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Our 2010 Season
The 2010 season is B2B’s 11th year in Oceanside – our first season was in 2000 with the bold choice of Company by Stephen Sondheim as the feature production. Over the past ten years, Bard to Broadway has consistently provided high-quality productions to the Oceanside community and its visitors and continues to be a stepping-stone to performers and production crew keen to be involved in the theatre and entertainment business.
The 2010 season has three sensational productions beginning on July 2, 2010 and running through to September 4, 2010 in the Chrysler Theatre in the Parksville Community & Conference Centre, 132 Jensen Avenue East, Parksville, B.C. Our evening shows start at 8:00 pm and Sunday matinees start at 2:00pm
Here’s a synopsis of our 2010 productions, just to wet your appetite:
Gypsy
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Book by Arthur Laurents Produced by Special Arrangement with Tams-Witmark. Original Production by David Merrick and Leland Hayward. |
Synopsis
GYPSY is based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist of the 1930s and 40s. The musical focuses more on her mother Rose, however, and her dreams and struggles while raising her two young daughters, June and Louise, to perform onstage during the 1920s. It casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born.
Director’s Remarks
(Abridged from a longer note by Jackie Maxwell, Artistic Director, Shaw Festival) What mother doesn’t
want “the best” for her daughters? It’s a time when women’s options are few, and North America is
heading into the Great Depression. “Momma” Rose bamboozles, charms, scams, and bullies, dragging
June, Louise, and everyone else along in her wake – from city to town, from tacky vaudeville
houses to seedy hotels, from stage-door alleys to a desert campsite, and “finally” to the rhinestones-and-sequins of Burlesque. GYPSY is a story filled with energy and music, driven by grit and determination,
and filled with love, even of the most crazy and misguided kind.
Directed by Eileen Butts
We gratefully acknowledge our Show Sponsors
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We gratefully acknowledge our Orchestra Sponsor
Maggie's Getting Married
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Maggie’s Getting Married was originally produced
at Theatre On the Grand, in Fergus, Ontario, in
2000. Maggie’s Getting Married is staged by arrangement Pam Winter, Gary Goddard Agency, |
Penned by comic genius Norm Foster! In this touching romantic comedy, you'll join the Duncan family as they prepare for the wedding of their daughter. It is the night before the big day, and Maggie's older sister discovers that she knows the groom a little better than Maggie would like her to.
Directed by Don Harper
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The Wild Guys
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Written by Andrew Wreggitt and Rebecca Shaw A Literary Agency, 454 West |
Synopsis
Four guys, with nothing in common except their gender! Randall, Andy and Robin – all
modern men for whom “hunting and gathering” means looking in the produce section of
the grocery store – head out for a “soul exploring” weekend in the woods, “guided” by
Stewart. Of course they get lost, and of course they confront their own fears and emotions,
and of course there’s a virtually endless stream of jokes. Without food or shelter, fearful of
being stalked by wild beasts, they start to come to terms with their blind spots, and their
bald spots. They are middle-aged men who are confused about where life has taken them.
They need some answers…any answers.
Directed by Amber Lochead
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