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The Toronto Youth
Theatre Proudly Presents:
LUCKY
STIFF
by
Lynn Ahrens
Stephen Flaherty
Director: Jeremy
Hutton
Musical Director: Kieren MacMillan
Choreographer: Ashleigh Powell
Set/Costume/Pops Designer: Scott Penner
Lighting Designer: Josh Hind
Sound Designer: Michael Laird
Makeup Designer: Angela McQueen
Stage Manager: A.J. Laflamme
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen
Flaherty, the authors of “Once On This Island,”
“My Favorite Year,” “Ragtime”
and the animated film “Anastasia” exploded
on the musical theatre scene with this zany, offbeat,
and very funny murder mystery farce about an unassuming
English shoe salesman forced to take the corpse of his
recently-murdered Atlantic City croupier uncle on a week-long
vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed, Harry Witherspoon
stands to inherit $6,000,000. If not, the money goes to
the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn.__The proceedings are
sheer lunacy as Harry comes up against his uncle’s
insanely jealous and legally blind mistress, her much
put-upon optometrist brother and Annabel Glick, a zealous
representative from the Universal Dog Home determined
to see Harry’s inheritance “go to the dogs.”
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THE
TYT JUNIOR PRESENTS
FAIRYTALE
ENDING
Book,
Music and Lyrics by
Jeremy Hutton and Kieren MacMillan
An origianl musical by
the crazy duo that brought the most unusual Musical
Called Robin Hood to the Toronto Youth Theatre's
stage. A Police line-up is stacked with the most notorious
fairytale villains. A little girl interogates them to
find out why all of her favorite fairytales have new tragic
endings. The three blind mice can see the truth - will
she believe them? Fairytale Ending is an hilarious
look into the storybook world through the eyes of a little
girl who is growing up!
Location
The Young Centre for the Performing Arts,
Distillery Historic District
55 Mill St. Building 49
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THE TYT SENIOR PRODUCTION
OF
A new workshop production
written by
Michael Wheeler and the TYT Senior Cast
Directed by Michael
Wheeler
9
teens embark on a trip through Temagami, led by their
sarcastic and literary minded counsellor, Jake. As the
group gets to know one another through the perils of camping
and travelling through Northern Ontario, rivalries, friendships
and crushes develop. Meanwhile, Jake is making secret
phone calls with his vacationing girlfriend. Do these
relate to the tales of tortured and lonely superheroes
he tells to the campers at night? Will the teens be able
to work together and survive their gruelling trip? Will
they learn anything about themselves?
The answers to these questions are all found within this
exciting, completely original collaborative work, wholly
created and written by its TYT cast under the supervision
of director Michael Wheeler.
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THE TYT CREATIVE
ENSEMBLE
Workshop Production of
A New Musical Comedy
by Reza Jacobs and the TYT Creative Ensemble
Book, Music and Lyrics
by Reza Jacobs
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The
Toronto Youth Theatre Proudly Presents:
A Musical Called
ROBIN
HOOD
Book By Jeremy Hutton,
Jesse Maclean, Kevin MacPherson, Kate Smith & William
Foley
Music and Lyrics by Jeremy Hutton & Kieren MacMillan
Based on the Family Show created by Shakepseare
By The Sea
Original Story, Book,
Music and Lyrics by
Jeremy Hutton, Kevin MacPherson, William Foley, Kate Smith,
Jesse Maclean and the Shakespeare by the Sea Company
Director - Jeremy Hutton
Music Director - Kieren MacMillan
Choreographer - Ashleigh Powell
Lighting Designer - Joshua Hind
Set and Costume Design - Scott Penner
Stage Manager - Allison Brown
Producer - Margaret Evans
Technical Director - Josh Koffman
SYNOPSIS
It
is 12th century England. King Richard has been captured
and the country is suffering under the tyrannical rule
of his idiot brother Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Robin of Locksley, a dashing and clever archer, returns
from the crusades to find that Prince John has appropriated
his castle, and taxed the peasantry into poverty. Robin
goes to Sherwood Forest where he joins a band of merry
outlaws, led by Willow Scarlet. He convinces the merry
men to take the money they steal from the rich and…
Well, you know the rest. At first familiar, our story
takes wild turns down a path of chaos and comedy. Goons,
gunpowder dogs, and chipmunk ballerinas converge in a
world where logic and reason are undermined by ludicrously
evil plots. Full of deception, love, betrayal and kittens,
Robin Hood is a riotous romp through the musical world
of Sherwood Forest.
