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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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’...
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 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...