Upcoming New 12 months’s theatre and live performance listings embody an ode to Elvis and performances by The Sadies

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

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

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

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

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

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