JM Drama Alumni is a Non-for-Profit, community theatre company located in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

. The company performs out of the Registry Theatre, in the heart of downtown Kitchener.

History

J.M. Drama is a community theatre group with a difference. Since 1983 J.M. Drama has promoted the performing and fine arts in the Region of Waterloo, provided scholarships and training to its members, participants and students, and produced a variety of comedies, dramas and musicals to entertain and enlighten our audiences.

J.M. Drama was started by former students from St. Jerome's and St. Mary's High Schools. From its traditional base, J.M. Drama has grown and welcomes members and participants from the Region of Waterloo and throughout Southern Ontario.

Production history

• 1983 The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and...
  
  
• 1984 God's Favourite
• 1985 Arsenic and Old Lace
  Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
  Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...
  
  
• 1986 One Act Plays: Welcome to Andromeda, Impromptu, Heroes
• 1987 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
  
  
• 1988 My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
  
  
• 1988 Canterbury Tales
• 1989 Same Time Next Year
• 1989 Eight to the Bar
• 1990 Jesus Christ Superstar
  Jesus Christ Superstar
  Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
  
  
• 1990 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
  You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
  You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...
  
  
• 1991 Amadeus
  Amadeus
  Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...
  
  
• 1992 The Return of the Curse of the Mummy's Revenge
• 1993 The Royal Cricket of Japan
• 1993 Little Shop of Horrors
  Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
  Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...
  
  
• 1994 The Fantastiks
• 1995 Into the Woods
  Into the Woods
  Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
  
  
• 1995 Twelve Angry Men
  Twelve Angry Men
  Twelve Angry Men may refer to:* Twelve Angry Men , a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose* Twelve Angry Men , a play adapted by Rose from his teleplay* 12 Angry Men , an adaptation of the play, directed by Sidney Lumet...
  
   (Presented as Twelve Angry Jurors to allow a co-ed cast)
• 1996 Something's Afoot
• 1997 Guys and Dolls
• 1998 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and his intended ending for it remains unknown. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on Drood's uncle, choirmaster John Jasper, who...
  
  
• 1999 The Mind with the Dirty Man
• 2001 Wait Until Dark
• 2001 Snoopy
• 2002 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
• 2002 Wallis (World Premiere)
• 2003 Arsenic and Old Lace
  Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
  Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...
  
  
• 2004 Annie
  Annie (musical)
  Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
  
  
• 2005 Radio Mysteries
• 2006 The Importance of Being Earnest
• 2008 Urinetown
  Urinetown
  Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics...
  
  
• 2009 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1936 British film produced and directed by George King.-Plot:The film features Tod Slaughter in one of his most famous roles as barber Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd was wrongly sentenced to life in prison. After his release 15 years later, he begins...
  
  
• 2010 Cabaret
  Cabaret
  Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
  
  
• 2011 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

JM Youth Ensemble

The JM Youth Ensemble was a result of a merge between JM Drama and The Theatre People. Their first show, Norm Foster's The Foursome

The Foursome

The Foursome is a 2006 American comedy film. It is about 4 college friends who reconnect at their 20-year college reunion on the golf course. The film stars Entourage cast member Kevin Dillon, John Shaw, Chris Gauthier and Paul Jarrett. The film was directed by William Dear and written by Jackson...

, was staged in May, 2010.