Encore Screening of Wayne & Shuster Tribute

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Due to popular demand, adds second screening of Wayne & Shuster tribute Part of the Festival’s Canadian Archival Series

Rosie Shuster, Michael and Brian Wayne will be in attendance

Thanks to popular demand, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is thrilled to add a second showing of their Wayne & Shuster Tribute screening. Toronto audiences will be able to enjoy some of the comedy duo’s most iconic performances on Tuesday May 10, 12:30 pm at Innis Town Hall as a free ticketed event.

The first screening which was had gone to rush took place Saturday May 7 at 1:00 pm at the ROM’s Eaton Theatre and was followed by a panel discussion with Rosie Shuster, Michael and Brian Wayne, Don Cullen, Corinne Conley, and Norman Jewison, moderated by Mark Selby.

(L-R)  Johnny Wayne & Frank Shuster - Credit: CBC Still Photo Collection/Page Toles

(L-R) Johnny Wayne & Frank Shuster – Credit: CBC Still Photo Collection/Page Toles

TJFF will offer a rare opportunity to enjoy Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster as they were seen in the earliest days of Canadian TV, showing three episodes from Wayne & Shuster in Black & White, a retrospective series (hosted by Shuster) that includes their iconic Shakespearean Baseball sketch and Rinse the Bloor off My Toga, among other comedy classics. Also part of the programme will be a 1965 episode of Telescope a must for Wayne & Shuster fans where the duo travels to both England and the Charlottetown Theatre Festival.

These screenings are part of the Festival’s Canadian Archival series entitled Jewish Images from a Golden Age of Canadian Television, which focuses on Jewish representation during the first dozen years of CBC Television (1952-64). This curated series features rarities from the CBC archives, including a rarely-shown 1955 episode of a drama anthology, On A Streetcar, starring a young William Shatner.

On the occasion of the Wayne & Shuster Tribute, TJFF is also presenting their delightful 1988 musical comedy Wayne and Shuster: Once Upon a Giant for kids, parents and grandparents all of all ages, at a free ticketed screening on Saturday May 14, 11:00 am, Innis Town Hall.

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