The Bricklin
An Automotive Fantasy
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2022
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927922149
- Publish Date
- May 2015
- List Price
- $15.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990737732
- Publish Date
- Jul 2022
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Big dreams, risk takers, a sexy sports car: what more could you want in a musical? With catchy 1970's pop and funk inspired tunes, The Bricklin takes audiences on a fantastical and wild ride through politics, business antics, and controversy… as it explores one of Canada's most colourful stories.
About the authors
Paul Ledoux was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He began writing for theatre while living in Montreal and working at the Centaur Theatre.
His play The Electrical Man won the award for best play in the 1976 Quebec Drama Festival. Since then, he has worked as an artistic director, dramaturge, director, designer, and now writes for film and television as well as theatre. He won the Chalmers Award for Fire (written with David Young, premiered at Magnus Theatre, 1986) and was nominated for a second for Secret Garden (adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett, Young People’s Theatre, 1991). He has twice been a finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Fire and Judy! (Stages Cabaret, 1980). Other plays include: The Children of the Night (Factory Theatre, 1982), As Time Goes By (music by David Smyth and Peter Willson, Magnus, 1986), Sam Slick, The Clockmaker (music by A. MacDonald, Mermaid Theatre, 1983), Love is Strange (with David Young, Magnus, 1984), Cheatin' Hearts (with David Smyth, Magnus, 1994), Ubu the Barbarian (songs by Joe Hall, Arbour Festival), and Anne (Young People’s Theatre, 1998).
Originally from Nova Scotia, Allen Cole has worked variously as composer, lyricist and/or book writer on musicals such as The Wrong Son, The Bricklin (with Paul Ledoux), Anything That Moves (with Ann-Marie MacDonald and Alisa Palmer), and Pélagie (with Vincent de Tourdonnet). He has won numerous awards, including four Doras, and a Best Film Score Award from the Atlantic Film Festival. In 2009 Rockbound won five Merritt Awards, including Best New Play, Best Music and Best Production. Rockbound was also shortlisted for the prestigious Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia’s Masterworks Award.
