Theatre
McDonald appeared in the Wicked Women concert and sang "This Is the Moment" from the Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde
In 2002, McDonald played the part of the Nurse in a run of Romeo and Juliet - The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's glittering West End. She has also performed in productions in Kirkby Lonsdale and Basingstoke.
On 22 June 2012, it was announced that McDonald is to star in the 2012 tour of the West-End musical Daddy Cool (musical) as Ma Baker. It is a "Romeo and Juliet" story of Sunny, a young man who comes to London from Jamaica and lives for his music joining the Subsonics. He meets and falls in love with Rose who is the daughter of notorious East End club owner Ma Baker who is also the mother of Benny who is the leader of rival group the Blades. And then past secrets are revealed as the story unfolds. The tour begins on 16 October in Bradford with the finale in Skegness on 17 October.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinema ... has access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)