Gotta Sing Gotta Dance

If you are age 9 to 19 and love to sing, dance, act and perform,
the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver is again pleased to offer

Session 1: July 3 to 26 | Session 2: July 30 to August 23
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

COST PER SESSION: Members $600 / Non-Members $700

Deadline for applications: April 2, 2012

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For the past seventeen summers, Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! has attracted hundreds of enthusiastic and talented participants – many of whom have gone on to successful careers in the performing arts – 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 performance troupe. See www.theimpresario.ca.

Perry has once again assembled an impressive Faculty of professional instructors including musical director WENDY BROSS STUART ("Annie Get Your Gun", "Annie", and "Singing in the Rain" for Theatre Under the Stars); Jessie award-winning director CHRIS McGREGOR ("The Sound of Music" for Richmond Gateway); choreographers ISABELLE MAHEUX (Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics), JASON FRANCO ("Annie" for TUTS and "Wild Party" for ANZA Club), and LAURA KREWSKI ("Hunchback" at Vancouver Playhouse and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Arts Club Theatre); and newcomers LONNIE DELISLE (The Marcus Mosely Choral and Sarah McLachlan School of Music); PAULA SKIMM (dubbed by CBC as "Toronto's leading authority on tap dancing" and former faculty member at Sheridan College); and SHIZUKA KAI (set construction and costume co-ordination).

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 ROTHSTEIN THEATRE (this year called "See you Later, Litigator!", a murder mystery) 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", "Phyliss & Irving Snider Foundation", Tech-Web Graphics and the Hall family 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

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