Camelton
Twenty years ago, Award-winning musical theatre writer Stephen Cole met his first camel...and he hasn’t been the same since. Stephen tells his hilarious story of writing a musical for the Emir of Qatar. Picture this! Two Brooklyn Jews, some Middle Eastern producers, flying carpets, Croatian acrobats, Russian ballet dancers, an Italian director, the desert, camels (a lot of camels!) and, of course, music. You will laugh and you will cry (from laughing) in this outrageous, once-in-a-lifetime, unbelievable-but-true tale of how Stephen and his collaborator wrote the first American Musical to premiere in the Middle East.Ticket Info Here
Jo: The Little Women Musical
A reimagined take on Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic. At its heart is Jo March, a passionate young writer whose grief over losing her sister transforms into the story we all know and love. With a lush, timeless score and bold new perspective, Jo brings universal themes of family, ambition, and identity into sharp focus for today's audiences—reminding us that the fight to claim one's voice and purpose is as relevant now as it was then.Tickets
Jeannie
A large clock on the back wall announces each of the twelve hours symbolizing the twelve scenes of the musical, Jeannie. With the tick of each hour, Jeannie and her children: Ernest, Martha, and Hannah, face increasingly more difficult challenges as Jeannie faces end-of-life.Website
Always Young
Always Young Is a heart-warming, magical reflection on school days in the eighties. Discover the possible stories behind the characters we all remember from school. An insightful and thought provoking look at how our school experiences and parenting influenced who we are today.
A show for adults about our memories. A nostalgic yet disconcerting reality check, that uses music, and tall tales to deliver powerful messages.
Our unreliable Narrator ‘Haywire’ takes you on a journey through his past and introduces us to many different characters in a british school somewhere. These individuals, often seen as misfits, outcasts or troubled youths explore their own self-discoveries, reflections, passions, ambitions, and nightmares as they try to conform to society or just fit in at school.
20 Original musical numbers with lyrics by Mark Tunstall and musical score by Lulu Chen and various artists, accentuate the stories with genre bending sounds and styles that traverse musical history. Honky-Tonk Piano meets Contemporary Rock Anthem Stylings, Hip Hop, Jazz, Rock n Roll, Bitter-Sweet Ballads and Toe Tapping Feelgood Broadway and Vaudevillian style numbers.
Always Young explores many themes at large today, not just childhood insecurities. The show explores acceptance and inCLUSIVITY of LGBTQ, the development of individuality verses forced conformity, crime, neglect, abuse, mental health, bullying and unrecognized neurodiversity in its many guises.
The Queen Is Mad
Tom James McGrath (book, music & lyricsAmy Clare Tasker (book & lyrics)Joanna is fiery and dares to speak her mind. When she unexpectedly becomes Queen, her father and husband are determined to silence her. She went down in history as Joanna the Mad; what if she wasn’t insane, but furious? SIX meets Sondheim in this dark saga inspired by Catherine of Aragon’s older sister.
Deathless
Book, music, and lyrics by Zack Zadek
Deathless follows the Serling family as they take their annual road trip to Niagara Falls, but this time they’re saying goodbye to Mom. Along the way, memories of past trips, old wounds, and family secrets are navigated in a not-too-distant future where no one dies of disease.
For daughter Hayley, the journey means facing the big questions of life and death. Travel with unforgettable characters on the brink of discovering that living forever may not be as wonderful as it sounds.
The Business of Broadway and Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) showcase of three original Korean musicals - each presented in the United States for the first time.
The K-Musical Roadshow features fully translated performances with New York–based creative teams and performers. Each 40-minute presentation is followed by a brief Q&A with the artists and a networking reception with the Korean producers and creative teams.
Following Jimmy Valentine
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jeff Flaster
Notorious jewel thief Jimmy Valentine swears he’s going straight this time. But Jimmy has baggage that won’t fit in his suitcase of burglar’s tools. Soon after his release from prison, he’s back to his old habits.
Disillusioned New Orleans detective Jen Price wants to catch Jimmy Valentine — and feel like a hero again.
But Jimmy isn’t the villain she’d hoped he’d be. While hiding in a small town, Jimmy falls in love with Annabel Adams, which inspires him to go straight at last.
But is it too late?
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Libretto: W. S. Gilbert
Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan
Adaptation: Rupert Holmes
Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing classic, in an outrageously clever romp sizzling with Caribbean rhythms and French Quarter flair. With the tongue-twisting Major-General, the rabble-rousing Pirate King, newly-imagined young lovers, daring daughters, footloose pirates and fleet-footed police, there's a shipload of musical comedy delights on board to dazzle first-timers and G&S aficionados alike.
Welcome to THE CHOIR OF MAN, the best pub in the world... Come ready to drink in the excitement!
Brimming with hits from artists such as Queen, Luther Vandross, Sia, Paul Simon, Adele, Guns & Roses, Avicii and Katy Perry to name but a few, this is a pub like no other! A wildly talented group of incredible instrumentalists, world-class wordsmiths, and sensational singers; this cast of nine (extra)ordinary guys serve it all... live!
An uplifting celebration of community and friendship where everyone is welcome. It's 90 minutes of feel-good, foot-stomping entertainment unlike anything else in the West End.
In a future ravaged by global warming, the last colony of survivors in New York City face an impending superstorm. "HIGHER GROUND: THE MUSICAL" is a four-part graphic novel series and stage musical that explores the intimate relationships between members of a multi-racial and multi-generational group struggling to survive in the only neighborhood still standing in the city. When mysterious strangers arrive, the colony must decide if they are a threat, or a way out.
