9 to five offers theatre lover a platform to battle for the underdog
By Jean Konda-Witte/Particular to Langley Advance Occasions
At 28, Langley’s Lauren Trotzuk has completed extra in a decade than many of us twice her age.
And now, she has landed one of many largest gigs of her profession because the creative director for Dolly Parton’s Broadway present 9 to five – The Musical, set to open Friday, April 21 with Fraser Valley Stage in Abbotsford.
To place her spin on Dolly’s iconic title music, Trotzuk paraphrased, “I tumbled outta mattress and into the director’s chair.”
Effectively, not fairly. However it’s value taking a step again to see how the native gal obtained there.
“I’ve all the time beloved theatre,” she mentioned, including that as a toddler her favorite film was not Cinderella or The Lion King, however the filmed stage manufacturing of CATS.
As a younger woman she would maintain live shows for her household of their front room.
Quick ahead 10 years, to Grade 9 at D.W. Poppy Secondary. Her drama trainer inspired her to audition, and naturally she obtained the half (as Billy the Duckling in HONK, the adaptation of Hans Christian’s The Ugly Duckling story).
Then in 2013, at age 18, Trotzuk wrote and directed her first Jukebox musical, As soon as Upon a Fairytale.
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“I wrote it as a result of the graduating yr after me was not going to have a senior yr musical that yr. I needed them to have an opportunity to carry out so I wrote them a present and directed it.”
Since highschool, and whereas persevering with her post-secondary research, Trotzuk has carried out in neighborhood theatre all around the Decrease Mainland – from Vancouver to Mission, Maple Ridge to White Rock.
A few of her favorite musicals embody CATS, Into the Woods, Seussical and Footloose.
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“I like all types of theatre, however particularly musical theatre,” she shared. “I like singing and dancing and performing, so it’s the most effective of all worlds.”
In 2015, she attached with Fraser Valley Stage in Abbotsford to painting Liza Minnelli in Forbidden Broadway. She circled again to FVS in 2022, the place she introduced the home down because the feisty Sister Mary Hubert within the musical comedy Nunsense.
As a director her most up-to-date present was Confessions of a Grocery Clerk (primarily based on a real story), which she wrote and produced by way of her personal theatre firm, Capricorn Theatre Productions, in partnership with Vagabond Gamers.
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Now, Trotzuk has returned to FVS because the creative director of their massive spring present, 9 to five – The Musical.
The Broadway present was primarily based on the 1980’s movie 9 to five starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton – who wrote all of the music and lyrics for the present. Parton’s iconic 9to5 title music was nominated for an Academy Award and gained two Grammy’s that yr.
The massive forged manufacturing centres across the lives of three ladies working in an workplace and tells the age-old story of the underdogs rising up with the intention to stick it to ‘the person’ who, on this case, is an precise man, the boss, Mr. Hart.
“It’s essential to me to participate in reveals which have a great message: 9 to five specifically appealed to me due to this. For those who don’t like one thing in your life, you have got the ability to vary it,” added Trotzuk.
“I’m additionally a sucker for the underdog and an enormous supporter of creative content material that follows a feminine led narrative, particularly when it’s women supporting women. This can be a message our viewers can profit from listening to and one which I’m passionate to inform.”
9 to five – The Musical runs April 21 to 23 and April 28 to 30 on the Abbotsford Arts Centre, 2329 Crescent Manner, Abbotsford. Night reveals begin at 7:30 p.m., with matinees at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $32/adults; $28/seniors and college students. This present will not be beneficial for kids youthful than 13 as a consequence of some mature content material.
Tickets may be bought on-line at fraservalleystage.com or name the field workplace at 604-302-1235.
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