WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN …

—Mike Crisolago

WHEN STING’S The Last Ship Broadway musical docks in Toronto for its Canadian première in February, it’ll serve as a full circle moment of sorts for the multi-time Grammy winner, whose uncle emigrated to the city in the 1950s. “He couldn’t take his guitar with him, so he left it to me,” Sting told the Toronto Star. “That was the beginning. I was seven years old. That was my friend for life and made my career … so I’m grateful to Ontario for attracting my uncle.” The 67-year-old conceived of The Last Ship, about a small English shipbuilding town preparing to lose its shipyard, based on his own experiences growing up around the shipyards of Wallsend in Northern England. Not only did he write the Tony-nominated score, but he’s going…

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