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The Foster Festival is pleased to announce casting has been finalized for the upcoming 2017 season with a talented roster of new and returning artists. Last season’s stars, Darren Keay and Melanie Janzen will return to the festival alongside a host of newcomers that feature Shaw veterans and silver-screen darlings.
Keay, who melted hearts in last summer’s Halfway To The North Pole, will appear as Jeff Kincaid in the World Premiere of SCREWBALL COMEDY. He’ll be going toe-to-toe with Joanna Douglas as the feisty novice reporter Mary Hayes. The multi-talented Eliza Jane Scott and Kevin Hare round out the cast of the first show of the season, together playing the remaining seven roles.
“We have assembled a high-caliber group of performers and we are thrilled to bring their top-tier Canadian talent to the stage this summer,” said Patricia Vanstone, Artistic Director, Foster Festival. “I’m looking forward to building on the chemistry we established last season with our returning actors and I can’t wait to start rehearsing with television stars and real-life couple Janet-Laine Green and Booth Savage – they’re fantastic.”
Janet-Laine Green and Booth Savage star as Molly and Bud in the second production of the season, OLD LOVE. Both actors are acclaimed for their work on stage and on screen and the talented couple is delighted to join the Foster Festival this summer.
Green starred as Mayor Iris Peters in She’s The Mayor and as matriarch Janine Lawson in the family drama This Life. Savage starred as Principal Callaghan in the TV comedy Mr. D and is best known to Canadian audiences as the head coach in the mini series Canada Russia ’72.
Also returning this season is Melanie Janzen who delighted audiences as the trio of women characters in last summer’s Here On The Flight Path. She will be joined by Shaw veterans Catherine McGregor and Peter Krantz in the final show of the season, the World Premiere of LUNENBURG.
All three productions for the 2017 season will be directed by artistic director Patricia Vanstone and designed by Peter Hartwell who created the beautiful set for last year’s acclaimed On A First Name Basis.
“Audiences were thrilled with the quality of our productions last season,” says Executive Director Emily Oriold, “and. this year’s advance subscription and group sales are telling us they are coming back for more of Norm Foster’s signature humour here in the heart of Niagara.”
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2017-02-09
St. Catharines: Casting announced for Norm Foster Theatre Festival 2017