{"id":74188,"date":"2022-02-22T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=74188"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:42:25","slug":"scoop-mirvish-schedule-updates-welcome-live-audiences-back-theatres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/02\/22\/scoop-mirvish-schedule-updates-welcome-live-audiences-back-theatres\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Mirvish Schedule Updates As They Welcome Live Audiences Back To Theatres"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_74189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74189\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/CAA-Ed_Mirvish_Theatre_Yonge_Entrance.jpg\" alt=\"CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre Yonge Entrance (Image courtesy of Mirvish)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre Yonge Entrance (Image courtesy of Mirvish)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After all the ups and downs of the last two years, Mirvish welcomes back Toronto audiences in April with a revised schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we announced our 2021-22 season last summer, we could not have anticipated the Omicron variant\u2019s sudden arrival in December,\u201d explains <strong>David Mirvish<\/strong> in a media release. \u201cThis disrupted our plans and forced the Ontario government to shut down all non-essential public gatherings. Thankfully, the Omicron wave appears to have peaked and looks to be leaving just as quickly as it arrived. Under the government\u2019s most current protocols, theatres are allowed to open at 100% capacity as of March 1. But we are giving ourselves an extra five weeks to allow us to reopen in a safe and responsible manner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opening of a theatre season is always an exciting time. And this opening is especially exciting because we have rearranged our performance schedules and tweaked our programming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s changed<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mirvish theatres will reopen at <strong>100% capacity<\/strong> on <strong>April 5<\/strong> with <strong><em>Room<\/em><\/strong>, based on Emma Donoghue\u2019s bestselling novel, and with songs by Scottish songwriters Kathryn Joseph and Cora Bissett, at the<strong> Princess of Wales Theatre<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Boy Falls From the Sky<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Jake Epstein<\/strong>\u2019s musical love letter to show business, originally performed to sold-out houses at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival,\u00a0 will <strong>begin on April 19<\/strong> at the<strong> Royal Alexandra Theatre<\/strong>. (It replaces the previously announced <em>Pressure<\/em>, which will now be part of the 2022-2023 season.)<\/li>\n<li>The 25th anniversary production of <em><strong>2 Pianos 4 Hands<\/strong><\/em>, starring the show\u2019s creators and original stars, <strong>Ted Dykstra<\/strong> and <strong>Richard Greenblatt<\/strong>, will play <strong>June 4 to July 17<\/strong> at the <strong>Royal Alexandra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What\u2019s the same<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Canadian premiere of <strong><em>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 set 19 years after the end of the books, with a new generation arriving at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry \u2014 from <strong>May 31<\/strong> at the <strong>CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The North American premiere of the hit London musical <strong><em>&amp; Juliet<\/em><\/strong> for a strictly limited run from <strong>June 22 to August 14<\/strong> at the <strong>Princess of Wales<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Church\u2019s critically acclaimed production takes audiences back to the glamour of Hollywood during the roaring 20s. <strong><em>Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em><\/strong> will play <strong>September 24 to October 23<\/strong> at the <strong>Princess of Wales<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Theatre notes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a return home in a sense for Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt. <em>2 Pianos 4 Hands<\/em> had its first major production at the Royal Alex in 1998 after premiering at Tarragon Theatre. Since then, the show has toured the world.<\/li>\n<li>Crews have been working on the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre since November to remodel it specially for <em>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em>. The process is almost complete.<\/li>\n<li><em>&amp;Juliet<\/em> features the music of the internationally acclaimed pop songwriter Max Martin, with a script by David West Read (<em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six-show subscriptions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirvish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on sale now<\/a>. Non-subscription tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirvish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on sale soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirvish.com\/visit\/plan-your-visit\/covid-19-safety-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for current COVID protocols at Mirvish theatres.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the ups and downs of the last two years, Mirvish welcomes back Toronto audiences in April with a revised schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":74189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,4780,39,63],"tags":[27978,20676,2323],"yst_prominent_words":[20628,20625,20626,20639],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/CAA-Ed_Mirvish_Theatre_Yonge_Entrance.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jiA","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74188\/revisions\/74190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74188"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=74188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}