Musical Stage Company founder Mitchell Marcus leaving for a life on the runway with Northcrest Developments

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Mitchell Marcus is flying away from the not-for-profit theatre company he founded in order to help infuse a whole new area of the city with cultural life

As an artistic director and chief executive officer at Musical Stage Company, Mitchell Marcus has helped musical theatre soar to new heights in Toronto over the past 18 years.

The new job centres on programming and planning activity for and around a 2.1-kilometre runway that is being transformed into a pedestrian boulevard. The aim is for it to be a cultural destination at the heart of new neighbourhoods being built. “Obviously, it’s very early days and step one of the project is to really work with the local community to determine what the needs are and what is possible.”

It now has a $2.8-million annual budget – with annual attendance in the 30,000 range – and is equally devoted to staging top-notch productions of challenging pre-existing musicals and to cultivating new homegrown shows and voices. in 2017. The resources put behind that world premiere by Musical Stage Company in conjunction with Canadian Stage and Yonge Street Theatricals made it“I just sat there and thought this is what it felt like to be in the room with Stephen Sondheim in 1968, two years before he’s going to win the Tony for, about teenage grief, has since gone on to be produced at the Old Globe in San Diego and will next be produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in June.

 

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