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Stand! Review: Canadian Musical Treatment of the Winnipeg General Strike Has Sincerity in Spades
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Ring in the New Year with LAJFF for Premiere of Movie Musical âStand!â
Join the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival on New Yearâs Day to catch the premiere of âStand!â, a Romeo and Juliet love story between a Jewish suffragette and a Ukrainian immigrant set during a citywide workersâ strike in Winnipeg, Canada in 1919.
The Canadian/America movie-musical follows similar themes of social change, a la “Hamilton” or “West Side Story,â and was written by writer/composer Danny Schur. The film was adapted from the stage hit âStrike!â based on his own family history. The film adaptation is directed by Robert Adetuyi (âBring it On,” âStomp the Yardâ) with cinematography by two-time Emmy-winner, Roy H. Wagner.
LAJFF Previews New âFiddler on the Roofâ Documentary
From Sholem Aleichemâs shtetl tales to Broadway to the movies, the iconic characters and stories in âFiddler on the Roofâ have captivated audiencesâJewish and notâall over the world. The subject of the 2019 making-of film âFiddler: A Miracle of Miracles,â it gets a new documentary treatment in âFiddlerâs Journey to the Big Screen: The Untold Story of Norman Jewisonâs Fiddler on the Roof,â chronicling the producer-directorâs quest to bring Tevyeâs world to the big screen nearly 50 years ago.
Including revealing interviews with Jewison (not Jewish, by the way), his collaborators, lead actor Topol, critics and historians and chock full of surprising anecdotes about the production, the film is a must-see for âFiddlerâ fans.
RMTC delivers gift of online holiday cheer with free, online Christmas-themed variety show
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s online show
All Is Bright is intended as a gift from the company to Manitoba theatregoers in lieu of the productions the company has had to cancel this season (and much of the last).
Perhaps the more accurate term would be consolation prize, given the COVID funk in which we find ourselves.
In any event, it’s a relentlessly festive piece, kicking off with a cheerful Jennifer Lyon razzle-dazzling
Here We Come A-Caroling, dashing from the front of the RMTC building on Market, into the lobby and eventually onto the stage, where she is accompanied by a four-piece band. By dint of her sheer familiarity, Lyon, a musical theatre mainstay in the city, might as well have been singing
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