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March 2015 • F R E E
Royal City
Musical Theatre
presents
Arts Club Theatre Company PRESENTS
The Mountaintop and Sister Judy
Top: DION JOHNSTONE and CRYSTAL BALINT in The Mountaintop
Right: LILI BEAUDOIN, JENNY WASKO-PATERSON, and MIKE
WASKO in Sister Judy
photos: David Cooper
Now playing on Granville Island, witness two inspiring
plays that challenge convention. The Mountaintop is a vivid
reimagining of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on
Earth, in a Memphis hotel room (Granville Island Stage); and
the world premiere of Sister Judy brings deep secrets and a
forgotten past to the fore (Revue Stage).
In The Mountaintop, playwright Katori Hall presents an image
of Martin Luther King that goes beyond the established image
of the civil rights hero. King (Dion Johnstone) drinks and
swears, and flirts with an attractive hotel maid, Camae (Crystal
Balint). Through their interactions, we come to see King as
flawed, flesh-and-blood man, while coming to truly recognize
the unique and venerable impact of his life.
Now playing at the Revue Stage, Sister Judy exposes the true
side of an entirely different character. Sister Judy (Jenny
Wasko-Paterson) is a popular university theology professor
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dealing with the doubts of her close friend, Father Frank (Mike
Wasko). Then, a brilliant new student (Lili Beaudoin) presents
a challenge to Judy’s own beliefs and notions of love. Sister
Judy was written by award-winning Vancouver playwright
Shawn Macdonald. Developed through the Arts Club’s Silver
Commissions Project, this premiere offers a compelling cast of
characters and a twist ending with big impact.
The Mountaintop runs until March 14, at the Granville Island
Stage and Sister Judy runs until March 21 at the Revue Stage.
Tickets start at $29 and $25, respectively, and are available from
the Arts Club at 604.687.1644 or artsclub.com.
Playboard
March 2015 • Vol. 49 No. 10
Publisher and Editor
Alan Slater
Assistant Editor
Alison Cunningham
Contents
COVER STORY
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Royal City Musical Theatre – My Fair Lady
Layout and Design
Excel Design
Tracy Neff and Warren Kimmel in My Fair Lady
Circulation and Subscriptions
Jeanine Slater
Contributors
Bonnie Allan, Elizabeth Elwood,
Sabrina Furminger,
Bruce Hoffman, Ellie O'Day,
Randie Parliament,
Nick Seliwoniuk, Andrea Yu
Photos
David Cooper, Doug Williams
Photo: David Cooper
Features
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Playboard is published monthly with
combined issues in December/January
and July/August.
Arts Club Theatre Company – The Mountaintop and
Sister Judy
Send all correspondence to:
Archway Publishers
Unit 137 – 12100 Riverside Way
Richmond, B.C. V6W 1K5
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Chor Leoni Men’s Choir – The Dream We Carry
Tel: 604.370.1191 / Fax: 604.370.1192
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.playboardmag.com
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Vagabond Players – The O'Conner Girls
6
Western Gold Theatre – 2015 Season
7
United Players of Vancouver – Welcome to Thebes
9
Gateway Theatre – Rodgers and Hammerstein: Out of a
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Ghost Light Projects – Exit the King, The Singing Butler and
Corpus Christ
Receivers for the Sennheiser
Infra-Red Hearing System are
available and free of charge from
the coat check counter at Vancouver
Civic Theatres, Metro Theatre,
Richmond Gateway Theatre, Stanley
Theatre, Michael J. Fox Theatre
and Centennial Theatre.
Entertainment Guide
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Entertainment Calendar
MARCH 2015 • PLAYBOARD 3
Chor Leoni Men’s Choir PRESENTS
The Dream We Carry
Celebrating new works for men's choir
Chor Leoni’s The Dream We Carry is rich with stunning
new music for men’s choir. Works by eminent Canadian
composers will be featured, with the premieres of Jocelyn
Morlock’s beautiful reimagining of An die Musik, and Imant
Raminsh’s evocative The Dream We Carry, which inspired
the concert’s name. The evening’s centrepiece is the premiere
of Wandering Heart by E¯riks Ešenvalds to poetry of Leonard
Cohen. This legendary Canadian poet has only allowed his
texts to be set by other composers twice, first by Phillip Glass
and now by Ešenvalds. His work is the first to be funded by the
choir’s Diane Loomer Commissioning Fund.
