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The Jacksons: Blame It On The Boogie

Ron Roxtar for Curtains Up Following a brief video montage the four Jacksons walked on stage wearing sunglasses to the appropriately titled, Can You Feel It, and the answer was yes we could certainly feel it. In true Jackson tradition (of which the whole concert would be full of) the four brothers removed their sunglasses […]

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Comedian Yannis Pappas – Yanks at the Ethnic Show – July 13th to the 28th and his own solo show at Theatre St Catherine on July 25th.

Ron Roxtar for Curtains Up Ron :  Yannis, this is your third year at Just For laughs.  What can we expect? Yannis: I am doing the Ethnic show and a solo show. People can expect a great hilarious show with a Greek twist, since I am Greek-American. Not just from me alone because at the […]

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Fun Times With “The Producers” in Yiddish At The Segal Centre

Yolande Ramsay for Curtains Up It is always a treat when show business mocks itself. The clichés that get skewered by over-the-top characters; the politics and manipulations are played out like farce; the schadenfreude joy of grand plans collapsing and failure being celebrated. Mel Brooks’ Tony Award-winning musical comedy, “The Producers”, tells just such a […]

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal: “Wasteland”

  Yolande Ramsay for Curtains Up Toronto’s comedy troupe Sex T-Rex brings a hilarious parody of post-apocalyptic movies and TV shows with “Wasteland”. This very entertaining show features mutants, car chases (!), a talking dog, and naturally, 80’s music. “Wasteland” is a mash-up-and-send-up of the “Mad Max” franchise, “The Walking Dead”, and road movies. The […]