Our Little Secret: A True New Musical

THE AWARD-WINNING
HIT NEW MUSICAL

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Alright folks - the secret's out! We're headed to Mirvish's CAA Theatre in November! Get tickets while you still can!

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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

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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

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!

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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: Amanda Chieco

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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

Writer & Performer

Noam’s love for musicals came at the tender age of twelve, with his unforgettable performance as “Sam” in Camp Wahanowin’s production of Mamma Mia. From there, he made his best friends through musicals at high school, including this show’s composer, Ryan Peters; Producer, Russell Citron, and music arranger, Ben Deverett! After a sold-out run of the musical they all wrote together in Grade 12, Just A Regular Day, Noam studied drama at NYU’s Tisch School, and after graduation, went on tour with TheatreWorks USA as “Farmer Brown” in the award-winning children’s classic, Click Clack Moo. After moving to Los Angeles in 2017, he wrote and directed the feature film Tankhouse, starring Richard Kind and Christopher Lloyd (from Back to the Future!), which was a semi-autobiographical love letter to theatre and theatre kids. Tankhouse was distributed by Vertical Entertainment and released in 2022.

Ryan Peters

Composer

Ryan Peters is a High School Drama and English teacher living in Toronto. Although his days performing onstage are likely behind him, Ryan has performed in musicals such as Cabaret, Kiss of the SpiderWoman, Into the Woods, Company, and The Last Five Years. In his spare time, he enjoys team-building, song-leading, and composing musicals about his close friends’ life-altering genetic discoveries. Ryan is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with his childhood and extremely talented friends on this meaningful project — their first musical theatre collaboration since High School. He can’t wait to share it with all of you!

Russell Citron

Creative Producer

Russell Citron is a creative producer and tech entrepreneur who is thrilled to be working with his high school friends to bring this musical to life.

In addition to producing Our Little Secret, Russell is also a Co-Producer of Operation Mincemeat on Broadway (Golden Theatre).

On stage, Russell's performing career began (and peaked) in elementary school, with his performance as Simba in the Lion King. It was mostly downhill from there, as his more talented friends Noam and Ryan took the lead roles and sent him to perform as secondary characters, like Benny in RENT, which he performed in three different times. This is Russell, Ryan, and Noam's second production together - the first being "Just a Regular Day", a musical they co-wrote and performed together in high school.

Outside of theatre, Russell was the founder & CEO of CrowdChange, a fundraising technology company. He began his career at Monitor Deloitte and also is the co-founder of Feed the Deed, a viral social media campaign spreading 10,000+ acts of kindness across the world. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Adam Pascal

Director

Adam Pascal is a Tony Award–nominated actor and recipient of Drama League and Obie Awards, best known for originating the role of Roger Davis in the groundbreaking Broadway musical RENT. His performance helped launch the show into a global phenomenon and one of the longest-running productions in Broadway history. Pascal reprised the role multiple times, including the West End premiere, the 2005 film adaptation, and the Broadway national tour.

A veteran of both stage and screen, Pascal has starred on Broadway in Aida (as Radames), Cabaret (Emcee), Memphis, Chicago (Billy Flynn), Disaster! (originating the role of Chad), Something Rotten! (Shakespeare), and Pretty Woman: The Musical, both on Broadway and on its first national tour. Most recently, he appeared off-Broadway in Drag: The Musical.

His film credits include SLC Punk! and School of Rock, where he appeared as Theo, lead singer of “No Vacancy.” In addition to his acting career, Pascal is an accomplished recording artist, with albums including Model Prisoner and Civilian.

Originally from the Bronx and raised on Long Island, Pascal began his career singing in rock bands at age 12, performing throughout the New York club scene before transitioning to the stage.

He is currently directing the world premiere of Feels Like the First Time, a new musical featuring the music of Foreigner, and it was just announce that he will be directing Dear Evan Hansen at Harbour Lights Theatre. Adam is thrilled to be directing Our Little Secret and can't wait for the journey ahead.

Bad Hats Theatre

General Management (Canada)

Ben Deverett

Original Arrangement

David Manella

Production Counsel

Danielle Peters

Original Stage Manager

Tracey Erin Smith

Original Director (Segal Centre Production)

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

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

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