Saturday, July 11, 2009

Nick Auf Der Maur- Montreal ghost?


     According to this column by Nick Auf Der Maur (click on it, it should grow readably large on your screen), as a young adult he was thought be a ghost. In the late 1950s he was haunting what was eventually to become Peter Lonergan's Phoenix theatre at 1858 Demaisonneuve West, near St. Matthew.
    The Revue Theatre was a longtime home to anglo drama notably under the reign of Ruth Thomas (nee Ruth Hirshorn 1921-1986). In 1979 the venue became home to the Phoenix theatre, which had been set in a north end suburban barber shop home since its inception in 1974, as founded by Greg Peterson and Maxim Mazumdar (1952-1988 - moved to Mtl in 1969 from Bombay eventually died of AIDS).
   But before all that, in 1959 Auf der Maur got a role in a play at the Revue Theatre called Doctor in the House which featured comfier furniture than the place he was staying so he'd sneak in at night with stage director Fred Sporley and both would drink until they fell asleep. They'd leave early in the AM and when the rest of the cast arrived and noticed stuff akilter and started to believe that the place was haunted. Details in the story.
   Now that Nick could actually qualify as a ghost in his afterlife years, this might be the place to find him.

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