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Haydn’s stunning St. Cecilia Mass, is
being presented at the Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre at 427 Bloor Street West.
Performances are at 7 p.m. on May 7,
at 8 p.m. on May 8 to 10 and at 3:30
p.m. on May 11. Tickets can be purchased
at the box office or by calling
416 964-6337. Prices range from $37
to $78 ($29 to $71 for seniors).
’Night Mother, a winner of the
Pulitzer Prize and four Tony Awards,is
a compassionate and heart-wrenching
examination of the relationship
between a mother and daughter.
Presented at the Young Centre for the
Performing Arts at 55 Mill Street in
downtown Toronto’s Distillery
District, the play stars the real-life
mother/daughter acting team of
Dawn Greenhalgh and Megan
Follows. It runs Monday to Saturday
from May 13 to June 21, with evening
performances at 8 p.m. and matinees
on May 24 and May 28 at 2 p.m.
Tickets run from $34 to $43 for the
matinee on May 28 and from $44 to
$59 for the matinee on May 24 and
Monday to Thursday evening performances.Tickets
range from $48 to
$65 Friday and Saturday evenings. For
further information, telephone the
box office at 416 866-8666.
The highly popular Irish-born singer
of country music, inspirational ballads,
1960s pop tunes and Irish standards,
Daniel O’Donnell, appears at
the Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts at 1 Front Street East on May 28.
With six PBS Television specials —
including his latest: Daniel
O’Donnell: Can You Feel The Love —
and over 7.5 million albums sold
worldwide, this musical phenomenon
has a vast fan base.The performance
starts at 7 p.m. and tickets run
from $67.50 to $115. Further information
is available from the box
office at 416 393-7476.
HALTON REGION
The Burl-Oak Theatre Group will present
its final performance of the
Tennessee Williams blockbuster The
Night of the Iguana at the Oakville
Centre for the Performing Arts at 130
Navy Street on May 3. A defrocked,
alcoholic priest leading a bus tour of
church women arrives at a rundown
Mexican seaside hotel managed by an
earthy widow. The hotel’s other residents
include a painter struggling to
care for her ailing grandfather and an
attractive but precocious teenager
with a free-spirited sexuality. Tickets
are $25 (all-inclusive) and it is advisable
to call the box office at 905 815-
2021 or 1 888 489-7784 to check on
availability.
PEEL REGION
Among a variety of offerings for the
month of May,the Living Arts Centre at
4141 Living Arts Drive in Mississauga
is presenting jazz singing sensation
Sophie Milman on May 2 and the
five-member gypsy band Papa Duke
on May 9. Both performances begin at
8 p.m. and tickets start at $25 (no seniors’
discount). Milman takes her inspiration
from Ella Fitzgerald, Ray
Charles, George Gershwin, Duke
Ellington and Mississauga’s own Oscar
Peterson. Her repertoire includes a
stunning array of jazz standards and
contemporary new compositions.The
performance takes place at the
Centre’s Hammerson Hall. Ukrainianborn
Vasyl Popadiuk and his Papa
Duke band will delight Ukrainian
music lovers with what has come to
be known as “gypsy world fusion”— a
combination of classical, jazz, latin and
pop selections. Papa Duke takes the
stage at the Centre’s RBC Theatre. For
further information, contact the box
office at 905 306-6100.
DURHAM REGION
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Theatre has two fantastic offerings
this month: The Melville Boys by
playwright Norm Foster and
Bermuda Avenue Triangle, penned
by the husband-and-wife writing team
of Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna.
The icing on the cake, so to speak, is
the pre-show dinner featuring roast
beef, chicken or fish main courses
with all the trimmings. Doors open at
6 p.m. and the curtain rises at 8 p.m.
The Foster play closes May 10. The
Taylor/Bologna offering debuts on
May 16 and runs until June 28.
Performances take place Thursday to
Sunday and all-inclusive tickets are
$49.95 except for a $52.95 tab on
Saturday evening. Seniors receive a $2
discount. The theatre is located at
2885 Altona Road. Further information
is available by calling 905 472-3085 or
1 866 902-9884.
Special Events
METROPOLITAN TORONTO
Figure skating fans will want to attend
the spectacular Swan Lake on Ice at
the Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts at 1 Front Street in Downtown
Toronto.The event starts April 30 and
runs until May 11. With music by
Tchaikovsky, the Imperial Ice Stars
perform stunning skating feats — normally
seen only in Olympic arenas —
within the confines of a theatre stage,
including breathtaking triple flips,
triple toe loops, double axels, death
spirals, camel spins, Bielmanns, triple
throw axels and awe-inspiring aerial
gymnastics.Tickets range from $40 to
$70, with performance times on
Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.,
Thursdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and
8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For more
information, telephone 416 393-7491.
CONTACT, the highly popular
Toronto Photography Festival, runs
from May 1 to 31 in more than 200
venues across the GTA. Over 500