We are joined by 3 members of the Thailand musical theatre world to talk about: What is Thai musical theatre? What's it like? How does it compare to the rest of the world and many other questions.
We are joined by Raksak Kongseng, Tidtaya Sinutoke, Chutimta Puttikulangkura for another Musical Theatre Round Table.
House of Fallen Women
Music, Lyrics & Book by Natalie Rebecca Lovejoy
House of Fallen Women is an original new musical that explores women’s sexual liberation through the stories of historical women whose ambition, defiance, or desires cast them as cautionary tales or erased them from history entirely. It asks: what really makes the “fallen woman” so threatening?
Dubbo Championship Wrestling
Book & Lyrics by Daniel Cullen
Music by Daniel & James Cullen
There’s not a spare seat in the Dubbo Dome. Ozzy the Aussie Battler flicks his cape and steps into the ring, and the crowd go troppo.
This is Dubbo Championship Wrestling, the hilarious new Aussie rock musical that will change everything you thought you knew about professional wrestling, regional Australia, and musical theatre itself.
Rose, a young woman from Dub-Vegas with wrestling in her blood, has long ago turned her back on the family business and Dubbo’s stifling small-town ways. When circumstance brings her back to her hometown on the eve of Dubbomania, the biggest wrestling tournament of the year, Rose is drawn into a monumental battle over family and identity, featuring capes, choreography, and some of the most colourful characters you’ll ever meet.
The violence, the joy, the costumes, the thumbtacks. Will there be blood? We bloody hope so.
Taro Angels & Love
Music, Book & Lyrics by Dawa Tenzin
Harold married Carnation when they were young and living on the Earthly Plane. Now a hundred years on they live on the Astral Plane, Carnation is a fully fledged angel but Harold is a lowly spirit guide still trying to earn his wings.
Harold is tasked with bringing a young couple, Erin and Adam together and Carnation has to reunite Erin with her estranged father.
Erin believes in destiny and consults with a tarot card reader who with the help of Harold forecasts certain happenings.
Things don't always go to plan, can Harold and Carnation succeed in their heavenly tasks or does random fate determine otherwise?
The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul
Book, Music and Lyrics by Christie Baugher
The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul is a two-person, one act full-length chamber musical about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, celebrated literary figures of the Jazz Age. Part memory play, part gin-soaked vaudeville, The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul is a fictionalized, hyper-theatrical imagining of an infamous marriage – an evening in which two tragic, larger-than-life icons of a bygone era finally get to tell their story.
fuzzy a New Musical
Jeff Talbott - Book & Lyrics
Will Van Dyke - Music & Lyricsfuzzy is the story of a furry little monster (named Fuzzy) who has come home to take care of their currently-ailing mother (named Muzzy). fuzzy is also the story of a storyteller we’ll call The Human, who has come to a theatre to tell the story of a furry little monster who . . .you get the gist. A teeny tiny musical (with puppets! lots and lots of puppets!) about great big things, fuzzy is mostly a story about stories themselves – why we tell them, how we tell them and what happens to a group of people listening when we do.
Fri Nov 7th - Sat 15th (EST)
Alumnae Theatre
70 Berkeley St, Toronto, ON M5A 2W6, Canada
Before RENT, there was tick, tick...BOOM! This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning composer of RENT, is the story of a composer and the sacrifices that he made to achieve his big break in theatre. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue and, yet, Jon is still waiting on tables and trying to write the great American musical. Set in 1990, this compelling story of personal discovery takes you on the playwright/composer's journey that led to a Broadway blockbuster.
SHOW INFO
Matinees @ 3PM
Evenings @ 8PM
Previews: Nov 7th (8PM), Nov 8th (3PM)
Opening: Nov 8th (8PM)
Approximately 90 mins with no intermission.
General Admission seating.
Content Warnings: adult themes, HIV/AIDS, mental health, drug and alcohol use.
Accessibility: Alumnae Theatre is fully wheelchair accessible. Please email us at info@bowtieproductions.ca to reserve a wheelchair seat.
Richard Winzeler - Composer & Co-Lyricist
Alan Edmunds - Librettist & Co-Lyricist
Perfect World began innocently as a research project to document and analyze the incredible writings of Barbara Follett. As a professional psychologist, Alan had been curious about precocious child writers for more than a decade. Children who write like adults are incredibly rare and Barbara’s prolific work certainly fit the bill. Being an avid musical theatre fan and performer, he instinctively envisioned Barbara’s compelling life story as a musical and the archives at Columbia University were a treasure trove of detail.
The initial book and lyrics evolved over a few years and two table readings were held. Richard joined the project as composer/co-lyricist, the score was created, and the journey to hone and refine this original musical theater piece began. The third table reading included demo recordings of all songs. The participants’ positive and inspiring feedback has led to more refinement and an upcoming staged reading.
They say you never write a musical, you simply rewrite it until it works.
The creative process continues.
Selections from The Path to Catherine
Music - Jan Roper
Lyrics and Book - Patricia Zehentmayr
The Path to Catherine is the true backstory of Sophie, the teenage girl who will become Catherine the Great, and the two women whose lives would ignite her extraordinary destiny.
Featuring music by Jan Roper and book and lyrics by Patricia Zehentmayr, the album features Tony Award nominee Caitlin Kinnunen (The Prom), Krystina Alabado (Mean Girls), Sharon Wilkins (Seussical), Sophia Oda (The Suite Life of Zack & Cody), Zakiya Young (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin) and Maiya Sykes (La La Land).