It's been a children's classic for generations - and now a familiar stage adaptation is coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
Dance Collective (formerly Douglas Ballet Academy) is teaming up with Advocates of Dance Society to produce a musical, Disney's Peter Pan Junior, at the Shadbolt's James Cowan Theatre.
The production is set to run Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7 at 7 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on March 7.
Rebecca Woodruff, owner of Dance Collective and director of the production, is enthusiastic about bringing the familiar story to the stage.
"The reason Peter Pan has captured our imagination in countless books, musicals and movies is because he represents the best of our childhood," she said in a press release. "He is the memory of the last great adventure we all had before we began our journey into adulthood."
Woodruff and her assistant choreographer-musical director, Angela King, have been working on the production since auditions began a year ago, bringing a cast of 25 young performers to the stage.
They'll be bringing to life such classic songs as You Can Fly, Following the Leader, Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) and Never Smile at a Crocodile as they tell the familiar story of the boy who never grows up and his journey to Neverland with the Darling children. Expect to meet Lost Boys, mermaids and, of course, pirates, along with Tinker Bell and all her fairy friends.
The show is all-ages-friendly, and it's one hour and 15 minutes long, with no intermission.
Tickets are $20 and available through the Shadbolt box office at 604-205-3000 or tickets.shadboltcentre.com.
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Love poetry? You may want to turn out to the next Spoken Ink night.
The Burnaby Writers' Society's reading series runs monthly at La Fontana Caffe in the Heights, and the next session is on Tuesday, March 17.
This month's presentation features Elaine Woo, reading from her poetry collection Cycling with the Dragon.
Woo is a poet-librettist and non-fiction writer whose work has appeared in a wide range of publications including ARC Poetry Magazine, Shy: An Anthology, V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Ascent Aspirations and Megaphone Magazine.
Her art song collaboration with Daniel Marshall, Nighttime Symphony, won a Boston Metro Opera festival prize in 2013.
Cycling with the Dragon was published last year.
Woo's reading is set to start at 8 p.m., and it will be followed by an open mike session. You can sign up for the open mike starting at 7:30 p.m.
La Fontana Caffe is at 101-3701 Hastings St. Find out more at www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com or [email protected].
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