As many organizations move their services online amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one Calgary-based performing arts school is hoping to bring art to the masses with the first-ever virtual musical performed solely by children.
Music and Play is calling on all young performers in the city to be a part of the upcoming production. Co-owner of the company, Darryl Lindenbach, said this performance aims to help all kids in the city whose theatre dreams have been sidelined amid the pandemic. “The entire theatre community is intimately acquainted with the situation we’ve found ourselves in closing down shows,” Lindenbach said in an interview with 770 CHQR. “Every theatre kid in the city has kind of lost their identity at this point.” The show was created