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‘It’s an Island story’: Anne of Green Gables The Musical comes to Victoria

A conversation with CCPA directors on the college’s upcoming 25th anniversary production
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The two actresses playing Anne in CCPA’s Anne of Green Gables the Musical. Tyler-Dale Moon (left) and Winona Myles (right). (CCPA year two student Michelle Naidu)

Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has become one of the best-selling books worldwide.

But, it’s also been made into a musical and one that won the Guinness World Record for Longest-Running Annual Musical Theatre Production in the world at that. Running from its opening in 1965 until 2019 – until the COVID-19 pandemic put a pin in its long-run history – Anne of Green Gables the Musical is taking flight once again.

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Sam Duerksen

About the Author: Sam Duerksen

Since moving to Victoria from Winnipeg in 2020, I’ve worked in communications for non-profits and arts organizations.
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