Dial M for musicals: Moulin Rouge, Mamma Mia! and Michael Jackson part of upcoming Broadway Across Canada season in Edmonton
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MJ is followed up by Moulin Rouge, based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann fever dream starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. The show is a grand spectacle featuring the excesses of 1899 Paris that pays tribute to beauty, freedom and love. The songs run the gamut from 1930s jazz classics to 2010s dance-pop and everywhere in between.
On the heels of Mother's Day 2026, BAC presents every mom's favourite, Mamma Mia!, the story of a daughter who, on the eve of her wedding, endeavours to discover the identity of her father. This quest reunites her mother with three men from her past, all set to the music of the best Swedish pop act ever (apologies to Ace of Base), ABBA. Mamma Mia! runs May 12-17.
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Winnipeg Free Press
3 days ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Mini creations by Swedish artists ‘Anonymouse,' dubbed ‘Banksy Mouse,' go from street to museum
LUND, Sweden (AP) — After nine years scurrying in the shadows, the two-person Swedish street art collective known as 'Anonymouse' — dubbed 'Banksy Mouse' by Swedish media — has finally stepped out of the dark and into a museum exhibition. The mystery began in late 2016 when miniature homes and businesses, all measuring well below knee height, began appearing on the streets of southern Sweden. It looked like a bunch of mice had opened a tiny restaurant named 'Il Topolino' and a neighboring nut delicatessen 'Noix de Vie.' There was no clue as to who created them besides a signature from anonymous artist group 'Anonymouse.' The following years saw more mouse homes and businesses appear in unexpected places: First in Sweden, then all over the world from the U.K. to Canada. The original creation on Bergsgatan, a busy street in Malmö, quickly attracted attention and went viral, drawing crowds. The project was even featured on the popular U.S. TV show 'The Late Late Show with James Corden.' The two artists behind the whiskery art project stepped out of their anonymity earlier this year. Swedes Elin Westerholm and Lupus Nensén both work in show business, making props and sets for film and television. 'The sweet part is that we're building something for children. Most of us have some kind of relationship to a world where mice live parallel to ours,' said Nensén, citing numerous child-focused fairy tales. On Friday, a selection of the duo's creations went on display at the Skissernas Museum in Lund, a short trip from Malmö, to celebrate nine years of 'mouse pranks and creativity.' Far-ranging mouse builders The duo say the idea for 'Anonymouse' came during a trip to Paris in 2016. Sitting in the French capital's Montmartre district, they soaked up Art Nouveau influences. Their first creation took six months to build, before they secretively installed it on Bergsgatan one cold, dark night. 'It's amazing to see a 70-year-old come over with crutches, and people help them down and have a look,' said Nensén. 'It really does bring out the child in everyone.' The artists have since created a mini pharmacy in the Swedish city of Lund, a pastry shop near Stockholm, a castle on the Isle of Man, and a radio studio in Quebec, Canada. The duo created between two and three projects a year. Record store 'Ricotta Records,' which the pair installed in Lund in 2020, features tiny, mouse-sized record covers, such as 'Back to Brie' by Amy Winemouse and 'Goodbye Yellow Cheese Roll' by Stilton John. Westerholm said 'part of the game is taking something that's a bit dumb really seriously.' 'We spent a lot of time coming up with mice and cheese puns over the years,' Nensén said. A sense of adventure The museum's exhibit rooms host six miniature worlds, once secretly installed on nearby Swedish streets, as well as sketches and preparatory works from the archives. The exhibit will run until late August. 'They are hidden, they are not in common areas where you would expect an artwork. There's one in the basement, one on a balcony, and so on,' exhibit curator Emil Nilsson said. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. 'I hope (visitors) take away a sense of adventure when they enter the museum looking for these hidden miniature worlds.' After revealing their identities earlier this year, Westerholm and Nensén announced their mouse building adventures were over, bringing an end to the viral street art project. 'It's been nine years,' said Westerholm. 'It's time to end it, I think.' Anonymouse won't return. But will the duo never build anything small in a public place again? 'We never know, we can't promise anything,' Westerholm said.
