Hello, I’m Sandra Margolese. Thanks for stopping by!
I’m a storyteller. So, if you have a moment, I’d like to share one with you.
I write plays. My methods are many, from musicals to comedies, and shorts.
I write songs. I sing and record my original tunes and interpret the words of other writers, in the studio and theatre.
I write books. My stories are pithy and poignant emotional journeys with a dash of romance.
Sandra Margolese is an Ontario, Canada-born writer, singer, songwriter, voice actor, and vocal coach. A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, Sandra is an emerging author of uplifting, witty, and warm stories with characters served up like her martinis—lightly shaken with a twist! Her musical theatre career includes over five years in the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera. During her 13 years living in Dubai, she sang with jazz ensembles for corporate events and voiced radio and TV ads ranging from BMW to Bloomingdale’s. Sandra’s one-act jukebox musicals, produced by Smile Theatre, have toured seniors’ facilities and long-term care homes across the province, and her latest play, Good Fortune, was shortlisted for the Norm Foster Fostered Playwrights Festival. Sandra lives just outside of Toronto with her husband, eavesdropping on random conversations in the name of research.
Good Fortune
Knitting shop owner Myra Goldstein and her recently retired veterinarian husband Herman enjoy a quiet life in semi-rural Canada. Myra lives her life by the advice and wisdom in her fortune cookies from their weekly feast of Chinese food take-out, but when the predicted “tall, handsome stranger” jumps off the small piece of paper and onto their front doorstep, their future may hold more spice than a bowl of Szechuan noodles.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men
Length: 95 minutes, 2 Acts
Jack Of All Trades
Three longtime girlfriends reunite for a weekend at a creative wellness retreat where Jack, the resident boy toy of Tiddler Lake Lodge, is only too happy to fill their “creative wells!” Will their needs be fulfilled, or will they all fall under the spell of the “Jack of all Trades?”
Cast: 3 women, 1 man.
Length: 95 minutes. 2 Acts.
Dog Days of Duckeye
Join Canadian radio sweethearts Ron and Deanne Monroe, and their trusted techie Solomon Jones, on a rollicking, radio, ranch-romance, “The Dog Days Of Duckeye.” Discover what happens when they enter the studio, and find that “Heartaches By The Number” are brewing faster than a jug of “White Lightning,” and their “Crazy,” “Cheating Hearts” may send them “Down The Old Cattle Trail.”
Cast: 1 woman, 2 men.
Length: 1 hour. Musical.
Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
Join “Rosemary Clooney” as she reflects, in words and music, on her life, loves, and extraordinary career.
Cast: 1 woman.
Length: 1 hour. Musical.
Home For The Holidays
The musical story of two “minstrels of war,” Canadian Army Show entertainers, who faced the hazards of war to boost the morale of men fighting on the front lines on Christmas Eve.
Cast: 2 women.
Length: 1 hour. Musical.
Fever
A young songwriter is inspired by the music and lyrics of the incomparable Peggy Lee.
Cast: 1 woman.
Length: 1 hour. Musical.
At The Hop
One girl, two boys, and one unforgettable sock hop! Elroy loves Suzie, Suzie loves Frankie, and Frankie, he loves all the girls. But who will find true love as the last song plays, “At The Hop?”
Cast: 1 woman. 1 man.
Length: 1 hour. Musical.
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