By Mary Alderson in collaboration with Sandi Laird, Sookie Mei, Marilu Murphy, Vicki Stokes, and Hazel Fowler. Now that 2025 is behind us, Entertain This Thought has a round-up of favourite shows we saw over the year. With nominations from our team, Sandi Laird, Debbie McClure, Sookie Mei, Marilu Murphy, and Vicki Stokes, I have collected a list of those we felt were among the best. To read our reviews, just click the link on the show title. Outstanding Musical This was the year for big musicals. My favourite was Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Stratford Festival.  Not just a hilariously funny script, the entire cast had comedy chops, and the dancing was superb. Running a close second is Annie, also at Stratford Festival.  The same fleet-footed dancers entertained brilliantly in both shows, and the orphan children were an amazing delight. And a very close third goes to Anything Goes at the Shaw Festival: Spell-binding tap dancing throughout, along with a hilarious cast. In contrast to these old favourites, Mirvish Productions gave us two new musicals. Tell Tale Harbour was a wonderful story starring Allan Doyle of Great Big Sea fame, with the story based on the movie The Grand Seduction. Mirvish also presented Bright Star, also known as the Steve Martin musical.  Martin and a partner wrote the musical which features his beloved banjo music. The touching story was presented by a great team of actor-musicians. Honourable mention goes to Jersey Boys at the Marble Arts Centre in Tweed.  While this musical is always a crowd-pleaser, this production was exceptionally well-cast and it was a delight to see this show in a small, intimate theatre.   Outstanding Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong on stage at London’s Grand Theatre was simply hilarious and the entire audience was with them, says reviewer ...