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Cabaret, February 11 – 23, 2020, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

In the months that precede the outbreak of World War II, American writer Clifford Bradshaw lands in Berlin and soon finds himself at the notorious Kit Kat Klub. There he falls madly in love with the English ex-patriot entertainer Sally Bowles. Their affair is tested as her reckless lifestyle overwhelms him and as the world around them marches towards chaos. Throughout, the Kit Kat Klub’s Emcee taunts and satirizes with dazzling musical numbers in a score that includes Wilkommen, Money (Makes the World Go Around), Maybe This Time, and the unforgettable title tune.

Director: Dr. Marc Richard …

Nine, November 29 – December 8, 2019, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Guido Contini, a famous Italian film director and ladies man who’s last couple of movies have been panned by the critics is under pressure to make a return to form with his latest film. However, there is one major problem: he hasn’t written a line of the script and has lost all inspiration. In an attempt to find peace and inspiration, he travels to a luxury spa near Venice. Only to be followed by his wife, Luisa, his saucy mistress, Carla, his fierce producer and her whole film crew. What ensues pushes him to face his ultimate fears within life …

Newsies, November 26 – December 8, 2019, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Disney’s Newsies The Musical - the Tony Award-winning Broadway show is based on the historical newsboy strike of 1899 that shook the ivory towers of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. This band of underdogs lead by Jack Kelly rally to take a stand and strike against the most powerful newspaper publishers in the country. Soon their cause becomes even bigger than any of the newsies imagined when they realize they’re fighting for all the children working in unfair and unsafe conditions across the nation. It will leap onto the stage with soul stirring music, amazing heart, and stunning choreography. …

Chelsea Sunrise, April 11 – 21, 2019, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Inspired by classic sounds of British 1960’s music - The Cocksure Lads lead by Dusty Fosterboard, head off from Toronto to London in hopes of stardom and fame. But what awaits them is the stark realization that we all have our own paths to discover and follow in this lifetime.

Music & lyrics by Mike Ford. Book, music & lyrics by Murray Foster.

Director: Steven Gallagher

Choreographer: Jennifer Mote

Musical Director: Mark Camilleri

The House Of Martin Guerre, April 9 – 21, 2019, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This musical has been inspired by the famous 16^th Century court case about Martin Guerre and his return home from an eight year disappearance. But who is he? Only Bertande his ‘loving’ wife knows.

Music and lyrics by Leslie Arden. Book by Leslie Arden and Anna T. Cascio

Director: Leslie Arden

Choreographer: Tracey Flye

Musical Director: Boko Suzuki

My Bonnie Lass, February 14 – 25, 2019, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Set in postwar Scotland and based on a true story; this is a love-letter from Johnny Reid to his grandmother Maggie. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, the power of a mother’s love, and the way the women of her generation persevered.

Book, music and lyrics by Johnny Reid and Matt Murray. Additional music by Bob Foster.

Director: Mary Francis Moore

Choreographer: Brittany Banks

Musical Director: Robert Foster

On The Town, February 12 – 24, 2019, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Follow, Ozzie, Gabey and Chip as they dance their way through the streets of 1944 New York City, all in search of that one ‘dream girl’. This classic American musical soars with the music of Leonard Bernstein, spectacular dance numbers and tunes that will leave you humming all the way home!

Music by Leonard Bernstein. Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Based on an idea by Jerome Robbins.

Director & Choreographer: Julie Tomaino

Musical Director: Daniel Rutzen

The Three-Penny Opera, November 29 – December 9, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Based on The Beggar’s Opera, written by John Gay in 1728, Kurt Weill version sets us in 1837 London, on the eve of Queen Victoria’s Coronation. Macheath – a.k.a. Mack the Knife takes centre-stage – and becomes swept-up in a whirlwind tale one of which in may just not survive.

Book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Kurt Weill. English adaption by Marc Blitzstein

Director: Allyson McMackon

Music Director: Paula Wolfson

The Phantom Of The Opera, November 27 – December 13, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Theatre Sheridan is thrilled to be presenting our own unique staging of one of the most popular, most seen musicals ever. Enter the Paris Opera House where lurks a masked Phantom hidden from society, tortured & disfigured, and witness the transformation unconditional love can make.

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Charles Hart. Additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Book by Richard Stilgoe & Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the novel “Le Fantôme de l’Opéra” by Gaston Leroux.

Director: Corey Agnew

Choreographer: Jeff Dimitriou

Musical Director: David Terriault

If/Then, April 12 – 22, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Elizabeth returns to New York City to start her life over. In a city of infinite possibilities, her carefully designed plans collide with the whims of fate tossing her into two parallel paths, one that we live, and one that we wish we would have led. A deeply moving portrait of a modern women is given in this fascinating, ambitious and original new musical.

Music by Tom Kitt. Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey.

