If you are not a lucky winner but would still like to see this acclaimed musical, please visit www.soulpepper.ca, www.stageplay.ca or call the box office at 416-866-8666 to purchase tickets. Tickets are $29 and $70, with show dates Monday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Wednesday and Saturday matinees playing at 1:30 until April 10. To get more information, please go to the Soulpepper website.
Last week, Toronto theatre got a little bit slapstick, a little bit silly and a lot of funny with the opening of Mirvish‘s Young Frankenstein at the Princess of Wales Theatre. Remember the 1974 Mel Brooks-Gene Wilder film collaboration of Young Frankenstein? I do, and I remember peeing in my pants laughing at the stuff as a kid, so I wasn’t sure that the story would be quite as funny now that I’m pushing thirty.
My fears were unfounded. It could have easily turned out to be one giant, spoofy flop, but, the hilarity of the music, the talent of the cast and the show-stopping ensemble dancing all made this production come together.
This week we highlight five more inexpensive theatre options, including a play about fate, a fresh work from venerable playwright Sky Gilbert and a storytelling festival. Ah, the good old days, when life was simple, and school consisted of sitting in a circle on the carpet, listening to your teacher read a story. This weekend, relive your childhood for just a few dollars. Or spend just a little bit more and see one of the other shows that caught our frugal eye.
Oh What A Lovely War -a musical throw back to The First World War, highlights the songs of an entire generation … and is playing at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts until April 10.
Tickets are $29 and $70 with show dates Monday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Wednesday and Saturday matinees playing at 1:30. This show had its original debut in 1963, but this week you have the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the 2010 version directed by Albert Schultz and with musical direction by Marek Norman!
Yep, just be the lucky 13th person to contact us here at contests@mooneyontheatre.com quoting the subject line Oh What A Lovely War. Remember you can enter once per day and the winner will be announced on Wednesday. To purchase tickets visit www.soulpepper.ca, www.stageplay.ca or call the box office at 416-866-8666.
For more information about the play, read excerpts from the press release below .
A man entered the room, whom I knew to be the star of the play, Diego Matamoros, and started telling what I thought was an anecdote about his experience as an actor. Diego never approached the stage, but instead, stood in the rafters talking while he handed out a picture of himself taken 30 years ago. I was impatiently waiting for him to stop wasting my time telling me what I thought was a personal story and to start the play already. It turns out he had, and relating this anecdote was actually the beginning of the play.
If you think that making the audience actually forget that they are watching a play is an accomplishment, then The Aleph was certainly successful in this respect. Reality and fiction were blurred, in the beginning at least. My issue was I felt that it was ultimately a play without the play. Continue reading Review: The Aleph – Soulpepper Theatre Company→
Congrats Phil Rickaby! Woo!
Oh What A Lovely War