“For 20 years, Diane Loomer led the way in commissioning
new male choral works for Chor Leoni, many of which have
now become staples of the genre for male choirs across the
world,” explains artistic director Erick Lichte. “We are thrilled
to present a concert of four world premieres and especially
excited to sing the words of Canada’s own Leonard Cohen to
the music of Latvian superstar Eriks Esenvalds in Wandering
Heart. It is our hope that these new works find a home with
our audience here in Canada and will be sung in the future by
choirs around the world.”
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The Canadian Music Centre commissioned Rodney Sharman’s
Song About Forgetfulness (with poetry by Bill Richardson),
specifically for the young voices of Chor Leoni’s PROMYS
Honour Choir and the British Columbia Girls Choir. PROMYS
will also join Chor Leoni to sing Ešenvalds’ beloved Stars in its
male-voice North American premiere, under the direction of
the composer himself.
The Dream We Carry combines stunning new music, the
voices of youth, and the warmth of Chor Leoni in an uplifting,
gorgeous, and current program. Come dream with the lions.
Chor Leoni presents The Dream We Carry with special guests
E¯riks Ešenvalds, the British Columbia Girls Choir, and the
young men of Chor Leoni’s PROMYS Honour Choir; Saturday
April 18, 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church, 1022
Nelson Street at Burrard. Sunday April 19, 2:00 p.m., West
Vancouver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Avenue.
Tickets: $30 adults and seniors, $10 students [w/ID] –
TicketsTonight.ca, 604.684.2787 ext 2.
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he story, the songs, the characters we all know and
love; a Tony Award-winning musical and an iconic
film – that's My Fair Lady! Royal City Musical Theatre
proudly presents a lavish production of a musical comedy
masterpiece. With books and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and
music by Frederick Loewe, this show has been called “the
perfect musical” and NY Times critic Brooks Atkinson named
it “One of the Best Musicals of the Century.” My Fair Lady
will play at the Massey Theatre, with previews on April 9 and
10, with opening night on Saturday, April 11, and running
through April 26, with a new show time of 7:30 p.m.
selected the title relating both to one of Shaw’s provisional
titles for Pygmalion, Fair Eliza, and to the final line of every
verse of the nursery rhyme, “London Bridge is Falling Down.”
Based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, My Fair Lady
is the story of Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who
takes speech lessons from Professor Henry Higgins so that
she may pass as a lady. This award-winning musical was a
long running Broadway show and was then made
into what has become an iconic
film. And where did the title My
Fair Ladyy come from? Lerner
Known for creating big “Broadway quality” musical
productions, this year's production will be led by Max Reimer,
making
his directorial debut with the Royal City Musical
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Theatre
Company.
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The musical premiered on Broadway in March, 1956, at
the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City and ran until
September, 1962 after 2,717 performances, a record at the time.
And a testament to the hit score, the original cast recording
went on to become the best-selling album in 1956.
photos: David Cooper
Innovative
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sets, lavish costumes, and dynamic choreography
all
a combine to make this a must-see show. The stellar cast
includes
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Tracy Neff as Eliza and Warren Kimmel as Henry
Higgins,
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Michael Wild as Col Pickering, John Payne as Alfred
Doolittle,
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Barbara Pollard as Mrs. Higgins, and Thomas
Lamont
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as Freddy, supported by a talented ensemble. Musical
director
James Bryson conducts a live 22-piece orchestra that
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brings
this fantastic score to life, including great songs such as:
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On the Street Where You Live, I Could Have Danced All Night,
The Rain in Spain, Get Me to the Church on Time and I’ve
Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
Experience exceptional entertainment – My Fair Lady!
TRACY NEFF,
MICHAEL WILD and
WARREN KIMMEL
Tickets are $26 to $47, available at masseytheatre.com or call
6604.521.5050.
MARCH 2015 • PLAYBOARD 5
Vagabond Players PRESENTS
The O’Conner Girls
midst of this emotional afternoon, a
long-lost neighbour pays an unexpected
visit which has special significance for
the dutiful daughter who has always
been the caregiver in the family. Set in
Minnesota, The O’Conner Girls is a sweet
and charming play that explores family
relationships and lets us see that virtue
can be – and sometimes is – rewarded.
MARGARET SHEARMAN and MARY ADAMS
After Tom O’Conner passes away,
his wife and children come together
over Christmas to excavate his
mountain of personal effects. As the
family sifts through boxes of papers
and bags of clothing, clues to the quiet
patriarch’s life are discovered. In the
The O’Conner Girls features Karen
Golden as Sarah O’Conner, the matriarch
who must come to terms with the loss of
her husband, and Kathleen Kelly Driscoll
as Aunt Margie, her meddlesome, but
loveable sister-in-law. Mary Adams and
Margaret Shearman play Liz and Martha
O’Conner, the fraternal twins who have
pursued very different paths in life, and
Chuck Buckley takes the role of Dr.
