City’s Theatre Aquarius will host the National Centre for New Musicals, with support of “Come From Away” producer Michael Rubinoff.
” has taken the world by storm, the Ontario municipality of the same name is also hoping to step into the musical spotlight.
, co-chair of the NCNM’s advisory committee and the originating producer of “Come From Away.” “We’ve seen Canadians succeed in music, in comedy, in animation. I’ve always believed Canadians could succeed in the genre of musical theatre. What they needed was two things: continuous support and the opportunity to fail and to learn from that failure how to succeed.”
“Focusing on new musicals was something that no other theatre was doing in Canada,” said Kelly Straughan, executive director of Theatre Aquarius. “There’s not really a place that artists can come to and say, ‘Can I have a 20-person cast?’ I think a very typical response is, ‘Can you get it down to 12? Could you do eight?’ We want to allow projects to be exactly what they need to be.”
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