I’m the artistic & managing director of The Musical Stage Company which I founded 16 years ago. We are Canada’s largest and leading not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to the development of musical theatre.
Fortunately there is nothing that we have let go of completely yet. Several things had to be postponed though.Once circumstances allow, we will be able to reinstitute all of the programming that was lost. Of greatest note, we are 100% committed to the world premiere of the new musical Kelly v. Kelly by Sara Farb and Britta Johnson which has been in development for the last several years and was set to premiere in May.
We have increased the number of workshops right now for the development of new musicals. We have found that these non-public workshops work fairly well in an online space. If we can use this time to strengthen the new Canadian musicals that are on the horizon, and ensure that they have a relevance and resonance in this current time, then I imagine a bright future ahead. We are also engaged in very complex risk planning to make sure that The Musical Stage Company is well positioned to not only survive, but nimbly adapt to whatever needs greet us on the other side of this crisis.
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I’ve pinned us on the map to our office; it is fairly central to all of the spots we work in.