David Stevens, the neighbour who drops
by and reactivates the rivalries between
the two sisters. Nostalgia, family ties and
a touch of romance — don’t miss this
warm and witty play that will touch your
heart and linger in your memory.
Directed by Wayne Nolan, The O’Conner
Girls by Katie Forgette runs April 2 to
18, Thursday to Saturday, 8:00 p.m.,
Sunday matinees - 2:00 p.m., at The
Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen’s Park,
New Westminster. Tickets: $15, seniors/
youth: $13, $10 previews on April 2 and
3. Reservations: 604.521.0412 or email:
[email protected].
Western Gold Theatre
2015 Season
W
estern Gold Theatre kicks off its 2015 season
at the PAL Studio Theatre, 581 Cardero Street, with their
Studio Series. Formerly referred to as staged readings,
Western Gold gives you much more than that implies: a
set, props and staging. Their highly respected professional
actors are totally immersed in their characters and deliver
first-rate performances. Artistic director Anna Hagan directs
the Studio Series.
Laburnum Grove by J. B. Priestley, March 20 – 22. Mom and
daughter think Dad’s a little boring – he spends too much time
in the greenhouse growing “tomatoes” when he isn’t doing
business up North. What will it take for him to holiday on the
continent? Perhaps the local Inspector provides the answer…
an “immoral” comedy with nine hilarious characters.
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Western Gold’s first
original script, by two
residents of PAL, Jane
Clayton and Judy Ginn Walchuk,
is Comfort Cottages, June 19 – 21. Four single,
female friends of retirement age are unsettled financially and
emotionally. When one of them inherits a 40-year-old motel
from her black sheep Aunt, it might solve their problems.
There is, however, a tiny catch…
October brings you our full production of The Dining Room
by A. E. Gurney, directed by Jessie Award-winning Chelsea
Haberlin.
For more information: www.westerngoldtheatre.org.
United Players
of Vancouver
PRESENTS
Welcome to
Thebes
photo: Doug Williams
and the power plays and scenarios seem pulled
from current headlines. Welcome to Thebes casts
a light on humankind’s ongoing proclivity for
war, violence, political maneuvering, and nation
building, as well as our unceasing hope and
courage in the face of tyranny.
Left to right: ROSEMARY F MANSO, SOLOMAN IRAMA (lying)
and BROADUS MATTISON
T
he stakes are breathtakingly high in Moira Buffini’s Welcome to Thebes,
a heart-stopping, fast-moving drama that brings iconic characters and plots
from classic Greek tragedy into the world of 21st Century international
relations.
It is a critical time in the history of Thebes. A brutal civil war has left the
country broken and gasping for air. In its first-ever democratic election,
the nation’s beleaguered citizens have elected the moderate and principled
anti-war activist Eurydice as president. The task before Eurydice is daunting:
decades of war have taken a heavy toll on the infrastructure of Thebes and
the people who call it home. Eurydice, along with her cabinet of equally
determined women, needs to rebuild her nation from the ground up.
As the swaggering opposition party, led by a vengeful war criminal, seeks to
topple the new government, Eurydice meets with Theseus, the first citizen
of the wealthy and powerful state of Athens, to negotiate an aid package for
her Thebes.
But the conversation seems doomed to failure before it even begins; the
shadow of war is difficult to shake. Will Thebes descend into chaos once
more?
The characters are ancient, but the events unfold in our modern world –
United Players’ production of Welcome to Thebes
features MariaLuisa Alvarez as Eurydice, Kaylin
Metchie as Antigone, Jordon Navratil as Theseus,
Olivia Poon as Ismene, Rema Kibayi as Tydeus,
Marion Landers as Pargeia, David Lloydy as
Tiresias, and Adam Beauchesne as Haemon,
accompanied by a stellar cast of 18 actors and
actresses.
The production team includes Brian Parkinson
(director), Graham Ockley (technical director/
lighting designer), Barbara Ellison (assistant
director), Chengyan Boon (set designer/
projections designer), Lisa Sadler (costume
designer), Carissa Gagne (stage manager) and
Joan Bryans (producer).
