Aaron Collier is excited to bring Heist’s new production “Princess Rules” to Club Didi for Lethbridge Pride Festival, tonight , June 16 and Sunday night , June 17 at  8 p.m..
 Princess Rules is the sequel to the award winning Princess show.

“We’ve toured Nova Scotia with it,but this will be the first time in Lethbridge. Which is nice because  the characters were created in Lethbridge  through Club Didi and Theatré Outré in 2916, said Collier from Halifax, who created the characters with Richie Wilcox.

Princess Rules is a new journey of Princess Edward where she takes her career to new heights no matter the cost. In Princess Rules this live action anime performance, Princess Edward reinvents her pop star persona and goes rogue to produce her new show. But when mysterious floating orbs threaten her career and even her life, she must learn how to listen to her true self before she loses everything.

“It’s a play, but it is entirely lip synched to live anime,” Collier said.
“Princess Edward is popular but wants to change her focus,” he continued.

Two SOAR festival cabarets were sold out successes at Casa, May 30 and 31.

Each one featured the dance of Claire Lint, magic and music.
 I only caught Mentalist Jeff Newman‘s new act “Trickster” at the May 31 cabaret, having to go it in between play rehearsals.
 The always affable  Newman premiered the new show with his usual humour and a lot of crowd participation.

He got one audience member to look after a locked box throughout the show, then got other audience members to help with a variety of tricks including remembering a card without showing him, only to have it turn to a blank deck. It was strange as I was looking over the shoulder of one of the volunteers and saw the six of hearts, but was boggled by the deck turning blank after the volunteer tossed it back to him.

 He prefaced the next bit by talking about his ability to guess the contents of Christmas presents and about how his parents would just speak in German when they didn’t want him to know what they were talking about. 

Coninciding with that story, he performed another neat trick by hypnotizing another audience member into speaking German,which matched with German words written on flash cards which I couldn’t read from my spot at the back of the room.

He wound down his show by having yet another audience member guess which present contained either a plush green dragon, dog or cat. He had the audience member switch the critters and shuffle the boxes she put them into, and then take them out of their boxes and put  them into colourful gift bags behind a barrier, which he predicted on a birthday card he opened after the bit.

I had to leave before finding out what came of the locked box.

What’s more fun than nunsense? More nunsense.
 Lethbridge Musical  Theatre continues the story of Sister Mary Amnesia, Sister Robert Anne, Sister Mary Leo and the  Mother Superior, who were forced to hold a fundraising concert to bury their dearly departed sisters who died from eating poisoned soup and who they couldn‘t afford to bury otherwise in the musical Nunsense.

Lethbridge Musical Theatre put on the original production in 2016 and return with the sequel Nunsense 2, June 14-16 at the McNally Community Centre.
 The sequel is a thank you concert for everybody who supported the nuns the first time, like in the original, everything that can go wrong does go wrong in the sequel — particularly revitalized Sister Amnesia, whose lottery winnings saved the day in the original, whose memory is slowly returning. This time she may be a Franciscan, she just forgot about it.
 Stephanie Savage is excited to make her musical debut in Nunsense 2 as novice nun Sister Mary Leo.

“I took drama in high school. I’ve never done a musical before, but I’ve always wanted to be in a musical. It’s interesting, but three of the five of us have never really done anything like this before. It’s been a lot to learn, but it is a lot of fun. We have a really dedicated cast,” said Savage, who is also stage managing Shakespeare in the Park’s  production of The Tempest, which opens June 28.

“Luckily I have a great assistant stage manager, Shelby Reed, for the Tempest. And Kate (Connelly, Shakespeare in the Park‘s artistic director,) has been really wonderful and amazing,” she continued, noting Nunsense 2 is a fundraiser for a bigger Lethbridge Musical production in the fall.
 She is enjoying playing Sister Mary Leo.
“It’s been a lot of work but a lot of fun. Sister Leo is the novice. She’s young and sweet and definitely wants to be a star,” she said. She is joined by Hannah Lawson as Sister Robert Anne, Jan Jelli as Sister Hubert, Christina Peterson as  the Reverend Mother and Monica Baczuk, the last nun standing from the last production, who played  the Reverend Mother in  the last production on Nunsense, but plays Sister Mary Amnesia in this production.