RAINDOGS

_Lyrics by Andrew MacBean
music by MacBean, Paul Chant and Boko Suzuki
Book by MacBean, Rose Martula and Lanford Wilson

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__Based on Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead

Theatre 20 partners with Sheridan College’s Canadian Music Theatre Project on a new workshop featuring both Theatre 20 Founding Artists and Sheridan students.

Raindogs is a moving and gritty look at the junkies, pushers, prostitutes and other freaks that inhabit an upper West Side greasy spoon.
This musical, based on Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead, features original music by MacBean, Paul Chant and Boko Suzuki, lyrics by MacBean and book by MacBean, Rose Martula and Wilson himself. The show, which was the last project Wilson worked on before his death in March 2011, centres on a young prostitute who meets a somewhat inept drug dealer. Like Balm in Gilead, Raindogs is a moving and gritty look at the junkies, pushers, prostitutes and other freaks that inhabit an upper West Side greasy spoon.

Raindogs was first workshopped as a full-length musical as part of the MAD Fringe Festival at Trafalgar Studios, London, England. It went on to have its first U.S. workshop at Sag Harbour, NY’s Bay Street Theatre in October 2010.

The workshop will take place during the late spring at Sheridan in conjunction with a comprehensive mentorship program between Theatre 20 Founding Artists and the Sheridan Musical Theatre Performance Program students. Public performances of the workshop will take place in both Oakville and Toronto. The full production of Raindogs will follow in Theatre 20’s 2013-2014 season.
WORKSHOP:  April-May 2012

FULL PRODUCTION:  2013-2014 Season

CREATIVE TEAM
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CAST
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TICKETS
Public performances TBA.
Mikaela MacGillivray for Theatre 20.
Photography by Ashton Doudelet, Matthew Campbell and Donnie Macphee. Graphics by Andy Thomas.