SANCTUARY - GLOBE AND MAIL: The Sanctuary singalong: ‘A scary Exorcist dark rock opera’
by Marsha Lederman
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011
On the set of the made-in-B.C. series Sanctuary, the cast is doing something out of character. Prop guns and lab equipment set aside – at least temporarily – they’re trying out a new weapon in their fight: music. In a radical departure for the series, song meets science fiction in a musical episode that airs Friday.
“It wasn’t like we wrote an episode as an excuse to do music,” said series creator Damian Kindler on the Burnaby, B.C., set during a break in shooting a key scene earlier this year. “We wrote an episode that if you pulled the music out, it would still be a good episode...”
Vancouver blues icon Jim Byrnes guest stars as Magnus’s father. When he appears in the library and sings an old lullaby to his daughter (a soulful version of Byrnes’s Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid that had [Amanda] Tapping tearing up on-set), she figures out a solution to Abby’s problem.
“That addresses the theme of the deepness of memory and of that part of your brain that music and a certain sound touches,” said Byrnes, after wrapping the scene. “And the thing that it brings back, the memories it evokes, and the way it makes you do work, makes you want to do better...”
thanks for the INFO i can't wait till tomorrow
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