| JUNE, 2003 | |
| WEB SITE news: Check out the new Bulletin Board AND the working jukebox with the Canterbury CD's! | |
| From TYLER WESTERLUND and White
Cowbell Oklahoma - there's a show in town - June 27 at The
Horseshoe, Queen Street, Toronto - their 1st Annual Pro-Sars
Benefit! See the White Cowbell Oklahoma announcement! |
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| Congratulations and best wishes to DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN and his bride, who are marrying June 28! | |
From STEVE SHEFFER, here are the
details on his Fringe show, Back To
Mine: Venue: Glen Morris Studio at U of T (4 Glen Morris St. - which is South of Bloor, East of Spadina and North of Harbord). Times: Thursday, July 3 - 6:30, Saturday, July 5 - 5:00, |
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| STEVE has another big show in the works. He Died With A Felafel In His Hand runs from August 1 - 30, at Bathurst/College. | |
| JESSE GRIFFITHS has been accepted into Ryerson's theatre programme for next year. Congratulations! | |
| CONGRATULATIONS
to MATTHEW EDISON! MATTHEW has been
nominated for TWO DORA
Awards - one for Outstanding Male Performance in a Feature Role in
a Play or Musical for his performance in Proof, and one for Outstanding New Play for The Domino Heart. http://thedoras.edionysus.com/ |
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| Congratulations
to JESSICA! JESSICA HOLMES is taping another comedy show - for CBC. Don Ferguson, Kathryn Greenwood, JESSICA HOLMES and Dave Broadfoot star in the new sitcom XPM about a former prime minister who returns to civilian life. http://www3.cbc.ca/sections/newsitem_redux.asp?ID=2870 The show tapes at CBC Studios, Thursday, June 19 and 26,
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| JESSICA HOLMES is also performing at the 2003 Canadian Comedy Awards Gala, hosted by The Air Farce, in London, in mid-September. | |
| BOFA plays at Centretown Movies' launch of their summer season, June 28 at 8:30pm, Sparks and Bank streets, Ottawa. BOFA is followed by Strange Brew...http://www.centretownmovies.org/ | |
| ANDREW DILLON, ROBIN TOLLER, CHRIS COCHRANE and COLIN MUNCH hosted the year-end assembly at CHS, June 13. HAMZA ADAM danced.... | |
| CONGRATULATIONS to CHRIS COCHRANE who has been accepted into New York's prestigious Stella Adler Academy! He heads to New York in the fall. | |
| MARTIN GERO and KURT SMEATON
- the website for their new comedy group and its many activities is
: www.awesomeclub.com You can read about the group members, their pilot and their fringe show. |
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| See MARTIN and KURT and the other
members of The Awesome Club Playhouse in their Toronto
Fringe Festival show, It's Raining Fun!
directed by Julie Dumais. The show plays at The Royal St. George Theatre (120 Howland Ave.) from July 2 - 13, 2003. Check their new website for times. |
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| See STEPHEN SHEFFER in a Toronto Fringe drama, Back To Mine, written by STEPHEN SHEFFER, directed by Daniel Nyman | |
| RAOUL BHANEJA's show, Train48, is continuing its run on Global, after the initial two weeks are over. | |
| Michael Kennard ( of Mump and Smoot) directs STUCK, playing in the TORONTO FRINGE, written and performed by Christel Bartelse and Christina Sicoli, aka The Burnt Marshmallows. The show is "a twisted comedy with clown, music, dance and sketch [comedy.]" | |
| NAOMI RACHLIS plays Puck in Alchemy
Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream,
8:30 pm. June 13, 14, and June17 - 21. 133 Tecumseh, $10-15, 416-998-7503. |
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| JESSICA HOLMES has a four-night stand at Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, June 18-21, 224 Richmond St., $10-17, 416-967-6425. | |
| JESSE GRIFITHS is travelling in Europe. | |
| HAMZA ADAM is dancing, as only Hamza dances, in a recital. Tickets are $14.00, shows are Fri. June 13, 7:30, Sat. June 14 at 2:00 and 7:30 at the Ron Maslin Playhouse, exit Terry Fox Dr., Kanata. | |
| Congratulations to ROBIN TOLLER, COLIN MUNCH, HAMZA ADAM and CHRIS COCHRANE for their great work in MARJORY BRYCE's hilarious Midsummer Night's Dream at Canterbury! | |
