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Best of the Waterfront: circus camp

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Backstage, five kids are concentrating hard. They are on stilts, wobbling about, with only moments to correct their balance before lumbering on stage. While they hover, parents are “oo-ing” and “ahh-ing” in the main arena, going giddy over the mini-trampoline act, in which kids are dazzling the crowd with flips. There is some serious flippage going on. Meanwhile, junior wannabe-clowns spend their time practicing goofy walks and wacky voices. This is life inside Harbourfront Centre’s circus camp for kids.

Theatre Review: Million Dollar Quartet

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There was a sense of sadness in the air at the opening night of Million Dollar Quartet. The pleasant, occasionally thrilling musical is a re-enactment of a magical moment in modern cultural history when, on Dec. 4, 1956, four of the early giants of rock ‘n’ roll — Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins — met and jammed together in the Memphis studio of Sam Phillips’ Sun Records.

Morning Throwback: Toronto firemen have always been hunks of sweet love

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Dostoevsky once said, “The fire is in the minds of men and not in the roofs of houses,” but if that were true, we wouldn’t need sweaty firefighters to extinguish our fires. But man oh man. What wouldn’t we do to get to know these guys? Put a cat up in a tree? Start an illegal bonfire? Come on, baby, light my fire, indeed.