Noel Coward's "Nude With Violin” opens February 12
Producer Tanya Horne & Co-Directors Debbie & Derek Burke are pleased to announce that casting has been completed for Nude with Violin. This Noel Coward light comedy is set to open on February 12th.
The cast includes newcomers: Debra Hamilton, Alixzandra Verlaan, Chazz Lazorko & Chuck Shobe.
Moving up from the Stages Youth Program is Dhillon Webster. Returning after a long absence is Brodie Lowe.
Bouncing in after roles in Rocky are: Randi Levasseur, James Brook and Charlotte Wright.
Christopher Bernard is a singing priest again!
Mary Ellen Shimell, Yvette Van Metre, John Milne, Rob Mooney and Terry Switzer make a welcome return to our stage.
In charge of all things visual is our Artistic Director Chris Doman (who is also the set designer & poster designer). Dave McGarry is the lighting designer. Hannele Talkio is in charge of props. Colleen May has the key to the costumes. Jessica Burns has signed on as stage manager!
For more info about this play, please give us a shout! Contact Tanya Horne or the Burkes through The Capitol Theatre at (250) 723-1195 or e-mail to capitoltheatre@shaw.ca.
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Live Improv: THEATRESPORTS on February 27 at 7 pm
Continuing on the popular TheatreSPORTS Challenges that were part of the McLean Mill program on Friday nights last summer, Portal Players is very pleased to present live TheatreSports and Improv at The Capitol Theatre.
TheatreSports returns on Saturday night, February 27, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend. A drop in cost of only $5 gets you into the Capitol Theatre on show night. Concession and refreshments will be available!
Join in the hilarity and watch the actors who are "scared scriptless" - our referee and scorekeeper will join the judges in choosing a winning team. And, this is an all-ages audience event, so you can look forward to plenty of double-entendres!
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Centrestage Presents Tambura Rasa
Tambura Rasa is a world fusion project combining the music of Gypsy, Afro-Latin, Flamenco, Balkan and more. The members are Ivan Tucakov on guitar, Pepe Danza on percussion, Michael Fraser on violin, Trevor Grant on drums, John Bews on bass with Karen Pitkethly Flamenco dancing and Leah Belly dancing. Tambura Rasa play at the Capitol Theatre, Friday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Tickets $18 adults, $16 senior/students are available at the Rollin Art Centre. ALL tickets at the door are $20.
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2009-2010 Sponsorship Fundraising Goal Causes Theatre Manager To Go Bald
Having committed to raising a $20,000 sponsorship goal, Portal Players Dramatic Society & Capitol Theatre Manager Elliot Drew promised to shave the golden locks of hair he had let grow to play the part of “Frank ’n Furter” in “The Rocky Horror Show”, produced by Portal Players in October/November of 2009.
With the fundraising goal met, we put the clippers of member Yvette Van Metre to work, with sponsor MacDermott’s Insurance winning the lucky draw to make the first cut. Here, Gary Connaughton is shown starting the job, while Yvette gets to finish it off.
A huge thank you to all of Portal Players’ season sponsors, and thanks to PPDS members Charlotte Wright and Derek Kraneveldt for assembling the video.
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Sound Advice Productions presents
Carlos del Junco and the Blues Mongrels
Wednesday, March 17th at 8:00 pm, tickets
$20 advance and $25 at the door, Capitol Theatre, Port Alberni.
For more info, Contact Sound Advice Music @ 250-723-3057.
Tickets available at Sound Advice Music or The Smoke Stack.
Carlos del Junco is hands down one of finest blues/jazz harmonica players on the planet. "One listen and it’s obvious he’s in a class with such greats as Toots Theilmans, Paul Butterfield and Howard Levy, formerly of Bela Fleck’s Flecktones." Edmonton Journal
Born in Havana Cuba, del Junco (loosely translated "of the reeds") immigrated to Canada as a young child, discovered the harmonica and the rest, as they say, is history. Now a true virtuoso in every sense of the word, del Junco holds not one but two Gold Medals from the Hohner World Harmonica Championship in Trossingen, Germany, as well as multiple national awards.
For erudite “harp” blowers: del Junco plays a ten hole diatonic harmonica, and has developed the unique ability to play chromatically by using an "overblow" technique taught to him by jazz virtuoso Howard Levy which is more expressive and communicative than the mechanized tone produced by the chromatic harmonica. Carlos is one of the few pioneers of this overblow method.
Simply put for the rest of us, Carlos del Junco plays the harmonica like nobody else. Simultaneously sophisticated and raw, his playing blurs the boundaries between blues and jazz (hence the name for his band “The Blues Mongrels”). The emphasis is on blues, but they are not afraid to merrily traipse off in other directions delivering a seamless fusion of New Orleans second line grooves, swing, Latin, hip-hop or ska melodies, to swampy roots rock.
The Blues Mongrels are: bassist Henry Heillig (founded the nine piece Latin band Manteca, musical director for both the Genie and Gemini Awards, toured with pianist Joe Sealy), guitarist Eric St. Laurent, and Mark Mariash on drums. Get ready to trash all you thought you knew about the harmonica. Carlos and his Blues Mongrels deliver a no-holds-barred display of fun and melodic virtuosity.