| MARCH, 2005 |
| CONGRATULATIONS to TOM HAYS, IRI S LAPID, CARI LESLIE and the other members of Canterbury's improv team for their placing in Wednesday night's CIG national semi-finals at the NAC! They tied for second with a score of 534 |
| TERI LORETTO emcees in Saturday's Ottawa
Theatre Challenge at the Fourth Stage, NAC.,
March 26, 7:30 pm. Thirteen different companies perform 5-minute plays, and the winner earns the Rubber Chicken Award. Tickets: (613) 755 1111 |
| BRIAN FROMMER, and Theatre Kingston
present MELTDOWN, by John Lazarus, March
17-19, 24-26. 8pm. Matinee March 19 at 2pm. Tickets $14., $9 students/seniors. Convocation Hall, Theological Hall, Queen's University Campus (N.B.: “Meltdown” is adult theatre, with coarse language,
sexual scenes, violence, shock value, gods and monsters.) |
| Another Stratford Festival season is coming up and you can watch SARAH McVIE, PAUL HOPKINS, and Canterbury's Dorian Foley performing. SARAH McVIE plays Vee Talbott in Orpheus Descending, Dorian Foley plays Charles in As You Like It. |
| See KURT SMEATON with Upstanding Improv, March 18, Tim Sims Playhouse, 9:30pm, $10. |
On St. Patrick's Day, DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants play Central City Brewing Company, 9:30 pm, 13450 102 Ave, Surrey, and The Irish Cellar, 654 Nelson at Granville, 6 pm. March 24, 25, 26, they play Raakel's, Big White,
BC, 9:00 pm. |
| Much sympathy and love to YOVANKA who recently lost her mum to cancer. |
| ERIK VAN WYCK is running a triathlon in June, in
Hawaii, in support of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society He is trying to raise $5000.(US) by April 30. Please go to his website to support him, and this so-worthy cause. http://www.active.com/donate/tntgla/VanWyck |
| JESSICA HOLMES is interviewed on CBC Radio at 3:00, March 17. |
| When you were watching the World Figure Skating Championships, and saw Jeff Buttle, Canadian men's champion, did you know he was skating to TYLEY ROSS's so very beautiful Ave Maria from the East Village Opera Company's new CD? A world audience! |
| JUDY KIRSH reports that the Stars Return Gala raised a total of $30,000. for Canterbury - half in ticket sales, half in donations. Way to go! |
| JIM McNABB plays the dead in Red Roses
and Petrol. Tara Players Theatre of Ottawa at the Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave., Ottawa. March 9-12,17-19, 8:00 pm. $12 ($9 for students and seniors). (Jim's part is in video.) |
| ROBIN TOLLER plays Alceste, the misanthrope, in Act 1 of Martin Crimp's modern version of Molière's The Misanthrope. |
| TYLEY ROSS and the East Village Opera Company have signed a contract for FIVE albums! Congratulations!! |
| DAVID NUGENT's play, The Boy Who Jumped
Into the Sea plays March 31, April 1, 2 at
the Yale School of Drama New Theatre in New Haven,
CT. This play is his thesis for David's M.A. in playwriting. |
| The national finals of the Canadian Improv Games run
at the NAC, March 23- March 27. Canterbury plays the semi-finals March 23, against Edmonton, Quebec, Sudbury and Regina. http://www.improv.ca/national.html. |
CONGRATULATIONS to CARI LESLIE, IRIS LAPID, TOM HAYS, Austin Menyasz, Adrienne Laube, Kensi Dickinson, Alec Toller, and Julia Hladkowizc who won GOLD at the Ottawa Regionals at the National Arts Centre, March 5. Dave Dawson is coaching. |
The Stars Return Gala at Canterbury in February netted $30,000 in ticket and charitable donations this year for the school. Congratulations to all who participated and to MARTN GERO and KURT SMEATON for their oh-so-smooth hosting, and to RAOUL BHANEJA for his wonderful songs, and to TERI LORETTO for her beautiful singing. Many thanks to all who came from so far. |
| MARTIN GERO has signed a contract for another two years with Stargate: Atlantis. Martin is now a producer. |
| If you have Rogers On Demand you can watch the shows Martin wrote in season 1 -- Stargate:Atlantis, episodes 6, 10, 11, 13, 16. |
| GREG COCHRANE was a special guest with Toronto
comedy troupe Boiled Wieners, Feb 5 at Universe City,
Ottawa. http://www.boiledwieners.com/upcoming/ottawa.html |
| GREG COCHRANE stars in his own show on CTV's
Comedy Now! Comedy Now! airs weekly, Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET on CTV. The seventh season will debut on The Comedy Network in mid-March. |
JEHAN KHOORSHED plays St Patrick's Day shows with Rachel Hamilton at the Cock'n Bull, Montreal, Feb 13, a huge show on parade day --and at The Fergus Inn in Ottawa, March 17. ALL DAY! |
| CARI LESLIE, IRIS LAPID, TOM HAYS, Austin Menyasz Adrienne
Laube, Kensi Dickinson, Alec Toller, and Julia Hladkowizc
won their night of preliminaries at the Ottawa Improv Games,
Feb 28 - Congratulations!
Ottawa Finals Sat, March 5., NAC. |
STILL HAPPENING: |
| RAOUL BHANEJA, Train 48, Global. |
VIK SAHAY, Radio Active, YTV. |
| VIK SAHAY, This is Wonderland, CTV. |
| JESSICA HOLMES on CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce. |
STEPHANIE MOORE, Queer as Folk,
SHOWCASE |
JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV |
KURT SMEATON improvises at Clinton's,
Toronto, Monday nights. Mondays. ( STEVE FISHER
provides incidental music.) |
| MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver working as producer and writer on Stargate: Atlantis. TMN, Mondays. |
Canterbury calling… |
New CD's to buy: Duane Keogh: The Town Pants, Weight
of Words Tyler Westerlund:
White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro
Blanco
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