This summer, the Alliance for Canadian Musicals (ACM) brings a taste of Toronto’s top musical theatre talents to an unlikely stage: Flavours of the Game in the parking lot at Scadding Court Community Centre (SCCC), in partnership with Alexandra Park Neighbourhood Learning Centre (APNLC), with support from Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence.

On Saturday, June 27, 2026, thirteen musical shows from ACM’s second season as part of the annual Toronto Fringe Festival and other venues at the Fringe will perform in Stage Meets Pitch, a free matinee preview at APNLC and SCCC’s Flavours of the Game event series. Flavours of the Game is a series of community watch parties featuring international food, culture, soccer, and community spirit gathering around live screenings of this summer’s soccer matches in a neighbourly festival in the parking lot at SCCC.

The matinee preview, Stage Meets Pitch, will offer Fringe audiences and Flavours of the Game go-ers a first look at this year’s musicals at the Toronto Fringe Festival which takes place June 30 to July 12, 2026. Free and open to all ages, Stage Meets Pitch is a delightful musical theatre treat that people can enjoy before the soccer match scheduled for 5pm.

“Bring your friends, bring your family,” says Jake Rutland, SCCC Market 707 & Flavours of the Game Coordinator. “There will be food, drinks, and some arts and crafts for the kids. It’ll be a great afternoon for the whole family.”

Executive Producer Derrick Chua says: “We’re delighted to partner with APNLC and SCCC and PS707 on this unusual alliance between soccer and musical theatre. The Alliance for Canadian Musicals was formed with the purpose of serving the Canadian musical theatre community. We are thrilled to spotlight Canadian musicals at Flavours of the Game, in the spirit of human togetherness.”

What: Stage Meets Pitch - A Matinee Preview of This Year’s Top Fringe Festival Musicals

When: Sat June 27, 2026 at 2:00pm, a showcase of 13 musicals in ~100 minutes

Where: Flavours of the Game at Scadding Court Community Centre (707 Dundas St West) - behind the building, in the parking lot, look for the big tent!

Enclosed is the list of participating musicals with brief plot synopses. Download show images here.

Stage Meets Pitch is a collaboration between the Alliance for Canadian Musicals, Scadding Court Community Center, and PS707, an unconventional shipping container gallery located at SCCC, operated by the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence.

Alliance for Canadian Musicals is dedicated to the development, production and promotion of Canadian musicals. ACM programs Canadian musicals at the annual Toronto Fringe Festival. Learn more at allianceforcanadianmusicals.ca

Alexandra Park Neighbourhood Learning Centre  is a community-based organization supporting adult literacy proudly serving our community in Alexandra Park for over forty years.  Details on APNLC and SCCC’s Flavours of the Game will be available at eventbrite.ca/e/flavours-of-the-game-community-celebration-tickets-1984088464006

Scadding Court Community Centre is a multi-service agency with a wide range of programs and services geared toward the Alexandra Park neighbourhood and surrounding communities in downtown west Toronto. SCCC operates Market 707, Canada’s first and longest-running shipping container market, which is partnering with APNLC on Flavours of the Game. Follow Market 707 at instagram.com/market_707

PS707 is an unconventional shipping container gallery operated by the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence, which brings artists and artistic methods out into society where more imagination is needed. Learn more at artisticintelligence.com/playspace

Toronto Fringe Festival is Ontario’s largest performance festival, operating since 1989. Festival schedule and tickets go live on June 3 at fringetoronto.com.

Featured Fringe Festival Musicals

Participating in the Stage Meets Pitch matinee on June 26, 2026 at APNLC and SCCC’s Flavours of the Game:

1920s Walking Around In A Dream - Fun flappers & zany bootleggers have madcap love affairs in the Roaring Twenties in this PG-13 screwball musical comedy inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Artificially Intelligent 2.0 - Viral musical comedian Anesti Danelis asked ChatGPT to write him a show about his life, and this is what we got...

Book of Ooka: The Immaculate Misconception - An apocalyptic world, a miraculous pregnancy, and a party with shawarma, sheesha and song!

By Popular Demand - It's 2026 and the roaring 20s are back! Life is full of sparkle, parties, and depression. Join your charming hostess for an evening of music, sketch comedy and cheeky fun, in a show hell bent on finding joy amidst our Great Depression.

Cold Maple Cloth: The Farewell Tour of a Delusional Diva - Sydney is a 27 year old failing musical theatre actress, and she is ready to quit for good! But when an unexpected visitor from her past interrupts her show, could it help her see things differently?

First Kiss - It's 1985. A socially awkward teenager yearns for her FIRST KISS before she turns sixteen in the suburbs. But life is not a John Hughes rom-com for an Asian girl like her…

I Belong Here: Reclaiming My Voice - Lily Librach writes and stars in “I Belong Here: Reclaiming My Voice,” a one-woman musical story about resilience, strength, and becoming, from the dreams of a little girl to the present and beyond.

Little Astronaut - Follows two female engineering students trying to hold on to their identity, ambition, and to each other in a system designed to wear them down.

Mirv-“ish”: An Improvised Musical - Watch an entire musical created right before your eyes, completely unscripted and sung on the spot! We take an audience suggestion and turn it into a one-night-only musical masterpiece!

Sinner: A Musical Tragicomedy About Breaking Up With Jesus - A musical tragicomedy about growing up in the Alberta Bible Belt, where virtuosic vocals, irreverent humor, and unforgettable songs collide in a hilarious and cathartic reckoning with faith, family, and freedom.

Snacey! - Snacey has not been the kindest snake and is afraid no one will show up to her birthday party! When her past behaviour slithers back to haunt her, Snacey must shed her evil ways and grow into a new version of herself.

Songs for Moby Dick - A movement-based operatic epic about beauty, nature, humanity and destruction, based on the novel by Herman Melville.

Unsung: The Accidental Villains of History - A toe-tapping, knee-slapping musical about the unknown figures behind history's greatest disasters.