Someone forwarded this to me this morning, and I found it so moving I thought I would share it with all of you. Be warned tears may flow. But it is a beautiful example of storytelling and love.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
It Was the Best of Times. It Was the Worst of Times.
Someone forwarded this to me this morning, and I found it so moving I thought I would share it with all of you. Be warned tears may flow. But it is a beautiful example of storytelling and love.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Theatre 20: Artist Led, story-driven.
Check out this video Theatre 20 published to YouTube yesterday. It is great to see Canadian grown musical theatre with this kind of star power and panache, back in Toronto.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Throw back clip
Having a Baby the Musical kind of afternoon. I found this great clip of the original Broadway cast, singing one of the best numbers "I Want it All."
Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Canadian Opera Company 2011-12 Season
This morning the COC announced It's upcoming season. Among the seven operas the company is planning, are four COC premieres, two of which have never been performed anywhere in Canada. Plus, one of Opera's most enduring classics, Tosca. Click the header to see the full COC press release.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in "Can you get that"
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are currently staring in A Steady Rain, on Broadway. And this lucky, albeit disrespectful, theatre goer caught an ad lib mother load the other night. Jackman visibly loses focus when a cell phone begins to buzz loudly, and requests that the theatre patron please answer the phone. Unfortunately our rude theatre-goer does not respond to Jackman's request and the phone continues to buzz. Eventually the vibrating becomes so distracting that even Daniel Craig gets in on the act and we have a truly live theatre moment. Check it out.
I think videos like this bring up an interesting question for theatre followers. Are these videos, which themselves are very disrespectful of the actors and production team, worth posting? On the one hand to see an audience member berated for their inappropriate behaviour is highly entertaining, and actually informative. Because truthfully cell phones and proper phone etiquette have been around long enough for incidents like this to not occur. But, on the other, the act of watching pirated theatre videos only perpetuates unseemly audience behaviour. And so, while we at EAP will probably continue to post them, because they are news worthy and hilarious - I would say as someone who would NEVER record a professional production in this manner, that doing so offends the production and takes away from the intimate quality theatre affords. Every experience in the theatre is unique, including the one above. Is it fair to record that moment? Theatre in its nature is for the individuals present and them alone. By bootlegging live theatre you not only water down the experience, because let's face theatre on film is yucky usually, you rob the audience, actors and crew of what's theres' in a profoundly deceitful way. That's just my opinion. What's yours?
I think videos like this bring up an interesting question for theatre followers. Are these videos, which themselves are very disrespectful of the actors and production team, worth posting? On the one hand to see an audience member berated for their inappropriate behaviour is highly entertaining, and actually informative. Because truthfully cell phones and proper phone etiquette have been around long enough for incidents like this to not occur. But, on the other, the act of watching pirated theatre videos only perpetuates unseemly audience behaviour. And so, while we at EAP will probably continue to post them, because they are news worthy and hilarious - I would say as someone who would NEVER record a professional production in this manner, that doing so offends the production and takes away from the intimate quality theatre affords. Every experience in the theatre is unique, including the one above. Is it fair to record that moment? Theatre in its nature is for the individuals present and them alone. By bootlegging live theatre you not only water down the experience, because let's face theatre on film is yucky usually, you rob the audience, actors and crew of what's theres' in a profoundly deceitful way. That's just my opinion. What's yours?
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