SHOWTUNES! YEAR BY YEAR: 1956
Sunday, November 27, 2005
  Location Arts Club Backstage Lounge
  Address 1585 Johnston, Granville Island
  Time 8:00pm
  Tickets $5
    Call 604.734.0904
     

Vancouver, BC… APPLAUSE! Musicals Society presents a brand new series of cabaret’s focusing on the musical theatre and history of a particular year - SHOWTUNES! Year By Year. Turning the clocks back fifty years, the first cabaret will feature songs from musicals that opened in 1956, Sunday November 27th, 8pm at the Arts Club Theatre Backstage Lounge on Granville Island.
 
The 1956 musical theatre season included such shows as My Fair Lady (Frederick Loewe), The Most Happy Fella (Frank Loesser), Bells Are Ringing (Jule Styne), and Candide (Leonard Bernstein). The cabaret will not only highlight favourite show-stopping numbers, but in APPLAUSE! fashion, will feature lesser-known gems from shows like Li’l Abner (from the Al Capp comic strip - with lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Happy Hunting (which starred Ethel Merman), Mr. Wonderful (that starred Sammy Davis Jr.), and The Girls From Summer (a play with the title song written by Stephen Sondheim).
 
In 1956 history, Canada’s Prime Minister was Louis Saint Laurent (Liberal), and the Premier of BC was W.A.C Bennett (Social Credit). The Winter Olympic Games were in Italy. Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time. Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis performed their last comedy show together. The Suez Crisis began. Tom Hanks was born and Bela Lugosi died.
 
The evening will feature local musical theatre performers, accompanied by APPLAUSE! Musical Director Scott Knight, with an informative, entertaining and nostalgic commentary by APPLAUSE! Artistic Producer Scott Ashton Swan.
 
APPLAUSE! Musicals Society is a non-profit charitable organization. As the presenter of APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert, they also present a number of other programs including monthly Cabarets, and a Musicals 101 series.  Further information about APPLAUSE! can be found at www.applausemusicals.com
 
Tickets for this first time cabaret are only $5.00 and are available at the door or by calling 604.734.0904.
PLAGUE CITY: SARS IN TORONTO
Sunday, May 29, 2005
  Network CTV
  Time 9:00pm - Please check local listings
     

From a village market in China to Canada's largest metropolis, this drama takes you into the lives of the front-line workers and the victims ...
... of the disease that rocked the international medical community, forced hundreds into quarantine and turned Toronto into a Plague City. Beleaguered nurses and doctors suffer the fear of infection while trying to treat the victims – and some pay with their own lives; meanwhile the public health bureaucracy fights for solutions to the growing epidemic amidst international pressure. Outbreak meets Toronto's very own SARS epidemic in this gripping suspense drama.

Set during the real-life SARS crisis that hit Toronto in the Spring of 2003, Plague City: SARS in Toronto chronicles the fear, the economic hardship, the bitter conflicts and the medical emergency that gripped the city as it struggled desperately to control this unknown and mysterious virus.

Plague City stars Kari Matchett as Amy, the head nurse who must balance the needs of her family with her demanding role caring for the increasing number of SARS patients; Lannette New as Rosie, Amy's junior colleague who eventually contracts the illness; Ron White as Dr. Royce, who unwittingly delivers fatal advice to a patient's family and must live with the terrible guilt; Merwin Mondesir as Rob, a public health nurse who works day and night to contact those exposed; Rick Roberts as Dr. Neville, the microbiologist who is tormented by his inability to understand this new and virulent disease; and Brian Markinson as Wilson, a pragmatic politician who concerns himself with suppressing public panic. Directed by David Wu.

This TV movie, in which Lannette plays a supporting principal, marks her debut into the world of film.

