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Glorious! The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins: The Worst Singer in the World has just opened for CanStage at the Bluma. It tells the tale of Ms. Jenkins, a soprano who died in 1944, shortly after giving a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall. The hook, to which the play's subtitle alludes, is that Florence Foster Jenkins was truly an awful singer. If you want to hear for yourself, check out this recording of her singing the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute. Glorious! follows Florence Foster Jenkins from the time she meets her pianist, Cosmé McMoon, to her performance at Carnegie Hall, and is supposed to be an inspiring comedy about someone following her dream no matter how terrible she is. The problem with Glorious! is that art begins to imitate life a little too closely - the play seems to believe itself to be both inspirational and hilarious when, in reality, it hardly functions on a higher artistic plain than Madam Jenkins' singing.

There are literally dozens of blogs covering the Festival this year, and while most of them are personal sites listing what movies they could or couldn't get into, a few stand out. Torontoist will do his best to roundup the blogosphere's TIFF coverage.

We've finished up our TIFF Preview, so today we begin our daily coverage of the festival, beginning with this, our picks for the first day. Or as we should perhaps say, the first night, because the festival doesn’t really kick off until this evening, other than one screening (Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute, sneaking in early). It’s rather odd that the opening Gala isn’t literally the first film, but we guess that’s the way it is!