he thought he was an only child. he has 35 siblings.

Our Little Secret

A TRUE NEW MUSICAL

MIRVISH'S CAA THEATRE · NOV 3 - 22, 2026

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Nov 3 to 22 at
Mirvish's CAA Theatre

Nov 3 to 22, 2026

Mirvish's CAA Theatre

651 Yonge St., Toronto

Tickets from $39

85 minutes, no intermission

Ages 9+

RUN DETAILS

See dates and tickets

CRITICS' REVIEWS

"Have you ever known that you were witnessing something that was destined to get real big, real fast?...

Stand in whatever line you need to, do whatever you can to catch this show before it goes nuclear. You’ll have bragging rights that you were there at the beginning."

- The Charming Modernist

AWARDS

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ABOUT THE SHOW

What does a 31-year old theatre kid do when he finds out his parents aren't quite who he thinks they are?

Write a musical, of course!

OUR LITTLE SECRET is the hilarious, moving, and completely true story of Noam Tomaschoff's discovery that he wasn't an only child, and he actually had more than 35 siblings around the world.

Blending comedy, drama, and addictive music, OUR LITTLE SECRET will leave you laughing, crying — and seeing your family in a whole new light.

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Photographer: Dahlia Katz

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WINNER: BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL OR PLAY, EDINBURGH FRINGE 2024

NOAM TOMASCHOFF, OUR LITTLE SECRET

1st place out of 90!

For the 14th year running, Edinburgh theatre critic Chris Parkle gave his annual awards for the Fringe. After seeing 90 shows, he gave out his awards. In 1st place for Best Performance: Noam Tomaschoff in OUR LITTLE SECRET.

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Photographer: Amanda Chieco

SEE ALL AWARD WINNERS

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FROM PREVIEWS!

If you attended a preview at the Segal Centre, we'd love to hear what you thought! Please feel free to share positive feedback, things you think we should change, or any ideas you have. We're all ears and love hearing from audience members!

FEEDBACK FORM

AS SEEN ON

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Preview

SNEAK PREVIEW

It's fun being an only child, but boy, this life was meant for brothers!

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MEET THE TEAM

Meet the team behind Our Little Secret! Full creative team to be announced shortly!

Noam Tomaschoff

Noam

Other Theatre: Our Little Secret (Segal Centre); Click Clack Moo (TheatreWorks USA).
Other: Hello, Toronto! It is the honor and thrill of a lifetime to bring this story back home, where it all began. Endless gratitude to Mirvish for seeing the potential in our little Fringe show, believing in us, and guiding us every step of the way.
This run is dedicated to the Toronto theatre institutions that first showed me just how much magic was possible under the lights: the Fringe, Randolph, Soulpepper, and, of course, Mirvish, to name just a few; to the audiences who came out to support us and have been my enthusiastic and steadfast scene partners; to all the wonderful and complicated families out there with little secrets of their own; to Ryan and Russell, who have helped me make this show the very best it can be and put up with me living in their basements while we do it; and to my parents, the original producers, who have been with me every step of the way.

Ryan Peters

Composer

Mirvish: Debut
Additional Compositional Credits: Just A Regular Day
Other: Ryan Peters is a High School Drama and English teacher living in Toronto. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with his childhood friends, Noam and Russell, on this very special project. To see Our Little Secret performed on a Mirvish stage, where Ryan has many childhood memories attending musical theatre, is a dream come true. Ryan would like to thank all of his piano teachers, theatre directors, camp counsellors, and mentors who have guided him over the years, his sister, the first Stage Manager of this show, and of course his parents, who always fostered Ryan’s musicality and creativity from a young age. Finally, he would like to thank his entire family for their endless support, and especially his wife, Einav, and two children, Coby and Shayli. @ryanpeters91

Russell Citron

Creative Producer

Mirvish: Debut
Other Theatre: Operation Mincemeat, Co-Producer (John Golden Theatre, Broadway)
Other: Russell Citron is the Creative Producer of Our Little Secret and a Co-Producer of Operation Mincemeat on Broadway. He is thrilled to bring this show to life with his high school friends, Noam and Ryan. Russell's performing career peaked in elementary school as Simba in The Lion King, before Noam and Ryan took the leads in high school, leaving him quietly languishing in supporting roles. Offstage, Russell founded CrowdChange and co-founded Feed the Deed. He holds an MBA from Harvard.

