{"id":148895,"date":"2023-04-18T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=148895"},"modified":"2023-04-19T10:42:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:42:45","slug":"theatre-quadra-staging-its-most-ambitious-production-ever-chicago-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/theatre-quadra-staging-its-most-ambitious-production-ever-chicago-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Quadra staging its most ambitious production ever: Chicago, The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70 people are involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/theatrequadra.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatre Quadra's<\/a> staging of <a href=\"https:\/\/stageagent.com\/shows\/musical\/1091\/chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago, The Musical<\/a> this spring, according to producer, director and choreographer Heidi Ridgway.<\/p>\n<p>The play, described as a dark comedy, was adapted from its original 1926 production into a musical in 1975, Ridgway says, by her favourite writer\/choreographer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Fosse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Fosse<\/a>, who turned it into a Broadway hit.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Lolacher is the treasurer of Theatre Quadra, a steering committee of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quadrarec.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quadra Island Recreation Society<\/a>, which gave Ridgway the go ahead to stage Chicago, The Musical. Lolacher is the assistant producer and says she's also helping out with costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite legal restrictions, forbidding the use of paid advertising for the production, Ridgway says the three performances are nearly all sold out.<\/p>\n<p>Lolacher adds that since Theatre Quadra began as an amateur theatre group in 2011, it has staged 29 productions, making Chicago its 30th show.<\/p>\n<p>The play will be performed at the Quadra Island Community Centre on May 5, 6, and 7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lolacher and Ridgeway talk about the relevance of Chicago, The Musical in the interview below with CKTZ News:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70 people are involved in Theatre Quadra&#8217;s staging of Chicago, The Musical this spring, according to producer, director and choreographer Heidi Ridgway. The play, described as a dark comedy, was adapted from its original 1926 production into a musical in 1975, Ridgway says, by her favourite writer\/choreographer Bob Fosse, who turned it into a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":148903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[25159,25160,25154,25261,25157,25155,369,25156,25153],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149204,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148895\/revisions\/149204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148895"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=148895"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=148895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}