Upcoming New 12 months’s theatre and live performance listings embody an ode to Elvis and performances by The Sadies
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Martin Fontaine will cap off his profession as an Elvis impersonator on Dec. 31 at Quebec Metropolis’s Capitol Theatre.Handout
Elvis Expertise: The Remaining Act – Blue Christmas
“And now, the tip is close to. And so I face, the ultimate curtain.” After years of impersonating Elvis Presley on stage, Martin Fontaine hangs up the sequined jumpsuits and places away the sideburns. With a Blue Christmas model of his Vegas-in-the-seventies stage present, which incorporates 24 musicians and eight backup singers, Fontaine leaves the constructing, saying it clear and stating his case of which he’s sure, he did it Elvis’s method. To Dec. 31, Capitol Theatre, Quebec Metropolis
Fisherman’s Mates: The Musical
From the left: Fisherman’s Mates: The Musical solid Pete Gallagher, Dakota Starr, James Gaddas, Robert Duncan, Hadrian Delacey, Dan Buckley, Anton Stephans, Jason Langley have two performances at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre on Dec. 31.PAMELA RAITH/Handout
If sea shanties are your factor, your boat’s are available in. This feel-good musical is impressed by the true story of Cornish fishermen who landed a report deal by singing close-harmony work songs constructed for swabbing decks. The North American premiere manufacturing with the unique British solid is neither slick nor creative, as a substitute letting the story and communal music put the wind in its sails. To Jan. 15 (2 p.m. and eight p.m. on Dec. 31), Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto
Fisherman’s Mates stage musical rides a bizarre wave of sea shanty reputation
Burton Cummings
Burton Cummings will rejoice his seventy fifth birthday with a efficiency at Winnipeg’s Burton Cummings Theatre on Dec. 28 and 31.JEFF MCINTOSH/The Canadian Press
Seventy-five candles can be blown out on the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg, the place hearth codes can be relaxed when the namesake hometown singer celebrates a landmark birthday. Count on a profession survey of hits, from Guess Who classics to acquainted solo materials. A New 12 months’s Eve present from the Stand Tall star is preceded by an unplugged live performance three days earlier. Dec. 28 and 31, Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
New 12 months’s Eve at Grand Parade
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Rocker JJ Wilde, pictured, and Devon Cole will ring in New Years Eve with a live performance on the Grand Parade Sq. in Halifax.Handout
The present is for an all-ages viewers, however firebrand headlining rocker JJ Wilde is one thing aside from youngsters’ stuff. Wilde burst onto the scene together with her gutsy album, Ruthless. It earned her Rock Album of the 12 months on the 2021 Juno Awards, making her the primary girl to realize that feat since Alanis Morissette in 1996. Additionally on the invoice is Devon Cole, a TikTok revelation recognized for her feminist replace on Robin Thicke’s Blurred Traces hit. Dec. 31, Grand Parade Sq., Halifax
Come From Away
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Tony-winning musical Come Far Away will run from Dec. 27 to Jan. 8 at Southam Corridor in Ottawa, with two performances on Dec. 31.Cylla von Tiedemann/Mirvish
Hailed by The New York Instances as a “Canadian embrace on a grim day,” the Tony-winner musical from Irene Sankoff and David Hein melodiously tells the story of the 1000’s of airline passengers rerouted to the homey Newfoundland city of Gander after 9/11. A touring manufacturing of the fiddle-happy celebration of Canadian hospitality stops in Ottawa and Montreal earlier than heading again to the US. It’s as upbeat a method as any to ring out 2022. Dec. 27 to Jan. 8 (two reveals, Dec. 31), Southam Corridor, Ottawa
The Sadies
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The Sadies will carry out at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern on Dec. 30 and 31.Chris Colohan/Handout
The group’s Colder Streams album landed on quite a few best-of-year lists, however 2022 was tragic for the Sadies. Singer-guitarist Dallas Good, sibling to co-frontman Travis Good and son and nephew of the founding members of the Canadian nation group the Good Brothers, died on Feb. 17, not lengthy after a coronary sickness was found. The Sadies have at all times introduced their bluegrass-influenced psychedelic rock fiercely and stoically. Now, carrying on with out its most seen member, the band’s air of perseverance is intensified. Dec. 30 and 31, Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto