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" 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!
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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! |
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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
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Cube Zero, the Cube
movie starring STEPHANIE MOORE shows at Cannes,
France, in May.
Read
an interview with STEPHANIE about the movie, Cube Zero |
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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. |
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Angelina Trottier directs the Grade 12 final production.
NEIL SMITH and JOSH ISSENMAN are
part of this cast. |
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Jim McNABB has a small part in the new mini-series
H20 with Paul Gross. |
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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.
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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 |
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MARTIN GERO is working for MGM
as a story editor, and also writing scripts for the new Stargate:
Atlantis series in Vancouver. |
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KURT SMEATON is a judge at the C.I.G. Nationals
in Ottawa in April. |
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KATHLEEN CORNISH clowns with Cirque
du Soleil until July. Catch her on CBC
television in Solstrum. |
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JIM McNABB is on his steamer cruise of the Caribbean. |
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MARJORY BRYCE has retired from Canterbury. |
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TYLER WESTERLUND and White Cowbell Oklahoma
play Ottawa April 24 at Babylon, promoting their
new album, CENCERRO BLANCO.
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JESSICA HOLMES plays Dina in Welcome
to Mooseport, a new movie starring Ray Romano, Gene
Hackman and Marcia Gay Harden. |
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CHRIS COCHRANE plays Tom in George F. Walker's
Escape from Happiness, May 17-21, at Stella
Adler Studios in New York City. |
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CONGRATULATIONS and
best wishes to STUART MOFFATT and his wife, who had
their fifth baby in December! |
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See TRISHA ALLISON in Canterbury's own glorious
Dance Night, May 7.
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ANDREW DILLON and RAE-ANNA MAITLAND sang
in the Canterbury Coffee House, March 25. |
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IRIS LAPID modelled original designs, and TRISHA
ALLISON danced, in the Fashion Show
at Canterbury, March 26, 7 pm.
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HAMZA ADAM was nominated for best dancer in
the Ottawa Hip-Hop Awards at Babylon
Night Club.
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STILL HAPPENING:
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PAUL HOPKINS and SARAH McVIE are
part of the Stratford Festival Company this season. |
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JEHAN KHOORSHED plays and sings live on Thursdays
in Montreal, at The Cock 'n Bull. |
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BILL SOUROUR hosts and plays at The iNSTiTUTiON
Thuesdays and Saturdays. GREG COCHRANE plays
accompaniment there… |
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RAOUL BHANEJA, Train 48,
Global weekdays |
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VIK SAHAY, Radio Active, YTV.
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STEPHANIE MOORE, Queer as Folk, SHOWCASE
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JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV
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KURT SMEATON, improvises at Clinton's,
Toronto, Monday nights. |
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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. |
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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!
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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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