Director: Andrew Kushnir

Choreographer: Monica Dottor

Musical Director: John-Luke Addison

Crazy For You, April 10 – 22, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

An exhilarating celebration to the beloved, optimistic musicals of the 1930’s. A world of showgirls and cowboys, in which a city boy and a country girl reconcile their differences, fall in love, and save a theatre, the old-fashion way. All this and more… featuring the fabulous score from the Gershwin brothers’ songbook.

Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Book by Ken Ludwig.

Director: Julie Tomaino

Choreographer: Julie Tomaino

Musical Director: Joseph Tritt

The Cradle Will Rock, February 15 – 25, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Steeltown, USA, 1937. In the middle of the great depression, Marc Blitzstein writes his blistering attack on the wealth and power of a few held over the working class poor. The industrialist Mr. Mister owns the town and the people in it, until union leader Larry Foreman exposes the greed and corruption that lies just beneath the grit and grim. First banned for public performance, Biltzstein’s revelatory operatic tale is as relevant today as it was 80 years ago.

By Marc Blitzstein

Director: Marc Richard

Choreographer: Alex Gratton

Musical Director: Chris Barillaro

Kiss Me Kate, February 13 – 25, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Welcome backstage to witness the rollicking world of theatre as a company is preparing for their production of The Taming of the Shrew. Cole Porter has partnered with Shakespeare to create one of the most raucous, rowdy and enduring romances of all time for the stage. Not to be missed…KISS ME, KATE will leave you feeling “WUNDERBAR’!

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Sam and Bella Spewack.

Director: Ann Hodges

Choreographer: Stephanie Graham

Musical Director: Jeannie Wyse

Trap Door, January 9 – 14, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Trap Door - a musical thriller about disappearances, some that we notice, some that we don't.

1919, Toronto the Good, where booze cans and brothels are hidden in places any God-fearing Methodist can find them: the Music Halls. Enter Teddy, a young woman in search of her sister, who went missing soon after moving to the city. Like her sister before her, she gets work at The Grand Opera and the owner is none other than the infamous real-life impresario Ambrose Small, who sells his theatre chain and vanishes from sight a week after she arrives, never to be heard …

Into The Woods, January 6 – 14, 2018, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A ground-breaking musical that explores what the Brothers Grimm didn’t have the courage to tell us….

Revealed in the first act of this remarkable musical is an intricately woven tale of no less than five classic Fairy Tale characters, all in search of their “happily ever after” ending. But what happens after everyone’s wishes are granted?

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine.

Director: Brynn Cutcliffe

Choreographer: Josh Graetz

Musical Director: Adam White

Senza Luce, April 13 – 23, 2017, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Commissioned by The Canadian Musical Theatre Project and workshopped at Sheridan in 2015, Theatre Sheridan is pleased to present a full stage production of this magical musical.

This musical fable tells the story of Senza Luce, a village deep in the mountains of Northern Italy. Hidden from the outside world and shadowed over by the towering peaks of the Italian Alps, the villagers of Senza Luce have lived in perpetual darkness for centuries, never knowing sunlight. When one forward thinking youth devises a brilliant way to bring light to their darkened lives, the village and its citizens are thrown into …

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, April 11 – 23, 2017, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

From the authors of Guys And Dolls comes one of the most delightfully irreverent musicals of all time, a satire of big business and all it holds sacred.

Follow the rise of window-washer J. Pierrepont Finch, in his hilarious journey to chairman of the board at the World Wide Wicket Company, circa 1960, a ridiculous company where no one really knows what anyone else is doing. But when Finch meets his true love Rosemary, art mixes with business creating a combustible parody of the workings and morals of the business world and all the quirky characters in it.

Book by …

Floyd Collins, February 16 – 26, 2017, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Based on a true story, Floyd Collins follows its title character, who chases a dream of fame and fortune by turning a Kentucky cave into a tourist attraction.

In 1925, Floyd Collins himself became the attraction when he becomes trapped 200 feet underground. As reporters and gawkers from across the country descend on the property, alone, Floyd fights for his sanity and ultimately his life. This haunting musical, one of the most acclaimed in recent years, tells the transcendent tale of a true American dreamer and the contrast between the cynicism of the media and real emotions discovered by Floyd …

Footloose, February 14 – 26, 2017, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Footloose The Musical will have you dancing to the rock’in rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical.

Small town Bomont, led by Reverend Shaw Moore, ban rock & roll music and dancing after a fatal accident which took the lives of four boys coming home from a community dance. Ren McCormack recently moved from Chicago, quickly finds himself at odds with the community and declares to take on the town by throwing a dance which ignites a revolution amongst his classmates. Breaking every taboo, Ren and the Reverend’s …

Dogfight, December 1 – 11, 2016, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A story of the loss of innocence for a soldier, his date, and all of the United Sates.

