BOOM at the NAC in Ottawa, Feb 24-Mar 12

BOOM's 16-month Canadian mega-tour moves to Ottawa, with a 3-week run at the National Arts Centre, from Feb 24 - Mar 12 2016. After stints in Toronto, London, Victoria, Edmonton, Whitehorse, Halifax, Markham, and Vancouver, the Kidoons/WYRD multimedia show BOOM heads back to Ontario.

UPDATE: the OTTAWA CITIZEN REVIEW is out! "Flawlessly performed... The one-man show is a lively, multi-media, music and impersonation-filled charge through a quarter century"
Ottawa Citizen preview
CBC Radio interview (All in a Day)

Rick Miller's previous solo shows MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus were hits in Ottawa, and we're delighted to be back with Canada's most presented new production. For 3 weeks, we'll be BOOMing onstage, and building online partnerships with local organizations who connect to our themes of history, culture, technology and ecology.
We're also proud to continue our ongoing outreach campaign: "Your Stories". After the post-show talkback, we record short stories from audience members, and add them to an ever-expanding tapestry of tales that help connect us together as Canadians at encyclopediacanada.com. If you have a story to share, you can do it here.


More info and tickets

Citadel's 50th anniversary kicks off with a BOOM!

Rick Miller and his Kidoons/WYRD team are delighted to be in Edmonton for the launch of the 50th anniversary season at The Citadel Theatre. For the next 3 weeks, we'll be BOOMing onstage, and building online partnerships with local organizations who connect to our themes of history, culture, technology and ecology.
Find out more in:
the Edmonton Journal preview article
the VUE Weekly BOOM preview article
the show's official website
the Citadel's show info
We're also proud to launch a new facet of our ongoing outreach campaign: "Your Stories". After the post-show talkback, we record short stories from audience members, and add them to an ever-expanding tapestry of tales that help connect us together as Canadians. If you have a story to share, you can do it here.

Tickets and showtimes

Meet the Characters: Ned Land

Collect all 4 @20Kshow on-set character cards! World Premiere JUL 11: 5 shows only, Tickets on sale now!

NED LAND is a harpoonist from Montreal, who joins the crew of the ship The Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of slaying the mysterious monster that has been attacking ships all over the world!

MARCO POULIN is a top Québec classical actor who has appeared in dozens of plays including the recent Mois d’Août, Osage county (Théâtre Trident) and as Caliban in La Tempête (Ex Machina). He has co-starred in Robert Lepage’s play and film La face cachée de la Lune and the 2011 film Mesnak.

Collect all 4 @20Kshow on-set character cards! World Premiere JUL 11: 5 shows only, Tickets on sale now!

Saturday, July 11 to Wednesday, July 15 at Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum, at 585 Dundas Street East.
TICKETS: 416.866.8666 • 20Kshow.com

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea was developed in association with The 20K Collective and was commissioned for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games arts and culture festival, PANAMANIA presented by CIBC. Visit www.20kshow.com for more information. For animated web series, education and community outreach programs connected with the show visit www.kidoons.com.

Tickets Online

5 Days to World Premiere!

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
WILL BE THE FIRST WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
Commissioned by PANAMANIA,
The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games
Arts and Culture Festival

LIMITED RUN FROM JULY 11-15, 2015

TORONTO, ON: The first theatrical performance after the Opening Ceremony of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games will be the enthusiastically anticipated original production of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This World Premiere event will have FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY from Saturday, July 11 to Tuesday, July 14 at 8 p.m. and Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m. at Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum, at 585 Dundas Street East.

Dora Award and Gemini Award-winner RICK MILLER directs and performs in the role of Captain Nemo. Canadian actors MARY-LEE PICKNELL, MARCO POULIN and ANDREW SHAVER co-star in this production. Natives of Québec City, MARY-LEE PICKNELL and MARCO POULIN and have worked extensively with ROBERT LEPAGE, as has Miller.

Co-created by RICK MILLER and CRAIG FRANCIS, and produced by KDOONS and WYRD Productions, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a multi-media extravaganza with interactive digital audience participation.

This is an immersive multi-media theatrical production for all ages that connects the wonder of the Victorian era with today’s scientific and water environmental issues. Board the Nautilus for Jules Verne’s classic tale of undersea adventure with the mysterious Captain Nemo and his passengers… or are they prisoners?

RICK MILLER recently co-starred with Carly Street in Canadian Stage’s Venus in Fur, playing multiple runs to critical and commercial acclaim. MILLER’s solo show BOOM was an audience favourite during the Off-Mirvish season in January 2015 and will be the most presented new show in 2015/16 season across Canada, with 225 performances in most major Canadian theatre centres. He is the creative director of KDOONS Productions, theatrical co-producer of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.

