Musical
SFU students to perform at Bound! The Musical
November 17, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Shakespeare’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…
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Theatre Under The Stars’ CATS features two SFU dance majors
June 26, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer From 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…
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Looking back at The Road Forward
June 19, 2024By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor Content 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…
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Broadway Across Canada’s Hadestown masterfully delivers its cyclical love story
November 28, 2023By: Kelly Chia, Editor-in-Chief You 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…
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Theatre Under the Stars: much to love and room to improve
July 25, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Since 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…
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Ratatouille the Musical is a TikTok phenomenon that is here to stay
January 16, 2021By Kyla Dowling, Staff Writer It started with a TikTok. Creator Emily Jacobsen was fooling around and created a viral hit of herself singing a ditty about the titular character Remy in Ratatouille. Then, Daniel J. Mertzlufft (the mind behind…
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Dear Evan Hansen was a wondrous spectacle and musical delight
March 18, 2020by Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Dear Evan Hansen rolled into town a few weeks ago, and I was ecstatic. If you weren’t wistfully staring out a window while listening to this musical’s top track “Waving Through a Window” in 2017, then…
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The Greatest Showman delights, taking a mediocre plot and making it shine
January 16, 2018By: Leila Bonner Many 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…
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Children of God is a heart-wrenching musical we all need to see
May 30, 2017By: Tessa Perkins “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…
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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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