STAGE NOTES
22 Apr'10

JOHN COULBOURN -QMI Agency

Toronto audiences will see a few familiar faces on stage when Dancap Productions brings the Pittsburgh CLO’s production of MISS SAIGON to the Four Seasons Centre this summer. Dancap announced Thursday that when the curtain goes up on MISS SAIGON, not only will Ma-Anne Dionisio return to a role she played in the original Toronto production, but so too will Kevin Gray.

When Miss Saigon originally opened at the Princess of Wales back in 1993, Dionisio played Kim, while Gray was cast as the Engineer in that original production.

MISS SAIGON begins previews July 9 for a July 13 opening at the Four Seasons. For tickets and further info, visit www.DancapTickets.com.

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Four new plays have been chosen as entries in Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company’s inaugural edition of In the Beginning: A Jewish Playwrights Festival, running May 10-12 at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. Each of the four plays will receive a staged reading during the run of the festival and admission to each is free.

On offer: Michael Ross Albert’s PILLARS OF SALT, directed by Joel Greenberg; Ron Fromstein’s THE THREE OF US, directed by Rose Plotek; bekky O’Neill’s ZY SHTIL, directed by Jen Shuber and Darrah Teitel’s CORPUS, directed by Adam Pettle.

For further information, visit www.hgjewishtheatre.com.

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Guillaume Cote and Zdenek Konvalina, principal dancers with the National Ballet of Canada, have collaborated on a new dance piece that’s slated to premiere at the 73rd annual Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence Italy on May 16.

Set to music composed by Cote, the work — titled IMPERMANENCE — will be performed by both dancers and combines choreography, projections and film to tell the story of one man’s life.