The eager cast and crew members of Unity for Action’s Four Years are hosting the club’s 10th annual musical. Despite being previously disrupted by COVID-19, everyone is confident about the charitable weekend shows.
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Movie fans will agree the musical did the cult-classic teen movie justice. The musical was funny in all the same places and held on to the same themes.
The music of Godspell is a major selling point, with a mix of traditional musical theatre, vaudeville, gospel music, and 70s-style pop and rock.
Jesus Christ Superstar holds a big place in theatre, as one of only two major Broadway musicals about Jesus Christ—the other being Godspell—and it’s definitely the bigger, more dramatic of the two.
This year, the club is tackling materialism, with all proceeds going to LGBT Youthline, a charity that offers counselling, advice, and an outreach hotline for LGBT youth.
The production was held March 12–13 at Academic Hall, with all proceeds from the tickets, food sales, and their silent auction going to Operation Come Home, an Ottawa charity that supports over 1,200 homeless and street-associated youth a year.
A Chorus Line, one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history, will run at Ottawa’s Centrepointe Theatre March 4–13. The production, put on by the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society, features a cast and directing team that is nearly half-comprised of University of Ottawa students and alumni.
The University of Ottawa’s Musical Theatre Society (UOMTS) will be performing the Broadway production, Hands on a Hardbody on Jan. 29. And no, it has nothing to do with the type of hard body you’re thinking of.
