Heathers: The Musical To Feb 26 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street facebook.com/whalesongtheatre “What’s your damage, Heather?” asked Winona Ryder in Heathers, the gleefully R-rated, violence-laden satire of high school that contains a sobering message about the emotional and physical repercussions of bullying at its wry centre. That was 1988, but the film’s legacy […]
Musicals
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You just gotta Shrek yourself before you wreck yourself
The curtain rises on a young Shrek, bathed in the dazzling light of a crescent moon. According to the original song that his parents are singing, he is seven. And so are most of the people in the audience. Here, at the opening night of Shrek The Musical, I expected to see more jaded millennials—people […]
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Broadway Atlantic debuts with The Sound of Music
Coffee-drinkers look up from their cups as Matthew Beasant pushes open the door at Two If By Sea on a drizzly Dartmouth afternoon. There’s an aura of barely contained excitement about the solid, bearded young man, and he moves with quiet confidence—as if he’s on a mission. And that’s not very far from the truth. […]
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Nine is not Italian
Despite its nauseating refrain of “Be Italian,” there’s not an Italian actor among the main cast of Nine. Rob Marshall’s song-and-dance take on Fellini’s 8½ is a let’s-play-dressup front–a fictitious reduction of another director’s autobiographical classic. Marshall’s numbers have neither flash nor scope. They enter the movie as psychological explorations of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), […]