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The Toronto Youth
Theatre Proudly Presents
The TYT Spring 2007 Production of:
CHARLIE
AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
CHARLIE
AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
TYT Junior
Ages 8 -12
SYNOPSIS
(Courtesy of Penguin Books
Ltd.)
'Greetings to you, the
lucky finder of this Gold Ticket, from Mr Willy Wonka!
I shake you warmly by the hand! Tremendous things are
in store for you!'
The Golden Ticket allows Charlie to fulfil his dearest
wish, to have a specially conducted tour of the mysterious
chocolate factory, and who wouldn't want to wander in
a place which made Whipple-scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight
or Cavity-filling Caramels or Strawberry-juice Water Pistols
or Lickable Wallpaper for nurseries? But there are dangers
in store as well, especially for such unlovable characters
as Veruca Salt, who disappears down the Great Rubbish
Chute, or Augustus Gloop, who is swept away in a river
of hot melted chocolate, or Violet Beauregarde who . .
. but it's all here in this famous story, waiting 'to
entrance, delight, intrigue, astonish and perplex you
beyond measure'.
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The Toronto Youth
Theatre Proudly Presents
The TYT Spring 2007 Production of:
CITY
OF ANGELS
Ages 13 - 19
Book - Larry Gelbart
Music - Cy Coleman
Lyrics - David Zippel
City of Angels was
first Performed in 1989 and was a clean-sweep winner
of every broadway award for Best Musical. It ran for 879
performances at the Viginia Theatre
6 Tony Awards
- including Best Musical, Book, and Score
9 Drama Desk Awards
- including Best Musical, Book and Score
3 Outer Critics Circle Awards
- including Best Musical
New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Musical
"I had to keep reminding
myself that these were kids"
"unbelievably - I
didn't know that young performers could accomplish something
this complex"
"Every time I see
it, I notice something new"
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The TYT presents
the Fall 2006 Production of
Cabaret
Book - Joe Masteroff
Music - John Kander
Lyrics - Fred Ebb
Based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood
Director - Mark Wilson
Music Director - Kieren MacMillan
Choreographer - Stephanie Ramphos
Set in the tumultuous
city of Berlin during the Nazi rise to power, the musical
tells the story of two couples searching for happiness
in a troubled world.
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The Toronto Youth
Theatre 2006 Summer Program Proudly Presents
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
William Shakepseare's timeless
comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream recieve a stylized
japanese treatment from TYT's Co-Artistic Director, Jeremy
Hutton. Filled with Taiko Drumming, Kabuki an No theatre
influences, stunning Edo period costumes and a set of
story telling shadows, the TYT's first summer production
was a feast for the eyes and ears.
Hear what some of our audiences
had to say!
"It was better than
a lot of Shakespeare I've seen at Stratford".
"The funniest Midsummer's
I have ever seen!"
"I've seen this show
more times than I can count and this was, by far, the
best".
"I have seen Jeremy's
productions of Shakespeare with professional actors and
his cast of teens was just as great!"
"Fast paced, funny
and entirely engaging."
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The Toronto Youth
Theatre Proudly Presents
The Spring 2006 Production of:
The hilarious broadway
hit, Urinetown The Musical, came to the Distillery
this May!
Winner of three Tony awards,
this surprise hit has shocked audiences with an irreverence
towards musical theatre rarely seen in a musical theatre
production. Set in a "Gotham-like" city with
a water shortage so severe that people must pay a hefty
fee to use toilets, Urinetown tells the tale of a young
toilet official who starts a Pee-For-Free revolution.
No musical is safe within the unwavering satire of Urinetown
as it breaks down every convention of the most mockable
form of theatre. This is two hours of the most entertaining
theatre you are ever likely to see!
The TYT proudly presents
The fall 2005 production of:
November
2005
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus, Judas, Magdeline, All of You - You Rocked!
The TYT's 2nd production - Jesus Christ Superstar - showed off
the remarkable depths of Toronto's talent youth. The show's
incredible set and inspired lighting design gave each scene
a grand professionalism. Just goes to show: put young
people in a professional theatre setting,
and they'll blow you away.
Congratulations to everyone who was involved!
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The TYT proudly Presents
Our first production of:
April 2005
Richard Obrien's The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Delightfully Gruesome Show!
The TYT's production of Richard O'Brien's
The Rocky Horror Show was such a huge success.
The inaugural cast and crew of the TYT put on
5 performances to sold out audiences!
“It was fabulous!! It was amazing!!
It was awesome!! I'll run out of adjectives
before I run out of praise.”
-- Joan Nettle
To see photos from the show as well as
behind-the-scenes photography, click here.
Above: The Rocky Horror Show Chorus
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