{"id":14422,"date":"2017-07-28T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2017-08-03T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:33:25","slug":"roxy-theatre-intimately-rearranged-for-red-hot-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/07\/28\/roxy-theatre-intimately-rearranged-for-red-hot-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxy Theatre intimately rearranged for Red, Hot Cole!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red, Hot Cole!<\/em> director and creator Darcy Evans says that the artistic madness of directing plays and the rehearsal hiccups are all well worth it when the rush of opening night hits. A graduate of Victoria\u2019s Canadian College of Performing Arts, Evans loves the teamwork and creative camaraderie of working with everyone involved in this play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited about how the songs are fitting together, and how we\u2019re using the existing songs to tell a new story,\u201d says Evans.<\/p>\n

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Red, Hot Cole!<\/em> director Darcy Evans (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Evans and his creative team have rearranged the songs, originally written by American composer Cole Porter, in the style of a musical revue to coincide with Evans\u2019 storyline.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a compilation of all of his songs from different shows. I\u2019ve created a very loose plotline about two theatrical couples who are working in the Roxy Lounge\u2014which is a cabaret nightclub theatre-type venue\u2014using the existing Cole Porter love songs to tell the story of one night on stage,\u201d says Evans, adding that the show centres on the characters\u2019 relationships and interactions with one another on that night.<\/p>\n

Evans says he conveys the story by letting Porter\u2019s music and lyrics speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very evocative and also very open to interpretation; he writes a brilliant love song, so it lends itself very well to crafting a little love story,\u201d says Evans.<\/p>\n

Evans says the storyline itself will appeal to many different viewers, as will the calibre of the singers he has procured for the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether you\u2019re in for a light little night of romance or not, you\u2019re going to get an amazing vocal night of incredible music,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The Roxy Theatre will be transformed for the show into something resembling more of a cabaret space than a theatre. Evans says a couple of rows of seats will be taken out and small tables will be put in, where audience members will be able to sit and watch the show as if participating in it, which, says Evans, will make for a more immersive experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a real different kind of experience at The Roxy,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause we are really going to try to blur the lines between audience and performer to make it feel like they\u2019re getting an intimate concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red, Hot Cole!
\n<\/em>Tuesday, August 1 to Sunday, August 13
\nVarious times and prices, The Roxy Theatre
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Red, Hot Cole! director and creator Darcy Evans says that the artistic madness of directing plays and the rehearsal hiccups are all well worth it when the rush of opening night hits. A graduate of Victoria\u2019s Canadian College of Performing Arts, Evans loves the teamwork and creative camaraderie of working with everyone involved in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14425,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions\/14425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}