Welcome to Thebes runs March 27 to April 19 at
the Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery, near Jericho Beach, Vancouver), with a preview performance on March 26. Performances are Thursday
through Sunday at 8:00 p.m. There will be 2:00
p.m. matinee performances on April 5 and 19 (no
evening performances on those dates). A talkback
will take place on April 2. Tickets are $16 – $20 and
are available online at www.unitedplayers.com
or by calling 604.224.8007, extension 2. Follow
us on Twitter (twitter.com/United_Players) and
Facebook (www.facebook.com/pages/UnitedPlayers/2604944706).
MARCH 2015 • PLAYBOARD 7
The Dream
We Carry
with special guests Ēriks Ešenvalds
British Columbia Girls Choir
Chor Leoni’s PROMYS Honour Choir
Saturday April 18 | 7:30pm
St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church
Nelson St & Burrard St, Vancouver
Sunday April 19 | 2pm
West Vancouver United Church
2062 Esquimalt Ave
$30 adults & seniors | $10 students [w/ID]
TicketsTonight.ca 604.684.2787 ext 2
|
Martha Lou Henley
Charitable Foundation
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ERICK LICHTE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Gateway Theatre in association with Patrick
Street Productions PRESENTS
Rodgers and
Hammerstein:
Out of a Dream
Be the Rodgers to
our Hammerstein!
Gateway
Theatre is proud to
present Rodgers and Hammerstein: Out
of a Dream, a musical revue by one
of the hottest theatre companies in
Vancouver, Patrick Street Productions.
The show had a highly successful run at
the Cultch’s York Theatre in Vancouver
last February and Gateway Theatre is
excited to bring it to Richmond.
This musical revue is the brainchild of
Peter Jorgensen, the artistic director of
Patrick Street Productions. Given his
company’s status as the only professional
theatre in Vancouver to produce a season
entirely of musicals, it was fitting for
Jorgensen to create a piece that paid
homage to two of the most influential
musical theatre writers of all time.
Rodgers and Hammerstein changed
the musical theatre landscape in the
1940s and '50s, introducing mature and
sophisticated themes into the genre as
well as merging singing, dancing, and
acting into a cohesive whole. They also
created some of the most memorable
photo: David Cooper
EVA TAVARES and SAYER ROBERTS in Out of a Dream.
songs in the musical
theatre canon.
Out of a Dream offers such
classic songs as O, What a
Beautiful Morning, Shall We Dance,
Love, Look Away, I Have Confidence, and
If I Loved You. There are even hidden
gems from some of the duo’s lesser
known musicals. Jorgensen was careful
to include songs from every Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical to ensure that the
breadth of the duo’s talents was fully
showcased.
While this production celebrates
nostalgia, it also showcases Vancouver’s
brightest musical theatre talent.
Jennifer Andersen, Katie Murphy and
Eva Tavares join the cast, while Sayer
Roberts returns in his original role. As
a special treat, Jorgensen, who is also
a seasoned musical theatre actor, will
perform in this production.
Please join us at Gateway Theatre for what
Georgia Straight’s theatre reviewer Colin
Thomas, calls “an intoxicatingly pure
combination of music and emotion.”
Director/choreographer: Jorgensen;
assistant director/choreographer: Kayla
Dunbar; musical director: Nico Rhodes;
set and costume designer: Amir Ofek;
costume designer: Jessica Dmytryshyn;
lighting designer: Andrew Pye; sound
designer: Brad Danyluk; stage manager:
Anne Taylor; assistant stage manager:
Lorilyn Parker.
Rodgers and Hammerstein: Out
of a Dream plays April 9 to 25, on
the Gateway Theatre MainStage.
For more information and tickets:
www.gatewaytheatre.com and Box
Office: 604.270.1812.
MARCH 2015 • PLAYBOARD 9
ENTERTAINMENT
VANCOUVER – DOWNTOWN
Christ Church Cathedral
Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir with De Danaan
Irish Dancers
March 13, 7:30 p.m.
The Stanley Industrial
Alliance Stage
Vanya and Sonia and Masha
and Spike
March 19 to April 19
Granville Island Stage
The Mountaintop
Until March 14
Farewell, My Lovely
April 2 to May 2
Revue Stage
Sister Judy
udy
Until Mar
March 21
PAL Studio Theatre
Western Gold Theatre – Laburnum Grove
March 20 – 22
Roundhouse Community Arts Centre
Barry Griendfield – one guitar one voice
March 6
Benjamin Kamino – Nudity. Desire
March 12 – 14
ParB. L.eux – Snakeskins
Mach 12 – 14
Out Innerspace – 605 Collective March 19 – 21
Ference Feher – Tao Te
March 19 - 21
Kakoro Dance – The Book of Love
March 22
Manuel Roque – Ne meurs pas tout de suite, on
nous regarde
March 26
The Response – Orbits: A Movement Study
March 26 – 28
Bluebird North
March 31
Scotiabank Dance Centre
The Dance Centre – Discover Dance! – JC
Dance Co.
