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Back in August I posted about My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, a new musical I’d heard about that debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival earlier in the summer.

It had just been announced that Mirvish was going to host a production of it at the Panasonic Theatre in November, and that I simply must see it based on the name alone.

November came, and indeed I did go to see it. And I’m surprised to say it was genuinely awesome and I loved it.

MMLJWW is narrated by David Hein, the co-author along with his wife Irene Carl Sankoff, and is based on the true story of how Hein’s moms got together.

Hein’s mother Claire (played by Lisa Horner) was an atheist who came out to her son is as a lesbian after falling in love with Jane (Rosemary Doyle), a Wiccan. Claire later comes out a second time to her son, this time as a Jew. It’s funny and it’s clever, but it’s also sensitive and genuinely touching. Continue reading »

Reading The Globe and Mail this weekend my husband came across an article about this improbably titled musical.

My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding was written by David Hein and Irene Carl, and first debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival in July, and seems to have been a hit with Eye Weekly and NOW Magazine. It’s now has been picked up by David Mirvish for a four-week commercial run at the Panasonic Theatre in November.

The authors are self-described “cashews” (Catholic Jews), and the musical is actually based on the true story of Hein’s mothers. Their interview with the Globe describes a bit about their process, Hein’s mothers, and what it was like for him growing up: Continue reading »