Musicals set in Canada

Well, the title pretty much says it. Are there any moderately large musical theatre productions that take place, even in part, in Canada?

Rose Marie, with Nelson Eddy as a Mountie and Jeanette McDonald as some damn warbling thing.

Worse yet, Shirley Temple in “Susannah of the Mounted”.

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Anne of Green Gables - The Musical.

There’s an article on Canadian musical theater here.

Ixe-13 , plus there’s Michel Tremblay’s musical Demain matin, Montréal m’attends and maybe Starmania can be included

Won’t help much, but IIRC in the book Why I Hate Canadians by Will Ferguson he talks in the last couple chapters about some pro-Canadian youth theater thing he was involved in as a teen, as part of the effort to keep Quebec from seceding.

It was never a stage musical, but the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is a musical which is partly set in Canada.

Whoa, whoa, let’s not sully her name. It’s Susannah of the Mounties.

Whoa, whoa, let’s not sully her name. It’s Susannah of the Mounties.

I seem to remember something along the lines of “I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok, I sleep all night and I work all day.” :smiley:

There aren’t many, but with a little effort I think we can make some of our own.
Mmaaaan-itoba, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain…

Not a stage musical that I know of, but the movie musical Zero Patience, about AIDS and the so-called “Patient Zero,” is set in Canada.

The Happy Time, with songs by Kander & Ebb (of Caberet and Chicago fame). Not a perfect show, to be sure, but undeserving of the the total obscurity it currently enjoys. There are definately a few nice tunes in the score. The original Broadway cast starred Robert Goulet and David Wayne.

This does not really fit the bill, but it may serve the OP’s needs in some way. I think – and I certainly could be wrong here – that the main character, a WWI doughboy, in the musical The King of Hearts is Canadian. I’m pretty sure, however, all the action takes place in a French town, and I have no idea if his Canadian-ness plays into the action in any way whatsoever.

On top of it all, TKoH is a pretty obscure show. I know it played Off-Broadway in the 1980s and a cast recording was released (I have a copy), but I don’t think it ever got much further than that.

They made a musical out of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz? I’m surprised no one’s picked that up…

I stand corrected - I only saw it once, at the age of 10, on KVOS TV one Sunday afternoon when there was nothing else to do. I wanted to swat the kid. :smiley:

Between that and “Rose Marie” - it was enough to put a person off the Horsemen for life.

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My grandmother, who was a Canadian of the old school and celebrated The Queen’s Birthday, in here case the Queen was Victoria, could not stand Rose Marie.