Matty Burns and Ruth Goodwin in Tagged and It's Complicated
It can't be called a renaissance because...well...there never was really naissance (unless you count the collective creations of the 70s and 80s with their tunes), but - damn! - there seem to be made-in-Canada musicals a little everywhere. And they're working. We think that is so because smart theatre people - learning from the Fringe model - are scaling down and, in the process, creating an intimate show that speaks (sings) quite directly to audiences that are smaller, hipper and - let's say it - younger. That is the case with the cross-country and still-touring hit Ride the Cyclone. Coming soon to the city, as well, is Do You Want What I Have Got - A Craiglist Cantata. Continuing on the theme of souls joined in virtual worlds is yet another new work by Matty Burns and Ben Wright. Tagged and It's Complicated opens this week and the company has let just enough of its content loose to suggest this might be another little charmer. (See also: Matty Burns on the journey of the piece; a video from a studio session for one of the songs from the show.)
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