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Menopause The Musical
Saturday February 20th, 7:30-9:30pm
Location:Winter Garden Theatre
Address:189 Yonge Street
Phone:416-301-9558
The off-Broadway smash hit “Menopause The Musical®” returns to Toronto!
After 513 performances in Toronto from June/06 to May/08, Menopause The Musical® is returning to Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre for a limited 4 week run beginning February 10 to March 7, 2010.
The show, which has become an international phenomenon was written by Jeanie Linders and is produced by South Florida-based GFour Productions.
Menopause The Musical® has been seen by nearly 11 million people all over the world since it debuted in a 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, Florida in 2001.
Billed as “The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change®,” the original, off-Broadway musical begins with four women, “Professional Woman,” “Soap Star,” “Iowa Housewife” and “Earth Mother,” at a Bloomingdale’s lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra - and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex and day-to-day challenges with aging parents, aging children and aging partners.
They share their ups and downs through a collection of 25 re-lyricized baby boomer songs from the 60's, 70's and 80s. Disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” becomes “Stayin’ Awake,” Motown favourite “My Guy” is transformed into “My Thighs,” "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" switches to "In the Guest Room or on the Sofa, My Husband Sleeps at night,” and “Puff The Magic Dragon” becomes the anthem to exercise, Puff, My God I’m Draggin’”.
“It may not be Shakespeare, but our focus is different. We want to bring women together and empower them. This is an event – a happening,” says Kathi Glist, one of the show’s producers. “It resonates with just about any woman over 40, but it is enjoyed by all. And the younger women laugh just as hard,” she adds. “It’s a party every night!”
“The show has become a point of relating, a celebration of a life passage that launches women into a new exciting phase of their lives,” says Linders. “Most women know intuitively what every other woman is facing with the onset of the menopause. They talk about it with their friends and, on occasion with their spouses. But, when they are in a theatre with hundreds of women, and they’re all shouting ‘That’s Me!’ then they know what they are experiencing is normal. They call it a sisterhood!”
Show times for Menopause The Musical® will be Wednesday through Saturday @ 7:30 p.m., matinees Saturday & Sunday @ 2:00p.m.
Single tickets are $49.95 (plus taxes & service charges) and will be available to purchase by calling 416- 872-5555
or by going on line to: www.ticketmaster.ca or www.menopausethemusical.com
Groups of 10 plus, can book directly by calling The Group Tix Company at 647- 438-5559.
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For more media information, please contact:
Robyn Landau, Publicist
416-301-9558
Mark Zimmerman -Marketing Director
Office: 905-477-9300 X236
Cell: 416-707-6968
Listings:
“Menopause The Musical”® Returns to Toronto!!
Starting February 10 until March 7 @ The Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge Street
Showtimes: Wednesday through Saturday @ 7:30 p.m.
After 513 performances in Toronto from June/06 to May/08, Menopause The Musical® is returning to Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre for a limited 4 week run beginning February 10 to March 7, 2010.
The show, which has become an international phenomenon was written by Jeanie Linders and is produced by South Florida-based GFour Productions.
Menopause The Musical® has been seen by nearly 11 million people all over the world since it debuted in a 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, Florida in 2001.
Billed as “The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change®,” the original, off-Broadway musical begins with four women, “Professional Woman,” “Soap Star,” “Iowa Housewife” and “Earth Mother,” at a Bloomingdale’s lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra - and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex and day-to-day challenges with aging parents, aging children and aging partners.
They share their ups and downs through a collection of 25 re-lyricized baby boomer songs from the 60's, 70's and 80s. Disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” becomes “Stayin’ Awake,” Motown favourite “My Guy” is transformed into “My Thighs,” "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" switches to "In the Guest Room or on the Sofa, My Husband Sleeps at night,” and “Puff The Magic Dragon” becomes the anthem to exercise, Puff, My God I’m Draggin’”.
“It may not be Shakespeare, but our focus is different. We want to bring women together and empower them. This is an event – a happening,” says Kathi Glist, one of the show’s producers. “It resonates with just about any woman over 40, but it is enjoyed by all. And the younger women laugh just as hard,” she adds. “It’s a party every night!”
“The show has become a point of relating, a celebration of a life passage that launches women into a new exciting phase of their lives,” says Linders. “Most women know intuitively what every other woman is facing with the onset of the menopause. They talk about it with their friends and, on occasion with their spouses. But, when they are in a theatre with hundreds of women, and they’re all shouting ‘That’s Me!’ then they know what they are experiencing is normal. They call it a sisterhood!”
Show times for Menopause The Musical® will be Wednesday through Saturday @ 7:30 p.m., matinees Saturday & Sunday @ 2:00p.m.
Single tickets are $49.95 (plus taxes & service charges) and will be available to purchase by calling 416- 872-5555
or by going on line to: www.ticketmaster.ca or www.menopausethemusical.com
Groups of 10 plus, can book directly by calling The Group Tix Company at 647- 438-5559.
###
For more media information, please contact:
Robyn Landau, Publicist
416-301-9558
Mark Zimmerman -Marketing Director
Office: 905-477-9300 X236
Cell: 416-707-6968
Listings:
“Menopause The Musical”® Returns to Toronto!!
Starting February 10 until March 7 @ The Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge Street
Showtimes: Wednesday through Saturday @ 7:30 p.m.
