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Blue Canoe’s 'Voulez-Zoom' brings the magic of Mamma Mia online

Written on November 20, 2020. Posted in Arts.

Blue Canoe Productions will debut its first virtual cabaret-style show in partnership with its sponsor, Queen’s Musical Theatre, on Saturday. Voulez-Zoom features hit ABBA songs from both Mamma Mia movies, all spliced together to showcase the voices of the performers. According to its Facebook event...

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee sends-up the awkward years

Written on January 12, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Presented by Blue Canoe Productions and held in The Grand Theatre until Jan 21, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, directed by Queen’s alum Maddy Scovil, is a funny, heartwarming love letter to prepubescence. The musical comedy tells the story of six kids on the verge of adolescence competing...

Awake at The Drowsy Chaperone

Written on January 18, 2013. Posted in Arts.

Hearing the words “I hate theatre,” isn’t something you’d expect during the opening minutes of a play. But when it happened, I couldn’t help but think I might be in for a bumpy evening of performance theatre. Nervously, I watched as the opening minutes of The Drowsy Chaperone continued. Laden with...

Transient theatre

Written on October 5, 2012. Posted in Arts.

It’s not every day I catch my religious studies professor behind a bookshelf at the library. Playing the part of a neurotic book hoarder, I was surprised to see my normally matter-of-fact, stern professor in a comedic play. Take a walk into the Kingston Public Library central branch and you might...

Making the right casting call

Written on September 25, 2012. Posted in Arts.

It takes more than singing and dancing to be in a musical. Kelsey Jacobson, director for Blue Canoe Productions’ The Drowsy Chaperone said she always looks for people with a great attitude. This is reflective in her audition process. “What I like to do is have people sing their song a second or third...

Back to childhood

Written on April 5, 2012. Posted in Arts.

It’s the familiar cast of Peanuts characters, except they’re all played by females. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, is the reimagined 1967 musical based on the characters from Charles Schulz’s comic strip, Peanuts. “There is a precedent in children’s theatre for women to play male roles like Mary...

Balancing Peanuts on a budget

Written on March 30, 2012. Posted in Arts.

The cast of Charlie Brown may be rug-rats, but for the production team it isn’t all Peanuts and play. “On the artistic side you get to play,” Brittany Allan, producer of Blue Canoe’s You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, said. “But what I’m sure a few people don’t know is that theatre is a business. And...

‘I was not expecting to get in’

Written on March 16, 2012. Posted in Arts.

It’s not easy channelling a six-year-old boy who’s obsessed with Beethoven. Try being an 18-year-old girl and doing it. First-year student Mariah Horner sings, dances and acts as the Peanuts character Schroeder in the upcoming production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The former HBO actor —...

Mature direction

Written on February 14, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Compared to managing her professors, directing her peers comes easily for student Alysha Bernstein, who’s directing the upcoming You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. In addition to working on Blue Canoe’s end-of-year production, Bernstein is also working on two other productions including John Lazarus’...

Sublimely seductive scene

Written on January 17, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Bustiers and burlesque dancers made for some obviously awkward moments for the grandparents sitting in the front row of Blue Canoe Productions’ Cabaret. While outlandish behaviour and scantily-clad cast members propelled the production, the musical is defined by a poignant story full of mesmerizing...

Blue Canoe treads new waters

Written on October 13, 2011. Posted in Arts.

Blue Canoe Productions never put on a play using expletives. like “fuck.” Then they picked Glengarry Glen Ross. Over half of the company’s previous 14 plays have been musicals, including Guys & Dolls. A Youtube trailer for Blue Canoe’s Glengarry Glen Ross ends with a warning. Third-year Queen’s...

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Blue Canoe’s 'Voulez-Zoom' brings the magic of Mamma Mia online

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee sends-up the awkward years

Awake at The Drowsy Chaperone

Transient theatre

Making the right casting call

Back to childhood

Balancing Peanuts on a budget

‘I was not expecting to get in’

Mature direction

Sublimely seductive scene

Blue Canoe treads new waters

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