Adam Pascal

Director

Adam Pascal is best known for originating the role of Roger in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, earning a Tony Award nomination and Drama Desk Award nomination. His Broadway credits also include Aida, Cabaret, Memphis, Disaster! and Pretty Woman. Film credits include School of Rock and SLC Punk!. Pascal has expanded his career into directing and musical development, including The Last Five Years and the development of Feels Like the First Time, a new musical featuring the music of Foreigner.

Nick Burgess

Musical Director

Other Theatre: Titanique (Juste Pour Rire; Lido de Paris; Segal Centre/Mirvish Productions); Kimberly Akimbo (Segal Centre/Mirvish Productions); Mamma Mia! (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Into The Woods, Something Rotten!, Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat (Côte Saint-Luc Dramatic Society).
Other: Nick is thrilled to return to Mirvish and wishes to thank his agent Rachael Dean at Talent House, and his partner Martin for his love and support.
Online: www.nickburgess.ca, Instagram: @nickburgesspianist

Maya Royer

Production Manager

Maya Royer is a Production Manager born and raised in Toronto, ON.
Mirvish: The Secret Chord: A Leonard Cohen Experience.
Other Theatre: Select credits include: What You Won’t Do For Love, Mahabharata, Mashup Pon Di Road (Whynot Theatre); To A Flame, Shedding a Skin, Mad Madge (Nightwood Theatre); Hamlet (Luminato Festival); Madame Minister (Talk Is Free Theatre); YENSA Festival (Lua Shayenne Dance Company); Sweeter, Our Place, Three Ordinary Men (Cahoots Theatre Company); Loss (The Theatre Centre); Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects); The Events (Necessary Angel); Pygmalion (Guild Festival Theatre).

Steve Sidwell

Orchestrator

Other Theatre: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Operation Mincemeat, Bat Out of Hell The Musical; We Will Rock You.
Film & TV: Bohemian Rhapsody, 95th Academy Awards with Sofia Carson & Diane Warren, 79th Academy Awards with ‘Elements & Motion’, Coronation Concert 2023, Platinum Party at the Palace 2022.
Other: Grammy award winning, Tony, Emmy & Olivier-nominated arranger, composer, producer, conductor and trumpeter. Best Musical Theatre Album Grammy Award 2015 win for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

Stéphane Ménigot

Lighting Designer

Working on national and international stages for over 35 years, Stéphane Ménigot brings his artistic signature to the worlds of dance, theatre, music, and circus arts. Dedicated to sharing his expertise, he regularly serves as a lecturer and instructor at specialized higher education institutions, notably the National Circus School of Montreal. Marking his second collaboration in a series of five with Alberta Ballet, his work was honored with the Best Lighting Design of a Play or Musical award at the 2025 Regional Awards.
www.octochrome.com

Olivia Daniels

Assistant Director

Olivia Daniels is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist based in Toronto. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and The New Studio on Broadway. Recent projects include: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Asst. Director; HGJT and Theatre Folksbiene, dir. Joel Grey), Playground (Director/Co-Writer; Toronto Fringe - T.O. Live ‘Best of Fringe’ Award) and I Was Unbecoming Then (Producer; Next Stage - Dora Award Nom.). Some favorite acting credits: Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof (Tweed & Co.), Fanny ‘Bobbie’ Rosenfeld in Bobbie (Theatre by the Bay) and Rona Lisa Peretti in …Spelling Bee (SGC - 3x Dora Award Winner). Grateful to be part of this wonderful team! Upcoming: Pippin (Director, Bowtie Productions).

