Sudbury’s Alessandro Costantini is playing the lead role in a production of Prom Queen: The Musical at Montreal’s Segal Centre for the Performing Arts.
The musical, which will run at the Montreal theatre from Oct. 27 to Nov. 20, tells the true story of Marc Hall, who fought a successful legal battle against the Durham Catholic District School Board to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom in 2002.
Costantini has been a regular in Sudbury’s theatre scene, and started the Yes Theatre (Youth Entertaining Sudbury) company when he was 16 so he could put on a production of Hair.
The company is now going into its eighth season and produces theatre meant to engage young audiences.
Costantini has gone on to perform in Toronto, and has starred in Young People’s Theatre’s production of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach.
