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Lies & Legends; The Musical Stories Of Harry Chapin, November 8 – 25, 1995, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

More than any other popular songwriter in recent memory, Harry Chapin was a storyteller. He celebrated the extraordinary lives of ordinary folk, and whether through comedy or pathos, reminded us of a shared emotional heritage. Here, the most inherently theatrical of Chapin's narrative pieces have been assembled, allowing the stories within them to dictate their own dramatic shape.

Original production by Joseph Stern, Sandi, Stephen & Tom Chapin.

Director & Choreographer: Pat Dawson

Musical Director: Douglas Livingston

Style ’95 – 18 Again, September 21 – 23, 1995, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A musical revue with medleys from Dixieland, Country, Louis Jordan as well as songs from the 40’s to the present.

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 …

The Club, February 16 – 25, 1995, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The Club was first performed in 1976. Not really a play, not really a full ‘book’ musical, it is described in the script as ‘A Musical Diversion’, and all of the music you will hear comes from the period 1894-1905.

The setting is a very exclusive Gentleman’s Club, which could be in New York, London or even Toronto. The time is 1903, and these are wealthy men, come to pass a little time with ‘the boys’ at their favorite ‘getaway from the fairer sex’ – to paraphrase the gentlemen themselves. Their songs and stories about women show an attitude that …

Cabaret, February 9 – 25, 1995, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Set in 1920’s to 1930’s Berlin, when avant-garde Germany is shifting to reflect Hitler’s totalitarian regime.

Clifford Bradshaw, an aspiring American writer finds himself wandering into a Berlin nightclub, Kit Kat Club, and meets a cabaret performer, Sally Bowles. Their relationship develops into a romance and is complicated by stirrings of Nazi conspirators. Cliff decides to leave Nazi Germany and encourages Sally to come with him to America but she is unwilling to leave her Berlin lifestyle.

Cabaret is an unflinching political musical with songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Adapted for theatre by Joe Masteroff from the Christopher …