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A romcom fantasy in need of songs: Pretty Woman The Musical at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Pretty Woman the Musical, that arrived Tuesday at the Jube in a Broadway Across Canada touring production, there are two characters you can’t take your eyes off. There’s fun to be had when they’re onstage; … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Pretty Woman, Pygmalion
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Far From The Home I Love: a Fiddler on the Roof for our time. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening moments of the grand touring production of Fiddler on the Roof that’s arrived at the Jube, a solitary man in a modern red parka walks onto the stage under a weathered train station … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Fiddler on the Roof, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Newly rock-ified and fast on its feet: Jesus Christ Superstar arrives at the Jube. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a rush down the aisles, a veritable runners’ stampede onto the stage at the start of the Broadway Across Canada touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar that exploded into the Jube Tuesday. And it reimagines … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway Across Canada, Edmonton theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Kiss the cod: Come From Away at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away wasn’t Away long, in real time. And yet, the world has changed in such unmistakeable ways since March 2019, when the American touring production arrived here, bringing a story of Canadian-ness back to … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway Across Canada, Canadian Musical Theatre Project, Come From Away, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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‘Immigrants get the job done’: Hamilton’s finally here, in a first-rate touring production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hamilton: it’s epic. It’s crazy rich in its language, music, and theatricality. And it explodes onto the stage with an offer, no, a demand, to focus both history and musical theatre from the outsider perspective. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Edmonton theatre, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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“Is anybody waving back at me?” Dear Evan Hansen at the Jube. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What does it feel like to live in a buzzing world of cross-hatched ever-escalating and fading images and phrases, a metastasizing, translucent tangle of entries, posts, links, tags, photos? Where the music of the spheres (not … Continue reading
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Hamilton is coming: Broadway Across Canada announces a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton audiences will get their first crack at the most acclaimed musical of the era next season. Hamilton, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical of 2015, arrives on the Jube stage July 27 to Aug. … Continue reading
Welcome back! Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking — post-festivity regret, punishing resolutions, the sense of finale. But cast off these thoughts: the theatre season isn’t ending. It’s only intermission. And intermission is over. Welcome back; Act II is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Aboriginal Arts, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Impossible Mongoose, Malachite Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Stonemarrow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Todd Babiak, Wild Side Productions
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