Bruno-Pierre Houle

Set Designer

Theater: Our Little Secret; Grow; Small Mouth Sounds; Superdogs the Musical; Josephine a Musical Cabaret; Fifteen Dog (associate set design); Titanique (associate set design) (Segal Center); The Importance of Being Earnest (Repercussion and Persephone Productions); Max and Aaron Write a Musical (Trevor Barrette), Extra/Beautiful/U; Dominoes at the Crossroads (Infinitheatre), The Great Divide (DWYT); Snow White; Selfie (Geordie), Le Loup (Duceppe), Au Bout, Là-Haut (Théâtre de la Petite Marée); Proje(c)t; Les Bonnes (Third Space Theatre)
Film: Pas d’chicane dans ma cabane (Forum Films), Sarah préfère la course (La boîte à Fanny inc.)
Other: Petite Plage Concert (Ingrid St-Pierre), Unravelling (Never Apart) and multiple escape games.
Awards: Two METAs awards for Outstanding Set Design
Web: www.bphoule.com

Nick Rose

Sound Designer

Citadel: Associate Sound Designer: A Christmas Carol. Mix Engineer: Prison Dancer, Children of God, 9 to 5: The Musical.
Other Theatre: Associate Sound Designer: Morningside Road (Shadow Theatre). Mix Engineer: The Ballad of Johnny & June UK Tour (Trafalgar). Lighting Design Assistant: Opening & Closing Ceremonies (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics)
Other: Upcoming: Sound Designer for Annie (Citadel). Mix Engineer: The Vinyl Cafe (National Arts Centre).

Robert Harding

Stage Manager

Other Theatre: Kim’s Convenience (US Tour: Soulpepper, Pemberley Productions, Adam Blanshay Productions); Inside American Pie (Harmony House, Mirvish); Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (Volcano); Things I Know to be True (Company Theatre, Mirvish); Three Sisters (Obsidian, Soulpepper); The Guide to Being Fabulous, The Seagull, King Lear, Queen Goneril, Pipeline, Rose, Bed and Breakfast, Waiting for Godot, The 39 Steps (Soulpepper).
Other: Robert is a member of the CAEA Stage Management Committee.

Mitch Wood

Dramaturg

Mirvish: Debut
Other Theatre: Ginger Twinsies (Orpheum Theatre, Original Off Broadway Cast); Into the Woods, Cabaret (Ovation Productions); Murder at Ackerton Manor (Tweed & Co.).
Film & TV: Ginny & Georgia (Netflix)
Other: Mitch has written and performed sold-out original shows of Mitch, Please! and Mitch Wood! My Impression of a Show in London, New York, Toronto and LA. He trained at The Groundlings in LA and holds a Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance from Sheridan College.

Aaron Malkin

Dramaturg

Aaron Malkin, Dramaturgical Consultant, (Debut) is a creative producer and dramaturg who serves as an Associate Artistic Director at New York Theatre Workshop. Aaron has worked at Arena Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ma-Yi Theater Company, and People’s Light. He has collaborated with Kristina Wong, Hansol Jung, Aleshea Harris, Celine Song, Martyna Majok, Anaïs Mitchell, Rachel Chavkin, Colman Domingo, Whitney White, Heidi Schreck, Jeremy O. Harris and Lucas Hnath, among others.

Victor Pokinko, Matt Pilipiak

Bad Hats Theatre

Bad Hats Theatre is an award-winning Toronto-based creative engine dedicated to the development of new, exceptional musical theatre. We create and support a growing canon of original musicals that invite audiences of all ages to experience the joy and curiosity that stories with music have a unique power to ignite. Steered by a three-headed leadership team: Artistic Director Fiona Sauder, Artistic Managing Director Matt Pilipiak, and Executive Producer Victor Pokinko, our innovative style which blends movement, live music, and story, encourages audiences to find the extraordinary within the ordinary, to imagine beyond the things we can see.

David Manella

Production Counsel

Tracey Erin Smith

Original Director (Segal Centre Production)

Chris Barillaro

Original Piano Arrangements

Ben Deverett

Original Arrangement

Danielle Peters

Original Stage Manager

Rose Bochner, Josh Sable

Special Thanks

A Note from Noam

Part 1 of 3: My Dad

Without giving too much away, I can say in all honesty that when I learned that my dad isn’t my biological father, I was stunned. If anything, everyone always told me how alike my dad and I were...and it was obvious!

