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Top Cappies review of St. Albert Catholic High School’s The Outsiders
Vicious gang rivalries leading to violence and death. Families torn apart by alcohol and abuse. Prejudice rooted in ignorance and social standing. These are issues relevant to our society that never seem...
Whether or not you believe that our fates are written in the stars, stories of star-crossed lovers have been a staple of myth and literature for centuries. From Romeo and Juliet to the complexities of doomed soap-opera romances, couples destined to have their passion thwarted by circumstance continue to fascinate, as the students at St. Thomas Aquinas recently demonstrated in their performance of Aida.
Bellerose Composite High School’s rendition of Annie opened with this portrayal of the children’s hard-knock life.
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Top Cappies Review of Millwoods Christian School's production of Seussical the Musical
Think of a town, on a speck, on a clover.
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Top Cappies review of Paul Kane High School's Oklahoma!
An explosive tale of young love, hilarious gullibility and dangerous obsession, Paul Kane’s production of Oklahoma! welcomed the audience to a world of southern charm and musical pizzazz. First performed in 1943, Oklahoma! was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and played a record-breaking 2,212 times on Broadway. A favourite of high school and college productions, Oklahoma! explores life in small-town Oklahoma in 1906.
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Top Cappies review of J.H. Picard’s The Visit
The division between tragedy and comedy seems, at first glance, to be very sharply defined. Look closer, however, and the distinction is not quite so clear. What happens when the line between comedy and tragedy blurs? J.H. Picard’s recent production of The Visit put the audience into that uncomfortable limbo where one is unsure whether to laugh, cry — or perhaps scream.
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Top Cappies review of Harry Ainley’s The Wiz
In an explosion of colour, exuberance and song, an enchanting tale full of beguiling characters captivated the audience at Harry Ainlay’s recent production of The Wiz.
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Top Cappies review of Archbishop MacDonald’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Vivid hues of turquoise and blue reveal a magical forest unbound by either time or space as the costumed cast silently introduce their elusive spin on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Top Cappies review of Louis St. Laurent High School's Urinetown
Inspiration is a flighty creature. Man finds it from the greatest of sources, at the worst of times, and, sometimes, in the oddest of places. West Side Story drew on Shakespeare. Wicked had Oz. And now, the world can credit European pay-per-use toilets for creating a musical gem.
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Top Cappies review of McNally High School's Flowers for Algernon
Often restricted to newspaper articles or enumerated as statistics, the struggles of those with mental handicaps rarely involve us on a personal level. As the lights illuminated the stage at McNally High School recently, the issue of intellectual disabilities was brought out of the shadows in a rendition of Flowers for Algernon.
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Top Cappies review of Archbishop Jordan High School’s The Christmas Carol
With the opening setting of a Victorian Christmas beautifully displayed onstage, the audience at Festival Place was rapidly immersed in the holiday celebration in London of 1843. The Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, adapted by Darwin Reid Payne, was artfully performed by the student production team from Archbishop Jordan High School.
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Top Cappies review of M.E. LaZerte’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Four zealous young lovers, a spiteful fairy king and a mischievous imp named Puck all sprang to life in M.E. LaZerte High School’s modernized production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Video: Cappies Gala Night Opening Number
The Cappies Gala Awards night opening number. Choreography: Amber Bissonnette Video: Codie McLachlan
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Gallery: Cappies 2010 gala and red carpet
Check out photos from the Cappies 2010 gala and red carpet
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Cappies winners announced
Strathcona High School’s production of West Side Story, one of the most demanding pieces in the musical theatre repertoire, scooped up the top honour in the musical category at the third annual Cappies gala Sunday night.
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What Edmonton teens love about the Cappies
Here’s what some of the Cappies critics and teachers had to say about the program:
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Cappies review: Mickey Mouse would be less than impressed with Sorcerer's Apprentice
Intended as the epic expansion of a classic animated masterpiece, the real-life version of the iconic 1940s short, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, quite missed its magical mark. From the moment we meet nerdy, unkempt Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), there’s something very familiar about not only the overly predictable casting choices, but the way the upcoming scenes play out.
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Stars align at Cappies gala
“One Cappies nomination, every little step we take ...” As the excitable crowd roared its approval, the bowler-hatted dance line on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Sunday night reworked the classic Chorus Line anthem to Broadway ambition, dreams and the mysterious showbiz fatalism that showers the chosen one in stardust.
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Cappies Review: Sorcerer’s Apprentice a by-the-book movie
Has someone out there made a guidebook for creating a movie?
