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On Sunday night I was looking through the news and found an interesting article on a new burlesque show starring Canadian war-time comic hero Johnny Canuck. The show starts tonight at Mainline Theatre in Montreal, Canada, and is part of the winter Fringe Festival.

Since they’re based in Montreal, I thought this was a great opportunity to interview the producer for Kitkast and promote their show, so I called the theatre on Monday morning to see if I could set it up. To my great pleasure, not only did I score an interview with the producer, but I also got two tickets for a preview performance last night.

The show was magnificent, blending the naive patriotic comic book hero Johnny Canuck with empowered women of sin. This naiveté was amplified by his fights scenes which were choreographed like the 1960s Batman TV series, while the singing burlesque vixens’ scenes were choreographed to highlight their confidence.

The story was classic (boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back), but everything in between was new and entertaining. Every character in the production had his/her own distinct personality and served a purpose in the storyline …well, except for the fact that I think the Marx Brothers were just in there for the fun of it!

Over all, this is a really fun musical play and I urge anyone who will be in Montreal from now to February 12th to check it out.

Tune in on Saturday, 28 January 2006, for my interview with co-writers Patrick Goddard and Jeremy Hechtman.

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