiatcher Theatre, Mackenzie Art Gallery..which means publicity is happening. Here’s the story from today’s Regina Leader Post. An excerpt: “(There’s a) mysterious mechanical pianist that can …

Rehearsals underway for new play-with-music, The Music Shoppe, which runs April 25-28

By Edward Willett in Blog, Music, Plays, Writing and Editing
March 13, 2019
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Rehearsals are well underway for The Music Shoppe, a new play-with-music I’ve written and am directing for Regina Lyric Musical Theatre. Ben Redant is the music director. The show runs April 25-28 at the Shumiatcher Theatre, MacKenzie Art Gallery. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets will be on sale later …

My review of Globe Theatre’s “Man of La Mancha”: it’s a moving exploration of the power, necessity and limitations of storytelling

By Edward Willett in Blog, Plays
April 30, 2014
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This review also appears at Regina Reviews, which I edit. Globe Theatre’s production of Man of La Mancha is a beautifully directed, acted, and sung exploration of the power, necessity and limitations of the one trait that truly makes us human: our ability to imbue the world with meaning through the telling of stories. Imprisoned …

Listen to an interview with me about my play As Time Goes By: A Love Story with Music and Ghosts

By Edward Willett in Blog, Plays
October 21, 2013
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I’m in the midst of rehearsing As Time Goes By: A Love Story with Music and Ghosts, the play with music I wrote and am directing for Regina Lyric Musical Theatre (you can buy tickets on their website as well as at Bach & Beyond in the Golden Mile Centre). It’s a modern-day love story …

Regina Lyric Musical Theatre to produce my play this fall

By Edward Willett in Blog, Music, Plays
May 6, 2013
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Oh, look, I do still remember how to blog! It’s been a while, but, hey, April was the cruelest month, what with novel rewriting and family duties and let us not forget income tax. Oh, and I was also performing, in Regina Lyric Musical Theatre’s spring show, When You Wish Upon A Star: Music from …

I finish a play…and sing of Saskatchewan

By Edward Willett in Blog, Music, Plays, Writing and Editing
January 17, 2013
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As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been writing a play, tentatively titled The Piano Bench: A Love Story with Evening and Ghosts. Today I finished the draft script, which I’ll be passing on the fine folks at Regina Lyric Musical Theatre, which I hope will be staging the play (with me directing it) this fall. Since it’s …

I’m writing a play…and using this song

By Edward Willett in Blog, Plays, Writing and Editing
December 18, 2012
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So, I’m writing this play. Its working title is The Piano Bench: A Love Story with Music and Ghosts. If all goes well it might even make it on stage late next year. Why? Well, therein lies a blog post. The house in which I live has been in my wife’s family since 1939. (It …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: The Shelter

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
July 14, 2012
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I missed a couple of Saturdays of posting bits from my vaults, and I may even be running a bit short on material, but here’s something that might be of interest. This play was written a long, long time ago, in the 1980s, when I was working at the Weyburn Review. Someone (the Saskatchewan Writers …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Three Writers in Search of a Character

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
June 10, 2012
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For two or three years, several years ago now, Globe Theatre ran something called “On the Line: A Freefall Through New Work.” Authors submitted scripts, which were given a staged reading. Below is the first script I ever submitted. It was a blast seeing it given life by the actors! Oh: the following contains scenes …

My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Marion Bridge…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
January 22, 2010
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…has already shown up online, even though it won’t appear in print until tomorrow. This is the first time I’ve seen something I’ve written pop up that far ahead of the ink-on-paper version, though maybe I just haven’t noticed until now. The review begins: I confess that I went into the opening night performance of …

My preview of Globe Theatre’s upcoming production of Marion Bridge…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
January 14, 2010
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…is in today’s Regina Leader Post. It begins: The 18th-century French poet Jacques Delille famously noted that while we can choose our friends, “Fate chooses our relatives.” More than one family has fractured because siblings discover they have nothing in common with each other … which is exactly what has happened to the family in …