This Sunday, March 2, I will be performing along with the Kol Halev Performance Ensemble in the Chutpah! Festival’s 2nd annual Community Dance Show. Three local dance troupes in total are performing.

Our 20-minute presentation is called “The Forties: Life on the Home Front”. It includes a thrilling tap dance number, songs, poems of WWII, and wraps up with “Yiddishe Blues”, a big, expressive finale.

The show is this Sunday, 10:30 am and 12:30 pm, at the Jewish Community Centre. Tickets are a deal at only $10. I hope you can make it!

Vancouver’s peppy and boisterous Broadway Chorus is proud to present the MOST CANADIAN SHOW EVER!

Sure, Anne of Green Gables is a Canadian classic, but it’s just that little bit more Canadian when gutsy imp Anne Shirley is replaced with multi-Grammy and Juno winner Anne Murray, Canada’s sweetheart. Yes, in Anne Murray of Green Gables our favourite pop star is adopted by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Avonlea. She can’t work on the farm, she can’t help around the house, but she has a beautiful singing voice, and just might be their ticket to winning that talent contest they’ve always lost to the Lyndes.

Will Anne fit in to her new family? Will the Lynde Family (and the Partridge Family) adopt a pop star of their own? Find out in this hilarious spoof featuring songs from Broadway, the movies, pop hits, and beloved seasonal favourites. Christmas will never be the same!

Watch for me in the role of Reuben Partridge, and also also in a cameo appearance as a highly recognizable musical legend!

To reserve tickets, e-mail ashley.lm@ubc.ca or call 778-322-7182. Tickets are $14, or $11 for students, seniors and kids. All shows begin at 8:00pm.

The Roundhouse Community Centre is located at Davie & Pacific in Vancouver’s Yaletown district; there is paid underground parking available. Click here for a map.

Hope to see you at the show!

A musical tradition returns. Come enjoy a great night of showtunes sung by a fabulous group of singers, with great snacks, drink, and doorprizes – all to support APPLAUSE! Musicals.

And yes, I will be contributing a number!

Carousel Theatre Space
1411 Cartwright Street
Granville Island (across from the Waterfont Theatre)
$10 at the door (APPLAUSE! Alumni $5. Cash bar.)

Here’s an event that looks to be worth checking out. And it’s free!

Everyone is interesting. This Conversation sets out to prove it. While conventional talk shows focus on newsmakers or celebrities promoting their latest movie, book, or album, This Conversation seeks out people who are normally on the sidelines and puts them centre-stage to hear their stories.

Whether it’s someone celebrating their one hundredth birthday, a street busker, tow-truck driver or grocery store clerk, everyone has a story to share. And it’s probably extraordinary, funny, insightful, or all of the above. This Conversation is that stage. We’ll talk to some celebrities, too, but we’ll find the angles to their stories that you wouldn’t normally hear in the media.

Hosted by local comedian and award-winning actor, Brendan Beiser, This Conversation promises to be a unique, humorous and touching look into life behind the scenes.

HOST – BRENDAN BEISER – Mr. Beiser is a local actor in the film, television, stage, and voice-over industry. Brendan has always been interested in people and their stories. He is the host of the Celluloid Social Club and a reporter for Novus television. This marks his debut into the talk show format.

What: This Conversation
When: 7:30 pm, Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Where: Cafe Montmartre, 4362 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
(604) 879-8111

Host: Brendan Beiser
Guests: Malcolm Parry (journalist, The Sun)
Miriam Mattoff (101 years old)
Veronika Vice (wrestler – Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling)
Info: 604 734-8339 or paularmstrong@telus.net
Cost: Free

Contact: Paul Armstrong, C: 604 727-0253, E: paularmstrong@telus.net

City Opera Vancouver is delighted to present the first ever Canadian sing-along performance of Carl Orff’s celebrated Carmina Burana, October 26, 2007, 8:00 pm at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church.

Under the baton of City Opera’s conductor and artistic director, Dr. Charles Barber, a gathering of voices from the best of Vancouver’s professional and amateur choirs and the music-loving public will join well-known local musicians and soloists in a celebration of this amazing work.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to raise the roof in the company of some of the finest voices in our community.

More information and online ticket sales are available at the City Opera website:

www.cityoperavancouver.com

Hope to see you there!

Hey everyone! They’re going to show the legendary “musical episode” of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the Cinematheque, on the 27th at 1pm (and the 30th at 8pm but I can’t attend that one).

If you’d like to join me, let me know. And be sure to buy your ticket early – you can do it online here!

More info, and alternate ticket sources, here.

Hope to see you there!