APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert
APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert is the flagship program of APPLAUSE! Musicals Society.
Under the Artistic Direction of Scott Ashton Swan, APPLAUSE! celebrates the rarely heard musical theatre works by important composers and lyricists. Conceived in 1997 as concert performances - or "on book" performances - APPLAUSE! presents the entire book and scores of these musicals.
Each production is a whirlwind, with just seven days of rehearsals (about 40 hours), then three performances. Most concerts are piano only but occasionally there is a small combo band.
Over the last 17 years, APPLAUSE! has presented 43 musicals in concert including works by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Charles Strouse, Stephen Sondheim, and many others.
The casting of the concerts has a focus on recent graduates of professional musical theatre/theatre training programs.
"In a town and era where most producers play it safe with the musical warhorses, it's up to a small, semi-professional company like APPLAUSE! to go out on a limb with these shows." - Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun
Past Musicals In Concert:
2023: Out of this World, Curtains, Do I Hear A Waltz?
2017: Oh, Boy!
2015: The Boys From Syrcause
2014: Gay's The Word, Sail Away, They're Playing Our Song
2013: The Frogs, Ernest In Love, Fiorello
2012: Flora The Red Menace
2011: Little Me, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Mame
2010: Good News, Follies
2009: Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, Titanic, Lorelei, Irene
2008: Gigi, Tenderloin, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Do Re Mi
2007: Sunday In The Park With George, It's A Bird It's A Plane It's Superman, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Very Good Eddie
2006: Babes In Arms, Flower Drum Song, Louisiana Purchase
2005: Strike Up The Band, Jubilee, On The Town, Saturday Night
2004: Mack and Mabel, The Bakers Wife, Wish You Were Here, 70 Girls 70
2003: Aspects of Love, On The Twentieth Century, Woman of the Year, Chess
2002: Dear World, Nine, Anyone Can Whistle
1997: Dorian Gray, Merrily We Roll Along
Under the Artistic Direction of Scott Ashton Swan, APPLAUSE! celebrates the rarely heard musical theatre works by important composers and lyricists. Conceived in 1997 as concert performances - or "on book" performances - APPLAUSE! presents the entire book and scores of these musicals.
Each production is a whirlwind, with just seven days of rehearsals (about 40 hours), then three performances. Most concerts are piano only but occasionally there is a small combo band.
Over the last 17 years, APPLAUSE! has presented 43 musicals in concert including works by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Charles Strouse, Stephen Sondheim, and many others.
The casting of the concerts has a focus on recent graduates of professional musical theatre/theatre training programs.
"In a town and era where most producers play it safe with the musical warhorses, it's up to a small, semi-professional company like APPLAUSE! to go out on a limb with these shows." - Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun
Past Musicals In Concert:
2023: Out of this World, Curtains, Do I Hear A Waltz?
2017: Oh, Boy!
2015: The Boys From Syrcause
2014: Gay's The Word, Sail Away, They're Playing Our Song
2013: The Frogs, Ernest In Love, Fiorello
2012: Flora The Red Menace
2011: Little Me, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Mame
2010: Good News, Follies
2009: Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, Titanic, Lorelei, Irene
2008: Gigi, Tenderloin, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Do Re Mi
2007: Sunday In The Park With George, It's A Bird It's A Plane It's Superman, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Very Good Eddie
2006: Babes In Arms, Flower Drum Song, Louisiana Purchase
2005: Strike Up The Band, Jubilee, On The Town, Saturday Night
2004: Mack and Mabel, The Bakers Wife, Wish You Were Here, 70 Girls 70
2003: Aspects of Love, On The Twentieth Century, Woman of the Year, Chess
2002: Dear World, Nine, Anyone Can Whistle
1997: Dorian Gray, Merrily We Roll Along
