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Nestled on the banks of the St Lawrence River, the Thousand Islands Playhouse theatres offer six months of engaging entertainment, in one of Canada's most beautiful theatre settings. This year is shaping up to be one of the company's most crowd-pleasing seasons to date. The productions at the flagship Springer Theatre are guaranteed to get toes tapping, hearts singing and will generate more than a few belly laughs. At even more intimate Firehall Theatre, the lineup promises engaging and provocative storytelling, presented with innovative production styles.

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EXCITING LINEUP -

Getting into the habit of starting with a lively musical, the Springer Theatre season kicks off  May 11 with an irresistibly hilarious musical, Nunsense II, by Dan Goggin.  The revue follows a group of nuns who have been seriously bitten by the theatre bug, and are trying to impress a talent scout (while carrying on their usual bingo game on the side.)  It’s followed from June 22 to July 21 by the premiere of Douglas Bowie’s Somewhere Beyond The Sea, a  close encounter of the culinary kind that is disrupted by some not-so-subtle climate events.  Bowie’s most recent comedies, Till It Hurts and Rope’s End, also premiered at the Playhouse and have gone on to subsequent productions.

                The Playhouse’s 30^th birthday (June 25) is followed by the 30^th Birthday of another star: Little Shop of Horrors, the legendary musical which plays July 27 to September 1.  Created by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, and directed by Greg Wanless (who also plays the hungry plant) Little Shop of Horrors tells the story of sweet Seymour Krelborn, his bandaged-beloved Audrey, an evil dentist, and a hungry plant that mysteriously arrives to solve everyone’s problems.

                Fall 2012 at the Springer Theatre starts in September September 7 – October 6 with the return of the dauntlessly adventurous couple from Sexy Laundry in Henry and Alice: Into The Wild, from Vancouverite Michele Riml. The season closes with a limited run of the world-travelled production of Tempting Providence, the real-life story of Newfoundland’s legendary nurse Myra Bennett by Robert Chafe. Performed by the acclaimed company Theatre Newfoundland Labrador , Tempting Providence stars Deidre Gillard-Rowlings as Bennett.

                The ninth Firehall Season begins with a production that originated with Festival Players of Prince Edward County. The acclaimed musical by John MacLachlan Gray, Amelia, The Girl Who Wants to Fly featuring Eliza-Jane Scott, Stephen Gallagher and Karin Randoja,  plays from June 28 to July 28.  August 10 to September 8, Stephen Massicotte’s award-winning romantic mystery The Clockmaker

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