By: Lynne Shankel I got an email this spring from two lovely women who were co-producing a new show called Life After. They were looking for a music supervisor/arranger/orchestrator and…
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Life After opens this Saturday! Do you have your tickets yet? Don’t miss this exciting new Canadian musical by our inaugural Crescendo Artist, Britta Johnson. We sat down with Britta to discuss…
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By: Robert McQueen When Britta Johnson contacted me in December of 2015 to say that she had been awarded the Toronto Fringe Festival’s Paul O’Sullivan Award for her new musical…
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#KevintheIntern here, just over a year since I started my tenure as the Metcalf Foundation Intern Artistic Director here at The Musical Stage Company (then Acting Up Stage). Time flies!…
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While Broadway controversies rarely make headline news, last week’s Mandy Patinkin/The Great Comet saga sure got a lot of ink.
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Are you ready for #GirlCrushTO on July 24th!? We caught up with Sharron Matthews who will be rocking the High Park Amphitheatre with her cabaret Girl Crush for ONE NIGHT ONLY! Have…
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Our high park cabaret extravaganza GIRL CRUSH, created & performed by superstar Sharron Matthews, is just around the corner! We know that Sharron is a phenomenal artist and is sure to give us a…
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Eat. Sleep. Fringe. REPEAT! Don’t miss your chance to see some fabulous performers and productions at the 2017 Fringe Festival, running July 5 – 16th. Here are a few of the musical…
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Across broadway and beyond there are musicals based on novels, poems, films, plays, and also OPERAS! Our current musical Onegin is based on Tchaikovsky’s original opera Eugene Onegin. This isn’t the first musical…
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Each morning for the last few weeks I have awoken humming an ode to love. But rather than some Top 40 radio tune, or Rogers and Hammerstein’s trope (“I’m in…
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