Anne and Gilbert-The Musical makes its way to Melbourne, Australia

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — After visiting P.E.I. in 2018, Lynda French fell in love with Anne and Gilbert – The Musical and knew she wanted to hold it again to her hometown.

The native of Melbourne, Australia, shared her discovery with fellow committee members on the Beaumaris Theatre. Almost three years later, in the course of the pandemic, the theatre introduced a run of 9 performances.

Inside a day of the musical’s debut, every present was bought out.

“It simply crammed my coronary heart, and it was such a gorgeous, inspiring, beautiful household manufacturing,” mentioned French.

French isn’t the one worldwide movie fanatic who has drawn near P.E.I.’s most well-known redhead, mentioned producer and unique licensor of the manufacturing Campbell Webster.

“It’s fairly astonishing actually. We’ve been promoting increasingly more licenses for the musical all through the pandemic, and we’re getting requests from world wide,” mentioned Webster in information launch.

At the same time as theatres have navigated shutdowns, bodily distancing protocols and different public well being measures, Anne lovers have been certain and decided to proceed celebrating L.M. Montgomery’s most beloved heroine on the stage.

“What we’re seeing very often is that somebody with ties to theatre has visited P.E.I., they’ve seen Anne and Gilbert – The Musical on stage right here after which they return residence and so they’re excited to deliver the manufacturing to their native theatre,” mentioned Webster.

The manufacturing has performed in theatres throughout Canada and the US, in addition to in far-flung cities, together with Singapore and Melbourne.

One of many manufacturing’s most spectacular runs was on the Nationwide Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2015, the place its reputation solidified it as some of the profitable Canadian musicals of all time.

“It has one thing for everybody, and that’s why it resonates so effectively with audiences,” mentioned Webster.