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Friday, December 16, 2011
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Broadway-bound plays test market in Toronto
CBC News/Arts & Entertainment – by The Canadian Press
Canadian theatre marquees have beamed with pre-Broadway buzz in recent months and there are more to come in 2012.
In July, Hugh Jackman wowed Toronto with brawny razzle dazzle before sashaying up a storm on the Great White Way, and in September Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross steamed the stage here with Private Lives before moving to Manhattan.
Meanwhile, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s hit 2011 production of Jesus Christ Superstar recently rose again in San Diego and will rock New York in March. William Shatner is reportedly headed to Broadway with a one-man show he brought to Canada in the fall. And Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — the Musical closed in Toronto in January before rolling its glittery bus through Broadway in March.
In 2012, shows that will play Toronto before Broadway include the world premiere of legendary producer-director Harold (Hal) Prince’s Prince of Broadway and the North American debut of the Beatles-themed play Backbeat.
And there may be more. Mirvish Productions, which is still crafting its 2012/13 subscription season, says several shows may also take a bite out of Toronto before the Big Apple next year.
Canadian-raised choreographer Sergio Trujillo told The Canadian Press earlier this year he wants to debut a Flashdance musical in Toronto in 2012 or ’13. And Christopher Plummer says he hopes to bring his new one-man show, A Word or Two, to Broadway after its summer run in Stratford.
Producers are known to do out-of-town tryouts for shows to test, tweak and perfect them before braving the big-league critics of Broadway. But why choose this region? Actors say our sophisticated eye denotes what will fly on Broadway.
Private Lives was a star vehicle that played Toronto before New York. (Mirvish)“Toronto is, in my mind, probably next to New York one of the most important theatre towns in North America,” Jackman said when he launched his launched his smash one-man show here.
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