Musical
SFU students to perform at Bound! The Musical
November 17, 2024Shakespeare’s work lives on in plays, adaptations, and apparently the fictional town of Middleburg? Running from November 19 to 20 at the Metro Theatre, Bound! The Musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost will bring plenty of laughs, catchy songs, and heart. Two SFU alumni, Mugasha Rutega and Sophia Pollock, will be playing the characters Cameron and Jasmine. The Peak had the chance to speak with them to find out more about this upbeat show. The story kicks off when the townspeople of Middleburg accidentally turn their home into a new country under a wacky president. Four athletes are recruited…
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Theatre Under The Stars’ CATS features two SFU dance majors
June 26, 2024From July 5 to August 24, Theatre Under the Stars is coming back to Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl. One of their featured productions this season is CATS, a dazzling ensemble musical of feline characters who gather for the Jellicle Ball.…
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Looking back at The Road Forward
June 19, 2024Content warning: mentions of assimilation, residential schools, and cultural genocide. Colours bleed into the pages of a black and white newspaper as a low-tone humming surrounds the screen. The steady, heartbeat-like fervor of a drum echoes through the scene. A…
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Broadway Across Canada’s Hadestown masterfully delivers its cyclical love story
November 28, 2023You might know the Greek myth of Orpheus: the talented musician who journeys to rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. Hades promises Orpheus he can have Eurydice only if he walks out of the underworld without looking back. Famously,…
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Theatre Under the Stars: much to love and room to improve
July 25, 2023Since 1940, Theatre Under the Stars has put on family-friendly plays in Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl, an outdoor venue equipped with comfortable seating, a commissary kitchen, bar, and emergency ponchos. This season, which runs until August 25, features two high-spirit…
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The Greatest Showman delights, taking a mediocre plot and making it shine
January 16, 2018Many movies fall into a certain niche category. Sometimes, it’s a whole genre: like thrillers, crime-dramas, or comedies. Other times, it’s a less conventional grouping: like whimsical rom-coms or movies that freak you out. However, not all movies fit a…
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Children of God is a heart-wrenching musical we all need to see
May 30, 2017“We’re trying to make you better,” says a priest to a little boy, implying that everything he is — his culture, his language, and everything he does — is wrong. This is how children were treated in residential schools in…
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URP’s production of Rent hit all the right notes
November 26, 2016The 20th anniversary production of Rent by URP wrapped its last show on November 20, and I’m not alone in wishing it would stick around for longer. I already wish I could see it again. Upon entering the theatre, the…
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Rent’s 20th anniversary is here
November 14, 2016Is Broadway a little too far and a little too expensive for you? Were you even born when Rent hit the musical scene 20 years ago? Never fear, fans of musical theatre: URP (formerly Uncle Randy Productions) has got you…
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CENTRE STAGE: Rising star Jennifer Gillis says playing Maria in West Side Story is a dream come true
July 13, 2016Jennifer Gillis is full of gratitude these days. A rising musical theatre star who was featured on the 2012 CBC reality show Over the Rainbow at only 16, she’s now in her third year at Capilano University’s musical theatre program.…
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