Farpoint Films Hosts LIVE SHOW At Winnipeg's Pantages Theatre!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Farpoint Films is puttin' on a show. What kinda show you ask? A Vaudeville show for their documentary entitled The Book Of Vaudeville!

Where & When

April 14th At The Pantages Theatre, 180 Market Avenue. Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7pm sharp. This is a free show and it's first come, first serve rush seating, so even if you have a ticket please show up early to ensure you get a seat.

What's Happening

Six great vaudeville acts ranging from Sarah Constible's comedic song stylings to Dean Gunnarson's death defying escapes will be featured in the hour long rejuvenated throwback of a program.

The Owen Clark Jass Band will be providing the accompanying music for the evening performance.

The show will be filmed for broadcast as the finale to The Book Of Vaudeville documentary by Winnipeg director John Barnard.

The film is set to premiere on MTS Winnipeg On Demand before the end of 2011.

Why?

Based on a real book that is currently housed at the City of Winnipeg Archives, the film follows six actors who have learned Vaudeville oddities and acts from the book. And what better way to show off the book than to put on a live show at Winnipeg's only surviving Vaudeville theatre The Pantages Playhouse Theatre.

The book itself endured the implosion of the Orpheum Theatre in the 1950's to make room for modern office buildings. It was found poking our of the rubble by Winnipeg promotor and restauranteur Gene Shelly who save it from total loss. Inside the book are highlights, remarks and newspaper clipping from shows that occurred at the Orpheum Theatre between 1920 - 1930 when the book mysteriously ends.

2011 just so happens to also mark the 100th anniversary of corporate Vaudeville in Winnipeg, when the Orpheum Theatre officially opened its doors in the spring of 1911.