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About The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Queen’s Musical Theatre is proud to present the solve-it-yourself murder mystery The Mystery of Edwin Drood as their Winter 2012 musical!

Originally debuting at the New York Shakespeare festival and eventually moving to Broadway, Drood was the winner of 5 Tony awards including Best Musical. Loosely based on Charles Dickens' famous unfinished novel, Drood takes audience participation to new heights by letting the audience vote for whomever they think murdered young Edwin Drood. Presented as a 'first night performance by The Music Hall Royale' featuring a troupe of hilarious Victorian actors, this affectionate recreation of a bygone theatrical age is certain to prove an enormous hit with everyone.

You can also visit Queens Musical Theatre's website.

About Sylvia

A Comedy by A.R. Gurney; Directed by Will Britton

Greg, a middle aged man on the verge of a midlife crisis, gets a new lease on life when he adopts Sylvia, a stray lab-poodle cross. This new addition to the family becomes a bone of contention when his wife, Kate, takes an instant dislike to her husband’s furry companion. A.R. Gurney’s comedy is a hilarious and insightful examination marriage, love and the pitfalls of growing older.

Dramatic literature is stuffed with memorable love scenes, but none is as immediately delicious and dizzy as the one that begins the redeeming affair in A.R. Gurney’s comedy, Sylvia…” – NY Times “I can only call it one of the most involving, beautiful, funny, touching and profound plays I have ever seen…” – NY Daily News “Gurney’s mad comedy is the most endearing good time to trot down the pike in many a moon. Howlingly funny…” – BackStage

You can also visit King's Town Player's website.

About THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

The Queen's Student Opera Company welcomes you to celebrate its 15th season with its 2011/2012 main stage production, The Light in the Piazza.

The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, it is set in Florence and Rome in the summer of 1953. A young American tourist, Clara Johnson, meets and falls for young Italian Fabrizio Naccarelli. When Clara's mother Margaret learns of the affair, she opposes it for reasons that only gradually become clear to the audience.

The winner of six Tony awards, including Best Original Score, critic John Simon of NY Magazine wrote: "...anyone who cares about the rather uncertain future of this truly American genre should—must—see the show, think and worry about it, and reach his or her own conclusions..."

You can also visit Queen's Student Opera Company's website.

About CABARET

Book By JOE MASTEROFF
Music By JOHN KANDER
Lyrics By FRED EBB
Produced and Directed by Michael Sheppard

Winner of 23 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and Best Revival

One of the most celebrated musicals of the 20th Century, Cabaret introduces us to young American writer Cliff Bradshaw as he searches for inspiration in 1920s Berlin. In a whirlwind, Cliff finds himself in a night club bursting with debauchery. There he meets the almost otherworldly Master of Ceremonies and enigmatic seductress Sally Bowles. Timeless, challenging and set on the backdrop of the rising Nazi party, Cabaret combines spectacular musical numbers with a powerful love story.

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You can also visit Blue Canoe Productions 2011's website.

About Classical Playlist

Glen Fast, Conductor
Daniel Bolshoy, Guitar

Rossini: Overture to the Barber of Seville
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Faure: Pavane
Beehoven: Symphony No. 6

Suitable for downloading; in fact, these pieces may be on your iPod already, or they should be. Rossini's Overture to the Barber of Seville, Faure's Pavane, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 are some of the most popular and recognizable pieces ever written. One of Canada's leading classical guitarists, Daniel Bolshoy, performs the brilliant Rodrigo Concerto. Hit shuffle and you'll hear some other musical treats.

You can also visit The Kingston Symphony's website.

About Gallim Dance masterclass

Two members of Gallim Dance will deliver a masterclass for aspiring dancers in the Baby Grand of the Grand Theatre. Admission is free. Space is limited so please contact Melissa Mahady Wilton at mahady.wilton@sympatico.ca to reserve a spot as soon as possible.

About Mama Call / I Can See Myself in Your Pupil Suite

The mission of Gallim Dance is to create, to play inside the imagination, to find juxtapositions of the mind and body that resonate in the soul, to investigate our limitations and pleasures, and to realize the endless human capacity for inspiration. Artistic Director Andrea Miller's works are simultaneously kinetic and intimate expressions of the self and its inner mosaic of weakness, desires, and struggles. Her use of extreme physicality – movement that shifts between explosive power and contained tension – creates an experience where the dancers appear to exist at the edge of their limits.

Mama Call is a collection of new material and selected works that address Miller’s Sephardic-American story and examine how those who have been displaced can reclaim an idea of “home.”

I Can See Myself in Your Pupil is an exhilarating suite of wildly quirky dances. Performed to the contagious music of Israeli band Balkan Beat Box, the dance is a joyous romp that plays with the madness of imagination and the ecstasy of movement.

Talk back: Join us immediately following the performance for a discussion with the dancers.

About WHAT MILDRED DID

A Comedy by John Green (an Oshawa Author).

Mildred is the full time housekeeper for Gwen and Charles Harrison III.  The household also includes Lorenzo, the very colourful cook.  Charles has a problem - he acts out so he can write "the world's greatest murder mystery play", but he's a lousy writer and it's getting him down.

Enter mouse Mildred.  She has done something that makes Charles alternately excited and deeply depressed.

Throw in Lorenzo in a huff, Gwen feeling neglected and Mr. Fenwick, the publisher, who feels great affection for them all and you have a crazy, funny mix that gets more and more complicated.

Starring Terry Wade, Joy Worsnup, Brent Neely, David Lay and Katie Flower Smith as Mildred.

You can also visit Domino Theatre's website.

About Music of the Night

Glen Fast, Conductor
Michael Hope, Baritone
Michelle Todd, Soprano

Join the Kingston Symphony for a blockbuster program of showstoppers, with showstopper himself, Michael Hope. He joins soprano Michelle Todd to offer the best of Andrew Lloyd Webber and other musical theatre giants. Get swept away with music from Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Les Miserables, Kiss Me Kate, and many more in this dazzling evening of pure entertainment.

Subscribe now and save up to 20% off single ticket prices. To request a copy of our brochure, please call 613-546-9729.

You can also visit The Kingston Symphony's website.

About Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples, whose family's first national hit was 1959's "Uncloudy Day" and who was nominated for multiple Grammys in five different genres the last eight years, won her first Grammy in 2011 for her latest album, You Are Not Alone. Staples’s incredible voice, dazzling charisma and soulful humour has made her a blues legend.

About Marie-Josée Lord masterclass

Soprano Marie-Josée Lord will deliver a masterclass to aspiring Queen's University Faculty of Music students. Please note that this class is open to the public for observation. Admission is free.

About Marie-Josée Lord in Recital

Soprano Marie-Josée Lord is proud to present her recital program, Jambalaya. With her own personal style, her voice, her presence and her choice of repertoire, Marie-Josée Lord delivers a gourmet recital where classical and popular music are gently entwined. Selections by Gordon Lightfoot, Verdi, Lama,
Bizet, Joni Mitchell and more make up this special program.

Talk back: Join Eric Friesen in a lively discussion with the musicians immediately
following the performance.