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Toronto, Ontario (January 16, 2012) – Over 20 graduates from Unionville High School’s Arts York program, celebrating it’s 25th year, will reunite to present the 1982 musical Is There Life After High School? in a one-night-only theatrical concert on Monday, February 13, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. The event is being staged to raise funds for Musical Works in Concert, a program created to develop and present original Canadian musicals. It will be held at the Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Boulevard. Tickets are $30 and available in person at the box office, by calling 905-305-7469 or online at http://www.markham.ca/wps/portal/Markham/RecreationCulture/MarkhamTheatre/.
The cast features 1992 through 2004 alumni Salvatore Antonio, Marc Bendavid, Adam Brazier, Michael De Rosa, Rebecca Golden, Ian Grant, Dallas James-Rempel, Lisa Kisch, Karin Kuch- Simpson, Mario Mavrides, Tracy Michailidis, Zorana Sadiq, Shawn Tiesma, Ari Weinberg, and Cheryl Wright together with a 40-member choir of current U.H.S. and Arts York students. Former and current faculty members Linda Kemp, Doug Manning, Leon Racine, and Diana Wassilenko make up the musical team. Arts York graduates rounding out the creative team are lighting designer Beth Kates and stage manager Annie McWhinnie.
Craig Carnellia’s and Jeffrey Kindley’s musical is based on the best-selling book by Ralph Keyes. Monologues and songs are used to reflect on the loves, hates, envies, joys, and passions of the high school years by a group of graduates who return to their alma mater and discover how things have both changed and stayed the same.
Musical Works in Concert is committed to presenting original Canadian works of music theatre, in both traditional and non-traditional models, in a stripped-down, concert format. The theatre company will be entering its third season next summer as part of Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival. To date it has successfully presented six original Canadian Musicals: Romeo Candido and Carmen DeJesus’ Prison Dancer, Bram Gielen’s Biggish Kids, Logan Medland’s Joni Loves Mitchell, Sam Sholdice’s Program, Tom Bellman and Barbara Nichols’ The Sparrow Songs, and Paul Sportelli and Jay Turvey’s Oracle. Each of these shows has continued to develop since their Musical Works premieres; a few already scheduled for further production.
For further information, please contact Tracy Michailidis, Producer.
Email:music.theatre@summerworks.ca
2012-01-16
Toronto: Unionville High School’s Arts York alumni reunite for fundraiser on February 13