On Stage At Meaford Hall
Posted by John Malloy on 08/09/2009
Random Acts of Love – live theatre
August 15, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
Victoria Daniels has been written out of her starring role in her daytime drama because she has “aged” She decides to produce and star in a two character evening of Shakespeare’s love scenes called The Seven Ages of Love. Russell Thomas, once an actor and now a carpenter crashes the audition unaware Victoria is involved. They worked together fifteen years ago on A Streetcar Named Desire and had an intense affair. The fireworks start immediately as these two actors try to ignore the feelings they have for one another while they rehearse the love scenes in The Seven Age of Love. In true romantic comedy style, they come through the trials and find themselves with a second chance.
Presented by Meaford Hall
Saturday August 15 @ 8pm
Tickets $30 regular $5 eyeGo
**NEW!! Enjoy all three of our theatrical performances this summer for the special price of $75! These performaces include Random Acts of Love; Trudeau Stories and the Second City Comedy.
Please call the Box Office if you are interested! Note: this promotion is not available online.
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
The Trudeau Stories ~Live Theatre
August 20, 2009
In 1985, while she was a student at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Brooke Johnson became friends with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It had been a year and a half since he’d stepped down as Prime Minister, and now he was walking to work, putting cereal bowls on cartoon placemats, washing dishes and making peanut-butter on toast. He was no longer doing pirouettes behind the Queen but sometimes he was hanging around with Brooke, sliding down ice-covered staircases on Mount Royal.
Through reminiscences, journal entries and correspondence, Brooke brings to life the story of a remarkable friendship. This private insight into the man and the times as seen through the eyes of a passionate artist is not to be missed.
At once vital and charming; poignant and very funny, Trudeau Stories is about friendship and loss…and about who the heck we think we are.
“an unexpectedly engaging memoir – like turning the pages of a live snapshot album & a maximum of craft but a minimum of artifice. It’s delightful” – National Post
Presented by Meaford Hall
Tickets $30 regular $5eyeGo
**NEW!! Enjoy all three of our theatrical performances this summer for a special price! These performaces include Random Acts of Love; Trudeau Stories and the Second City Comedy. Regularly $88 for three tickets now comes to only $75.
Please call the Box Office if you are interested! Note: this promotion is not available online.
Location: Meaford Hall
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.trudeaustories.com
The Emperor’s New Clothes
August 20, 2009
Times:1:00pm – 2:00pm
In this Shrimp Magnet version of the favourite fairy tale, things are (surprise, surprise) a little different. There’s more to the story than you thought. The Emperor’s not actually all that vain. He’s really just a simple guy who wants more than anything to spend his days out fishing. His advisor is the one who is the fashion victim and she starts the whole Royal Robe Search hullabaloo. When the fancy designer Jean-Biff Gaultier swaggers onto the scene, the only one who can see through his special cloth is Robin, the castle’s potato scrubber. But the grown-ups won’t listen to her. Once again, you’re needed to save the day and save the Emperor from seriously embarrassing himself…
$10kids $12adults $5eyeGo
Presented by Meaford Hall
Location: Meaford Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.shrimpmagnet.com
Panic! Everybody’s Doing It! – Second City Comedy
August 22, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
The environment is destroyed! Your country is at war! Your house is worth nothing! Your boyfriend isn’t returning your calls! With bad news stories all around it’s hard not to push the panic button. The Second City is here to put it all in perspective.
Panic! Everybody’s Doing It! is a sketch comedy revue in the Second City style – fast-paced, topical, theatrical and professional. The show features multiple Canadian Comedy Award-winning actors performing the best scenes and songs from The Second City’s history, as well as original satire ripped from today’s headlines.
Tickets $28 $5eyeGo
Presented by Meaford Hall
**NEW!! Enjoy all three of our theatrical performances this summer for a special price! These performaces include Random Acts of Love; Trudeau Stories and the Second City Comedy. Regularly $88 for three tickets now comes to only $75.
Please call the Box Office if you are interested! Note: this promotion is not available online.
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.secondcity.com
Rita Chiarelli
September 12, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
“Rita Chiarelli& a voice that can growl at her demons or soar with the angels, a gift for lyric, an ear for melody and the heart to combine them.” She is an accomplished singer-songwriter, a gifted vocalist and a skilled musician. Add to that a warm persona and a fine sense of humour and you have all the ingredients for an outstanding performer.