| TRISHA ALLISON has been asked to help teach the grade nine Dance class at Canterbury next year. | |
| NAOMI RACHLIS is playing Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream in June in Toronto. | |
| MARTIN GERO and KURT SMEATON are having a screening of their pilot, The Awesome Club in June. | |
MARTIN GERO and KURT SMEATON and the rest of The Awesome Club are having a fringe show in Toronto the first two weeks of July. See them! A web site for The Awesome Club will be up soon. |
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Go see TYLER WESTERLUND and White Cowbell Oklahoma on Saturday June 7, at the El Mocambo The band is recording in June, and expecting a fall CD release. And they are making a video! Go to fromfans@whitecowbell.com if you're interested in being an extra. |
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| You can see MAUREEN WELCH in these commercials these
days: Fantastik, Expedia.ca, Clarica, M.A.D.D., Advil, Glad Cling Wrap, Tim Horton's, Bud Light. Maureen recently wrote and directed a film... you can also see TYLER in a Ford commercial, Kurt in McDonald's and Stephanie in McCain's and Cox Communications. |
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| Congratulations to RAOUL! RAOUL BHANEJA's new television show is Train48, on Global every night for two weeks, at 7 p.m., starting June 2. It's improv! Read the article about the show in the Globe and Mail, May 28. |
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| JAN DITCHFIELD is engaged and plans to marry next summer. She is running a new bar in downtown Toronto... | |
CHRISTIE WATSON and Tatiana are getting married in Ottawa, August 9, 2003. |
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| From STEVE FISHER: In comedy, Catch
23 returns to Clinton’s Tavern this Monday June
2, with an all star line-up of previous competitors, including champs
3 Men and a Laser (Kurt Smeaton, Martin Gero, Ed Neuvremont,
and Becky Johnson.) ( This team won.) |
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Many Canterbury grads will recognize Ty Olsson ( Canterbury Drama '95) as the security guard in the movie, X2. And also Dorian Foley who is at Stratford this year. |
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SARAH MCVIE is at The Stratford Festival in Love's Labour's Lost, August 8 - Nov. 2 at the Festival Theatre, and in The Taming of the Shrew, May 5 - Nov. 1 at the Festival Theatre. |
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King Lear, in which SARAH
played Cordelia last year, is heading to Broadway in March. |
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| JIM McNABB is directing Hosanna for Act Out. It will be presented at GCTC the last two weeks of July. | |
CHELSEA O'CONNOR is travelling
in Ireland. |
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| TYLEY ROSS made a music video at Canterbury, using Canterbury kids, to launch his new CD. The video was directed by Derek Diorio | |
| Catching up with JAMIE DEE FRANKLIN ! | |
| JAMIE did a film short with an independent arts company in London, (England), in March., and in April she did runway performance art in Las Vegas. | |
| JAMIE has been cast as a "featured"
zombie in a film, Shaun of the Dead, currently
in production in London. The film is by Simon Pegg (from Spaced) and Edgar Wright, from Black Books (both are odd, interesting comedy series in the UK.) The film is, according to FilmFour, "a naturalistic character comedy about our zombified couch- potato culture, into which crashes a real zombie action movie." |
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| JAMIE is also taking a Master class
with Patrick Stewart! The class is part of a programme put on each year by the Theatre Royal Haymarket. |
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| Check out JAMIE's own site, (http://www.jamiedee.com), which will be launching by the end of June. | |
| And you can still see JESSICA HOLMES
and KURT SMEATON in The Holmes Show,
( CTV, Comedy Network) STEPHANIE MOORE in Queer
as Folk, ( SHOWCASE), VIK SAHAY in
Our Hero, ( YTV), JEN GOODHUE in Second City's The Bush League of Justice, Second City, 56 Blue Jays Way. |
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