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The Servant Of Two Masters, November 22 – December 9, 1989, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

An Italian comedy based on Goldoni’s classic comedy in which a fiancé, Federigo Rasponi, comes back from the dead to be reunited with Clarice who is in the process of marrying her true love. The fiancé, is Federigo’s sister in disguise, who is plotting vengeance for her brother and trying to find her love as well. The servant of Federigo’s sister, Truffaldino, takes center stage in an effort to increase his wages and his meals he takes on two masters at once.

Commedia Dell'Arte, which means "Comedy of Skill", is a very old form of popular theatre which has roots …

Babes In Arms, November 15 – December 2, 1989, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A story of the teenage children, of out-of-work vaudevillians, who stage a show to avoid being sent to a work camp.

Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart

Director: Ron Cameron

Doin’ It With Style, May 25 – June 4, 1989, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The Music Theatre Department of Sheridan College first assembled Sheridan Style in 1982. The idea was to bring live entertainment to a larger audience and to provide an opportunity for our students to experience working and touring in a musical revue. Auditions and interviews are held in January for the students of the Performance and the Technical Production programs. Six to eight performers and two technicians are hired to go on tour to cottage country for eleven weeks. In September they return to Sheridan College and open the Theatre Sheridan main stage season. They also perform Style at local venues …

42nd Street, April 5 – 29, 1989, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

It is a tried-and-true tale of the lowly chorus girl who becomes an overnight sensation in the production “42^nd Street”. Peggy Sawyer, the chorus girl, obtains a dancing part in a chorus of a new show entitled “Pretty Lady”. This new show is bound for Broadway, and as it does Sawyer runs head-on with the new leading lady, Dorothy Brock.

Prepared to perform in Atlantic City, word arrives that the show has been cancelled and that Philadelphia has been substituted. Tempers now flare. The company packs up for the Arch Street Theatre. What is to become of the next …

The Rover, March 9 – 18, 1989, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The Rover is a restoration play set in the 1930's. Such (period up-dating is often controversial, so a word might be said about it here. The 1930's and the real Restoration (1660-1685 approximately) have a lot in common. In the midst of the Great Depression, 30's movies were inevitably stylish and gay, their heroes and heroines rich and witty. People went to the movies to escape the harsh economic reality around them. Similarly, the Restoration followed immediately on the heels of the Puritan Revolution and the ten year interregnum under Cromwell. People were sick of politics and strife. They went …

Brigadoon, February 8 – March 4, 1989, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Bigadoon was the first major Broadway hit for Turner and Loewe who described it as “a whimsical musical fantasy.” Set in a magical Scottish village which appears out of the Scottish mist once every hundred years and disappears again, two American tourists stumble upon the fantasy village and develop love interests with two of the villagers. The tourists must choose between their love interests in Brigadoon or life back in present-day New York. The two do leave the village but love has a way of creating miracles.

Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Music by Frederick Loewe.

Director: Ron …