Dubbed the goddess of Canadian blues by CBC’s Shelagh Rogers, Chiarelli’s voice – that three octave range garners – all the attention! But Rita’s songwriting is also outstanding; three of her four JUNO nominations have been for albums consisting largely of original material.
Tickets $32 $5eyeGo
Presented by Meaford Hall
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.ritachiarelli.ca
George Canyon
September 20, 2009
Times:7:30pm – 10:00pm
You can go ahead and just dance to the music of George Canyon, if that’s what you want. He’s a country neo-traditionalist par excellence, producing music situated somewhere between the bright and studio-tooled Nashville ideal and something a little older, with a voice that can soar with emotion or linger in a heavy bottom-end that feels like a kick in the chest from a faith healer. It’s instant.
Tickets $48.50
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.georgecanyon.com/
Justin Hines – acoustic/folk/roots
September 24, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
In talking about his music, singer-songwriter Justin Hines says, “Honestly, I don’t remember wanting to do anything else, period.” That sense of it being something as essential as breathing emanates from every track on his soul-searching debut album, Sides. Listening to it is an experience akin to that mystical phenomenon of everyday life when you meet someone new but, somehow, feel as if you’ve known them forever. And, while there’s a familiarity, a timelessness to Justin’s music, it’s also marked by a lean, contemporary sound and distinctly postmodern sensibility as direct and authentic as the ideas and emotions the Toronto native expresses with his literate song craft.
“Sides…a potent combination of emotionally eloquent lyrics and strong, accessible melodies.” -The Globe & Mail
Showtime 8pm Tickets $29.50
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.justinhines.com/
Rotary International Wine & Food Tasting Gala
September 26, 2009
Rotary returns to Meaford Hall for a 3rd year of food and wine tasting. Silent Auction, wine representatives and food pairings. An exciting and palate pleasing evening of wine and food! Tickets are just $70 with a $40 charitable tax receipt. Don’t miss this wonderful fundraising event!
Location: The Opera House & Galleries
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.meafordrotary.ca
Wingfield’s Progress – live theatre
October 1, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
In his second season on the farm Walt faces a new challenge. The spectre of urban development looms on the Seventh Concession and Walt sounds the alarm. Can he mobilize the neighbourhood to save the rustic splendor of Larkspur? Does Larkspur want to be saved? Wingfield’s Progress is the story of Walt’s passionate response to a threat only he perceives. Larkspur and its residents are back at their hilarious best in this sequel to Letter From Wingfield Farm.
“A riveting and immaculately constructed little play, performed to perfection… Beattie electrifies the stage.” The Victoria Times Colonist
Presented by Meaford Hall
Tickets $28youth/senior $32adult $5eyeGo
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.execulink.com
Borrowed Tunes – the songs of Neil Young (Tribute Series)
October 24, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
Neil Young’s music has inspired and entertained generations of music lovers all over the world.
Borrowed Tunes “A Tribute to Neil Young” is a unique as tribute concerts because it pays homage to Neil with creative interpretations of Neil’s greatest songs by vital up and coming artists. Accompanied by a multi media slide show highlighting crucial moments in Neil’s career the show is a wonderful and satisfying way to celebrate one of Canada’s greatest artists.
See all of these artists live! performing the music of Neil Young: Tom Wilson, Dala, Liam Titcomb, Adam Crossley, Doug Cameron, Daniel Roth, Layla Jane, The Undesireables, Lee Harvey Osmond, Brent Titcomb and the Soul Surfers.
Presented by Meaford Hall
Tickets $32 $5eyeGo
Presented by Meaford Hall
This show is part of the 2009 Tribute Series. The series includes Bat Out of Hell, Legend in Black, Freddy Vette & The Flames and Borrowed Tunes – the music of Neil Young. The package price for all three shows is $100.
Location: The Opera House
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.myspace.com/atributetoneil
Anastasia ~ Ballet Jorgen
November 7, 2009
Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm
Anastasia made its 2007 Toronto World Premiere at the Toronto Centre for the Arts and went on to a successful 2007-2008 National Tour. It tells the story of the famous Russian Grand Duchess as she grows from a playful tom-boy to a poised young woman against the backdrop of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution. This lavish production takes place over the four fateful years that transformed an Empire and ultimately the world.
Tickets $40 $5eyeGo
Presented by Meaford Hall
Location: Meaford Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Contact: Box Office
Phone: 1.877.538.0463
Email: info@meafordhall.ca
Website: http://www.balletjorgencanada.ca
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