March 12, 12:00 p.m.
Chutzpah! PLUS & The Dance Centre – Les
Productions Figlio – Serge Bennathan –
Monsieur Auburtin
March 26 – 28
SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Fei &
Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
Turning Point Ensemble – Carnival
March 13 & 14
Vogue Theatre
CelticFest Vancouver – Alan Doyle
March 6
VANCOUVER – WEST SIDE
Pacific Theatre – Main Stage
The Whipping Man
Until March 21
Performance Works
Ghost Light Projects – Running in Rep: The
Singing Butler and Exit the King
March 13 – April 4
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The Improv Centre on Granville Island
Vancouver TheatreSports League
TheatreSports
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
TheatreSports
Friday & Saturday, 9:30 p.m.
Ultimate Improv Championship
Thursday, 9:15 p.m.
Late Night Laughs Friday & Saturday, 11:15 p.m.
Rookie Night
Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
Improv Test Kitchen
Wednesdays, 9:15 p.m.
Ultimate Improv Championship
Thursdays, 9:15 p.m.
Late Night Laughs
Fridays & Saturdays, 11:15 p.m.
Rookie Night
Sundays, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver Academy of Music –
Koerner Recital Hall
Music in the Morning – Isabel Bayrakdarian
(Soprano) & Serouj Kradjian (Piano)
March 18 – 20, 10:30 a.m.
Waterfront Theatre
Carousel Theatre for Young People –
Shakespearean Rhapsody
Until March 29
VANCOUVER – EAST SIDE
Electric Owl
2015 Chutzpah! Festival – Daniel Kahn & The
Painted Bird
March 6
Cap Global Roots Series: Dead Combo
March 10
Firehall Arts Centre
urbanink productions – ribcage: this wide
passage
Until March 8
Havana Theatre
The Troika Collective – Nordost
March 4 – 7
The Cultch
Historic Theatre
Cadre
Until March 8
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre – TransMigration
March 17 – 21
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Obaaberima
March 24 to April 4
Ryerson United Church
Vancouver Bach Youth Choir/Sarabande –
Spring Concert
March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Elektra Women’s Choir – Impulse
March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver Chamber Choir – Choral Mosaic
The Joy of Song
March 20
The Cultch
York Theatre
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop – Famous
Puppet Death Scenes
March 31 to April 19
Studio 1398 – Festival House
Brave New Plays Rites Festival – Various stage
readings March 12 – 15, 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Fridge Festival – TJ Dawe’s Marathon
March 17 – 29, 7:00 p.m.
Fridge Festival – Dawson Nichol’s Virtual
Solitaire
March 17 – 29, 9:00 p.m.
Two Monkey Productions – Edges April 1 – 11
Until March 7
March 21 to April 18
VANCOUVER – SOUTH
Metro Theatre
Pride and Prejudice
Go Back for Murder
Magee Theatre
Vancouver Chopin Society – Nelson Goerner
(Piano)
March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre
2015 Chutzpah! Festival
Until March 15
Studio 58
Elbow Room Cafe: The Musical March 19 – 29
Vancouver
Civic Theatres
VANCOUVER – POINT GREY
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Chor Leoni Men’s Choir – VanMan Choral
Summit Concert
March 7, 7:30 p.m.
UBC School of Music – UBC Symphony
Orchestra
March 13
Chick Corea (Piano) & Herbie Hancock (Piano)
March 15, 7:00 p.m.
Zakir Hussain’s Celtic Connections March 21
UBC Bands – Chamber Ensembles
March 25
UBC School of Music – UBC Bands & UBC
Concert Winds
March 26
Frederic Wood Theatre
UBC Theatre & Opera – The Triumph of Love
March 19 to April 4
Jericho Arts Centre
7 Tyrants - Mozart & Salieri
March 4 – 14
United Players of Vancouver – Welcome to
Thebes
March 27 – April 19
Telus Studio Theatre
Vancouver Recital Society & Early Music
Vancouver – Kristian Bezuidenhout
(Fortepiano)
March 8, 3:00 p.m.
