Theatre Under the Stars returns to Stanley Park after two years, with Something Rotten! and We Will Rock You
Summer shows travel from Elizabethan England to a future world full of Queen hits
Audiences will be able to return to Malkin Bowl this July and August. Photo by Shawn Bukhari
THEATRE UNDER THE STARS has just announced its return to live productions after two years off due to the pandemic.
An institution since 1940, the company is coming back to Malkin Bowl this summer with a satire about writing the first Elizabethan musical and a rock-fuelled ode to Queen.
Something Rotten! and We Will Rock You will run alternate evenings from July 2 to August 27 at the historic outdoor Stanley Park venue.
One of the shows is set hundreds of years in the past, while the other is 300 years in the future. Something Rotten! is full of song-and-dance numbers, poking fun at musicals like West Side Story, South Pacific, and Les Misérables. Determined to write a hit show, Elizabethan playwright siblings Nick and Nigel Bottom enlist a soothsayer to help them beat Shakespeare’s success. Jessie Award-winning director Rachel Peake helms the production.
Three centuries in the future, We Will Rock You inhabits a world ruled by sinister leader Killer Queen. Two misfits, Galileo and Scaramouche, rise up in a fight for freedom, in a spectacle that reflects Queen’s live performances. Expect more than 20 hits from the band’s iconic songbook including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions,” and “Another One Bites the Dust”, with director Saccha Dennis making her TUTS debut.
Two-show subscription packs are on sale today through May 18. You can find more info here.
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