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Back-combing the ’60s: Hairspray at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something has happened to the light-hold flexible Hairspray we’ve always known. It’s gone Ultra-Clutch. In a world of chronic downsizing — of prospects, budgets, the polar ice cap … — there’s something reassuring, in theory, about … Continue reading
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A thrilling and beautiful musical testimonial to what art and artists are all about: Hadestown at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The musical/ folk opera that returns to Edmonton in the thrilling touring Broadway production onstage at the Jube this week will take you to Hell and back. And all along that eerie, high-stakes route through darkness, … Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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‘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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“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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