Barefoot in the Parks' last two shows are Friday February 15th and Saturday February 16th.  The show got rave reviews in the St. Thomas Times-Journal .  Go here to read the review .

"one of the most enjoyable pieces the ETG (Elgin Theatre Guild) has ever produced"  Doug Avram, St. Thomas Times-Journal

"The newlyweds are magnificently played by Jennifer Leack and Joshua Richardson. Leack absolutely bubbles with energy and joy as a new bride, thrilled with her apartment choice and in love with her husband and life.
Richardson plays straight-laced lawyer Paul Bratter with wonderful warmth and control and the two of them have great chemistry on stage."

The Grand Jury for the Next Link Project which provides sunsidized slots for the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2008 has been announced.

Tony Award-winning lyricist and bookwriter Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime), Tony Award-winning actors Hinton Battle (Sophisticated Ladies, The Tap Dance Kid,Miss Saigon) and Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Tony Award-nominated lyricist and bookwriter Michael Korie (Grey Gardens, The Grapes of Wrath), 4-time Tony-winning actress Audra McDonald (Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, and A Raisin in the Sun), Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening),  legendary director and choreographer Susan Stroman (Crazy for You, Show Boat, Contact, The Producers), and Tony Award-winning producer Elizabeth Williams (Crazy For You and the revivals of The Real Thing and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). 

The 2008 Playwrights Cabaret will be taking place January 25th and 26th in the McManus Studio theatre.  It is a performance of 20 scripts sent in by local London Ontario playwrights.  The pieces are short and give a taste of the work presented.

The pieces are being directed by Andrea Boyd, Jeff Culbert and Gil Garrett and star Kyle Blair, Rachel Jones, Eva Blahut and Aidan.  For more info visit the Grand Theatre . 

The Elgin Theatre Guild presents Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park directed by Don Fleckser from February 7 to 16 in St. Thomas.   Starring John Allen, David Bogaert, Jennifer Leack, Linda Maskell-Pereira and Joshua Richardson. 

For tickets $15 call 519-633-8530

Exact show dates Feb.7, 8, 9 and Feb.14 (Sold Out), 15, 16 2008 @ 8pm

February 10 Matinee @ 2pm Shows at the Princess Avenue Playhouse 40 Princess Ave. St. Thomas

Submissions are now being accepted to the New York Musical Theatre Festival 's Next Link Program from January 1st to March 1st.  The Next Link Program is a partly subsidized part of the festival in which 14 shows receive one on one assistance, dramaturgy and a subsidized production slot.

I am busy finishing rewrites to P&J the Sandwich Musical which have been implicated since the December 17th reading. (Because of the reading).  Everyone's input at the reading was greatly valued. I am hoping to acquire one of those subsidized production slots at the festival so that some of the intense financial burden might be eased.