Quantum Physics: The Musical

Quantum Physics: The Musical

Sept. 15, 16 and 17, Stage 2

You have to see it to believe that partners Vanessa LeBourdais and Ian Gschwind can make quantum physics sexy and funny. Step on board the rocket ship Lollipop with Capt. Joe Arthur and crew and take a trip to the subatomic level where everything is very, very small. Watch the captain go ga-ga over his very own hadron accelerator. Get the lowdown on atoms, hadrons and quarks. Brush up on your Bohr's Law of Complementarity, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Theory of Parallel Universes. LeBourdais' music, ranging from tango and calypso to heavy metal and ballad-and everything in between-is upbeat and catchy. The choreography is lively, the lyrics are a hoot and the four performers have enough energy to put NASA to shame. You can't take your eyes off pint-sized live wire Amy Wallis and Barbara Tomasic simply sizzles when she sings "Gravity is Getting Me Down." If this show tours the country's high schools-and it should-you can expect a whole new generation of atomic scientists to emerge. -Jo Ledingham