A much anticipated co-production with Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera, The Overcoat - a musical tailoring is an operatic reinterpretation Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling's 1998 smash-hit play, The Overcoat
Date/Time: Apr 28 2018, 7:30 pm to 9:40 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Playhouse | Event calendarCost: $41.75
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With a libretto from Morris Panych and music composed by Canadian Composer, James Rolfe, this production reunites the original creative team. Morris Panych is the director, with choreography by Wendy Gorling, set design by Ken MacDonald. costume design by Nancy Bryant, and lighting design by Alan Brodie. This extremely important work, addresses the universal human need for compassion and our unfortunate tendency to deny it. The Overcoat: an Opera is so much more than the story of an office worker whose life is turned upside down when he’s robbed of his new overcoat. “Panych and Gorling... have delivered a work that grows richer on each subsequent viewing, a creation that combines laughter with pathos and exhilaration with despair.” – Toronto Star (on 2007’s The Overcoat). The work will debut at the Bluma Appel Theatre in March 2017 before coming to the Vancouver Playhouse - where the original creation premiered 20 years ago.
Sung in English with English SURTITLES
Music: James Rolfe Libretto: Morris Panych Conductor: Leslie Dala Director: Morris Panych
Cast and creative teams
Akakiy: Geoffrey Sirett
Petrovich: Peter McGillivray
Conductor: Leslie Dala
Director: Morris Panych
Set Designer: Ken MacDonald
Costumer Designer: Nancy Bryant
Lighting Designer: Alan Brodie
With Vancouver Opera Orchestra
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