Huron Country Playhouse Announces 2025 Season
November 1, 2024
Drayton Entertainment's Artistic Director Alex Mustakas today announced the 2025 Season for the Huron Country Playhouse.
“This is an exciting season filled with entertaining shows for theatregoers at every stage of life,” says Alex Mustakas, Artistic Director of Drayton Entertainment. “From hit Broadway musicals, side-splitting comedies, and the beloved annual panto, there really is something for the whole family!”
The Huron Country Playhouse is located at RR1, 70689 B Line. Grand Bend, NOM 1T0.
Mainstage
The 2025 Season on Ontario’s West Coast will open with the global phenomenon that has wowed audiences for the past five decades, Jesus Christ Superstar. Told entirely through song, this timeless work explores the personal relationships and struggles between Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene, the disciples, and the Roman Empire. This contemporary re-imagining of the biblical tale is on stage from June 11 to June 28.
Next to the stage is the Tony Award® - winning musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Evita. This Broadway masterpiece charts the meteoric rise of Argentina’s infamous Eva Peron – who at one point was considered to be the most powerful woman in South America. This powerful and riveting theatrical production will be on stage from July 9 to July 26.
The final production on the mainstage will have audiences dancing in the aisles and laughing all the way home. Fall in love all orgre again this summer with Shrek The Musical – a hilarious comedy based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and book by William Steig. Don’t miss this fairy tale come to life! Join the big, bright, life-changing adventure from August 6 to August 31.
South Huron Stage
Starting off the 2025 Season on the South Huron Stage, the long standing British panto tradition continues with the reimagined fairy tale by Caroline Smith, Cinderella: The Panto. Cinderella will cast its magical spell and have you cheering for the heroine and her friends and booing the evil stepmother and wicked stepsisters. Don’t worry, we’ll have you home well before the stroke of midnight! This glittering production is on stage from June 4 to June 21.
Leading the way into summer is the spectacular tribute to one of the most iconic and beloved acoustic singer-songwriters in music history, John Denver. Created by D2 Entertainment, Country Roads: The Songs of John Denver, will take you on a nostalgic stroll down memory lane. Relive Denver’s enduring musical legacy from June 26 to July 13.
The season continues with the side-splitting Canadian comedy, Liars at a Funeral. Written by Sophia Fabiilli, this uproarious romp pokes fun at the absurdities of family dynamics and the desperate lengths we go to for love and connection. See if this eccentric clan of liars can become a loving family again! This family farce is on stage from July 16 to August 2.
Loved by audiences in Drayton during our 2024 Season, Beehive: The 60s Musical is bringing flower power AND girl power to Grand Bend. Created by Larry Gallagher, this toe-tapping production celebrates some of the most powerful and iconic female voices of the 1960s. This uplifting and upbeat salute to female empowerment is on stage August 7 to August 31.
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