First in Toronto in 2011 with a sold-out run at the Sony Centre, Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang return next week with a concert that features Warner Bros.’ classic cartoons on a gigantic screen, with live accompaniment by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, in the production conducted and created by Emmy-Award winner George Daugherty.

More than 20 years after the original Bugs Bunny on Broadway was first debuted, proved to be a record-setting hit, and was performed with virtually every major symphony orchestra in North America and around the world, Daugherty and his team created this sequel, Bugs Bunny At The Symphony, a newly christened version of a show that had already reinvented a new genre for symphony orchestras.

Bugs Bunny At The Symphony is a celebration of the Looney Tunes moniker, a name that stands at the forefront of the Golden Age of American animation with their equally famous scores by Carl Stalling, played live under the direction of the concert’s creator, George Daugherty. This unique combination of animation and music brings audiences young and old together for a fun-filled presentation of Looney Tunes favourites like “What’s Opera, Doc?” and “The Rabbit of Seville” – two cartoons that top virtually every published list of “The World’s Funniest Cartoons,” – plus, 20 other classic Looney Tunes shown either in full, or in excerpts.

I missed Bugs Bunny on Broadway in Toronto back in 2011 and certainly do not want to miss it again this time around! And like many of you, I grew up watching Looney Tunes and that was probably my first exposure to classical music and opera actually. Do not miss this opportunity to catch Bug and pals on a big screen and with a live symphony nontheless!