Absolutely despised Oliver Becker as Scrooge - he was that good at being a miserable miser at the…read morebeginning of the play, one couldn't help but dislike him. His transformation from miser to philanthropist at the end was wonderfully done. Kevin Rothery was also a pleasure to watch. I will say that from now on when I am reminded of Mr. Fezziwig, I will see William Vickers and his wonderful performance. And Mark Claxton as Bob Cratchit - well done, well done; I noted quite a few damp eyes in the audience during his performance as he discussed Tiny Tim's final resting place with his wife. The production was beautiful, and I liked that the actors used the lines from the original Dickens rather than modernizing them. The entire cast did an excellent job and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Very friendly staff. So far we are very happy...just started classes ladt semester. Dance recital…read morewas top notch & the skills taught were outstanding. Its just expensive.

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Saw "Tackle: A Football Play" and I think the Riders should file suit for slander. Our suspicions…read morethat this would be a low-brow play began when we noted the average age of the audience was mid-sixties. Incidentally so were the actors, who performed admirably despite more than one recovering from apparent knee surgery. The play progressed aimlessly and never actually concluded. Although the actors were passionate, they demanded their parts should be extended. They adlibbed lines frequently and missed cues just as often. What do I know? The elderly in the room were thrilled. Mostly due to the audacious volume of the sound system -- my hearing is returning after 4 hours, but the memories haunt me. Despite the high ticket price, the poor service, extremely crowded atmosphere, blaring audio, and terrible play, the buffet meal exceeded expectations.

New Years Eve Gala - Dueling Pianos @$75 pp table of 8 people in our party…read more Age range 50 - 54 Do I start with the good news or the bad ? Maybe I will comment in chronological order. 1. Service - bar: non-existent. 15 people called in sick....Really!! On New Years Eve, hmmmm , me thinks perhaps atleast half of those "sick" people took advantage of a situation where the flu bug was making its rounds. If I were the manager (which we heard that there wasn't one) or whomever is in charge, there should be a prompt staff meeting @ 8 am Jan 2nd. I believe that some of those staff would have their walking papers. To top it off, if I had been told that 15 of my staff would not be available on what I would assume could be the busiest night of the year, then I would have been calling every relative, friend and/or acquaintance to please!!!! come help! In this day and age of social media, help is not too far away. You should never be in a situation that your paying customers are assisting in the service!! 2. The food - atrocious!!! Our table agreed that this was perhaps the worst meal we each had ever had! Our neighbouring tables of 12 and 4 also said the same thing. NOT GOOD FOR YOU!! When you are scared to eat the beef because of it being too raw (even for 2 former cattle farmers at our table) , the chicken was over and under cooked. The potatoes were crunchy. I don't know how as they looked as though they were leftover homefries that were twice cooked! The buns dry , the lasagna - disgusting! etc etc etc. Such a disappointment considering the cost of the ticket and the expectation from a New Years Eve meal. I genuinely feel sorry for the staff who were there and were trying to run the whole thing which was almost impossible. Even the 25% discount (bar only)couldn't save their ass! I have a gut feeling that we well be saying that we were present at the evening that put the final coffin nail into the existence of Applause dinner theatre! 3. Now the good - The Dueling Piano guys from Calgary were the only saving , entertaining grace you had left and they succeeded in keeping your clientele around for the evening. They probably had to pull out all the stops in the first half hour (which they did) to save you all from having an empty auditorium ! IT'S TOO BAD....honestly! It was nice to think that Applause was a different form of entertainment to attend in South East Saskatchewan. I feel bad for the other 7 people that I talked into buying a ticket! Thank God for the entertainment or I would have felt I needed to reimburse my friends for their evening . Somehow, a $75 pp evening ended up as a $25 pp evening and and $20 of that would go to the entertainment. Sorry, but true! To add insult to injury, any person who criticized the evening through Applause's FB page were told that they weren't welcomed back because they only wanted a forgiving audience. Once they got some negative feedback on that comment they pulled their horns in and gave out contact information so that dissatisfied customers would either get a discount, gift certificates or refunds. The next day, all posts and their responses were removed. Also, they removed all posts that asked why the first posts were removed. ....YIKES!! That is why I posted on Yelp....she can't remove this!

The MacKenzie Art Gallery should have a lot going for it. It's the oldest public art gallery in…read moreSaskatchewan and it has over 5,000 works of art spanning over 5,000 years. Unfortunately, it's only via their website that I learned about this because a visit here illuminated none of that. The MacKenzie is housed in a section of an administrative building that is about as engaging as, well, administrative buildings tend to be. The galleries on the second level are windowless and very poorly lit making for a gloomy atmosphere. A small selection of old master paintings from the permanent collection were on display as part of an exhibition. No big names here; only a few of them quite good, including a dramatic 17th century seascape of ships tossing about in a storm and a riveting 16th century portrait of a woman and her lap dog. A large scale tapestry exhibition had some interesting pieces but the bad lighting, unfortunately, made most of these works seem lifeless. That, to me, is a disservice to the artists who created them. Sometimes, I'm at a a museum at the wrong time and that's how I summed up my visit. I was hoping to see some of the Inuit art from their collection but none of it was on display. I'm sure more of the permanent collection is on display at other times of the year as exhibitions change. However, it's important for museums to have a selection of their greatest hits on display at all times so visitors can have some context about a collection's strengths. Here, I had no sense of that and, strangely, clicking through their website revealed much more information about the experience of visiting than about the art itself. Finally, as I exited the gallery into the cavernous lobby of the administrative building, I saw a few concrete sculptures of people. There were no labels anywhere to provide information about them. After hunting on the internet, I think they may be part of a larger group created by artist, Miki Mappin, but I'm not sure. It would be respectful if the artist was credited. This was the finish to an odd visit and I left the MacKenzie confused instead of enlightened. (The folks in the decked out gift shop were very nice, though, so kudos to them.)

The permanent collection is a diverse range of Artists connected in some ways to Saskatchewan. This…read moreis my second visit in two years and I'm delighted at finding pieces that I'll think about for some time. I had time to kill so sat through an hour of short films showing in their cinema and it was an hour well spent. It is a small gallery so an hour to view everything would be a reasonable amount of time.

Alright, I am going to caveat my review with the fact that I have not lived in Regina for many…read moreyears. I live in Calgary, and have a selection of about 4 movie theatres within 15-20 minutes of my house. So driving to the opposite end of the city to see a newly-released movie is unheard of for me. Growing up in south end of Regina, I had the choice of the Rainbow or Southland theatres. Both are still there, but the Cineplex does not always show all of the newest flicks as it did when I was a teen and it was THEE place to go for Cheap Tuesdays in the summer. Which is ridiculous considering the population growth around Harbour Landing and in the East (I feel sorry for you Eastenders having to drive all the way to the NW!). Regardless, my mom and I wanted to see a chick-flick, so we bought tickets online, with several warnings from my mother that we had to be EARLY! We could not just show up when the movie is starting or we would be stuck in the front row. Mom didn't lie. After navigating their nightmare parking lot, we walked into the Galaxy and into utter chaos. Line-ups everywhere - thankfully the lines at the concessions moved quickly. And we were so early that we got decent seats. The theatre is a good theatre - so I'm not giving them a poor rating as it's not their fault that Regina lacks entertainment facilities. But you think any business person with half a brain would open another theatre in the city to take some of the load off this location???

The Galaxy now has DBox seats in their Regina Ultra AVX theatre (adding to the Atmos sound…read moreexperience). We thought the D Box seats really worked well for The Martian. We will definitely be back.