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2019 Festival of New Musicals

Michael Rubinoff, Producing Artistic Director of Sheridan College’s award-winning Canadian Music Theatre Project (CMTP), is proud to announce the lineup of musicals that will be workshopped this month by Sheridan’s Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance Class of 2020. All three productions feature prestigious collaborations with Canadian and international partners. The three projects are: GROW A high-ly entertaining new musical Music: Colleen Dauncey Lyrics: Akiva Romer-Segal Book: Matt Murray Director: Dennis GarnhumMusic Director: Wayne GwillimDeveloped in partnership with the Grand Theatre (London, Ont.) Before they must commit to the Amish faith forever, 19-year-old twins Hannah and Ruth leave the comfort of their sheltered community to explore the outside world for the first time. After finding themselves stranded in one of Toronto’s roughest neighbourhoods, all their plans go up in smoke and they end up working at an illegal marijuana grow-op. Grow is an outrageously fun, big-hearted musical, that explores sisterhood, community, and…

Sheridan’s Canadian Music Theatre Project and The Rose Brampton announce performance of a new musical by award-winning recording artist Johnny Reid

A presentation of My Bonnie Lass, a new musical from top selling recording artist and former long-time Brampton, Ont. resident Johnny Reid, will be performed by students of Sheridan’s celebrated Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance program on Saturday, March 2, 2019. Presented at the Rose Theatre in Brampton, Reid will introduce the musical before inviting the cast of 25 students on-stage to perform a concert-style version of the show. Reid will join in on a few of the numbers, ending with a finale of three songs from his chart-topping albums. Reid co-wrote My Bonnie Lass with Toronto playwright Matt Murray. Set in post-war Scotland, the musical is a love letter from Reid to his grandmother, Maggie. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, the power of a mother’s love, and the way the women of her generation persevered. While the musical is still in development, fans of Reid’s music will not…

Tickets now on sale for the 2018 Festival of New Musicals

The 2018 CMTP new musicals are: ERIK WITH A K Book, Music & Lyrics: Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli Director: Sarah Kitz Music Directors: Tara Litvack and Wayne Gwillim Montmartre, Paris. 1880s. The infamous bohemian nightclub, Le Chat Noir. The inhabitants and frequenters: La Goulue, cancan dancer and bon vivant, Suzanne Valadon, painter and artist’s model, composer Claude Debussy, and musical iconoclast Erik Satie. A time of tumultuous change in the arts. Some led the charge. Some went with the flow. Some resisted. Some fell in love along the way. It was a party. IN REAL LIFE Book & Lyrics: Nick Green Music & Lyrics: Kevin Wong Director: Ali Joy Richardson Music Director: Chris Barillaro Every day, technology is becoming more a part of the way that we communicate, explore our identities, and learn about the world. As it continues to advance, technology breaks down boundaries, bringing us closer together…

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