APRIL, 2004
 
" What time is it?
Game time! "
It's the CANADIAN IMPROV GAMES, the NATIONAL TOURNAMENT time! ( April 13-17)

We are so happy to be seeing these BOFA grads there:
LEVON HENDERSON, ( from Vancouver) JESSICA BESSER-ROSENBERG, ( from Montreal) BRIAN FROMMER, ( from Kingston) JEHAN KHOORSHED, CHRIS COCHRANE, ( from New York City) STEPHANIE MOORE, ( from Toronto) KURT SMEATON, ( from Toronto) ANDREW DILLON, RAE-ANNA MAITLAND, TRISHA ALLISON!!!!

Come out for the Finals, April 17, (tickets are scarce!) and on April 15, as BOFA 2004 plays super teams from Toronto, Vancouver, Alberta and Manitoba!


BOFA plays BC, Winnipeg, Alberta and Toronto, Thursday, April 15, in the semi-finals of the Canadian Improv Games National Tournament, at the National Arts Centre, 7:30 pm.
www.improv.ca

Teams from across the country play in the Semi-finals April 13-16, and the top five teams move onto the National Finals, April 17.
Get your tickets through the NAC box office.

Be there, as HAMZA ADAM, COLIN MUNCH, JOSH ISSENMAN, ROBIN TOLLER, TOM HAYS, NEIL SMITH,
CARI LESLIE
and IRIS LAPID play for it all!


April 21 - BOFA plays Holy Trinity at The iNSTiTUTiON on the first night of the new improv series for high schools, 25 to Life.
145 Besserer. Shows start at 9:00. Tickets $5.00.
Audiences judge the scenes, so come out and have your say!
http://www.theinstitution.ca


Cube Zero, the Cube movie starring STEPHANIE MOORE shows at Cannes, France, in May.

Read an interview with STEPHANIE about the movie, Cube Zero


The new season of Queer as Folk starts April 19, 10 pm on Show Case. Look for STEPHANIE MOORE in her fourth season as Brian's secretary.

Angelina Trottier directs the Grade 12 final production. NEIL SMITH and JOSH ISSENMAN are part of this cast.

Jim McNABB has a small part in the new mini-series H20 with Paul Gross.

Congratulations to TYLEY ROSS and Peter Kiesewalter, the East Village Opera Company, whose recent CD, La Donna, is having huge success in New York and Canada.
Read about it all, see the photos (and buy their CD), on their website: www.eastvillageoperacompany.com.

Read Opera … Off the Leash, the interview with TYLEY and Peter in Opera News: www.metguild.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=227.


DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN plays Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, in The Savoy Society's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, The Mikado, at Centrepoint Theatre, Ottawa, March 26, 27, 28, March 31, April 1, 2, 3

MARTIN GERO is working for MGM as a story editor, and also writing scripts for the new Stargate: Atlantis series in Vancouver.

KURT SMEATON is a judge at the C.I.G. Nationals in Ottawa in April.

KATHLEEN CORNISH clowns with Cirque du Soleil until July. Catch her on CBC television in Solstrum.

JIM McNABB is on his steamer cruise of the Caribbean.

MARJORY BRYCE has retired from Canterbury.

TYLER WESTERLUND and White Cowbell Oklahoma play Ottawa April 24 at Babylon, promoting their new album, CENCERRO BLANCO.


JESSICA HOLMES plays Dina in Welcome to Mooseport, a new movie starring Ray Romano, Gene Hackman and Marcia Gay Harden.

CHRIS COCHRANE plays Tom in George F. Walker's Escape from Happiness, May 17-21, at Stella Adler Studios in New York City.

CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes to STUART MOFFATT and his wife, who had their fifth baby in December!

See TRISHA ALLISON in Canterbury's own glorious Dance Night, May 7.

ANDREW DILLON and RAE-ANNA MAITLAND sang in the Canterbury Coffee House, March 25.

IRIS LAPID modelled original designs, and TRISHA ALLISON danced, in the Fashion Show at Canterbury, March 26, 7 pm.


HAMZA ADAM was nominated for best dancer in the Ottawa Hip-Hop Awards at Babylon Night Club.


STILL HAPPENING:

 
PAUL HOPKINS and SARAH McVIE are part of the Stratford Festival Company this season.
 
JEHAN KHOORSHED plays and sings live on Thursdays in Montreal, at The Cock 'n Bull.
 
BILL SOUROUR hosts and plays at The iNSTiTUTiON Thuesdays and Saturdays.
GREG COCHRANE plays accompaniment there…
 
RAOUL BHANEJA, Train 48, Global weekdays
 


VIK SAHAY, Radio Active, YTV.

 

STEPHANIE MOORE, Queer as Folk, SHOWCASE

 

JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV

 
KURT SMEATON, improvises at Clinton's, Toronto, Monday nights.

In the Getting On With Life category, CONGRATULATIONS, to these BOFA babies (and friends):

DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN, JESSICA HOLMES, STEPHANIE MOORE, RAOUL BHANEJA and Shannon Doern, who, with their partners, have all bought their own homes in the last few months.


Canterbury calling…
If you haven't done so yet, please check out JUDY KIRSH's new website for Canterbury grads. www.cacda.com
Go to the site to register as a grad, donate, buy tickets, get information, join the Alumni Association, and just check it all out!


New CD's to buy:

Tyler Westerlund: White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro Blanco


Tyley Ross: East Village Opera Company, La Donna


Raoul Bhaneja: Raoul and The Big Time, Cold Outside


 

 
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