“I was thinking, I don’t know…maybe one of you would be my blind date?”
Live theatre doesn’t get any livelier than this!
Mimi has been stood up by her blind date, but why let the night fall to ruin when there are so many handsome audience members?! Each night, she invites a willing gentleman for a spontaneous rendezvous on stage. The result is witty, sexy and different every time!
BLIND DATE is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants fusion of clown, improvisation, and theatrical experiment that you’ll want to see again and again. After sold out runs in London and New York, we are delighted that Mimi is coming to the Firehall Stage. You will be too!
“Irresistible, cheeky and charming.”
– New York Daily Times
Tuesday to Sunday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8pm
Friday and Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30pm
(No Saturday matinee on opening day of shows)
Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early for a pre-show mingle with the cast.
Running time: Approximately 1 hour, 20 minutes
Cast
Mimi: Christy Bruce
Creative
Creator: Rebecca Northan
Scenographer & Understudy: Lindsay Mullan
Scenographer: Bruce Horak
Stage Manager & Sound Improviser: Jamie Northan
CHRISTY BRUCE (Mimi)
For the Playhouse: Debut.
Elsewhere: Blind Date (Charing Cross Theatre, The Cultch, Western Canada Theatre, Hudson Village Theatre); DINK! (The Factory Theatre, NSTF); The Forum (Stratford Festival); Jenny’s House of Joy (Lighthouse Theatre); Panic! (Second City Toronto); Private Lives (Music Box Theatre, NYC).
TV: The Strain, Odd Squad, Orphan Black, Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Other: Christy is an instructor and company member at The Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto.
BRUCE HORAK (Scenographer)
For the Playhouse: Debut.
Elsewhere: This is CANCER, Charlotte’s Web, Legend Has It, The Wizard of Oz, Robin Hood (Alberta Theatre Projects); Assassinating Thomson, Mini Masterpieces, A Christmas Carol, No Tweed Too Tight, Freud VS His Ego, The History of the Future, The Big Rock Show, The Canada Show (Monster Theatre); The Life Game (Truth Be Told Theatre); Evil Dead: The Musical (Ground Zero/Hit and Myth Productions); Fire (Lighthouse Festival Theatre).
Upcoming: Untitled Shakespeare Project (Stratford Festival); Legend Has It (Alberta Theatre Projects).
LINDSAY MULLAN (Scenographer & Understudy)
For the Playhouse: Debut.
Elsewhere: The Best of Second City, Naughty Listers (Second City Toronto); Control (MMMC); Romeo & Juliet (The Shakespeare Company);The Penelopiad (Alberta Theatre Projects); The Marriage of Bette & Boo(MRU).
Film & TV: She Stoops To Conquer, Future Wife, Try It!
Other: Lindsay is an instructor and company member at The Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto.
JAMIE NORTHAN (Stage Manager/Sound Improviser)
For the Playhouse: Blind Date, premier.
Elsewhere: Legend Has It, Possible Worlds (Alberta Theatre Projects); Blind Date ( The Cultch, Citadel Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Ordway Theatre, Ars Nova (NYC), Charring Cross Theatre (West End)); North East: The Show (Loose Moose Theatre); Truth Or Dare(Loose Moose Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Calgary Fringe, Comedy Bar Toronto); Die Nasty(Varscona Theatre)
Upcoming: KILL HARD (Edmonton Fringe); Blind Date (Tarragon Theatre); Legend Has It(Alberta Theatre Projects).
Other: Jamie is an accomplished improviser with over 20 years experience. He also teaches improv and works as an Artist in Residence with Trickster Theatre, in schools around Alberta.
REBECCA NORTHAN (Creator)
For the Playhouse: Blind Date, premier.
Elsewhere: Sextet (Tarragon Theatre); One Man Two ‘Guvnors, Christmas Carol, Philidelphia Story (Theatre Calgary); Make Mine Love (Citadel Theatre); Legend Has It, Robin Hood, playRites Festival (Alberta Theatre Projects); Seven Stories, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Evil Dead the Musical, The Vagina Monologues, Kung Fu Panties (Ground Zero Theatre); Dear Boss, Side Show of the Damned (Eldritch Theatre).
Upcoming: Blind Date (Tarragon Theatre); An Undiscovered Shakespeare (Stratford Festival).
Other: Currently developing a new “spontaneous theatre” project with the Stratford Festival. An Undiscovered Shakespeare turns one audience member’s life into a Shakespearian adventure this August.
Don’t let the big one get away!
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