Congratulations to Lally Cadeau (Best Actress, General Theatre division, for Rose) and everyone involved with the touring production of The Drowsy Chaperone on their Dora wins.
Top Girls, which was up for seven Doras (including one for Megan Follows, who was up against herself for Three Sisters), went away with only one trophy — one for Best Direction, given to Alisa Palmer.
The nominees for this year’s Dora Awards — which honours Toronto’s theatre and opera scene — have been announced.
Lally Cadeau and Megan Follows are among the nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role in a Play — Lally for her role in Rose, and Megan a double nominee for Top Girls and Three Sisters.
Top Girls is up for seven awards overall, also including Outstanding Production of a Play. Rose received five nominations.
Also among the nominees with an RTA connection is David Ferry (Stuart McRae), who is up for Outstanding Performance by a Male in the Independent Theatre division for his role in Lullaby. It was also announced that Fiona Reid (Maude Craig) would receive the Barbara Hamilton Award, which honours excellence and advocacy in the performing arts.
The awards will be handed out, untelevised, on June 30 in Toronto.
Lally Cadeau is back on-stage in the Canadian debut production of Rose for the new Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
Rose is the story of an eighty-something Jewish woman who has witnessed first-hand many of the twentieth century’s tumultuous events. From the Russian shtetl to the Warsaw ghetto, to the doomed refugee ship “Exodus” and the fading glitz of postwar Atlantic City Rose has been tossed about like debris. But she is the ultimate survivor, looking back with a sense of detached wonder and an admirable lack of bitterness. It is both a sharply drawn portrait of a feisty Jewish woman, and a moving reminder of some of the tumultuous events that shaped the twentieth century.
Lally will be joined by fellow Stratford alums Diana Leblanc (director) and Phillip Silver (designer). The play is running now until March 29 at the Jane Mallet theatre at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto.
Toronto Star: This Rose still in bloom
Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company
(hat-tip to Brian)
More than in years past, 2007 was a huge year for not only Anne and RTA alumni, it was also a big year for fans as well, particularly for fans of Anne.
Shaftesbury Pictures has announced they’ve sold the telefilm Booky Makes Her Mark–about a young aspiring writer in 1930s Toronto–to various stations in Europe and the Middle East. Eventually, Sky TV in the UK, Reshet-TV in Israel, Netherlands Public Broadcasting, and Ireland’s TV3 will air it. Shaftesbury hopes to make more sales to other countries at the upcoming MIPTV.
The film features Megan Follows as Booky’s mother and Lally Cadeau as Lucy Maud Montgomery. It aired in Canada back in December 2006 to a small audience of over 300,000.