UBC School of Music – Roy Barnett
Recital Hall
Wednesday Noon-Hour Concert
March 4, 11 & 18
Jazz Ensemble II
March 12, 12:00 p.m.
UBC Composers’ Concerts
March 16, 12:00 p.m.
Jazz Ensemble I
March 19, 12:00 p.m.
UBC Percussion Ensemble
March 23, 12:00 p.m.
UBC Chamber Strings
March 28
UBC Contemporary Players
April 1, 12:00 p.m.
UBC Chamber Choir, UBC Women’s Choir &
UBC Men’s Choir
April 1, 7:30 p.m.
West Point Grey United Church
Vetta Chamber Music – Sarah Hagen (Piano),
Joan Blackman (Violin) & Ariel Barnes (Cello)
March 27
ABBOTSFORD
Abbotsford Arts Centre
Gallery 7 Theatre – Fiddler on the Roof
March 13 – 21
BURNABY
Michael J. Fox Theatre
Boswell Dance Studio Pre-Competition Show
March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Royal Academy of Dance: Solo Seal Awards
Performance
March 7, 7:00 p.m.
Project Productions & AML Agencies – Urban
Alchemy 6
March 13
Dhaka Club Vancouver – Ayub Bachchu Live in
Concert
March 15, 7:00 p.m.
BC Cadet Honour Band
March 19, 7:30 p.m.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
• Die Fledermaus (The Bat) (Vancouver Opera)
Until March 8, 7:30 p.m.
• Trace (Ballet BC)
March 26 – 28
Orpheum
• Musically Speaking: Timothy Chooi [Violin] (Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra) March 7, 8:00 p.m. and 8, 2:00 p.m.
• Tea & Trumpets: Sibelius at 150 (Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra)
March 12, 2:00 p.m.
• VSO Pops: The Legendary Barbra Streisand (Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra)
March 13 & 14
• Lang Lang [Piano] (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
March 18
• Masterworks Diamond: Yevgeny Sudbin [Piano] (Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra)
March 21 & 23
• Colin James
March 24, 7:30 p.m.
• Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Vancouver Bach Choir)
March 28
• VSO Special: The Best is Yet to Come
March 30
• Faure Requiem – The Good Friday Concert (Vancouver
Chamber Choir)
April 3
Orpheum Annex
• JACK Quartet (Vancouver New Music)
March 14
• April Verch with special guest Elsay (CelticFest Vancouver)
March 16
• The Songs of Orpheus (Erato Ensemble)
March 21
• Songs of An English Cavalier (Vancouver Recital Society & Early
Music Vancouver)
March 27
• Sonic Boom Festival (Turning Point Ensemble)
March 29, 7:70 p.m.
• Smackdown! (Awkward Stage Productions)
April 5
Vancouver Playhouse
• Benjamin Grosvenor [Piano] (Vancouver Recital Society)
March 6, 7:30 p.m.
• Prazak Quartet (Friends of Chamber Music)
March 10
• Steven Isserlis [Cello] & Robert Levin [Fortepiano] (Vancouver
Recital Society & Early Music Vancouver)
March 13 – 15
• Yun-Chin Zhou (Vancouver Recital Society)
March 22, 3:00 p.m.
• Space Insect (Vancouver International Dance Fest)
March 20 & 21
• Francesco Piemontesi (Vancouver Recital Society)
March 22, 3:00 p.m.
• Octagon Canadian Octet (Friends of Chamber Music)
March 24
• Vancouver Cantonese Opera Festival
April 4, 7:00 p.m. & April 5, 1:00 p.m.
continued on page 12
MARCH 2015 • PLAYBOARD 11
Entertainment Calendar (continued from page 11)
Funk ‘N Sole – Canadian Hip Hop Dance
Championships
March 20, 7:00 p.m.
Dickson Tang Dream Team – Uni’s Got Talent
March 21 7:30 p.m.
Dance Power No 2 Burnaby – Dance
Competition
March 26 – 28
Burnaby South Secondary School – Fashion
Show
March 31, 7:00 p.m.
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts –
James Cowan Theatre
Arts Club Theatre Company on Tour – The
Foreigner
March 12 & 13
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts –
Studio Theatre
Neworld Theatre – Leftovers
March 25 – 28
CHILLIWACK
Chilliwack Cultural Centre – HUB
International Theatre
Star 98.3 – Alan Doyle
March 7
Hamelin – a new fable
March 8, 2:00 p.m.
I Am Woman! Hear Me Laff! March 8, 7:30 p.m.
