It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

It’s the Miracle on 34th St. Musical

Kris Kringle takes on the cynics in this tuneful adaptation of the Christmas favourite! In his exuberant and inimitable style that we all loved in The Music Man, Meredith Willson tells us a classic story of this — or any other — Christmas. A gentle, white-bearded gentleman claiming to be Santa Claus brings about a genuine Miracle on 34th Street, spreading a wave of love through New York City, bringing a spirit of cooperation to the department store rivals Macy’s and Gimbel’s, and convincing a soured, divorced, single mom, her somber daughter, and the entire country that Santa Claus is no myth.

Here’s musical comedy as it is meant to be — accessible and enjoyable for one and all! 2 hours. (G rated)

All productions take place in our own intimate Spriet Family Theatre on the Mezzanine of Covent Garden Market at King St. and Talbot St. in downtown London. Parking is available under the Market off King St.

Tickets are $10 for Kids and Students / $15 for Adults and are available at www.grandtheatre.com / 519-672-8800 or often from our Spriet box office just before each performance.

Shout! The Mod Musical

SHOUT! flips through the years like a musical magazine and takes you back to music, female stars and groups, the women’s fashions and the freedom of the 60s. You’ll enjoy being with these groovy gals as they come of age during those days that made England the swinging centre of youth culture. All the greats are here, from Petula Clark to Dusty Springfield and Lulu, and chart-topping hits like To Sir With Love, Downtown, You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me and Son of a Preacher Man! The show (a fan favourite on Broadway and London’s West End) is an irresistible blend of hip-swinging women’s hits and eye-popping psychedelic fashions that will make you want to throw back your head…and SHOUT!

I Remember Mama

No description can do justice to the rich characters that fill this play, one of the treasures of American theatre. In I Remember Mama, one of the greatest plays ever written about the value of family, we see how Mama, with the help of Father and Uncle Chris, brings up her immigrant family in San Francisco in the early 1900s. Through great personal unselfishness, Mama, a sweet and capable manager, helps her children through childhood, educates them and sees one of her daughters begin her career as a writer. It is through this daughter’s memories that the events of the play unfold, affording us rich comedy in the goings-on of the children and Mama’s sisters and uncle, as well as incidental tragedy and an abundance of honest sentiment that will leave you enriched and inspired. 2 hours. (G Rated)

All productions take place in our own intimate Spriet Family Theatre on the Mezzanine of Covent Garden Market at King St. and Talbot St. in downtown London. Parking is available under the Market off King St.

Tickets are $10 for Kids and Students / $15 for Adults and are available at www.grandtheatre.com / 519-672-8800 or often from our Spriet box office just before each performance.

Snoopy!!! The Musical

Remarkable! Fantastic! Entertaining! SNOOPY!!! deserves all 3 of its exclamation points!!! Based on the renowned Peanuts comic strip and TV specials, this musical delights every audience with the intelligence and wit of its characters, from Lucy to good old Charlie Brown, and with the inventive exuberance of its title character, that unforgettably human canine. As the What’s On Stage critic put it, “Snoopy!!! is a show for all ages and all seasons…with recognizable characterizations and light, bright witty melodies. It could hardly be bettered.” At the end of the show, as the Peanuts gang gaze up at the night sky, Charlie Brown says, “I think that there must be a tiny star out there that is my star…” Just as there is a star for everyone, SNOOPY!! will be YOUR star on the OKTC stage. 1 hour 45 minutes (G rated)

All productions take place in our own intimate Spriet Family Theatre on the Mezzanine of Covent Garden Market at King St. and Talbot St. in downtown London. Parking is available under the Market off King St.

Tickets are $10 for Kids and Students / $15 for Adults and are available at www.grandtheatre.com / 519-672-8800 or often from our Spriet box office just before each performance.

Poe’s Midnight Dreary

Halloween Special

Edgar Allen Poe lies dying on his anonymous Baltimore hotel deathbed, his brilliant mind churning. In his delirium, he is haunted by memories of the mad horror stories he created (The Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial) and by the nightmarish events of his past. This creative ensemble play brings all these stories alive using special stage effects, and creating an atmosphere with true Halloween appeal. 90 minutes. (PG Rated)

All productions take place in our own intimate Spriet Family Theatre on the Mezzanine of Covent Garden Market at King St. and Talbot St. in downtown London. Parking is available under the Market off King St.

Tickets are $10 for Kids and Students / $15 for Adults and are available at www.grandtheatre.com / 519-672-8800 or often from our Spriet box office just before each performance.

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland

A co-production of OKTC and the London Public Library

Come to the Rotary Reading Garden and join Alice’s madcap Adventures in Wonderland as she chases the White Rabbit, races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with the Tweedles, raps with a bubble-blowing Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! As the breeze plays in the Garden trees and the moon rises over the city, you’ll enjoy the many wacky and memorable characters and sing along with our special cast members as they warble Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da in this peppy, fun-loving stage adaptation of the Disney film classic. You don’t have to be a Mad Hatter to love this one! (Family)

Pay-What-You-Can at the event. Bring a lawnchair or a blanket if you wish!

Rent (School Edition)

The show that revolutionized the Broadway musical is coming to Original Kids! Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme follows the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York’s East Village, their lives pervaded by the ominous presence of AIDS.

This new adaptation has been created with care and sensitivity, staying true to the dramatic intent of this beloved groundbreaking show, and making it possible and vastly rewarding for teen youth groups to perform.
Celebrate your Seasons of Love with our OKTC cast! (15+)

Tickets $10 (kids and students) & $15 (adults)
519-672-8800 / grandtheatre.com

A co-production of OKTC and the London Public Library

Fame Forever — Reunion & Rebirth

Join us as we time warp through 20 years, and see the destiny of the now adult students of NYC’s High School of the Performing Arts class from the classic musical, Fame. Now their children are students at the new school, and a school reunion brings them all together. Both actors and audience will go on a wonderful theatrical musical journey as we connect past with future and see how talent is reborn in the young who carry their parents’ torches of ambition and spirit. True inspiration never dies! (AA)

$8 (kids and students) & $12 (adults)
519-672-8800 / grandtheatre.com

Evita

Often considered Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s greatest masterpiece, Evita tells the true rags to riches story of Eva Duarte, a small town illegitimate Argentinian girl. At 15, she escapes her dirt-poor small town existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires where her charisma and allure make her an instant movie star and finally wife to Juan Peron, soon to become military dictator of the country. Geniuses Rice and Webber tell the story of a woman—and a nation—through a haunting score (including Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina) fusing large-cast rock anthems with Latino, pop and jazz influences, dramatizing a thrilling epic story as theatrical and complex as the woman herself—Evita Peron! (AA)

$8 (students and kids) & $12 (adults)
519-672-8800 / www.grandtheatre.com

A Comedy of Errors

Here’s a very special opportunity for our best actors and our finest audiences! A Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, with a multitude of farcical characters and rapid-fire action. Confusion is the order of the day, as two—that’s right! two! sets of twins end up in the same city of Ephesus. Neither, of course is aware that their identical others are even alive! In this comic universe, everyone finds out that our reason and our senses are not to be trusted when disaster and calamity threaten! Here’s Shakespeare—gone crazy!! (PG)

Tickets $8 (kids & students) / $12 (adults)
519-672-8800 / grandtheatre.com

The Shakespeare Revue

The Pajama Game

Tickets: adults $12, children $8. Available at the Grand Theatre box office, 519-672-8800.