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Toronto, Ontario…Angelwalk Theatre, the producers of the
Dora-nominated Toronto premiere of Altar Boyz and the critically
acclaimed hilarious musical [title of show], announced today the
cast and creative team for its spring production of Jason Robert
Brown’s Songs for a New World. The company will be producing the
Tony Award nominated show at the Toronto Centre for the Arts
starting March 30 and running until Aril 23, 2011. Tickets are
on sale now and can be purchased online at
www.angelwalk.ca, through The Toronto Centre for the Arts
box office at 5040 Yonge Street or by phone at 416-872-1111.
Stepping into the iconic roles are Erica Peck (We Will Rock You
and The Boys in the Photograph, Mirvish Productions; The Wedding
Singer, Stage West) as Woman 1, Denise Oucharek (Sound of Music
and Mamma Mia!, Mirvish Productions; The Anna Russell Story,
Theatre Aquarius) as Woman 2, Stewart Adam McKensey (Hairspray
and The Producers, Mirvish Productions; My One and Only,
Stratford Festival) as Man 1 and Justin Bott ([title of show],
Angelwalk Theatre; Joseph and The Wedding Singer, Stage West) as
Man 2.
Leading this stellar cast is Director Andrew Lamb, who is making
his Angelwalk Theatre debut. The Artistic Director of Theatre
Awakening and the Director of Education and Outreach at Tarragon
Theatre, Andrew’s directorial credits include My Mother’s
Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish/Fringe Festival); In
Darfur (SummerWorks); The Drawer Boy, The Tempest, A Midsummer
Night's Dream (Georgian Theatre Festival); Desperate Housepets
(Montreal and Toronto Fringe Festivals); After Juliet (Lorraine
Kimsa Theatre for Young People); Just So Stories, The Balloon
Tree (KidsVenue - Toronto Fringe Festival); WASPS (Hart House
Theatre / U of T); and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
(Heritage Theatre).
[title of show]’s musical director Anthony Bastianon returns to
Angelwalk Theatre for Songs for a New World. Anthony has been
the resident musical director at Stage West for 10 years where
he has performed in 35 productions including: The Wedding
Singer, The Producers, and The Full Monty. Other credits
include: Myths and Hymns (Talk Is Free Theatre); Seussical
(Theatre Aquarius); Footloose (Stage West Calgary); You’ll Get
Used To It (Stirling Festival); Man Of La Mancha and Fiddler On
The Roof (Port Hope Festival); Joseph (Drayton Entertainment).
Also an accomplished composer, Bastianon’s original compositions
include: Nursery School Musical (2008 Toronto Fringe and U.S.
premiere in Houston 2009), Decameron (workshops in Toronto &
Sheridan College), Creation (touring children’s show), and
incidental music for numerous productions such as Lysistrata,
The Hypochondriac and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Hailed “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated
songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” by the Philadelphia
Inquirer, Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World is his
first musical and one of his most popular and most performed
musical theatre works. Fans of Jason Robert Brown will recognize
popular songs, such as Stars and the Moon, I’m Not Afraid of
Anything, Surabaya-Santa, King of the World, and Hear My Song.
Featuring a brilliant score of gospel-driven ballads, funky R&B
and heart wrenching love songs; Songs For A New World is filled
with wit, intelligence and enthusiasm for life’s crazy
possibilities.
Angelwalk Theatre is a relatively new not-for-profit
professional theatre company. A member of the Toronto Alliance
for the Performing Arts, Angelwalk Theatre is professional
theatre company dedicated to producing artistically exciting
theatrical works, with a special focus on musical theatre. The
company presents two shows annually as a resident company in the
Studio Theatre at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, and is
committed to providing opportunities for both emerging and
established Canadian theatre professionals.
In its inaugural season, Angelwalk Theatre presented the Toronto
premiere of Altar Boyz (September 23, 2009 until October 11,
2009; extended to October 18, 2009 due to popular demand) and
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years (May 7-23, 2010). Both
productions were well received, with Altar Boyz being nominated
for 3 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including Outstanding Production
of a Musical. Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star wrote that
their production of Altar Boyz was “worthy of beatification, if
not outright canonization,” while Mark Andrew Lawrence of Inside
Toronto wrote that The Last Five Years was “the best production
of The Last Five Years that I have ever seen.”
SHOW DETAILS
Runs:
March 30, 2011 – April 23, 2011
Opening:
April 1, 2011
Schedule:
Wed-Sat @ 8 p.m.; Sat-Sun @ 2 p.m.
Tickets:
$25 to $45
Discounted Tickets:
Under 30 with valid I.D. – $25 (groups of 10 or more is $22)
Groups of 10 or more – $32-$38
Location:
Toronto Centre for the Arts – Studio Theatre
5040 Yonge Street
Box Office:
By phone: 416-872-1111
Online:
www.angelwalk.ca
In person: Box Office, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge
Street
Website:
www.angelwalk.ca
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Angelwalk Theatre: Songs for a New World
