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DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: April 1, 2009

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For the past fourteen 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 recently received an Ovation Award and the Canadian Bar Association’s Community Service Award (acknowledging his tireless dedication to working with children and musical theatre). Perry, a composer, pianist, teacher, arranger, producer, adjudicator, writer, and talent coordinator, also directs ShowStoppers, the popular teen-age performance troupe. See www.theimpresario.ca

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!”, “Annie Get Your Gun”, and upcoming “Annie” for Theatre Under the Stars”; “The Thing About Men” for Presentation House and upcoming Arts Club Theatre Company tour; “Company” and “Ruthless” at Waterfront Theatre; “The Last Five Years” at Firehall Arts Centre); composer and arranger
  
  
• Jessie award-winning director and actor CHRIS McGREGOR (“The Little Old Man” for Vancouver’s International Children’s Festival; “Anne”, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Treasure Island”, “A Christmas Carol”, “ Gremlin”, and “The Wind in the Willows” for Carousel Theatre; creator of Theatre Bagger Arts Society; numerous theatre, television, and movie roles; improvisation and comic 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; Notre Dame show choir and musicals; ballroom and line dancing on Princess and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; instructional DVD “So You Wanna Line Dance?”)
  
  
• Choreographer and director JASON FRANCO (“Can Can” and upcoming “Annie” for TUTS; “Sunday in the Park with George” for Applause Musicals; “Casper the Musical” and “The Mask” at Butlin’s Family Resorts in United Kingdom, “Beach Blanket Bedrock” and “Jetson’s Space Blast” at Paramount Canada’s Wonderland; musicals for Point Grey, Magee, and Notre Dame Secondary Schools)
  
  
• Choreographer JEFF DIMITRIOU from Toronto (So You Think You Can Dance Canada; “Candide” for Theatre Sheraton; “High School Musical” at Distillery District Theatre; “Chess – The Musical” at Betty Oliphant Theatre; Sony Music Groove Tour; workshops for Studio Wu in Singapore, Duboforce in Mexico, Dance Nova Scotia and Dance Saskatchewan)
  
  
• Musical director LILY LING from Toronto (Canadian premieres of “Jerry Springer: The Opera” and “Reefer Madness”, “Cabaret” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” for Hart House Theatre Company; “Chicago”, Leader of the Pack” and “Footloose” for Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts; and “One Song Glory” for Acting Up Stage)
  
  
• Set designer and costume co-ordinator JAY HAVENS (nine award-winning productions for Carousel Theatre including "The Big League" and "Silverwing"; Green Thumb Theatre; Mortal Coil: Cirque du Soleil; and Vancouver Children's Festival; recipient of Bachelor of Arts Degree in design and production from University of British Columbia)
  
  
• Actor and acting coach JOSH EPSTEIN (recent star of "The Producers" at the Stanley Theatre, and "Little Shop of Horrors" and "British Invasion" at Stage West; upcoming national tours of "Studies in Motion" and "The Drowsy Chaperone"; previous roles at Bard on the Beach and in Mirvish's production of "Lord of the Rings"); award-winning playwright and producer
  

Peter Birnie of the Vancouver Sun in a recent article commented that the Faculty members “are all teaching in a carefully choreographed nesting of studies that takes place all over the JCC and culminates in a big, brassy show. I try to attend every year, and always come away just as thrilled as the parents and families with the level of talent on display. It is about the joy that comes from singing your lungs out and dancing your hooves off.”

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

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 to 5:15 PM. Students will receive instruction in audition technique, presentation of monologues and songs, and will participate in intensive dance workshops and encounters with well-known professionals in the theatre community.

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

For further information about the program, please contact the Jewish Community Centre at (604) 257-5111 or Perry Ehrlich (604) 232-7209 or ehrlich@kzellaw.com

Photographs courtesy of David Zuskind

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