Joy
Metcalfe

JOY TELLS ALL

WONDERFUL LUNCHEON
last week at Alan Sack’s Delta
Place Hotel to lunch with the
three big names from the musical
blockbuster, Phantom of the
Opera — bushy-haired producer
Garth Drabinsky and stars Jeff
Hyslop and Patti Cohenour.

This is Drabinsky’s zillion-
dollar touring production, but
they have already passed the $10
million mark in advance ticket
sales here.

ing the late Louis Stervenou at the
door) to honor the three hotel
winners of the American
Automobile Association's coveted
Five Diamond Award.

This is an annual award, pres-
ented for excellence in the tiospi-
tality industry. The three winning
hotels are Ruy Paes-Braga’s Four
Seasons, John William's Pan
Pacific and Louis Daniet’s Le
Meridien.

Congrats to the GMs and, most
importantly, to their hotel staff
who make it all work...

Same time, same night over at
the Hotel Van, the hotel’s execu-
tive chef Elio Guarnori was in-
troducing the culinary works of
art from Italy’s Piamonte region
with its traditional *‘comfort
food,’’ though Napolean once
described the Piamonte cuisine as
the most creative that Italy had to
offer!...

Friday night was a very exciting
time at the Westin Bayshore. It
was the St. Paul’s Hospital Foun-
dation’s second annual
“*Razamatazz”’ fund-raising
costume extravaganza with this
year’s theme ‘‘Come to the
Cabaret.’”

It was produced by the dinner
chairman and West Van water-

“NEWS photo Mike Wakaflald

READYING FOR the big event, top Phantom performers Patti
Ceohenour and Vancouver's own Jeff Hyslop pose for the media

posse.

But aside from all the dynamics
of Phantom, which opens here of-
ficially on May 30, Jeff's 40th
birthday, the most exciting news is
that Garth Drabinsky wauts to
build a new 1,800-seat theatre in
Vancouver. He’ll concentrate on
that project once the tour is over.

And what is the next big project
after Phantom of the Opera for
Canada’s show biz sugar daddy
and gambler-extraordinaire?
Rumors are that it will be the
top-rated Miss Saigon!...

The BCAA execs hosted a
late-day reception Thursday at the
B.C. Club (where I still miss see-

IN PERSON

Canada's Best Loved
Chtidren’s Storyteller

Additional Show February 20, 7pm, NVCT

front dweller, Yulanda Faris, and
her heipful committee. Entertain-
ment ran the gamut from classic
ballet, to the blues, to waltzes, to
Gaiety Parisienne and the
renowned Can Can.

It was provided by the Judith
Marcuse dance company with a
chorus of incredible, high-kicking
Can Can dancers, and Jazzmanian
Devils, Marcus Mozeley and Den-
nis Simpson and the cast of Ain’t
Misbehavin’.

The female dancers were in the
spectacular costumes borrowed
from the Vancouver Opera
Association's The Merry Widow,
while the high-stepping gentlemen
were decked out in top hat and
tails from Classy Formal Wear.

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Sunday, February 17, 1991 - North Shore News - 29

COCKTAILS & CAVIAR

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

ALL SMILES at the Seasons in the Park Touch of Romance Dinner Fund are (left to right) Colleen
Davies, Brent Davies, Marrietta Lightbody and Walley Lightbody.

Certainly had to be the enter-
tainment spectacle of the very
young social season and managed
to raise $40,000-pius for the
foundation...

Monday evening at Brent
Davies’ Seasons in the Park, the

- eighth annual ‘‘Touch of

Romance’”’ dinner fundraiser for
the B.C. Paraplegic Association
was once again donated by Brent
Davies and his Seasons staff and
it, toc, was very successful.

They had more than 100 guests
enjoying the gourmet Valentines
dinner and they feel that they
have raised close to $8,000...

Tuesday night at the New
World Harbourside, the Canadian
Food Service Executives Associa-
tion and the B.C. Ministry of
Tourism hosted their Tribute to
Excellence awards at a festive
dinner ceremony.

The winners were Vancouver
Community College’s Fred Naso,
the president of White Spot Ltd.,
Steve Mcintyre, the president of
the Prince George Restaurant and
Foodservice Association, Fred
Kollner and UBC’s Christine
Samson.

Special guests at the dinner were
the newsmaking president of the
PNE, Morgan Thomas and his
wife Thelma, restaurant head Don
Bellamy, the newly appointed and
very youthful president of
Nalley’s, Lions Bay resident John
Frosiad and his pretty wife Cindy,
and the vivacious Manuela and
Jurgen Schulte of the chic Chesa
restaurant in West Van...

Big tip of the hat to the New
Worid Harbourside’s executive
chef, Peter Bucher who came up
with an exquisite taste-tempter
menu!

Big tip of the hat to the New
World Harbourside’s executive
chef, Peter Bucher who came up
with an exquisite taste-tempter
menu!

This is a very busy weekend for
the Variety Club Chief Barker,
West Van’s Art Jones.

It’s the Variety Club’s silver
anniversary, 25 years of record-
breaking telethoning to raise
money for B.C.’s special kids.

Variety had the very first
telethon in the province way back
on Oct. 7 and 8, 1966, and raised
$66,000. Over the past quarter of
acentury, the 22-hour show has
raised an unbelievable $33 million
dollars!

The ‘show of hearts’’
headliners on stage at the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre are the woman
known to millions as the
“songbird of the forces,’’ the lady
who practically owns the Second
World War hit, The White Cliffs
of Dover, Dame Vera Lynne and
one of the musical stars of the
1980s, composer-producer David
Foster.

The award-winning musician is
also the founder of the David

Foster Foundation, which raises
necessary funds for organ
transplants for children.

Regulars Bob McGrath and ‘,
Blake Emmions will be on hand, \
along with North Van star Jim .
Byrnes...

CHIEF BARKER for Variety
Club West Vanner Art Jones
keeps busy.

All of this activity leads up very
nicely to Art’s Tent 47 hosting the
sixty-fourth annual Variety Club’s
international convention at the
VT&CC, May 12 to 16... Cheers!

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