Saints and Sinners at the 2005 Stratford Festival!

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The theme for the 2005 Stratford Festival is "Saints and Sinners".

Wow that was fast! Just a couple of days ago in my post on the Theatre Building Chicago Mini-Musicals I mentioned that we were given the theme of "Saints and Sinners" for our 10-minute musicals! So then Stratford comes along and steals that idea! Have they no shame? Well anyways, it's a weird coincidence. As part of the 2005 season they are staging my favoriteSondheim musical, Into The Woods, which starts in previews this week.

Here's the article from Playbill:

The Stratford production of Into the Woods is directed by Peter Hinton. Musical direction is by Berthold Carrière. The set and costume designer is Dany Lyne, the lighting designer is Robert Thomson and the sound designer is Jim Neil. Movement is by Julia Sasso and fight direction is by John Stead.

Into the Woods features Marion Adler as Lucinda, Thom Allison as Cinderella's Prince/Wolf, Kyle Blair as Jack, Peter Donaldson as the Narrator/Mysterious Man, Bruce Dow as the Baker, Barbara Dunn-Prosser as Cinderella's Mother/Giant's Shadow, Barbara Fulton as Jack's Mother, Susan Gilmour as the Witch, Christina Gordon as Cinderella's Stepmother, Stephanie Graham as Snow White, Lawrence Haegert as the Steward, Martha Henry as the Voice of the Giant, Laird Mackintosh as Rapunzel's Prince, Mary Ellen Mahoney as the Baker's Wife, Jodi-Lynn McFadden as Florinda, Dayna Tekatch as Cinderella, Jennifer Waiser as Little Red Ridinghood, Amy Walsh as Rapunzel, Heather E. Wilson as Sleeping Beauty and Barrie Wood as Cinderella's Father/Granny. Understudies are Mark Huculak, Phillip Hughes (also dance and fight captain), Robin Hutton, Chad McFadden and Valerie Stanois.

Opening is set for June 3. For ticket information, call (800) 567-1600 or visitwww.stratfordfestival.ca.

I was also pleased to read that Jennifer Waiser is playing Little Red Ridinghood. I first saw Jennifer Waiser at an M. Rubinoff Productions Cityscapes Cabaret (which I hear will be starting up again soon: Yeah!) and I was really impressed.

She went on to play Little Sally in the Canstage production of Urinetown last summer and was tremendous.

Hello Dolly! is also a part of the line-up. Boy I haven't seen that on stage since I saw my sister in the chorus of an Earl Haig production back in the 1970s -- it's not easy to sing, walk and twirl a parasol at the same time! Should be a great season!

By Suzy Conn on April 20, 2005 9:52 PM | | Comments (0)


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