Pirates Day Ahead!

With the May release of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Pirate shows will be huge hits this summer!  We have entertaining shows lines up!

Bill as “Captain Jack”  People young and old love this character. Captain Jack sets up a Pirate atmosphere with a pirate ship, a throne and a full treasure chest. Speaking with an English accent and using grammar of the Pirate era, he engages kids with stories. Of course, this pirate has a parrot (not a live bird). After the storytelling, audience members can ask questions about his life as a Pirate, take pictures in the pirate set, & meet this "real" pirate up close and personal.

A Pirates Adventure  Come aboard for 25 to 30 minutes of pirate fun. Our ship’s mates will dance to your delight. The show leads guests on a hunt for the great treasure! Our pirate host follows a map in her quest. Along the way she runs into her Pirate Stretch and Captain Dance Pants! Together through games, stretching and dancing guests and the pirates find the treasure! It’s an interactive show that will have our mates cheering jumping & dancing!

Puppet Tamer Pirate Tim (A Ventriloquist with Crackers the Parrot) The show has a unique humour, wacky improvisation, and outrageous situations: a fun-packed animated show. Through careful interactions, your audience will become part of the show bringing the best in live theatre to life. Pirate Tim is the swashbuckling stiltwaker and juggler of pirate swords. He can perform both stage shows and engage festival goers with his strolling pirate on stilts.

Pirate Jack Robin Show Pirate Jack Robin is a great storyteller and will captivate you with his stories on how he came up from the Caribbean with his buddy Captain Tim and how he met other pirates on the way and fought. He claims to be over 400 years old but can still juggle balls and clubs. He talks in general of pirates' fears and juggles three unusual objects to illustrate those fears - an apple, a toilet plunger and a short sword. He tells the story of his final days with Captain Tim Horton and his crew and how, during a mutiny, his former shipmates forced him to walk the blank - this is an acrobatic bit on top of his pirates trunk with a rola-bola, juggling 3 machetes for a finale.
 
Pirate School This can be a stage show with magic and games or an activity. Pirate Pete and First Mate Kate run this fun and interactive program. Kids can learn how to be pirates and make their own pirate accessories. Our Pirate Hands lead the crafts where the kids make a telescope, a treasure map, eye patches and a magic pirate tree. Kids can go on a treasure hunt for a hidden treasure (we’ll hide it in advance). There are pirate games, including a tug-of-war and “walk the plank”. The full activity includes a 20-minute stage show plus one hour of games and crafts.

Meet the Cast!

We were thrilled to debut our program - Shrek, Stompin' the Swamp at the Capital Ex in Edmonton!

Our very talented performers are well rehearsed and are delivering an awesome program! Kids were on their feet dancing with Shrek and Fiona as they choose their special dance song.

It's very warm in those costumes, but the cast is having a lot of ogre-sized fun!

In the Shrek costume is Tom King, Sphere Entertainment's production manager.  He is a full time actor, dancer, voice-over artist and clown and has performed on stage, TV and films in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto.  You can see him behind the scenes managing one of our shows, in costume or narrating many of Sphere's many performances, or on TV performing in commercials, docu-dramas or TV shows.  Tom began his career in sunny California.

As Fiona is Alexey Solodkiy, a profressionally schooled dancer from St. Petersburg, Russia. He has toured extensively as a member of Thompson Cruiselines Entertainment and in 2004 was invited to dance with the Ontario Ballet Theatre's tour of the Nutcracker.  He enjoyed the experience so much he returned in 2005 and again in 2007 and decided to stay in Canada.  He has since then been part of Sphere Entertainment's staple performers for character shows that tour across Canada.

Frankie the Funky Fairy is played by Allison Villa.  She's excited to be back in Toronto after spending three adventurous years singing and dancing for Carnival Cruise Lines.  Allison recently returned from playing "Rizzo" in a whirlwind tour of Grease in Japan and currently performing in I'm a Soulman Blues Brothers Tribute show.  Allison is a graduate of Randolph Academy of the Performing Arts.  Her other passion is aerial silks.  But I don't think we will be seeing her enter the swamp from the air.

Alternately, Shannon Coulter plays the role Frankie.  She started performing and training at a very young age both in the US and Canada.  Since graduating from Sheridan College Music Theatre Program a year ago, she has toured with Little Red Theatre and made an appearance in a CBC documentary last summer.  Most recently she was a Bollywood dancer in a short film (1812) that was presented to her Royal Highness, The Queen of England.  Shannon is very happy to be a part of this amazing show!

Stompin' the Swamp promises to entertain all ages!

Come watch and meet Shrek!  Here are our confirmed appreances to date:

September 18 & 19 - Mom, Pop & Tots Fair, Edmonton, ON

October 16 - MBM Baby Show, Barrie, ON

November 6 & 7 - Baby and Family Fair, Vancouver, BC

November 27 to January 2 - Casa Loma, Toronto, ON

Check each venue's website for timing.

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