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workshop this past week. (Bonnie Gropp photo)
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PAGE 22 THE CITIZEN , WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2001.
Huron's Rising Stars enjoy workshop with the experts
that will be the final touring produc-
tion.
Nelva Scott of Brussels is finding
the workshops quite interesting.
Describing herself as a person who
tends to speak before acting, she said
doing the improv is "altogether dif-
ferent" for her.
The Rising Stars will be doing
more performances and workshops'
in the spring. For more information
contact Marguerite Thomas at 887-
6995.
For Rising Stars
Marguerite Thomas, front right, one of the Huron Rising
Stars relaxes between workshops with Joan Chandler, front,
from Sheatre, and in, lack from left: Frida Hand and
Gemma Gallagher from Shadow Box Theatre in Ireland.
(Bonnie Gropp photo)
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
There is nothing retiring about this
group of people.
The Huron Rising Stars, an ama-
teur theatre group comprised of sen-
iors, is getting some expert advice as
Members of the Stratford Festival
company and staff are preSenting a
special cabaret evening in support of
the Canadian Cancer Society at 8
p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14 at the
Festival Theatre.
This gala event, entitled A Grand
Night, will be hosted by Cynthia
Dale and will feature an all-star cast
of performers in an evening of song
and dance from the repertoire of
famed musical-theatre collaborators
Richard Rodges and Oscar
Hammerstein II.
In addition to hosting the evening,
Ms Dale will perform I'm Just a Girl
Who Can't Say No and What's the
Use of Wond'rin,
Other confirmed acts include:
company members Jeanne Lehman
and her husband, Larry French, per-
forming People Will Say We're In
Love; Stratford Festival veteran
Douglas Chamberlain and company
member Lally Cadeau in Sixty Going
on Seventy (their own version of
Sixteen Going on Seventeen; mother-
and-daughter team Deborah Tennant
and Aislinn Paul, currently appearing
as Sister Margaretta and Gred in The
Sound of Music, performing Happy
Talk; and acting company member
Michael Therriault • singing You've
Got to be Carefully Taught.
Company members Megan Barker,
Kyle Blair, Evan Buliung, Barbara
Dunn-Prosser, David Hogan, Julia
Jamison, Lisa Manis, Mary Ann
McDonald, Cory O'Brien. Deborah
Overes, Gloria Parker, Karen.
Skidmore. David W. Smith, Eileen
Smith, Regan Thiel, Tracy Thomas
they prepare for a fall presentation.
In conjunction with Town and
Country Support Services the troupe
will be performing for seniors clubs
and organizations, primarily the
Dining Out programs beginning Oct.
12.
Joan Chandler, through Sheatre,
and Ian White will also showcase
their talents, performing songs from
such classic shows as South Pacific,
The King and I, Oklahoma,
Carousel, Cinderella and State Fair.
They will be accompanied by some
of the theatre's musicians.
All of the individuals involved in
this event have generously volun-
teered their time and efforts in sup-
port of the Canadian Cancer Society.
Jasper Station, a new musical
comedy, with book and lyrics by
Canada's prolific playwright Norm
Foster and, music and lyrics by
Canadian composer and musician
Steve Thomas, is being readied -to
take the stage at Theatre on the
Grand from Sept. 26 - Oct. 20.
Jasper Station- is the sixth and final
production of Theatre on the Grand's
critically acclaimed - 200I
summer/fall season.
In the Jasper, Alberta, train station
in the Canadian Rockies,. the lives of
six people - the station manager: an
eager, young newspaper reporter; an
NHL hockey player; an account-
ant/country songWriter; a tough
young woman and. a woman in the
• midst of leaving her husband - con--
verge as they wait for the train to
Vancouver. As their various humor-
Ous and touching individual stories
works in creating theatre with com-
munity members. Marguerite
Thomas of Brussels heard about
Chandler's efforts and contacted her
about working with the Rising Stars.
Chandler, in turn, contacted two
women from Shadow Box in Ireland
and invited them to help her facili-
tate. Frida Hand spent this past week
involved in the workshops, while
Gemma Gallagher will, stay in Huron
until the middle of. October. Their
work here ,is funded by the Arts
Council of Ireland.
During the next month, for three
days each week, the Rising Stars'
which consists of seniors from all
over Huron, will be doing improvi-
sation and exploring. "We've never
worked with them and they've never
Funds raised will go towards the
Canadian Cancer Society and the
Chemotherapy Clinic at the Stratford
General Hospital.
Tickets for A Grand Night are $25
for adults and $15 for those 18 and
under, and can be purchased from the
Stratford Festival Box Office at 519-
273-1600 or 1-800-567-1600. A full-
colour poster for the event is_includ-
ed in the price of admission.
unfold, they each share their hopes,
dreams, high anticipation and fears
of what the future holds, in this hilar-
ious and heart-warming comedy
tilled with exciting, funny and mov-
ing musical numbers.
Theatre on the Grand is located at
244 St. Andrew St. W., in Fergus.
Tickets and information may be
obtained by calling the Box Office at
519-787-1981.
wotked with us, so we're exploring
each other's talents, but also the
theme of growing older bolder and
what that means," said Chandler.
Part of the process, 'she said, will
be about discovering through active
participation in that exploration.
Gallagher said the Stars are work-
ing towards completion of a piece
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Stratford hosts Grand. Night
`Jasper Station'
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