Do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata, last year's livestream hit, returns February 5 to 7
Kayvon Khoshkam joins the cast for the critically lauded production
Amanda Sums sings in do you want what i have got? a craigslist contata.
The Cultch streams do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata from February 5 to 7.
DO YOU want what i have got? a craigslist cantata turned out to be one of the rare good-news stories in a shuttered arts scene last fall.
Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone’s comedic song cycle, drawn entirely from real, warped and wonderful online classified listings made it to almost every top show of the year list for 2020. Most excitingly, the local hit that debuted to raves in 2012 was enjoyed by viewers from around the world.
When we reviewed the show in its online version, we said the show managed to “break through the constraints of virtual performance and the impersonal nature of digital platforms to reach us, at home in our own boxes, with their humanity and humour.”
If you missed this chance to see what livestreamed theatre can do in this new virtual era, you’ll get another chance to see it later this week, beamed straight from the Cultch Historic Theatre. Note that new tightened pandemic restrictions in place since November mean that each colourful actor here has to sing from his or her own room—giving the show a cool Hollywood Squares effect. (We talked to Gladstone about working in those measures—and finding creative ways to make them work for the musical—here.)
The production comes to you with a slightly altered new cast: Kayvon Khoshkam, recently seen in the Arts Club's Buffoon, now steps into Chirag Naik's role, joining Meaghan Chenosky, Josh Epstein, Amanda Sum, and Andrew Wheeler. Hille and Barry Mirochnik appear with live, but physically separated, accompaniment.
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