From day one, my very Israeli father set out to ensure that I spoke fluent Hebrew, which is no mean feat, given that I never lived in Israel and only really spoke it with him. He succeeded, and I am still fluent in Hebrew to this day. I am very close with his side of the family, and I have inherited a huge number of my cultural, artistic, sporting and political interests from him. I always thought these things were indicators of just how closely related we are, but now, it is clear that all of this extra effort on his part was done to compensate for the lack of biological relation. Ironically, because of it, we ended up being closer than are many fathers and sons who do share DNA!

Me and my Dad

CONTACT US

Fill in the form below or email our producer, Russell Citron, at russell@ourlittlesecretmusical.com.

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.

Ce projet a été rendu possible [en partie] grâce au gouvernement du Canada.

ourlittlesecretmusical

KC18 Theatrical Productions Inc.

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he thought he was an only child. he has 35 siblings.

Our Little Secret

A TRUE NEW MUSICAL

Nov 3 to 22 at
Mirvish's CAA Theatre

RUN DETAILS

CRITICS' REVIEWS

"Have you ever known that you were witnessing something that was destined to get real big, real fast?...

Stand in whatever line you need to, do whatever you can to catch this show before it goes nuclear. You’ll have bragging rights that you were there at the beginning."

- The Charming Modernist

AWARDS

ABOUT THE SHOW

WINNER: BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL OR PLAY, EDINBURGH FRINGE 2024

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FROM PREVIEWS!

If you attended a preview at the Segal Centre, we'd love to hear what you thought! Please feel free to share positive feedback, things you think we should change, or any ideas you have. We're all ears and love hearing from audience members!

AS SEEN ON

SNEAK PREVIEW

It's fun being an only child, but boy, this life was meant for brothers!

MEET THE TEAM

Meet the team behind Our Little Secret! Full creative team to be announced shortly!

David Manella

Tracey Erin Smith

Chris Barillaro

Original Piano Arrangements

Ben Deverett

Danielle Peters

Rose Bochner, Josh Sable

Part 1 of 3: My Dad

Me and my Dad

Join the Secret List.

Get access to exclusive sales, behind-the-scenes coverage, and top secret benefits you don't want to miss.

CONTACT US

he thought he was an only child. he has 35 siblings.

Our Little Secret

A TRUE NEW MUSICAL

Nov 3 to 22 at Mirvish's CAA Theatre

RUN DETAILS

CRITICS' REVIEWS

"Have you ever known that you were witnessing something that was destined to get real big, real fast?... Stand in whatever line you need to, do whatever you can to catch this show before it goes nuclear. You’ll have bragging rights that you were there at the beginning."

- The Charming Modernist

AWARDS

ABOUT THE SHOW

WINNER: BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL OR PLAY, EDINBURGH FRINGE 2024

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FROM PREVIEWS!

If you attended a preview at the Segal Centre, we'd love to hear what you thought! Please feel free to share positive feedback, things you think we should change, or any ideas you have. We're all ears and love hearing from audience members!

AS SEEN ON

SNEAK PREVIEW

It's fun being an only child, but boy, this life was meant for brothers!

MEET THE TEAM

Meet the team behind Our Little Secret! Full creative team to be announced shortly!

David Manella

Tracey Erin Smith

Chris Barillaro

Original Piano Arrangements

Ben Deverett

Danielle Peters

Rose Bochner, Josh Sable

Part 1 of 3: My Dad

Me and my Dad

Join the Secret List.

Get access to exclusive sales, behind-the-scenes coverage, and *top secret* benefits you don't want to miss.

CONTACT US

Nov 3 to 22 at
Mirvish's CAA Theatre

"Have you ever known that you were witnessing something that was destined to get real big, real fast?...

Stand in whatever line you need to, do whatever you can to catch this show before it goes nuclear. You’ll have bragging rights that you were there at the beginning."

Get access to exclusive sales, behind-the-scenes coverage, and top secret benefits you don't want to miss.