Arts Club Theatre Company on Tour – The
Foreigner
March 11, 7:30 p.m.
Chilliwack Metropolitan Orchestra – Viva
Espana
March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Rock.It.Boy Entertainment – Brent Butt
March 15, 7:30 p.m.
Chilliwack Lions Music & Dance Festival –
Music Honors Performance
March 21, 7:00 p.m.
The Amazing Kreskin
March 22, 7:30 p.m.
Chilliwack Cultural Centre – Rotary Hall
Studio Theatre
Chilliwack Arts & Cultural Centre Society – Six
Guitars
March 16 & 18, 7:30 p.m.
UFV Performance Theatre
University of the Fraser Valley Theatre – Julius
Caesar
March 4 – 15
COQUITLAM
Evergreen Cultural Centre – Main Theatre
Arts Club Theatre Company on Tour – The
Foreigner
Until March 7
Hard Rock Casino
Jonny Lang in Concert
Amy Schumer
March 12
March 22
DELTA
The Sanctuary
Darlene Ketchum’s Soul Connections CD
Release Concert
March 13
Delta Firehall Centre of the Arts
Darlene Ketchum’s Soul Connections CD
Release Concert
March 14
MAPLE RIDGE
The ACT Maple Ridge Arts Centre &
Theatre – Main Theatre
Charlotte Diamond and the KC Kids Choir
March 12, 7:00 p.m.
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Brent Butt
March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Arts Club Theatre Company on Tour – The
Foreigner
March 14
Agatha Christie’s The Mouse Trap
March 17 – 21
GEMS: The Grand Seduction
March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Clasical Coffee Concert: Nicholas Wright
(Violin)
April 1 10:00 a.m.
NEW WESTMINSTER
Bernie Legge Theatre
Vagabond Players – The O’Conner Girls
April 2 – 18
Massey Theatre
Irish Rovers
March 13, 7:00 p.m.
New Westminster Symphony Orchestra’s 100th
Anniversary
March 15, 2:00 p.m.
NORTH SHORE
BlueShore Financial Centre for the
Performing Arts
Exit Twenty Two – The Secret Garden
March 19 – 28
Cap Jazz Series: Randy Brecker with “A” Band
and NiteCap
April 2
Centennial Theatre
Paul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation –
Steppin' Out
March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Sonic Flower Entertainment – Retromania 2
March 7, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra – North Shore
Classics: The Rhine Symphony
March 9
Ballet Victoria – Amadeus: Dances with
Wolfgang
March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Centennial Theatre – Lunchtime Theatre: a
Play, a Pie and a Pint
March 18 12:00 p.m.
Celtic Performing Arts & Rogue Folk – Altan:
Direct from Ireland
March 19
Deep Cove Shaw Theatre
First Impressions Theatre – Thomas T and
more – music
March 7
Deep Cove Stage Society – The Butler Did It
April 3 – 18
Kay Meek Centre – Studio Theatre
Here’s to Ladies Who Laugh
March 5
Cap Global Roots Series: Camane
March 20
Presentation House Theatre
Cat Killer
March 5 – 15
Dirt Road Productions – Iceland
March 18 – 29
PORT COQUITLAM
Terry Fox Theatre
Archbishop Carney Theatre – In-Laws, Outlaws
and Other People (That Should be Shot)
March 5 – 7, 7:00 p.m.
K&S Dance Productions Ltd. – K&S Preview
Show 2015
March 8, 4:30 p.m.
RICHMOND
Fraserview Mennonite Brethren Church
Richmond Chorus & Orchestra – Missa Gaia
March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Gateway Theatre – Studio B
Miss Caledonia
March 5 – 14
River Rock Show Theatre
Chris D'Elia
March 24
SURREY
Centre Stage at Surrey City Hall
WONDERHEADS – Grim and Fischer March 27
Surrey Arts Centre – Main Stage
Surrey Shines
I Am Woman! Hear Me Laff!
March 7
March 9
Surrey Arts Centre – Studio Theatre
Holy Cross Players – The Wizard of Oz
March 6 & 7
Chase Padgett – 6 Guitars
March 12 – 14
Classical Coffee Concert – Sarah Hagen and
Nicholas Wright
April 2
WHITE ROCK
Coast Capital Playhouse
Peninsula Productions – Steel Magnolias
March 4 – 14
VANCOUVER ISLAND
Belfry Theatre
Spark Festival 2015 – Boys With Cars, Let Me
Borrow That Top & Fish Eyes March 10 – 15
Spark Festival 2015 – The God That Comes
March 17 – 21
Chemainus Theatre
Project Johnny Cash
Until April 11
McPherson Playhouse (Victoria)
AG Productions – The Irish Rovers
March 14, 7:00 p.m.