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Cappies Review: Non-stop action, dazzling visual feats in Sorcerer’s Apprentice
When it comes to “lights, camera, action,” Jon Turteltaub means business.
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Cappies Review: Sorcerer’s Apprentice cheapened by over-ambitious special effects
Built around the timeless cartoon of the same name involving renegade mops, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice stretches the animated short uncomfortably into a feature-length film. A spell cast by the likes of Hollywood, Sorcerer is sure to vanish from collective memory by September. Studded with stars Nicolas Cage (National Treasure) and Jay Baruchel (She’s Out of My League), the million-dollar project is cheapened by over-ambitious special effects and a thin script.
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Cappies Review: Weak script plagues Sorcerer’s Apprentice
It’s increasingly rare to encounter a film without CGI or extreme special effects.
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Cappies review: Sorcerer’s Apprentice an uninspired hodgepodge
It’s going to take a lot more than the wizardry and hocus-pocus of a summer blockbuster to revive the career of Nicolas Cage.
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Curtains up for Edmonton Cappies nominees
The stage was set to celebrate the best of the best in Edmonton-area high school theatre when nominees were announced this afternoon for this year’s Cappies Awards. Altogether, there were more than 160 nominations in more than 33 performing, technical and writing categories.
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Top Cappies review of J.H. Picard's Crazy for You
Stephanie Beauvais Ross Sheppard Ah, the glamour of New York’s Broadway productions, complete with eccentric dancers, bright lights, and ... cowboys?
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Top Cappies review of Eastglen High School's 13
Samantha DeChamplain Paul Kane High School Ah, 13, the age of voice cracks, cliques, acne, and uncertainty.
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Top Cappies review of Austin O'Brien High School's Happy Anniversary, Angel! Love, Gino
Jessica Glover M.E. LaZerte High School “Welcome! So nice to see you. Thank you for coming. Please, take a seat. There are drinks at the back, and cake should be out shortly.”
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Top Cappies review of Strathcona High School's West Side Story
Two vicious rivals, two star-crossed lovers, and one forbidden romance – some stories only get more true with time.
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Top Cappies review of Spruce Grove Composite High School's Peter Pan
Lauren Chalaturnyk Paul Kane High School Given an address of “first star to the right and straight on till morning,” it was no wonder that a journey into Neverland would be full of magic and adventure.
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Top Cappies review of Jasper Place High School’s Twelve Angry Men
A hot summer afternoon, the stifling confinement of a locked room, and the life of a young man dependent on the jury’s decision – how could it not get a little tense?
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Top Cappies review of St. Joseph High School's The Mousetrap
There’s a blizzard of Arctic proportions, a chilling note about three blind mice and a crazed killer on the loose. Suddenly, your week doesn’t seem nearly as stressful as Molly and Giles Ralston’s maiden voyage into the wilds of guest house ownership in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap.
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Top Cappies review of St. Thomas Aquinas High School's 13
Grab your text books and hold onto your kippahs as St. Thomas Aquinas High School takes you on a wild ride through the trials and tribulations of junior high in its recent production of the coming-of-age musical 13.
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Top review of Bellerose Composite High School's The Sound of Music
The majestic snow-brushed Alps ... seven mischievous, endearing, lovable children … a galvanized captain with a heart of gold … and the looming shadow of fascism haunting the horizon. This is the setting that the effervescent Maria was thrust into last Wednesday.
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Top review of Witness for the Prosecution at Ross Sheppard High School
Attending court can be an arduous and hectic process.
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Top Cappies review of Archbishop MacDonald's The Love of the Nightingale
The ancient Greek myth of Philomele has been told and retold through out the centuries, each with a different twist and turn. Many diverse adaptations have been made, but none as striking as Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale.
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Top Cappies review of Concordia High School's The Last Real Summer
If you had the power to revisit the past, would you? Is there a moment, or perhaps a regret, you would want to go back and change the outcome of? This was the recurring theme at Concordia Collegiate High School's recent performance of Warren Graves' memory play The Last Real Summer.
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Top Cappies review of Louis St. Laurent's Pippin
If your father is the supreme ruler of an entire empire, his conniving, money-hungry wife is your stepmother and her brawny, brainless son is your half-brother, then where do you fit in? In Louis St. Laurent High School’s production of Pippin,
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Top Cappies review of Victoria School's White Christmas
With recent dumpings of snow, it’s doubtful the city of Edmonton will have to dream of a white Christmas, and anyone who attended Victoria School of the Art’s performance of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, will certainly be dreaming of nothing but.
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Top Cappies review of Millwoods Christian School's Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
Imagination is an innate ability that children all across the globe possess and that no adult could ever really comprehend.
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