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KEVIN PROKOSH / STAGE
Broadway-bound
It has been confirmed that The Heart of Robin Hood — which is almost sold out at Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre — will open at New York City’s Marquis Theatre on March 29, 2015. After it closes here Dec. 6, the American-Canadian collaboration heads to Toronto for a Dec. 23-March 1 run at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. The swashbuckling romantic comedy starring Gabriel Ebert and Izzie Steele will begin previews March 10 at the 1,611-seat Marquis, but the engagement there must end Aug. 23, 2015.
BRAD OSWALD / TV
Grumpy Cat’s 15 minutes of online fame spawns Xmas movie
Well, I guess this was inevitable, even if it wasn’t on anybody’s gotta-have-it Christmas list: the forever frown-faced feline that became an Internet meme is now the star of an actual made-for-TV movie, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever (Saturday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. on Lifetime). Shot in B.C., the movie’s plot — if, indeed, it qualifies as such — involves Grumpy Cat being rescued from pet-store loneliness by a 12-year-old girl who’s the only person who can hear G.C. talk. Oh, and when the cat does speak, Aubrey Plaza’s voice is heard. Canuck funnyman Russell Peters has a supporting role.
BEN MacPHEE-SIGURDSON / BOOKS
Stock those stuffings with poetry
Having a tough time deciding what to get your favourite reader? Local poet Ariel Gordon has the solution — a poem in a bottle. Gordon will be signing copies of Stowaways, her latest collection of poetry, Dec. 7 at 11:30 a.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers, and will have messages in a bottle on hand, which will include a poem from the book.
JEN ZORATTI / MUSIC
Dynamic duo
Folk experimentalists Rae Spoon and Geoff Berner are once again joining forces for a double-bill Canadian tour that stops by the West End Cultural Centre on Nov. 28. The pair has been performing together since 2004, Spoon’s forward-thinking electro-folk perfectly complementing Berner’s Klezmer-influenced punk rock. Both artists have been busy with literary pursuits — Spoon’s Gender Failure was released in 2014 and Berner’s Festival Man: A Novel came out in 2013 — so they’re eager to get back onstage. There may even be a celebratory Beyoncé cover. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 in advance at West End Cultural Centre, Ticketmaster, Music Trader and the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store.
RANDALL KING / MOVIES
A dad named Vlad
Mel Brooks has been announced as the guy who will play Vlad, dad to Adam Sandler’s Dracula, in the 2015 sequel to Hotel Transylvania. Hopefully, the movie will be Young Frankenstein funny and not Dracula: Dead and Loving It unfunny.