V choir hits

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y Layne Christensen

Yews Reporter
yne@nsnews.com

EN school starts
bh September North
hore classrooms will
lave a few empty seats.

Twenty-three young cho-
mtcrs will temporarily trade
cir books for song shitets as
ey join the cast of Joseph
yd the Technicolor Dream-
at
The North Van group was
e of four children’s choirs
at was selected during
ditions Aug. 5 at the Ford
eatre, where Andrew
joyd Webber’s Christian
usical opens Sept. 25 for a
run,
The North Shore kids,
es nine to 14, performed
der the direction of Sara
¢ Biles.
The North Van singing
tructor assembled the
oir from a group of 63 kids
o signed up for two one-

ek workshops at the end of

yo,
Biles called the workshop
g Your Heart Out and

note

that’s exactly what the chil-
dren did at the audition, she
said,

“They are all spectacular
singers,” said the choral
instructor, noting that her
charges had just one week ro
prepare for the audition and
had sung together only
twice,

“Those kids rehearsed for
halfan hour one night and an
hour another night. That's
it,” said Biles.

“They just sang their
hearts out, they really did.”

Rehearsals start Aug. 24
and run six days a week until
the Sept. 25 opening. The
choir will then be expected to
perform four shows a week
for an approximately  six-
week run.:

The choir members are:
Virginia Field, © Andrea
Engelmann, Rachel
Prendergast, Mark Hird,
Katrina Molson, Alison
Benjamin, Katie Benjamin,
Ashley Bishop, Katrina
Molson, Nashlyn Lloyd, Kira
Solsberg, Nicola _ Kill,
Brieanna = Ingram, Ashley
Schalin, Daniela
Schwendener, Kelsey

Wednesday, August 13, 1997 — North Shore News —14

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TWENTY-three North
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cast of Joseph and the
Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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Emily Caulfield, Taryn
Patterson, Vanessa Maion,
Kristy = Frlam, © Christine
Kennedy, Robert Kennedy
and Marina Trenkel.

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