010211 American Idiot, New York, NY
While I am only a moderate fan of Green Day I’ve respected the band since I first saw them live…
Category: theatre
122890 Sesame Street Live: Sleeping Birdie, Moncton, NB
As a kid the fast-paced commercial-free dry comedy of Sesame Street hooked me in hard and fast…
102793 A Hell of a Mess (et al), Ottawa, ON
On October 27th, 1993 I attended a play entitled A Hell of a Mess, which was staged by my future alma mater’s campus acting troupe Sock & Buskin…
101788/89 Local Theatre Series, Riverview, NB
When I was in grade twelve I took Theatre Arts and a required element of the class was purchasing tickets for and attending a season of amateur theatre at Riverview High School. Though I was seriously averse to any sort of extracurricular activities I was okay with this requirement…
051113 Big Mama, Ottawa, ON
Though musicals and opera aren’t really my thing sometimes theatre and music can meet up in a way that tickles my entertainment bone, and this show was one of those times…
032699 Little Shop of Horrors, Ottawa, ON
I don’t remember exactly how I got snared into the role of musical director for a run of Tim Rice’s Chess that was mounted by my university’s theatre troupe but when I did I soon found out that theatre had an even worse effort-to-money ratio than playing rock & roll did, a truism that I could hardly believe was possible.
Anyway, the fact that I signed up to do it again a year later brings to mind that old “Fool me once…” saying, but the truth is…
032598 Chess, Ottawa, ON
“From square one I’ll be watching you…”
032219 Reign of Fire; C4 Wrestling, Ottawa, ON
On March 22nd, 2019 I was just sitting around the house twiddling my thumbs and minding my own business when a message came in from a friend:
“Last minute heads up…” it read, “I’ve started going to a monthly minor league “professional” wrestling event…”
And just like that he had my undivided attention…
032016 The Passion, New Orleans, LA
In the Spring of 2016 I spent three weeks in the French Quarter of New Orleans. One morning I was perusing the local paper (as is my habit when on vacation) and I read about an upcoming event that I found very intriguing. It was a modernized version of The Passion of The Christ adapted by Tyler Perry, it was to be broadcast live on television as it was acted out in real time, it was all happening right in the French Quarter and best of all it was free…
021220 Five O’Clock Bells, Ottawa, ON
On one of my final laps around the internet before leaving St. John’s I discovered an interesting tidbit of a musical happening coming up at the tiny Gladstone Theatre: a one-man play that delved into the life and career of one of my favourite guitar players of all time, the inimitable and quite incredible Lenny Breau…
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