| JULY, 2006 | |
| HAPPY CANADA DAY! |  |
STEVE FISHER performs in Fiat
Ars Theatre's The Cuckoo at
the London Fringe Festival, Wolf Performance Hall venue, |
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| Congratulations to GENNA DU PLESSIS, who is expecting a baby in November! | |
Julie Dumais, Graham Wagner, KURT SMEATON, and others play in Catch 23 Improv: The Final Show, Monday, July 31, at Clinton's, Toronto, 9 pm, $5. |
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| BOFA Site news: Check out the Fans and Fame page, now up. Do you know that www. bofa.ca has a juke
box, a working bulletin
board, and an archive which
contains all the news we have ever put up? The Canterbury High School page
is part-way up... and more pages are coming this summer! |
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| Vote for TYLER WESTERLUND and White
Cowbell Oklahoma--- From their newsletter: "VOTE YES!!!!!! FOR CHAINSAW CHARLIE'S CAPITALIST VENTURES!!! SOME FOLKS WITH TOO MUCH MONEY WANT TO PUT WCO ON THE TALKYBOX TV AND GIVE US MONEY TO BRING YOU THE MOST AWESOME STUFF TO BUY!!!!!! YOU NEED IT!!!!!!! GO HERE AND VOTE YES, YES, YES!!!!! WCO NEEDS YOU IN THIS BRAVE NEW HOUR!!!!!!! www.insidethedragonsden.com " |
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| TYLEY ROSS and the East
Village Opera Company are giving two free shows in the Ottawa
area: On Friday July 21, 8 pm, 150 Elgin St ( in the parking lot behind Friday's Roast Beef House) to support the proposed Ottawa Community Concert Hall - to raise awareness of the funding drive. And Saturday, July 22, 8 pm, Stewart Park Festival in Perth. From their newsletter: " It's been a busy few months - with a PBS Special, Miss USA, a commission from the New York Public Theatre, world premiere of the Da Vinci Code in Hong Kong, and a new record to start after a two month tour this fall." |
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| DEREK CARKNER is back at school, enrolled as a full-time student at Ryerson this September. Congratulations! | |
| Congratulations to JESSICA HOLMES who is going to have a baby in a few months! | |
| STEVE FISHER is doing a Fringe show in London and Hamilton. The London Fringe Festival runs from August 4-13, and the Hamilton Fringe Festival is from August 18-27. | |
| MARJORY MALPASS is touring The Number 14 next year, and going with it to Broadway! | |
| JIM McNABB is on the road on weekends all summer, helping Joey Purpura in Joey's Neil Diamond concerts. See www.solitaryman.ca for places and dates. | |
| MATT OUIMET plays Johnny Vegas Night, Wednesdays, at Maxwell's Bistro, 340 Elgin St | |
| ERIN PLEET is spending most of her fourth year at Carleton University working as an intern with an MP on Parliament Hill, and then interning in London, England, with a British M.P. | |
| JEHAN KHOORSHED plans to move to Washington D.C., and get married in December. | |
| COLIN MUNCH performs in Black
Sheep Theatre's Can't Get Started , Winnipeg Fringe
Festival, July 19 - 30, Venue 4. www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/fringe2006/cantget.html and Saskatoon Fringe Festivals, August 3- 13. www.blacksheeptheatre.com/main.html |
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| CONGRATULATIONS to Picnic
Scarecrow, GREG COCHRANE, JORDAN FOSTER, DOM PARE, and CHELSEA
O’CONNOR, who won
THREE awards: Outstanding Ensemble Performance, BEST IN VENUE,
and BEST IN FEST, for their Ottawa Fringe show, Scenes
of Investigatable Crime! The show will be remounted in September at Arts Court. |
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| MATTHEW EDISON performs in the NAC/Soulpepper's The
Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, until July 29, at The
Young Centre for the Performing Arts in the Distillery
District, Toronto. http://www.soulpepper.ca/home/home.html |
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| GREG COCHRANE's own comedy special, Comedy Now! airs on CTV August 19! | |
| GREG COCHRANE performs in the Homegrown Comic Competition at Just for Laughs on July 19, 7 pm. Cabaret Juste pour rire, 2111 St Laurent Blvd., Montreal. | |
| Congratulations to DAVID NUGENT who is the Stratford Conservatory's first playwright, starting this fall! | |
DAVID NUGENT has been commissioned by the Stratford Festival to write a musical. |
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| Catch 23 Improv is ending, after more than 150 weekly Monday night shows. On July 3, with 5 more shows to go, they'll have a Fringe Preview show. ( Source: Steve Fisher's Gracing the Stage) http://www.catch23improv.com/ | |
| CHELSEA O'CONNOR performs in the Toronto Fringe, July 5-16, http://www.fringetoronto.com/ | |
| RAOUL BHANEJA performs his one-man Hamlet,
directed by ROBERT ROSS PARKER, at the Banff
Summer Arts Festival. July 21 and 23 at 7:30 p.m., July 22 at 2:00 p.m., Margaret Greenham Theatre. $15 Adult• $12 • Student/Senior • $8 Child • Arts Lover Passholders Free "A one-man tour de force performed by Raoul Bhaneja and directed by Robert Ross Parker, Hamlet (solo) takes the audience on an emotionally intimate and powerful 17-character odyssey using only Shakespeare’s original text." |
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| See the movie The Sentinel with Michael Douglas, Keifer Sutherland, Kim Basinger and RAOUL BHANEJA (Agent Hassas). | |
