Cast Members of KWMP’s Hairspray Visit Coral FM

 

The cast from KWMP's Hairspray
The cast from KWMP’s Hairspray

Kitchener • Centre in the Square • November 2012

Director: David Atkins
Music Director: Michael Brown
Choreographer: Janet Kubik

itchener Waterloo Musical Productionswas founded in 1948 as the Twin City Operatic Society. The early productions were performed in the auditorium at The Church of the Good Shepherd. As the performances grew and a larger space was needed, the stages at KCI and WCI fit the bill. In 1968, the group found a permanent home for rehearsing, set building and storage at its current location on Shaftsbury Drive and became Kitchener Waterloo Musical Productions.

Since then the group has been performing on stages around the Region.The highlight of each year is hitting the stage at Kitchener’s 2,200-seat, state-of-the-art theatre – the Centre in the Square. While many people in the region enjoy the shows presented at the theatre, KWMP is the only non-professional theatre company that provides performers the opportunity to “strut their stuff” on this glorious stage year after year. Behind the scenes, our Board of Directors – made up of dedicated multi-talented volunteers – is committed to our organization and the excellent productions that we give our community.

 

I had lots of fun chatting with Hairspray cast members Amber, Michela, and Reuben from the show. Brava you three.

 

Kive our community.

 

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO DRAMA DEPARTMENT PRESENTS Macbeth by William Shakespeare

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR LISTINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
Media Contact: Janelle Rainville
Phone: 519-888-4567 xt 31154
Fax: 519-725-0651
Email: jrainvil@uwaterloo.ca
http://dramaandspeechcommunication.uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO DRAMA DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lee Wilson
Run: November 14-17, 8:00 p.m.

Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest play and most popular tragedy. Shakespeare’s approach to a swifter kind of action should leave the audience no time to think. Its intensity is most vividly realized in the play’s language and through its repeated words and images. Shakespeare is writing about corrupted power, violence, and the relationship between the dark and light forces. He evokes this through one of his greatest creations – the character of Macbeth – a difficult but willing commitment to darkness. He is both our hero and villain as evoked in the line “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”.
UWaterloo’s production of Macbeth explores our fascination with violent culture. Director, Lee Wilson, will examine the Scottish ballads and their fascination with the supernatural world and its rituals, that through spells, prayer, dance, music, and sacrifice are constantly being evoked in Shakespeare’s play.
Influenced by recent conflicts around the globe, faculty members Bill Chesney (set/props) and Gill Lesperance (sound) along with Toronto designers, Nina Okens (costumes) & Arun Srinivasan (lighting) will be using the popularity of such shows as Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy, to give this production a 17th-century feel with a strong modern resonance.
Join us, as through these elements, we help lift Shakespeare’s words and images, to ignite your imagination into his fascinating take on this Scottish King.
Location
University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo
Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building

Tickets
$17 General
$13 Students & Seniors
Box Office: 519.888.4908

Visit http://dramaandspeechcommunication.uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm
for upcoming productions
Follow us on Twitter @UWDramaDept
Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UWDramaDept

Free Diabetes Expo

Sat. Nov. 17th; 8:30am-12pm
at St.Mary’s High School;1500 Block line Rd, Kitchener.

Learn about diabetes & prevention. Cooking Demo with Chef D & Dietitian Cristina Fernandes; Tips on Motivation & Lifestyle Change from Psychologist Shannon Currie; Exhitor Tradeshow & MORE!

Call the Canadian Diabetes Association (519) 742-1481 x 221 to pre-register or for more info.

Director Lee Wilson and actor Andreea Hluscu from UW Drama’s Macbeth

http://dramaandspeechcommunication.uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO DRAMA DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lee Wilson
Run: November 14-17, 8:00 p.m.

Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest play and most popular tragedy. Shakespeare’s approach to a swifter kind of action should leave the audience no time to think. Its intensity is most vividly realized in the play’s language and through its repeated words and images. Shakespeare is writing about corrupted power, violence, and the relationship between the dark and light forces. He evokes this through one of his greatest creations – the character of Macbeth – a difficult but willing commitment to darkness. He is both our hero and villain as evoked in the line “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”.
UWaterloo’s production of Macbeth explores our fascination with violent culture. Director, Lee Wilson, will examine the Scottish ballads and their fascination with the supernatural world and its rituals, that through spells, prayer, dance, music, and sacrifice are constantly being evoked in Shakespeare’s play.
Influenced by recent conflicts around the globe, faculty members Bill Chesney (set/props) and Gill Lesperance (sound) along with Toronto designers, Nina Okens (costumes) & Arun Srinivasan (lighting) will be using the popularity of such shows as Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy, to give this production a 17th-century feel with a strong modern resonance.
Join us, as through these elements, we help lift Shakespeare’s words and images, to ignite your imagination into his fascinating take on this Scottish King.
Location
University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo
Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building

Tickets
$17 General
$13 Students & Seniors
Box Office: 519.888.4908

Visit http://dramaandspeechcommunication.uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm
for upcoming productions
Follow us on Twitter @UWDramaDept
Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UWDramaDept

All Hail! – Coral FM

Jesse Lebourdais (BC) + other folk / punk / rock acts!

