Director Sarina Condello of the Big Little Caravan of Joy and I, with our fiercely talent musical director, Donavon NeLabat, have cooked up a different kind of show for this year. THIS THING CALLED LOVE is an awesome musical night that looks at all kinds of love. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it features a castContinue reading “THIS THING CALLED LOVE: GET YOUR TICKETS FOR OUR NEW SHOW, PLAYING FEBRUARY 11, 12, 13!”
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OFF TO GHANA TO VOLUNTEER WITH TEAM JOY!
Wow. This Wednesday, I will be travelling to Dagbamete, Ghana with 20 of my Bedford Park Players cast-mates to help facilitate the 4th Empowered African Child Arts Conference (EACAC) with the Big Little Caravan of Joy. Go Team Joy! “Dagbamete is a village located in the Akatsi district of the Volta Region. The Volta Region,Continue reading “OFF TO GHANA TO VOLUNTEER WITH TEAM JOY!”
OUR LATEST MUSICAL, NAUGHTYHAM, RAISED $150,000!
We celebrated our 10th anniversary of musicals this past May with a production of Naughtyham, a romp of a Robin Hood tale with silly nods to Monty Python. It took Sarina and I three months to co-write and adapt this crazy play, which was performed by our cast, the Bedford Park Players, and the Summerhill Players overContinue reading “OUR LATEST MUSICAL, NAUGHTYHAM, RAISED $150,000!”
OUR MUSICAL, LA NEIGE, RAISES $120K FOR CHILDHOOD NOW! CHARITY
“We almost died laughing. The show was the epitome of energy, joy, love and community spirit.”
OUR CRAZY, NEW MUSICAL, LA NEIGE, PREMIERES APRIL 19-21!
Our next musical, LA NEIGE, will be premiering April 19-21, 2018 at the Regent Theatre in Toronto. It took my director, Sarina Condello, and I four months to co-adapt and write this silly musical based on life in the Moulin Rouge in 1905. The twist (as we always have one) is that we’ve mashed it with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I’ll be playing the world renowned chanteuse Edith Piaf, who — in this rendition — is a drunken, bi-curious, love-struck dwarf. She’ll be singing ‘Hi Ho’ with the likes of Dali, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Toulouse-Lautrec, Kahlo, Picasso and a Green Fairy. Sounds crazy but it works…
A Spooky Salute As We Adapt our Next Musical
“I laughed so hard I almost fell out of the balcony.”
As my director, Sarina Condello, musical director, Sheila Philcox, and I start to craft the script for our next musical, La Neige, I am grinning thinking about the crazy fun we had mounting The Bopping Dead, our production of this past April.
The Bopping Dead Comes to Life!
I’m nervously excited about our community theatre production this year called THE BOPPING DEAD. Singing, dancing, and acting in front of a combined audience of over 1000 people is always intimidating but this fundraiser is a little more nerve-wracking. Why? Because I had the opportunity to co-adapt, plus co-write the original B and C storylines,Continue reading “The Bopping Dead Comes to Life!”
On & Behind the Stage with the Bedford Park Players
For the past eight years, I’ve had the great fortune to be a member of the Bedford Park Players (BPP), a community musical theatre troupe. Under the amazing direction of Sarina Condello and inspired musical direction of Sheila Philcox, the BPP have played to roughly over 9,600 audience members. Thanks to the dedicated production ofContinue reading “On & Behind the Stage with the Bedford Park Players”
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