November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines take part in a “dogfight” – a cruel game on the women they invite to the party, wherein the soldier who brings the least attractive girl wins. But when Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, she turns out to be more than he bargained for as she rewrites the rules of the game. A lesson in compassion, Dogfight begins as a rousing song and dance adventure and ends as …

Shrek, The Musical, November 29 – December 11, 2016, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Based on the smash hit animated film series, this live adaptation brings the hilarious story of everyone’s favourite ogre to the stage. In a far away kingdom turned upside down by the insecure and conniving Lord Farquaad, an ogre – not a handsome prince – shows up to rescue the feisty princess Fiona. Throw in a wisecracking Donkey, a fire-breathing Dragon, a Cookie with attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there’s one on hand and his name is Shrek. Perfect for children and …

Sunday In The Park With George, April 14 – 24, 2016, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, Georges Seurat is struggling to make meaningful art and maintain a relationship with his lover Dot. Amid the scorn of the artistic community, Seurat's artistic ability thrives while his love diminishes. A century later, Seurat's descendant - named George and also an artist - finds himself burnt out and in search of what artistic path to follow, but he finds the answer to his future in the past. A deeply moving love story that connects the past to the future through passionate and intensely personal struggles that are …

Grand Hotel: The Musical, April 12 - 24, 2016, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The Grand Hotel is bustling with eccentric and sometimes dubious guests: amongst them a fading prima ballerina being forced to dance again; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron; a cynical doctor suffering from World War I wounds; an honest businessman going bad as he faces financial ruin and a typist dreaming of Hollywood stardom.

Behold these vibrant dramas as they spring to life in a whirlwind of music and dance. As the wealthy, poor, innocent, bitter, kind and cruel, all reveal their lifelong desires and …

Curiosities: The Official Blog Of Sheridan, Sheridan College, Susan Atkinson, Richard Finch, Golnaz Golnaraghi, Carol Hill, Keiko Kataoka, Christine Szustaczek, Mark Mulloy, Jane Cockton, Stewart Dick, Erica Shaw

Communications and External Relations books

Welcome to the book edition of Curiosities - the official blog of Sheridan. The book is a curated collection of blog posts from curiositites.sheridancollege.ca, which show the vibrancy and energy at Sheridan. Here you'll find all things creative, intriguing and noteworthy. From the profound to the peculiar, the stories in this volume offer insight into different fields of study, explore the ways in which Sheridan contributes to the world, and spotlight the people who bring Sheridan to life. Feed your curiosity by visiting the blog regularly for the latest stories about Sheridan: curiositites.sheridancollege.ca

Sweet Charity, February 18 - 28, 2016, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Experience the bold and colourful world of 1960s New York through the eyes of Charity Hope Valentine. The dance hall hostess dreams of a brighter future but she can’t help but give her heart to all the wrong guys. Then she meets the meek but sweet Oscar Lindquist when they get trapped in an elevator. Could he be the man to change Charity’s luck and take her off the market as a heart-for-hire? Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields’ bright music and dance numbers like ‘Big Spender’ and ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now,’ paired with …

Damn Yankees, February 16 - 28, 2016, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Joe Boyd, a middle-aged married man loves his perpetually losing Washington Senators as much as he hates the perpetually winning New York Yankees. When the Devil appears in the form of the smooth Mr. Applegate, Joe jumps at the chance to trade his soul to become the greatest baseball player of all time and carry his Senators to the pennant. As the Senators go on an historic winning streak and near first place, Joe finally realizes how much he gave up when he walked away from his wife’s love and their workaday life. Will he go back, or will he …

The Enlightenment Of Percival Von Schmootz, December 3 - 13, 2015, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Fed up with a world filled with plagues, pestilence, and poor personal hygiene, a ridiculously optimistic young man sets out on a quest to end the Dark Ages. As he attempts to bring the light of hope to the world, Percival von Schmootz meets with hilariously disastrous results at every turn. It is only when things look the blackest that Percival is able to discover what true enlightenment means. A cross between Monty Python and Candide, this outrageous satirical comedy examines the ways we search for hope in our impossibly dark circumstances.

This musical was commissioned by The Canadian …

Legally Blonde, December 3 - 10, 2015, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the adored movie, LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL, follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery, and scandal in pursuit of her dreams.

Director: Greg Peterson

Musical Director: Tara Litvack

Brantwood 1920-2020, April 14 - 25, 2015, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This new work by Mitchell Cushman and Julie Tepperman was developed as part of the Canadian Music Theatre Project. Billed as a mysterious, immersive musical experience, it was staged at Brantwood School, in Oakville. Audience members participated as members of Brantwood’s final graduating class, invited back to tour their old stomping ground and immerse themselves in tales of youthful experience spanning ten decades.

Created, Written and Directed by Mitchell Cushman and Julie Tepperman.

Music and Lyrics by Bram Gielen, Anika Johnson and Britta Johnson

Chess, April 16 - 26, 2015, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A musical with music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, formerly of ABBA, and lyrics by Tim Rice. The story involves two chess grandmasters, an American and a Soviet citizen, fighting over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other—all in the context of a politically-driven, Cold War-era tournament between the two men.

Director: Darcy Evans

Musical Director: Adam White