Come enjoy some folk and punk rock at Kaufman Arts Studio in Kitchener!

FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/511786665511632/

Jesse LeBourdais – Folk Punk from Vancouver
http://jesselebourdais.bandcamp.com/

The Odessa Steps – KW Post Punk/New Wave
http://theodessasteps.bandcamp.com/

Indictable Mischief – Hardcore Oi! Punks from Peterborough
http://indictablemischief.bandcamp.com/

Jesse Robertson – Kitchener Folk Punk; Avid Cyclist

Jon Creeden – Folk Punk with plenty of Beard, from Ottawa/Stratford/London/Everywhere
http://joncreeden.com/album/beards

Wood – Local powerpop goofs, generally nice people otherwise
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wood/230109553681988?sk=app_2405167945

Doors @ 6:30PM
Bands @ 7 Pm SHARP!
$5-$10 $liding $cale or Pay What You Can. Nobody turned away!
All Ages!
No drugs or booze please!
Buy some food! Get some books and music from some local distros!

Kaufman Arts Studio
132 Queen St S Kitchener <--near downtown bus station

Growing in the Arts presents Canadian Playwright Vern Thiessen’s Vimy.

Gita and Chris Ashley from Growing in the Arts join me to speak about their latest production of Vimy continuing at The Registry Theatre this weekend Sat Nov 10 at 2 pm and 7 pm, and Sunday Nov 11 at 2 pm and 7 pm. Sunday’s performances with have a commemorative presentation to observe Remembrance Day.

“I want audiences to be “entertained” That is, I want them to laugh and cry and think. In this case, I hope they come out thinking about how we remember, what we remember, and WHY.”
– Vern Theissen.
For more info about Vimy – go to http://www.growinginthearts.com/vimy.html
I played Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again for my Grandfather Royal Engineer Charles Seldon, who was at Vimy Ridge when the battle was lost in 1916 and then again when victory was declared on April 12 1917 – Coral

Vancouver’s Peace at Not Dead Yet Festival in Toronto as part of Eastern Tour.

If you are in Toronto this weekend – The Not Dead Yet Festival is taking place at several very cool bars including the Magpie on Dundas. Vancouver’s Peace are playing the Festival as part of their current North American tour which includes New York Montreal,and Ottawa. I like this band because they hearken back to the great sounds of Joy Division, and The Fall.
For more info on Not Dead Yet Festival – go to http://notdeadyettoronto.tumblr.com/NDY2012
For more on Peace – http://peacevancouver.bandcamp.com/ and check out their reviews in Spin Magazine and Exclaim.
and check this event at Facebook as well.
https://www.facebook.com/events/290861247695568/
I am going down to chat with the band. – Cheers Coral FM

So Old It’s New show set list, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012

Set list format: Song, band, album

1. All Down the Line (live), The Rolling Stones, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones (video from DVD/YouTube)
2. Street Jesus, Aerosmith, Music From Another Dimension
3. Green Eyed Lady, Sugarloaf, Sugarloaf
4. Freedom Fighter, Aerosmith, Music From Another Dimension
5. Drifter, Deep Purple, Come Taste the Band
6. Walking In The Rain, Flash and the Pan, Flash and the Pan
7. Lights in the Night, Flash and the Pan, Lights in the Night
8. I’m the Slime, Frank Zappa, Over-Nite Sensation
9. (Don’t Need) Religion, Motorhead, Iron Fist
10. Cleveland Rocks, Ian Hunter, You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic
11. Somebody Else Might, Ron Wood, Slide on This
12. Too Drunk to Fuck, Dead Kennedys, Single/Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death compilation
13. Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Lost In the Ozone
14. Straight To Hell, The Clash, Combat Rock
15. Wait, The Beatles, Rubber Soul
16. The Worst, The Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge
17. King of Dreams, Deep Purple, Slaves and Masters
18. Ramada Inn, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Psychedelic Pill

So Old It’s New set list, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012

Song, band, album:

1. Into the Void, Black Sabbath, Master of Reality
2. Bastard, Ian Hunter, You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic
3. Victim of Changes (live), Judas Priest, Unleashed in the East
4. Journey to the Center of the Mind, The Amboy Dukes, Journey to the Center of the Mind
5. Stranglehold, Ted Nugent, Ted Nugent
6. Balls to the Wall, Accept, Balls to the Wall
7. Our World Our Times, Alannah Myles, Rockinghorse
8. Piece of My Heart, Melissa Etheridge, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled
9. Everybody’s Breaking Up, Alannah Myles, A-lan-nah
10. Tweeter and the Monkey Man, Headstones, Picture of Health
11. Cut, Headstones, Picture of Health
12. Jesus Sings the Blues, Junkhouse, Strays
13. Weight On Me Mama, Junkhouse, Strays
14. Gimme the Love, Junkhouse, Strays
15. Roll Um Easy, Little Feat, Dixie Chicken
16. Pass Away, Chuck Berry, Rockit
17. The Lantern, The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request
18. Boogie On, Ten Years After, Alvin Lee and Company

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