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

Land Acknowledgement: APPLAUSE! Musicals Society acknowledges that we work and perform on the unceded and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
2020
CANCELLED: Anything Goes - Highlands United Productions (March 18 - 22)
CANCELLED: A Chorus Line - Exit 22/Cap University (March 19-28)
CANCELLED: Chicago - UBC Musical Theatre Troupe (March 21-22)
CANCELLED: Crazy for You - Royal City Musical Theatre (April 9 – 26)
POSTPONED Date TBC: Da Kink In My Hair - Arts Club Theatre Company (April 16 - May 16)
POSTPONED Date TBC: Sedna a new musical - Urban Ink (April 22 - May 10)
POSTPONED Date TBC: Pageant  – Something Extra Collective (April 27- May 2) 
POSTPONED Date TBC:  Mamma Mia! - The Lawyer Show (April 29 - May 3)
​POSTPONED Date TBC: Patience - North Shore Light Opera (May 14-24)
POSTPONED Date TBC: Dogfight - Attic Light Arts (May 6-10)
Kinky Boots - Arts Club Theatre Company (May 21-July 5)
The Last Five Years - Eyagi Productions (May 28 - June 6)
POSTPONED Date TBC: Spamalot - White Rock Players (June 10 - July 4)
Vampire Prom - The Broadway Chorus (June 17 - 20)
Love's Labour's Lost - Bard On The Beach (July 3 - September 26)
Anything Goes - FVGSS (July 16 - 26)
CANCELLED: Hello Dolly - Theatre Under the Stars (July/August TBA)
CANCELLED: Disney's Beauty and the Beast - Theatre Under The Stars (July/August TBA)
Catch Me If You Can - Theatre in The Country (August 6-22)
Review-Sical, a 10 year Anniversary Revue - Align Entertainment (September 10 - 11)
Ring of Fire - First Impressions Theatre (September 10 - 26)
Next to Normal - Eyagi Productions (October 1-11)
Cabaret - Raincity Theatre (October 7 - November 1)
Elf - Arts Club Theatre Company (November 5 - January 3)
White Christmas – Theatre in The Country (November 25 – December 12)
​Scrooge In Rouge - Arts Club Thea tre Company (November 26 - January 3)

2021
Seussical The Musical - Align Entertainment (February 4 - 20)
Beehive - First Impressions Theatre (February 25 - March 13)
Songs for A New World - First Impressions Theatre (May 6 - 22)
Elvis The Musical - Arts Club Theatre Company (May 13 - July 4)
A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline - Arts Club Theatre Company (June 17 - Aug 1)

(Are you presenting a musical in the Lower Mainland and not on this list? Click here to email us to be included.  
Past 2020
Rapunzel: The Pantomime - SMP Dramatic Society (January 17-Feb 1)
16th Annual OVATION! Awards - Sunday January 26, 2020
Urinetown - Studio 58/Langara College (January 30-February 16)
Shrek - Align Entertainment (January 31-February 15)
Nunsense - First Impressions Theatre (February 13-29)
Talking Sex on Sundays  (new musical) - Firehall Arts Centre (February 14 – March 8)
Other Local Links
​Companies that present musicals & light opera/operetta in Vancouver:
APPLAUSE! Musicals Society
Ace Productions
Awkward Stage 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
Touchstone Theatre
​URP Theatrical
UBC Musical Theatre Troupe
White Rock Players' Club
 
Neighbour Companies
Schmooze Productions (Nanaimo)
Victoria Operatic Society (Victoria)

Post Secondary Educational Programs:
Langara College: Studio 58
Capilano University College: Musical Theatre Program
UBC School of Music-UBC Opera Ensemble

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* 
Arielle Ballance 
James Bryson 
Wendy Bross Stuart
Ken Cormier
Kevin Michael Cripps*
Caitlin Hayes*
Brent Hughes
Angus Kellett*
Christopher King*
Kerry O'Donovan*
* APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert Alum