| RAOUL BHANEJA plays Kirmani in The Dresden Files and Omar in Weirdsville, both in post -production. | |
| JESSSICA HOLMES hosts The Power Within For Women, featuring Suzanne Somers and Gloria Estefan, September 13. | |
| JESSICA HOLMES performs this summer, Friday, June 30, CBC, 8 pm. Just For Laughs Comedy Special. | |
| JESSICA plays Kim Vegas in the movie, Citizen Duane, out this fall. | |
| JESSICA HOLMES will be performing in theatres across Ontario next year. | |
| NEIL HERLAND has moved to New York City to cover the United Nations for CBC and Radio-Canada. Neil previously worked as a line-up producer in the CBC network TV newsroom in Toronto. You can hear some of Neil's reports on line. | |
| ED HART is acting in Vancouver. He appeared in the television series, The Evidence with Canterbury's Ty Olsson. ED was Billy Dollar in The Merry Ghost of Summerville last year. | |
| VIK SAHAY plays Amahl in Untitled History Project, a television mini-series in pre-production. | |
| MARTIN GERO Stargate Atlantis - the premiere of Season 3 is on Friday, July 14. | |
| DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN was the guest
speaker at Canterbury's Commencement, June 28. DENNIS and his wife are expecting their second baby, Nov. 29. |
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Alec Toller, Robin's brother, graduating
from CHS and Drama ths year, won the Jane Moore Award. And the new
Jim McNabb Technical Theatre Award too |
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| TYLER WESTERLUND and White Cowbell
Oklahoma are on tour... July 15 - Lantaarn, Hellendoorn, Netherlands July 16 - Dour Festival, Belgium July 17 - Valkof Affaire, Nijmegen, Netherlands July 22 - Zwarte Crosse Festival, Lichtenvoorde, Netherlands July 20 - Burgherzberg Festival, Breitenbach, Germany July 27 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands July 31 - Veenhoop Festival, Netherlands Aug. 3 - Zomerparkfeest, Venlo, Netherlands Aug. 5 - Bosuil Festival, Weert, Netherlands |
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| TYLER WESTERLUND has written a song
for it, and you can hear him sing on the new Cowbell CD, Casa
Diablo! WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA is doing a live webcst from Amsterdam - July 27, 2:00 pm. http://www.fabchannel.com/whitecowbelloklahoma |
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| DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants are
in Ottawa for Canada Day, at D'Arcy McGee's on Sparks St.
Jul 1 8:00 pm D'Arcy McGee's - Canada Day, Ottawa, Ontario |
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| TYLEY ROSS and The East Village Opera Company tour the States in October and November. | |
| Dave Deveau's play, an undershirt, plays the
Toronto Fringe: written and performed by Dave Deveau, Sarah
Dineen, Stephanie Lalor, Cameron Mackenzie and The Company They work down the hall from you, they date your friends, they ride the bus with your children, they tuck you in at night, they've gone relatively undetected…until now. General Audience Warning: content Venue 7 - Tarragon Theatre Extra Space / 30 Bridgman Avenue Thu, July 6 @ 6:30 pm - show code: 704 Fri, July 7 @ 11:00 pm - show code: 712 Tue, July 11 @ 2:45 pm - show code: 734 Wed, July 12 @ 7:45 pm - show code: 743 Thu, July 13 @ 1:45 pm - show code: 747 Fri, July 14 @ 12:30 pm - show code: 753 Sat, July 15 @ 7:00 pm - show code: 764 Tickets: $10 "At The Door" / $10 Advance ($8 + $2 SC) / Passes: $6.50 - $8 Running Time: 55 Min. |
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STILL HAPPENING: |
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| STEPHANIE MOORE in G-Spot, TMN. | |
| MAUREEN WELCH hosts Design U, Mondays, HGTV. | |
| VIK SAHAY,This is Wonderland, CTV. | |
| JESSICA HOLMES on CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce. | |
JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV |
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KURT SMEATON improvises at Clinton's,
Toronto, Monday nights. |
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| MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver, producing and writing Stargate: Atlantis TMN. He is also working on Stargate SG-1. | |
| STEVE FISHER emails his list and recommendations
for what's on in Toronto, Gracing The Stage, to
anyone who asks for it. Steve, who follows current music with a passion,
also provides incidental music for Clinton’s improv on Mondays. steve@gracingthestage.com. |
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| ADAM DENAULT hosts his own show on CKCU radio, Tuesday Overnighter , airing alternate Wednesdays, from 2AM to 7AM. | |
| DEREK CARKNER sends out Idol Chatter every week, a commentary on the week's reality televison by Derek and --at www.idolchatter.org or at itunes. | |
| TERI LORETTO is a weather-person for CBC. | |
CD's to buy: Tyler Westerlund:
White Cowbell Oklahoma, Casa Diablo. Duane Keogh:
The Town Pants, Weight of Words Tyler Westerlund: White
Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro Blanco
Tyley Ross: East
Village Opera Company, East Village Opera Company |
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