Hammer Entertainment Announces

2011 - 2012 Season

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HAMMER ENTERTAINMENT

ANNOUNCES PLAYBILL FOR 2011/12 SEASON

June 16th 2011– Hamilton, Ontario (For Immediate Release)

Hammer Entertainment celebrates its fourth season with two of the biggest musicals to ever grace a Broadway stage, an incredible musical review making its Hamilton debut, and a show from Hamilton’s favourite playwright.

2011/2012 will be our biggest and best season yet.  Hammer Entertainment’s artistic team is extremely excited to bring to Hamilton not one, but two blockbuster musicals that have never before graced a Hamilton stage.  Combined, our opening and closing musicals raked in 20 Tony Awards, meaning we have an award-winning season lined up.  Artistic Director Jason Dick explains, “Our two big shows this year played on Broadway at almost the same time and swept the Tony Awards for two straight years.  Together they played to sold-out houses for seven years apiece, with 5000 performances between them.  All of our musicals this year have played to very successful runs in Toronto but have never made the trip here to Hamilton.  We aim to fix that.  And how we have arrived at our fourth season without paying tribute to Hamilton’s favourite playwright is beyond me.  That’s something else we will fix this year.”

 

 

The Producers
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Directed by Jason Dick
October 7th-22nd 2011

Max Bialystock used to be the King of Broadway, but when his latest show flops, his accountant Leo Bloom realizes that he actually made money on the production, inspiring Max to come up with the perfect plan...
Step 1: We find the worst play ever written.
Step 2: We hire the worst director in town.
Step 3: We raise two million dollars...One for me, one for you. There's a lot of little old ladies out there!
Step 4: We hire the worst actors in New York and open on Broadway and before you can say
Step 5: We close on Broadway, take our two million, and go to Rio.
Winner of a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 11 Drama Desk Awards

 

 

Drinking Alone
By Norm Foster
Directed by Monica Cairney
November 18th-26th 2011

In this romantic comedy set in the midst of a dysfunctional family reunion, Joe Todd hires Renee Duchene to pose as his fiancee for an evening so that he can impress his father, Ivan. Ivan is coming for a rare visit, and Joe and his sister Carrie are suspicious of his motives.

For the first time Hammer Entertainment brings you Hamilton’s favourite playwright.

"Elicits howling laughter from the audience." - Kitchener-Waterloo Record
"Perfect! The audience laughs itself silly." - Montreal Gazette

 

 

 

Songs For A New World
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Ryan Miller
February 3rd-11th 2012
Transported from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, audiences meet a startling array of characters, ranging from a young man who has determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto, to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams and a soulless marriage. These are the stories and characters of today, the songs for a new world.
The composer who brought us The Last Five Years and Parade brings us some of the best songs of contemporary musical theatre.
“It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.” -- composer Jason Robert Brown

 

 

 

 

Hairspray
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman
and Marc Shaiman
Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan
April 20th - May 5th 2012
Hairspray delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out -- and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair?
Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical

 

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