Reading Time: 4 minutesThe History of Sound is a passionate love letter to American folk songs, and a lilting plea for their preservation and recognition for their cultural significance. Though brimming with powerful human emotions like love, nostalgia, and regret, the film gradually loses steam.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhether you’re craving a little learning or just a whole lot of feel-good fun, you can always count on musicals to wrap you up in its charm.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMovie 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe music of Godspell is a major selling point, with a mix of traditional musical theatre, vaudeville, gospel music, and 70s-style pop and rock.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJesus 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