MISS SAIGON
May 19 - July 17, 2005
  Location The Stanley Theatre
  Address 2750 Granville Street (at 12th) Map
  Times Tuesdays - Saturdays 8:00pm
    Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays 2:00pm
  Tickets Please visit ArtsClub.com for ticket information
     

A BREATHTAKING SAGA 
MUSIC BY CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG AND ALAIN BOUBIL. 
LYRICS BY RICHARD MALTBY, JR. AND ALAIN BOUBIL
Director Bill Millerd
Musical Director Bruce Kellet
Choreographer Valerie Easton
Design Team Ted Roberts, Marsha Sibthorpe, Chris Daniels

WAR, LOVE, SACRIFICE, AND HOPE

"YOU WILL NOT TOUCH HIM. DON'T TOUCH MY BOY." - KIM

This is the second hugely popular musical by the same team that created Les Misérables. Chris, an American soldier has a brief and passionate affair with an innocent Vietnamese girl named Kim, only to be tragically separated in the turmoil of the U.S. exodus. Raw and uncompromising, Miss Saigon is an intensely personal story of the losses we suffer and the sacrifices we make in a world gone mad.

“A TRIUMPH; SWEEPING AND MAJESTIC.” ~ THE BOSTON HERALD

* Miss Saigon is Lannette's debut with the Arts Club.
VALENTINE DIVAS: DIVAS, SONGS OF LOVE & SWEETS
Sunday, February 13, 2005
  Location Arts Club Backstage Lounge
  Address 1585 Johnston, Granville Island
  Time 7:00pm
  Tickets $10 (advance), $15 (door)
    Tickets include music, sweets buffet, and door prizes
    Call 604.734.0904 or email ApplauseMusicals@yahoo.ca
     

APPLAUSE! Musicals Society is happy to announce its first official fundraising cabaret of the season...Valentine Divas Cabaret. Mark your calendars for the first official Applause! fundraising cabaret of the season, Valentine Divas: Diva's, songs of love & sweets! Come on down for an evening filled with great music, a divine sweets buffet, and fun door prizes. The night will feature Applause! alumni Melissa Peabody, Katherine Harris, Lannette New, and Laura Latchinian, along with special guests OMNI (eight time medallist quartet from Westcoast Harmony Chorus).

Applause! produces rare, forgotten, shelved, or seldom produced musicals in concert, staged with a full cast/chorus and minimal production elements like choreography, costumes, and lights. Concerts are rehearsed in seven days (about 40 hours) and have a short run. Unique to their work is a strong commitment to showcasing talent, accessibility, history, and education. The primary focus of the APPLAUSE! cabarets are to build community and create an opportunity for people to be showcased, try new material and gather.
MOVIETELEVISION INTERVIEW
Saturday, February 12, 2005
  Station Citytv
  Time 7:00pm, re-airing throughout the week
     

 

MovieTelevision was on set in Toronto, where Lannette was filming Plague City. They shot some behind-the-scenes footage, and also interviewed three main characters: Amy, played by Kari Matchett; Rosie, played by Lannette New; and Dr. Royce, played by Ron White.

This is Lannette's first television interview, so be sure to catch it! Please check your local listings, or visit MovieTelevision's website here
ANYTHING GOES - CABARET
Sunday, January 16, 2005
  Location Arts Club Backstage Lounge
  Address 1585 Johnston, Granville Island
  Time 8:00pm
  Tickets $5 available at the door
     

APPLAUSE! MUSICALS hosted its first cabaret at the Sugar Refinery in the spring of 2003.  It then moved to the Oasis Lounge and moved again to the Arts Club Theatre Backstage Lounge where the monthly events have been held for the past year. The monthly cabaret is a community building and fundraising event.

This month the theme is Anything Goes, which simply means, "anything goes!" You'll hear great show tunes from a variety of musicals, sung by talented local performers.

And new this year, The Ovation Awards...applauding outstanding achievement in musicals in the lower mainland. In the spirit of reflection and celebration of the over 30 musicals presented in the lower mainland in 2004 - the first APPLAUSE! monthly cabaret of 2005 will feature the presentation of awards for outstanding achievement in these musicals.

As well as singing in the cabaret, Lannette will be presenting the Ovation Award for Outstanding Music Direction of a Musical, and for Outstanding Direction of a Musical.