Disney’s Frozen will be Neptune Theatre’s holiday musical from Nov. 7 to Jan. 5, 2025, while the season-closing musical is the sci-fi, musical hit Little Shop of Horrors.

Neptune’s artistic director Jeremy Webb announced the theatre’s 62nd season today. Its 330 performances include 11 productions, four musicals/musical events, four comedies, four dramas, six Canadian plays and one world premiere.

“The season delivers everything that we seek from live theatre – laughter, tears, suspense and lots of music,” Webb said in a press release.

For those who’ve longed to see Dear Rita, which has played outside Halifax, by Lyndsey Kyte and Mike Ross, it’s coming July 30 to August 25. Starring Cape Breton’s Julie Martell and featuring the music of Rita MacNeil, it’s sure to be a summer theatre, crowd-pleaser.

The six Canadian productions include: The New Canadian Curling Club, a co-production with Festival Antigonish, that was a hit in Antigonish this summer; Casey & Diana, a Toronto story about an AIDS hospice and Princess Diana; King Gilgamesh & The Man of the Wild, presented by the Prismatic Arts Festival; Winter Moons, a new theatre-dance hybrid from Nestuita’si Storytelling created by shalan joudry and Sarah Prosper, and a new production of the multi-award-winning play Controlled Damage, the story of Viola Desmond, co-produced with the National Arts Centre (NAC).

Subscriptions are available to purchase online at neptunetheatre.com or by calling the box office at 902-429-7070. Single tickets go on sale June 1.

Neptune Theatre’s 2024 – 2025 Season Line-up:

Dear Rita – July 30 – August 25, a musical celebration of Rita MacNeil by Lyndsey Kyte and Mike Ross.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – September 10 – October 5, set against the seedy underbelly of the Prohibition in a new gritty twist.

King Gilgamesh & The Man of the Wild – October 1 – October 6, a hybrid theatre-music production, a two-man epic interweaving the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh with the story of exiled Iraqi and Canadian actor/musician Ahmed Moneka, featuring themes of art, ambition, sex, and mortality.

Disney’s Frozen — November 7 — January 5, 2025. When newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally sets off an eternal winter in the town of Arendelle, her younger sister Anna (along with her friends Kristoff, Olaf and Sven) go off on a thrilling adventure to find her sister and save the kingdom.

Winter Moons – November 12 – 24; a world premiere, a dance theatre piece following the teachings of L’nu (Mi’kmaw) women carrying a fire ember through the winter season – three moons of winter. Legends, star stories and contemporary dance express the harsh realities of living off the land in a long ago Mi’kma’ki winter.

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – December 3 – 29, 2024; in this one-person version, back for its 21st season, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol follows Ebenezer Scrooge on that fateful Christmas Eve, starring Rhys Bevan-John and Simon Henderson.

Controlled Damage – January 11- February 2, 2025, returning to the Scotiabank Stage as a brand new production of Andrew Scott’s award-winning play, in partnership with the National Arts Centre; exploring the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today.

Josephine: A Musical Cabaret – February 13-16, 2025; a biographical musical combining cabaret, theatre and dance to tell the story of Josephine Baker, the first African-American international superstar, revolutionary singer, movie star, WWII spy and civil rights activist.

The New Canadian Curling Club – February 25 – March 23, 2025. Inspired by the local refugee resettlement program, a small town organizes a Learn-to-Curl class to welcome newcomers; a comedy of a group of unlikely athletes who face off against local prejudice and claim their identity as “new Canadians.”

Little Shop of Horrors – March 11 – May 11, 2025; the “Feed Me Seymour!” sci-fi, smash hit musical about a down-on-his-luck nerd, Seymour, working a dead end job at a flower shop where he falls in love with fellow florist Audrey. A meteor shower brings a talking plant into Seymour’s life, taking him down a path of murder, mayhem and true love.

Casey & Diana – April 22 – May 18, 2025; a potent and moving drama about Princess Diana’s life-changing 1991 visit to residents at Casey House, Toronto’s first free-standing AIDS Hospice.

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