By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up How very brave – a scene done it total darkness. Hallelujah! The scene is found on the Centaur Theatre stage in Dance Me to the End On/Off Love. Another scene done inside a small, tight box, with a candle, in the nude. The confined dancer rotates and twists her […]
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JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND LOOKING GOOD AT MAINLINE
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is not a piece often performed here in Montreal. A revue, with songs in french and english, it debuted in the late sixties off-Broadway, with 26 songs. A film version saw the addition of five more songs including ‘Ne […]
Oklahoma – HVT
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Mounting a full blown musical production under professional circumstances is a difficult feat. For an amateur group, even more so. Once again, the Hudson Music Club has proven that almost anything is possible.Oklahoma (the first musical to be written by the team, Rodgers and Hammerstein) is the group’s newest […]
Behind The Scene In The Mahalia Jackson Musical
Behind the scenes in the Mahalia Jackson Musical with Ranee Lee and Tristan D. Lalla:
TRAD – Absurd, Surreal, Hysterical…and Irish
By Sharman Yarnell About one minute into the play, the laughter starts.Two Irishmen, traipsing across the ‘auld sod’ in search of a descendent, ending up in a graveyard with a doddering old woman and finally at the local Priest’s, is a bit of a giggler in itself. Imagine if one of the men is around […]
Ranee Lee Is Mahalia Jackson – spirit and soul!
What do Edith Piaf, Billie Holliday, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland and Mahalia Jackson all have in common?Peace.That’s Roger Peace, playwright, choreographer, director and producer. His latest creative endeavour as a writer and director, The Mahalia Jackson Musical, is about to open at The Segal Theatre in March.Since his arrival in Canada from England, he has […]
Interview with Rock of Ages’ Universo Pereira
Sharman Yarnell had an opportunity to chat with Rock of Ages’ Universo Pereira on the upcoming Montreal show:
GAUCHO cooking comes to Montreal for Festival en Lumière
By Tracey hill for Curtains Up There’s a certain virility to Gaucho-style cooking despite its subtly graceful result. Popularized by Argentinian cattle rustlers, fighters and farmers, ‘Gaucho’ cooking has everything to do with the method of heating food (mostly meat and potatoes) using grills, ashes, coal and wood. Elemental, raw and primitive, it utilizes basic tools […]
A Bit of ‘Craic’ with Andrew Shaver, Director of TRAD
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up It’s absurd, it’s surreal, it’s dark, it’s hysterical, it’s traditional. It’s TRAD. Opening at The Centaur Theatre February 26, TRAD is written by Irish playwright Mark Doherty, and is directed by Andrew Shaver. And of course, Doherty has experience as an actor and stand up comedian which is why […]
Working The Red Carpet
Me and actress Tracey Hoyt from “The Tournament“ By: Richard Jutras for Curtains Up Working the red carpet is not all it`s cracked up to be. It`s alot of hard work. I remember thinking “who are you wearing“? So, with my made-to-measure Yves St. Laurent tuxedo, I, along with the rest of the cast […]