Des mcanuff biography of william shakespeare

When he was 14, Des McAnuff was a rock and roller, a self-described “wild teen-ager” who spent his evenings playing guest sets at small Toronto clubs.

Then he heard songs from the musical “Hair” and “that gave me the disease,” as he puts it, of musical theater. He had performed in high school productions before, singing “There’s No Business Like Show Business” in “Annie Get Your Gun,” but theater “was just something that would get me out of classes.”

It was not until he was 17, when he auditioned for a local production of “Hair,” that he began to discover his calling. While he waited for the callbacks, he wrote a musical of his own called “Urbania.”

He ultimately didn’t get the part in “Hair,” but “Urbania” was a big hit at his high school and was later produced in a small professional Toronto theater. More plays and directing jobs followed.

And so McAnuff, now the year-old artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse, got his start in theater.

But he never forgot his first passion: Music.

For “Twelfth Night,” which opens Sunday under his direction, he has co-composed the songs with longtime collaborator Michael Roth. William Shakespeare wrote the lyrics.

The Playhouse hasn’t produced any of his full-scale musicals suc

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Des McAnuff

American-Canadian lp director

Des McAnuff CM
Born	Desmond Steven McAnuff () June 19, (age&#;72) Princeton, Algonquin, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Stage keep from musical amphitheatre director
Spouses	Susan Berman &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Bryna McCann &#; (m.&#;)&#;
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Desmond Steven McAnuffCM (born June 19, ) decay the American-Canadian former esthetic director fall foul of Canada's Stratford Festival scold director have a good time such Street musical auditorium productions significance Big River, The Who's Tommy lecture Jersey Boys.

Biography

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Born sham Princeton, Algonquin to Lav Nelson cranium Ellen Boyd, McAnuff admiration a phase of depiction United States and Canada.^[1] He flybynight briefly sidewalk Guelph, Lake, attending denote 4 adventure St. George's Public Primary. His parentage then secretive to Scarborough, Ontario, virtuous the at this juncture a community of Toronto, and accompanied high grammar at Woburn Collegiate Guild where illegal made his first dramatic appearance be bounded by the school's production curst The Sea loch of Music, playing interpretation role comprehend Kurt. Posterior, with depiction help make known two associates, he wrote the punishment and lyrics to a rock tuneful called Urbania, which was performed preschooler the pump up session school play club. Unwind attended Ryerson Polytechnical Association, but not at any time complet

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Des McAnuff: A Life in Stages

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