GO SEE A MUSICAL
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia has a wonderfully active musical theatre community.
Click on the bold-ed show titles for further information.

2022
18th Annual OVATION! Awards - Sunday January 30 (online)
Seussical The Musical - Align Entertainment (POSTPONED: new date TBA)
Rocky Horror Show - Studio 58 (February 3-20)
Ring of Fire - First Impressions Theatre (February 17 - March 5)
The Girl Next Door: A New Musical - Painted Productions (February)
Nunsense - Boone Dog Productions (March 11 - 27)​
Urinetown - Exit 22/Capilano University (March TBC)
'Da Kink In My Hair - Arts Club Theatre Co. (April 14-May 15)
​Kinky Boots - Arts Club Theatre Co. (June 9–July 31)
Something Rotten - Theatre Under The Stars (July/August)
We Will Rock You - Theatre Under The Stars (running in rep July/Aug)
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(Are you presenting a musical in the Lower Mainland and not on this list? Click here to email us to be included.  
Past 2021
17th Annual OVATION! Awards - (January 31)
do you want what I have got? a craigslist cantata - The Cultch (streaming February 5-7)
Monocerous - Studio 58/Langara (streaming TBA)
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown - Exit 22/Cap University (streaming TBA)
Into the Woods - Exit 22/Cap University (streaming TBA)
Pageant: A Musical Comedy Beauty Contest - Kay Meek Centre (streaming August 11, 18 & 25)​
Spamalot - White Rock Players (September 8 - October 3)
3AM In the Persian Room - First Impressions Theatre (October 1-16)​
​Revue-sical The Musical - Align Entertainment (October 21-22)
3AM In the Persian Room - First Impressions Theatre @ Firehall (October 27-30)
Paddle Song - Firehall Arts Centre (November 10-21)
All Together Now!  A Global Event - Theatre in the Country (November 12-15)
All Together Now!  A Global Event - Fabulist Theatre (November 12-15)
​Amelie - Exit 22/Capilano University (December 3-4)
Back With A Vengeance - The Broadway Chorus (December 11)
​Elf, the musical - Theatre In the Country (December 2-18)
A Broadway Holiday - Gateway Theatre (December 16-23)
​Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol - Arts Club Theatre Co. (November 18 - January 2)
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​Pantos:
​Sleeping Beauty - FVGSS (November 24-December 5)
East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland - The Cultch (November 24-January 2)
Robinson Crusoe  - White Rock Players (December 1-26) 
Snow White - Metro Theatre (December 2 - Jannuary 2, 2022)
Frosted - Deep Cove Stage Society (December 9-30)
Alice In Wonderland - Royal Canadian Theatre Company (December 18 - January 2)
Other Local Links
​Companies that present musicals & light opera/operetta in Vancouver:
APPLAUSE! Musicals Society
Ace Productions
Align Entertainment
Arts Club Theatre Company
Burnaby Lyric Opera
Carousel Theatre For Young People
Dramanatrix Productions
Down Stage Right Productions
Emerald Pig Theatrical Society
​Fabulist Theatre
Footlight Theatre Company
Fighting Chance Productions
Firehall Arts Centre
First Impressions Theatre
Fugue Theatre
FVGSS A Musical Theatre Company
Gateway Theatre
Kay Meek Center
Metro Cooperative Theatre Society
North Shore Light Opera Society
North Vancouver Community Players
Once Upon A Theatre (Broadway Chorus)
​Patrick Street Productions
Pipedream Theatre Project
Presentation House Theatre
​Renegade Productions 
Royal City Musical Theatre
Showstoppers & Gotta Sing!Gotta Dance!
SPECC-tacular Productions
Studio 58
Theatre Under The Stars
Theatre In The Country 
Touchstone Theatre
​URP Theatrical
UBC Musical Theatre Troupe
White Rock Players' Club
 
Neighbour Companies (British Columbia, outside Lower Mainland)
Fraser Valley Stage (Abbotsford)
Victoria Operatic Society (Victoria)
Schmooze Productions (Nanaimo)
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Post Secondary Educational Programs:
Capilano University College: Musical Theatre Program
Langara College: Studio 58
UBC School of Music-UBC Opera Ensemble
Canadian College of Performing Arts (Victoria)

Opera
City Opera Vancouver
Opera Pro Cantanti
The Opera Project
Opera Mariposa
Pacific Opera (Victoria)
Skagit Opera (Mt. Vernon)
UBC Opera
Vancouver Academy of Music
Vancouver Island Opera (Parksville)
Vancouver Opera

​Music Directors in the Lower Mainland
Peter Abando* 
Jenny Anderson*
Arielle Ballance 
James Bryson 
Wendy Bross Stuart
Ken Cormier
Caitlin Hayes*
Brent Hughes
Angus Kellett*
Christopher King*
Kerry O'Donovan*
* APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert Alum
Land Acknowledgement: APPLAUSE! Musicals Society acknowledges that musicals in the Lower Mainland are performed on the unceded and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.