COST PER SESSION: Members $500 / Non-Members $600
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: March 30, 2008

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For the past thirteen summers, Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! has attracted hundreds of enthusiastic and talented participants from throughout British Columbia and as far away as Whitehorse, Edmonton, Regina, Yorkton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, California, Virginia, Texas, Austria and Israel.

The director and creator of the program is PERRY EHRLICH, who combines a busy legal career with his love of musical theatre and working with children. Perry, a composer, pianist, teacher, arranger, producer, adjudicator, writer, and talent coordinator, also directs SHOWSTOPPERS, the popular teenage performance troupe. See www.planR.ca/showstoppers

Perry has assembled an impressive Faculty of professional instructors (including directors, musicians, choreographers, and actors), each working in his or her respective field including:

• Musical director WENDY BROSS STUART ("The King and I", "Crazy for You", "Big: the Musical", "Oklahoma!" and upcoming "Annie Get Your Gun" for Theatre Under the Stars; "Company" and "Ruthless" at Waterfront Theatre; "The Last Five Years" at Firehall Arts Centre; "Little Mercy's First Murder" for Touchstone Theatre; "Peer Gynt" for Blackbird Theatre), composer and arranger
  
  
• Choreographer and director VALERIE EASTON ("Beauty and the Beast", "Cabaret", "Funny Girl", "Singing in the Rain", "West Side Story" and "Gypsy" and upcoming "The Producers" at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage; "Kiss Me Kate" and "Anne of Green Gables" for TUTS; "42nd Street" and upcoming "West Side Story" for Royal City)
  
  
• Director and choreographer SUSAN LEHMANN (for television, "Twice in a Lifetime", "Maralee Dawn & Friends", and "Charlie Horse Music Pizza"; for theatre, "A Christmas Carol" for Carousel Theatre and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Bard on the Beach; "Can Can" for TUTS; for movies, "A Guy Thing"; choreography for dance companies and choirs)
  
  
• Jessie award-winning director and actor CHRIS McGREGOR ("It's A Wonderful Life: A Musical!", "A Christmas Carol", "Anne", "Treasure Island", "Gremlin", "Barefoot in the Park" and "The Wind in the Willows" for Carousel Theatre; creator of Theatre Under the Gun; numerous theatre, television, and movie roles; acting workshops)
  
  
• Choreographer ISABELLE MAHEUX ("Grease" and "Starmania" at Laval University; "Aladdin" and "Cinderella" at Metro Theatre; "Notre-Dame de Paris" at University Ste-Anne Nova Scotia; ballroom and line dancing on Princess and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; instructional dvd "So you wanna LINE DANCE?")
  
  
• Choreographer, director, and performer JASON FRANCO ("Sunday in the Park with George" for Applause; "Casper the Musical" and "The Mask" at Butlins Family Entertainment Resorts in England; "Beach Blanket Bedrock" and "Jetsons Space Blast" at Paramount Canada's Wonderland; "Can Can" for TUTS; upcoming "Grease" for Magee Mainstage)
  
  
• Musical director SCOTT KNIGHT ("Into the Woods" for Patrick St. Productions and Vancouver Sondheim Society; "Annie" for Footlight Theatre; "West Side Story" for Chilliwack Academy of Music and "The Fantasticks" for Quintessence Music Theatre; "La Cenerentola" and "The Barber of Seville" for Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble)
  

Final productions in the Norman Rothstein Theatre will feature an original script and broad repertoire of music from Broadway and movie musicals.

Peter Birnie of the Vancouver Sun in his review of a final performance of Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! commented: "I came away genuinely thrilled, not only impressed at the energy and talent on display but moved by the beauty that bursts forth when children and teens gain genuine purpose in life. Some of the kids are clearly headed for professional careers (and many of these have already set out on the journey), while all the others who'll go on to be doctors and lawyers and such will do so with a better appreciation of teamwork, effort and the joy of learning tricky skills."

Alex Browne of the Peace Arch News commented: "It's a program well-worth a look, not only for parents with stage-struck children, but also casting directors wondering from where new talent will come".

THE FINISHING SCHOOL will again be offered for serious musical theatre students attending Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! THE FINISHING SCHOOL will feature approximately ten sessions from 3:15 PM to 5:15 PM. Students will receive instruction in audition technique, preparation of monologues and songs, and will participate in intensive dance workshops and encounters with well-known professionals in the theatre community. Further Information will be available shortly.

SCHOLARSHIPS are available through the generosity of the "Babe Oreck Memorial Fund" and "Phyliss & Irving Snider Foundation" for those with financial need.

For application forms or information about the Program, please contact the Jewish Community Centre at (604) 257-5111 or PERRY EHRLICH at (604) 232-7209 or ehrlich@kzellaw.com

Photographs courtesy of ROBERT ALBANESE

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