Join us for two evenings with Joe Slabe, Forte Musical Theatre Guild's Artistic Director.

Monday May 24th at 7:30 pm Part I: Playing it Straight – Musicals Before 1980

Monday May 31st at 7:30 pm Part II: Out of the Closet – Musicals Since 1980

This two part talk takes you through one hundred years of queer representation in musical theatre through the lives of the writers and the shows they created. Why were musicals so loved by early gay audiences and what did it take for queer artists to finally tell their own stories based on their own experiences?

Followed by Q&A with Joe Slabe.

Joe is an internationally recognized writer, composer and musical director with a Masters Degree in musical theatre from Goldsmiths College of the University of London. Honours include a Calgary Critics' Award for Best Production of a Musical for Touch Me: Songs for a (dis)Connected Age, five awards from the New York Musical Festival for Crossing Swords, and four Betty Mitchell Awards for his musical direction. Joe is the founding artistic director of Forte Musical Theatre Guild and received the 2004 Greg Bond Award for outstanding contributions to musical theatre in Calgary. His last name rhymes with "The Bay".

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