If you weren't at Club PuSh last night for the first night of 20-minutes musicals you really should go tonight (or next Thursday & Friday night).
Theatre replacement has put together four 20-minute musicals airing in 2 programs. This week the two shows are Do You Want What I Have Got?: A Craigslist Cantata & Distant Second: The Steve Fonyo Story. Both shows are directed by Ami Gladstone.
(Above: Veda Hille, creator & writer of A Craigslist Cantata)
The Craigslist musical is a hilarious musical that looks at the humorous things people are looking for or trying to get rid of via craigslist. With lyrics taken from actual craigslist postings, the musical makes fun of dead moose, missed love connections, and a box of 14 cat-hats. It's the best integration of a popular website with theatre that I've heard of and is extremely well done.
Distant Second is about the 2nd guy who ran across Canada on 1 leg to raise money for cancer research 5 years after Terry Fox. It draws a line between sacrilege and being downright offensive, dangles one foot over the line, taps around a bit, but ultimately just makes fun of everyone. It's a great look at who our Canadian heroes are. Andrew McNee steals the show as a very drunk Douglas Coupland.
It was one of the funnest nights of theatre that I've had in a while and I'd really encourage you to go. Tonight's show is at 7pm. Tickets are $20 at the door and also get you in to the two music acts at 9pm & 11pm. After 11pm it is FREE.
2 comments:
hey lois if you go at 11pm do you get to see the 20 minute musicals you mentioned in your post? I want to see the Steve Fonyo one and I missed my flight. I don't get in until 8 now.
Unfortunately not - the 20 min. musicals are on at 7 & 7:40.
Hopefully it will come back at the Fringe Festival or something like that.
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