Still immersed in uncertainty, cultural institutions are forced to cancel and postpone shows scheduled to be on view in January. At the Trident, in Quebec, we must once once more deliver the performances of the theatrical adaptation of the musical Cabaret.
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The piece, which features 14 artists and a six-piece orchestra, was scheduled to be performed from January 18. It was, initially, to be presented last season on the occasion of the 50e anniversary of the theatrical institution.
“With 20 people on the stage, the number of cases which are on the rise and the uncertainty regarding the reopening of the rooms, we do not see how it might be possible to present this show. We can’t see the horizon right now. It’s just not possible, ”said Anne-Marie Olivier, co-executive director and artistic director of Trident.
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Love is a dumpling
Broken heart
Le Trident wishes to present it later in 2022. Which means the hiring of new actors to replace those who will not be available on the new dates that we do not yet know.
“We do everything we can. We are heartbroken. It is a pile of broken hearts, even if we know that it is nothing compared to the efforts of the nursing staff, ”she dropped in a telephone interview.
Madeleine Carreau, conductor of the Orchester symphonique de Montréal, is optimistic.
“Last year, on this date, there was no vaccine and we did not know when it was to stop. We might not see any light at the end of the tunnel, ”she recalled, Thursday, at the end of the followingnoon.
The situation, she says, is not the same at all.
“There are vaccines and we’ve learned a lot since then. We will get back on our feet and prepare a webcast program until the public can return to the theater. We know it won’t be long term, ”she said.
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The polygraph
Webcast
With the cancellation of the shows that were to be on view over the next few days, some cultural institutions have decided to offer concerts and plays once more in webcast.
At the OSM, the concert Rafael Payare conducts Brahms’ First Symphony, recorded in January 2021, is offered free of charge throughout the month of January.
At Duceppe, Love is a dumpling and Wild Life Handbook are available until March 30. Le Rideau Vert offers The real world?, by Michel Tremblay.
The Trident offers What we breathe on Tatouine and Style exercises in webcasting and radio theaters Eldorado, La Sagouine and Barbed wire. La Bordée uploaded The polygraph, rereading of the play by Marie Brassard and Robert Lepage and Scenarios for exiting the crisis.
Shows canceled or postponed
Cabaret (The Trident)
I like Hydro (Duceppe)
News rooms (Duceppe)
Lysis (New World Theater)
Women’s peace (The Lined)
Winter solstice (Prospero Theater)
The daughters of the St. Lawrence (Today’s Theater Center)
The Seven Branches of the Ota River (The diamond)
The NSPW Wrestling Gala (The diamond)
It helps us’ (The diamond)
Freeze-Up (First Act)
Bluff (Outremont Theater)
The Traviata (Montreal Opera)
Rafael Payare and the lyricism of Bruckner (EIGHT)
Youth and Creativity, from Mozart to the Competition (EIGHT)
Brahms and Mahler, between hope and resignation (EIGHT)
Igloofest Montréal