CRAIG FRANCIS is a cartoonist, voice actor, improv comedian and writer. He is the creative director of Kidoons: Canada's Family Entertainment Network. Kidoons animated stories and web series have millions of viewers worldwide.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea was developed in association with The 20K Collective and was commissioned for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games arts and culture festival, PANAMANIA presented by CIBC. Visit www.20kshow.com for more information. For animated web series, education and community outreach programs connected with the show visit www.kidoons.com.

Box Office Information:

This world premiere theatrical event will have five performances only from Saturday, July 11 to Wednesday, July 15 at Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum, at 585 Dundas Street East. All performances are at 8:00 p.m. except for the matinee on Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m.

General admission ticket prices are $40 and are available for purchase online at
www.20kshow.com.


5 shows only, Get your tickets now!

Montreal student contest winner's drawing turned into a Battery Hero guest star on Kidoons​

The world has a new superhero, one who promotes battery recycling and prevents batteries from filling up our landfills. The hero’s name is ‘Battery Bob’, and he was created by Demetrios A., a grade 6 student at Montreal’s Selwyn House School. Battery Bob has a battery-seeking radar, mechanical claw for collecting batteries and super speedy unicycle to get around.

The excited winner and his classmates celebrated the win yesterday at a school assembly featuring the world premiere of Battery Bob in a new episode of the Kidoons Network’s cartoon, Paddy the Beaver.

Battery Bob beat out over 750 other creative submissions from elementary school students across Canada, including everything from a flying monster that ate used batteries to a robot that converted batteries into fruit. The contest was a new initiative by Call2Recycle in conjunction with Earth Day Canada’s EcoKids environmental education program.

“I want to personally congratulate Demetrios, and thank everyone who worked with Call2Recycle and Earth Day Canada to make this contest a success,” said Joe Zenobio, executive director of Call2Recycle Canada, Inc. “I’m excited to welcome the new Battery Hero as yet another ambassador in our efforts to divert batteries from Canadian landfills.”

“This initiative was a great opportunity for teachers and EcoKids to consider the impacts of their choices and to explore imaginative and artistic ways to encourage their whole school community to recycle effectively” said Lindsay Bunce, Education Programs Director with Earth Day Canada.

Battery Bob makes his online debut today on ecokids.ca and paddythebeaver.com.

About Earth Day Canada:
Earth Day Canada's mission is to foster and celebrate environmental respect, action and behaviour change that lessens our impact on the earth. The national environmental charity does this through year-round campaigns that culminate in an international day of environmental action - April 22nd - that touches the lives of millions of Canadians, including virtually every school-aged child. April 22nd, 2015 marks the launch of 'Earth Day Every Day', a national framework helping Canadians reduce their carbon footprint 20% by 2020 via an online, mobile friendly platform. Commit to green acts, share your profile and achievements, and be recognized for making good green choices! www.earthday2015.ca

Watch the Video: "The Battery Hero" Guest Starring Battery Bob

BOOM at The Grand: London Free Press, Mayor Attends, Amazing Buzz

The London Free Press gave Rick Miller the cover, and gave his one-man show BOOM a glowing review.

The paper wrote of the KDOONS and WYRD co-production,
“Toronto actor and playwright Rick Miller’s one-person BOOM makes for a stunning impact. The multi-media production tells the 1945-1969 story of three baby boomers and the world around them.
...
The actor’s solo flight is matched by the BOOM team’s technical and design marvels in this multi-media world of wonders. The central column is like a command post for all characters, with Miller — a bit like the Wizard of Oz — creating madly behind a scrim.
...
Miller and his characters and stage magic are set to go boom-boom-boom on a massive tour soon after his Grand run ends on May 2. So get down there right now and enjoy the sonics and sights of BOOM."
★★★★ 1/2 out of 5 stars

Rick Miller's vision returns to the Grand March 2016 as the director and co-creator along with Craig Francis, of the new play Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Thea Sea (www.20kshow.com)

Photo: Derek Ruttan, London Free Press.

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WATCH: Backstage in the Theatre Part 1 "Setting up a Show"

Rick Miller, BOOM’s writer/director/performer, takes us behind the scenes to show how the touring version is set up. Filmed on location at The Capitol Theatre in Nelson, BC, we see how such a complex multimedia show was adapted for an 8-hour setup by the theatre crew.

Learn about the technical set up and how the crew of a theatre works. Discover the various job positions in theatre, and the terminology inside a performing arts centre, as we follow the installation of a touring production into a theatre. Part 1 takes us through steps of setting up a show such as pre-hang, scrim, lighting, focus, shutter, gel, gobo, booms, and the lighting board.

Thanks to the team at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson, BC!

Watch the Video