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.
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Buoyed by its success in 2007, Soulpepper will be remounting Top Girls with its original cast — including Megan Follows — for their 2008 season.
Before its remounting in late October, however, Megan will perform alongside her mother, Dawn Greenhalgh, in the play ‘night, Mother. The Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) drama by US playwright Marsha Norman deals with the relationship between a daughter and mother, as the daughter slowly reveals her plans to kill herself by day’s end.
‘night, Mother will be performed from May 13 to June 21, 2008, at the Young Centre; Top Girls‘ remounting takes place from October 25 to November 22, 2008, venue unknown at this time.
Congratulations to Megan Follows, who is a Gemini nominee this year for her performance in Booky Makes Her Mark (Actress in a Featured Supporting Role, Dramatic Program or Miniseries). Her husband/partner, Stuart Hughes, is also a nominee (Actor in a Featured Supporting Role, Dramatic Program or Miniseries; also for Booky).
A tip of the hat also goes out to Sarah Polley, who is nominated for her role in the final season of Slings and Arrows (Actress in a Featured Supporting Role, Dramatic Series), particularly in the episode “Vex Not His Ghost”.
Overall, Slings and Arrows is up for fourteen statues; Booky Makes Her Mark is up for three.
Most of the statues will be handed out over from October 15 to 17 in Toronto in untelevised galas. The Broadcast Gala will be in Regina and will air October 28 on CBC.
Soulpepper’s production of Top Girls–featuring Megan Follows and RTA season seven alum Cara Pifko–has been extended until August 18, after receiving much acclaim from Toronto’s press.
Megan portrays Marlene, the head of the Top Girls Employment Agency; Cara is Griselda, whose life is a dream and a nightmare all in one.
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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.