CBC
16-06-2025
- CBC
Man who stole copy of Jerry Lewis' notorious Nazi clown movie comes clean 45 years later
Hans Crispin still can't explain what compelled him to make an illegal copy of Jerry Lewis's infamous Nazi clown movie in 1980 and stash it away in a bank vault. But 45 years later, the Swedish actor and one-time film thief is relieved that his secret is finally out. "It's a funny feeling," Crispin, 66, told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. "To be honest with you, it has been a curse and a blessing at the same time." Last month, Crispin revealed to film magazine Icon and Swedish broadcaster STV that he possessed a stolen copy of 1972's The Day the Clown Cried, the long-lost film that has taken on a legendary status among curious cinephiles. Since then, he says he's sold it to a new "custodian" whose name he wouldn't reveal. "I can't tell you where it is because I signed a disclosure deal," he said. "But it is in a very good hand and it's in a very good situation." Making porn tapes and doing crimes The Day the Clown Cried has been described as the "Holy Grail" for film buffs, as well as " the worst movie ever made" — despite having never been publicly screened in full. Lewis, the late U.S. actor known at the time for his slapstick comedy, was trying to take his career in a new direction when he directed and starred in the movie about a clown imprisoned at the Auschwitz extermination camp during the Holocaust. But a combination of public controversy, copyright issues and money problems prevented him from finishing or releasing the film. Crispin started hearing rumblings about the debacle in 1980 when he was 21 years old and landed a job copying adult films onto VHS tapes at Europafilm, the now defunct Swedish studio behind The Day the Clown Cried. "The company I was working for was breaking into the porno market," he said. "VHS was brand new in Sweden, and it was very lucrative, but they didn't want to advertise that this was done for regular customers. So they hired a bunch of us misfits to do this nightly." He soon learned there were nitrate film reels of The Day the Clown Cried at the studio, stored in a concrete locker because they were highly flammable. An editor who worked on the film, he says, told him not to touch it under any circumstances. "Curiosity took the hold of me," he said. Crispin and an unnamed co-conspirator found the key to the locker, pilfered the film, made a copy, then returned both the movie and the key, he said. He knew that if he got caught, his career would be "in the toilet," he said. He's still not sure why he did it, but he thinks he was motivated, in part, by a desire to preserve this mysterious movie that had captivated his imagination. "I realized that if this was to be saved, somebody has to do something," he said. "And I did." His stolen prize was, at first, incomplete. Only eight of the nine acts were stored at Europafilm in Sweden. But in 1990, he says an envelope arrived in the mail containing the missing opening act, which had been shot separately in France. Crispin edited it together to complete the film. He kept it mostly a secret for decades, but came forward to local media, he says, after appearing in a documentary about the movie, From Darkness to Light, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and will air in Sweden this summer. Lewis hated the film Over the years, Crispin says, he has shown the film to "a very few select people," including most recently, Icon reporter Caroline Hainer and journalists from Swedish broadcaster STV, to prove his story was true. Despite the hype, Hainer described the film as "quite boring." Lewis also famously hated it. "It was all bad and it was bad because I lost the magic," he told Reuters in 2013. You will never see it, no-one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work." University of Washington professor Benjamin Charles Germain Lee disagrees. Lee hasn't seen Crispin's cut of the movie. But last year, he became the first member of the public to see the unaired footage that Lewis took home from the set himself more than 50 years ago. "I think the film in so many ways looms so large in so many people's imaginations because this idea or this conceit of a clown in a concentration camp, of course, seems rather objectionable to the imagination. But what I saw genuinely surprised me," Lee told CBC. "In many senses, the film makes a more nuanced attempt to engage with this question of humour in the face of atrocities, specifically around the Holocaust." Three years before his 2017 death, Lewis donated his footage from the movie to the U.S. Library of Congress on condition they keep it private for 10 years. Lee, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, happened to have a fellowship at the Library when those restrictions were lifted. "I thought about how the stars were aligning," Lee said. "Here I was having the opportunity to go see Jerry Lewis's own footage of him playing a clown in the same concentration camp that my grandmother was at." What Lee saw wasn't a film, but rather several hours of unedited footage, outtakes and disconnected audio. Still, he says, he found it both fascinating and harrowing, and credited Lewis for being "able to capture this idea or this tension between humour and tragedy." For Crispin, crime eventually pays It remains unclear what will happen to the movie now. Crispin would not say who he sold it to, or how much he sold it for. "I wouldn't say it's lucrative. I would say, like, somebody has given me a parking fee for taking care of it for 45 years," he said.
Winnipeg Free Press
15-06-2025
- Winnipeg Free Press
Is Father's Day getting more respect? Depends on who you ask
Is Father's Day starting to get a little more attention as a holiday? Not if you check some social media. In an expletive-filled post on TikTok and X, rapper Plies, best known for his collaborations with T-Pain and DJ Khaled on hits 'Shawty' and 'I'm So Hood,' complains about how Father's Day on Sunday carries about as much clout as Groundhog Day, saying it might as well be removed from the calendar. ' The disrespect to Father's Day is real ' declares a separate Reddit post, which adds, 'We get it, fathers aren't important to corporations, but damn, can't I at least get some free donuts or chicken strips?' Perhaps Shake Shack's buy one Double ShackBurger get a second one free in stores and on its app through Monday doesn't count? Or Wendy's buy one get one free deal on premium sandwiches through its app on Sunday? Or Burger King's buy one get one free deals on Whoppers through the app? It's true the offers aren't quite as broad as on Mother's Day. But the spending disparity with Mother's Day may be narrowing, according to the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. The organizations forecast that a record-breaking $24 billion will be spent on Father's Day this year, surpassing the previous mark of $22.9 billion in 2023. They say consumers plan to spend an average of $199.38 on their dads and father figures this year. Of course, that still pales in comparison to this year's $259.04 average planned for moms, which totals about $34.1 billion, or $10.1 billion more than Father's Day spending. That is a 21% smaller gap than the $12.8 billion difference there was between Mother's Day and Father's Day spending in 2023. Other studies disagree, though. RetailMeNot forecasts a $25 drop in spending for dads this year, down to about $232 per shopper, while moms get an average of $360 per shopper, up $43 this year.
