Once On This Island is directed by Nigel Shawn Williams (Co-Artistic Director Factory Theatre, Dora Award nominee Brothel #9), music directed by Lily Ling (Soulpepper’s The Fantasticks; Angelwalk’s I Love You, Because) and choreographed by Marc Kimelman (Acting Up Stage’s A New Brain, Ross Petty’s The Little Mermaid).
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Date: January 21st, 2014 to February 9th, 2014
Location: Daniels Spectrum, Ada Slaight Hall, 585 Dundas Street East
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Starring are: Charles Azulay (CATS; National Tour Les Miserables), Jewelle Blackman (Acting Up Stage’s Caroline or Change; Stratford’s Tommy) , Arlene Duncan (Dora award winner Acting Up Stage’s Caroline, or Change; Little Mosque on the Prairie), Daren A. Herbert (Dora award nominee Acting Up Stage’s Parade; Dancap’s The Toxic Avenger), Alana Hibbert (Acting Up Stage’s Caroline, or Change; Shaw’s Ragtime), Kaya Joubert Johnson (Acting Up Stage’s Caroline, or Change), Nicola Lawrence (Shaw’s Ragtime), Tom Pickett (Showboat, Arts Club’s Dreamgirls), Sabryn Rock (Dora award nominee Acting Up Stage’s Caroline, or Change, Stratford’s The Three Musketeers), Chris Sams (Drayton’s The Songs of Sinatra) and Jivaro Smith (The Lion King, Shaw’s Ragtime).
Set design is by Michael Gianfrancesco (Acting Up Stage’s Caroline, or Change; Stratford’s Taking Shakespeare), lighting design by Bonnie Beecher (Soulpepper’s Parfumerie, Awake and Sing), costume design by Alex Amini (Acting Up Stage’s Caroline, or Change and The Light in the Piazza) and sound design by Michael Laird (YPT’s Cinderella, Mirvish’s God of Carnage).
Once On This Island begins on January 21, 2014 and runs through February 9 at the Daniels Spectrum, Ada Slaight Hall. Previews are on January 21, 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. Opening is on January 24 at 8 p.m. Performances run Tuesday to Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
About the Company
Since 2004, Acting Up Stage Company (Mitchell Marcus, Artistic Director) has brought stellar Canadian casts to productions of contemporary and provocative musicals. The company has been heralded with rave reviews, sold-out performances,32 Dora Award nominations, 6 Dora Awards and 8 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards for its productions, including Falsettos, Caroline, or Change, Do You Want What I Have.
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