Victoria Gilbert & Sullivan Society – Iolanthe
March 28 & 29
Royal Theatre (Victoria)
Pearson College UWC – One World
March 7, 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Victoria Symphony – Concerts for Kids –
Adventures of Rascally Rhythm
March 8, 2:30 p.m.
Ballet Victoria – Dances with Wolfgang
March 10 & 11, 7:30 p.m.
Dance Victoria – Compagnie Kafig
March 13 & 14, 7:30 p.m.
Victoria Symphony – Broadway Lights
March 20 – 22
Live Nation – Colin James March 25, 7:30 p.m.
Victoria Symphony – Dvoraks Symphony No. 8
March 28 & 29
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MARCH 2015 • PLAYBOARD 13
Ghost Light Projects PRESENTS
Exit the King, The Singing Butler
and Corpus Christ
A king, a queen and a gay Jesus
If ignorance was a virtue, would acceptance be
its sin? What if Jesus was gay? More importantly, so
what if Jesus was gay?
reverent, spiritual and sexy. Directed by Greg Bishop,
the show features a cast of 13 young men who strip
away the layers and will have you falling to your
knees.
Ghost Light Projects is proud to announce the
final three shows of its sixth season, on stage at
Performance Works from March 13 to April 4: an
absurdist comedy (Exit the King) a back-stage tale
of a drag queen (The Singing Butler) and a biblical
perspective of sexuality and religion, set in the 1950s
(Corpus Christi).
Exit the King was written by Eugene Ionesco and
translated by Geoffrey Rush and Neil Armfield.
Directed by Randie Parliament, this hilarious
and poignant comedy follows a megalomaniacal
monarch, King Berenger, whose incompetence has
left his country in near ruin. Despite the efforts of
Queen Marguerite and members of the court to
convince the King he only has 90 minutes left to
live, he refuses to relinquish any control.
The Singing Butler, written and directed by
Parliament, unveils a family’s secrets of shame
and betrayal, through the eyes of a Drag Queen
(Jeff Gonek). Father abandonment, scandal, with
plenty of booze and drugs, this show will certainly
have the audience intrigued and wondering more
about the family under the microscope. The show
features Luke Day, Stevie Jackson, Cody Sparshu,
Nancy von Euw, Julien Hicks and Kieylla ThorntonTrump.
Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally explores the
passion and persecution of Christ’s life through
the eyes of young gay men. The story is inclusive,
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Lighting design by Darren Boquist, sound
design by James Coomber and costumes
by Christy Zaporozan.
The three shows will run in rep at
Performance Works (1218 Cartwright St.,
Granville Island) from March 13 to April
4. Tickets are $25 – $35 and are available
online at BrownPaperTickets.com or by
phone at 1800.838.3006.
&
UBCOPERA
Presents
LA TRAVIATA
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)
A Speakers Series
June 20, 25, 26, 27* // 7:30 pm
June 21, 28* // 2:00 pm
Old Auditorium, UBC Campus
Wednesday Nights @ 7:30 pm
admission by donation
Karen Jamieson : Dance
Landon MacKenzie : Painting
Christopher Gaze
Jane Coop : Piano
Kate Braid : Writer
David Agler | Conductor
Nancy Hermiston | Director
Members of the
Vancouver Opera Orchestra
Explore the spirit of creativity
from non-religious perspectives.
*June 27, 28 performances conducted
by Gordon Gerrard
about their creative experience:
Of being human and being spirited
TICKETS: 604.822.6725
or UBCopera.com
Presented by the UBC School of Music www.music.ubc.ca 6361 Memorial Rd. Vancouver, BC
2014/2015
ILLUSTRATION + DESIGN: COPILOT DESIGN
St. Anselm’s Anglican Church
5210 University Blvd, Vancouver
www.stanselms.ca
FELIX MENDELSSOHN’S
AN EPIC MASTERWORK OF FIERY MAGNITUDE & RADIANT SOUND
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Leslie Dala
Featuring Soprano: Eve-Lyn de la Haye, Mezzo-soprano:
Krisztina Szabó, Tenor: Adam Fisher, and Baritone:
Giles Tomkins I with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
MAR 28 2015 at 8 pm I ORPHEUM THEATRE
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