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Happy End, December 2 – 11, 2010, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Set against the backdrop of the greed of American capitalism, personified by tycoons like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan, a gang of entrepreneurial Chicago gangsters, led by top tough guy Bill Cracker, hangs out in Bill’s Beer Hall, and plots to control the local territory. But when a Salvation Army band, led by Sister Lillian Holiday, tries to convert the gang, things don’t quite work out as planned. Surprise revelations, contentious moralistic conclusions, and one of the most celebrated scores by Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brecht, make this frothy satire one of the great evenings in the …

The Drowsy Chaperone, November 30 – December 11, 2010, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The mousy, agoraphobic, Broadway fanatic ‘Man in Chair’ seeks to cure his “non-specific sadness” by listening to a recording of a (fictional) 1928 musical comedy entitled The Drowsy Chaperone. As he enjoys this rare recording, he is transported into the musical, his dingy apartment transformed into a Broadway set. Frenetic tap dancing, hysterical situational comedy, mistaken identities, and the inevitable happy ending all make for an unforgettable evening in the theatre. Music & lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison. Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar

Director: Geoffrey Tyler

Choreographer: Linda Garneau

Musical Director: David Myers

Oberon (A Midsummer Night’S Musical), April 15 – 24, 2010, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Musical) is a sequel to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Set 20 years after (and 1000 years before) that fateful night in that magical woods near Athens, Oberon picks up the stories of Shakespeare’s Faeries and Mortals at a time when the world as most of them know it is about to change completely.

The majority of the characters from the original play return in this sequel, although many of their lives have not turned out as might have been predicted. There is one completely new character, and one other who has grown up considerably.

Director: …

Cabaret, April 13 – 24, 2010, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This is not a musical about Nazi Berlin. Instead, Joe Masteroff’s book takes us into the world of the uncertain and chaotic Weimar Republic – a post-World War I, wild and art-filled nightclub scene mixed with the threat of the unknown. When the show first starts in 1929 we see how the morality in Berlin is decaying as rapidly as the democratic system – the Emcee welcomes and introduces us to the Kit Kat Klub, a place where life is trouble-free and “beautiful.” And yet, as the show progresses, we see the decline of this way of life as the …

Pippin, February 18 – 27, 2010, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Pippin was created by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked) and Roger O. Hirson as a college project, it was a cute and sentimental story about a travelling theatrical troupe putting on a play about a young man finding meaning in his life. It was fairly innocent and innocuous – until Bob Fosse got a hold of it. It was Fosse who invented the Leading Player and embedded a dark Vaudevillian mystique to the piece, making it a Broadway sensation in 1972. For Fosse the piece was autobiographical, the two main characters representing the two opposing sides of his own personality: Pippin, …

Anything Goes, February 16 – 27, 2010, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Billy Crocker, a young lovesick Wall Street broker, stows away aboard a trans-Atlantic liner bound for England in order to win the heart of the hapless heiress Hope Harcourt. Using a series of clever disguises Billy successfully avoids being discovered. But havoc erupts when he is mistakenly identified as Public Enemy Number One. This joyous Cole Porter tour-de-force is jam packed with toe-tapping song standards, eye-popping production numbers, and tons of tap-dancing!

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Original book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman

Director: Scot …