Stage Door News
Stage Door News
Lost & Found Theatre is reviving their holiday variety show after a ten-year hiatus. Apart from a condensed version offered to patrons of the Waterloo Region Museum in 2013, the show was last presented in 2008. This year it will once again fill the Emmanuel United Church with music and stories of the season.
As The Record arts columnist Robert Reid observed after seeing the show’s second iteration in 2006: “Lost & Found Theatre has recovered the spirit of Christmas so often obscured by commercialism, cynicism and sentimentality...Unpretentious, homespun and low-key, the evening of stories, readings and music recalls the era of the lectern and the stage and the Golden Age of radio, before the Yuletide was hijacked by film and television.”
Local singer-songwriter Michael Kelly Cavan joins as special guest musician. Andrew Lakin and Kathleen Sheehy will reprise some old favourites as well as new pieces, ably assisted by John Cormier, local actor/playwright Ciaran Myers, Richard Marchment, and newcomer Jessica Bowmer. Richard Quesnel directs.
Lost & Found Theatre is partnering with The Record’s Books for Kids program and will be donating $1.50 for each ticket sold.
Performances are December 14 at 7pm and December 15 at 2pm and 7pm at Emmanuel United Church, 22 Bridgeport Rd. W, Waterloo. Tickets are $22.
Tickets and more information are available through the website: www.lostandfoundtheatre.ca
Photo: Gary Kirkham.
2018-11-30
Kitchener: "A Lost & Found Christmas" variety show runs December 14-15