Director Daryl Cloran’s Beatles-infused As You Like It garners Broadway buzz in Chicago

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Jones went on to suggest that Cloran’swould be a “fine candidate” for a berth on Broadway – where it would be guaranteed at least one good review, as the influential Jones also reviews for the New York Daily News.Cloran, who is artistic director at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, first conceived this take onlikewise smittenThat initial West Coast success spawned runs at the Citadel and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg in 2020 right before the pandemic.

Cloran isn’t the only Canadian involved in this Chicago iteration: The music supervisor, the fight/dance choreographer and five designers have all crossed the border with the show. Cloran’s production of As You Like It mashes together the words of the Bard with songs by the Beatles.

Kayvon Khoshkam and Austin Eckert, who were both in the original Vancouver production, are likewise in the cast sas Touchstone and Charles the Wrestler/Amiens, respectively, while Stratford and Shaw Festival favourite Deborah Hay is playing Jaques, who delivers the Seven Ages of Man speech that, in this show, segues into cals likeAgain by e-mail, Cloran says: “We are in discussions with some U.S. commercial producers, but it is still early days.

The Citadel Theatre has been perhaps the most active regional theatre in Canada this fall. It’s opening the fourth in-person show of its 2021-2022 season this week:, Matthew MacKenzie’s production of his award-winning play co-created with choreographer Monica Dottor.of this environmentally themed, inventively staged show when I caught it at the Factory Theatre in 2018; it’s now in the Maclab Theatre at the Citadel from Oct. 21 to 31.

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