Dream Catchers bring Beetlejuice back to life

Musicals reviews: After the Rain, Beetlejuice, and a new era for Musical Stage Co.

It’s about time that Suzy Wilde got her flowers. Over the years, she’s co-written many terrific indie musicals, including Be Kind Rewind, Summerland and Maddie’s Karaoke Birthday, most of them part of summer festivals and all of them written with other composers or lyricists.After the Rain (Rating: ✭✭✭), for which she wrote all the songs and lyrics herself, is a co-production between the Tarragon Theatre and The Musical Stage Company, and is arg…

Dream Catchers bring Beetlejuice back to life

Joyce Beauchamp Special to the Tribune The house was packed on Friday, June 6, as the West Nipissing Dream Catchers youth theatre troupe, featuring the juniors aged 6 to 13, presented the musical “Beetlejuice Junior” in the Northern Secondary School auditorium. Producer Katherine Clarke introduced the production by saying, “This play is about death, but the show is actually full of life.” And she was right. The storyline is this: Adam and Barbar…