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It is sometimes said that the best travel is in the imagination. If this is true, get ready for an unforgettable around-the-world trip as Claire Jenkins, Amélie Lefebvre and Lyne Tremblay launch the second season of song cabarets sponsored by the Alliance Française of Toronto.

The premise of Si la ville m’était chantée is quite simple, mapping out an itinerary through songs that feature mythical cities as their backdrops and even as their main characters.

Strange nights are evoked in Bilbao (by Weil and Brecht, as reinterpreted by the incomparable Vian); a pale dawn light breaks over Parisian boulevards (in Jacques Dutronc’s Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille); a nostalgic feast is prepared for us in Syracuse (thanks, Mr. Salvador!); mounds of snow await us in Montreal (where Charlebois blends in with winter year after year).

Each song will evoke dreams and thrill audiences. In addition, these crossed voices will deliver a heartfelt homage to Toronto.

A sensitive and sensual performer, Lyne Tremblay is well known to jazz and cabaret fans in Toronto.

She shared the stage last spring with the irrepressible Amélie Lefebvre in Et si on chantait... at the Théâtre français de Toronto. This summer, Amélie criss-crossed the country with the Francoforce tour.

Toronto author-composer Claire Jenkins has also recently completed a Canada-wide tour; we’re wagering she’ll be the big surprise for many in the audience on the evening of September 19.

Dominique Denis
Artistic Director of Cabarets-chanson

In collaboration with the Ontario Arts Council

Admission:
Adults: $5
Students: $3

Free for AFT members and students

Video Demo Reel - various performances

This video demo reel contains a selection of performances from Lyne's stage shows, including Jazz et Java, If God were French, One man, Tic o Tac, All that jazz, Big Spender, My dear and Le Jazz Hot.

They show her versatility, her incredible audience connection and her amazing talent for both singing and dancing.

Click on the arrow to see the video.

Rise Up — Toronto Screening

East Hill Production's Rise Up will screen in Toronto at the Canadian Filmmaker's Festival.

Join us for, and after, the screening.

Sunday, March 26th.
2:30 p.m. at the Carlton Cinema (20 Carlton Street, Toronto).

Watch the trailer below or at www.ehproductions.com.

Rise Up

"Rise Up" staring Lyne Tremblay was chosen to be part of the AFI festival www.afifest.com which took place in November, 2005. The film was also be shown at "Hollywood First Glance" in December.

Lyne attended the festival in Los Angeles and performed live.

Watch the trailer.

From Hockey Brawls to Cabaret!!!

East Hill Productions Inc recently shot the BRAVOFACT! short film Rise Up (written and directed by Jason Gileno) starring celebrated singer/actor/performer Lyne Tremblay. Rise Up is a short film about a woman's (Lyne Tremblay) attempts to revive her comatose husband (Clive MacLean) by taking him back to the Cabaret - the place where they first met. The film features the original song composed by Marcel Aucoin and performed by Lyne Tremblay. The film was shot on location at the newly opened "SpeakEasy" night club in Toronto.

Additional cast includes Ana-Marie Sutherland, Joe Costa, Emily Wurts, Stefano Colacitti, Wayne Catania, Melanie Schnell, and the Lyne Tremblay Cabaret Band. The film will air on Bravo in the fall of 2005.

THE HAMPSON INTERVIEW: ALEXANDRE BEAULIEU AND LYNE TREMBLAY

By SARAH HAMPSON
Saturday, March 19, 2005

"I still have nightmares about Cats," laughs Lyne Tremblay, 46. She played Cassandra in the popular musical whose all-Canadian cast celebrated its 20th reunion earlier this week with a benefit concert for the outreach program of Toronto's Metropolitan United Church at the city's Winter Garden Theatre.

"You do?" says her friend and fellow cast member Alexandre Beaulieu, 42, who was Mr. Mistoffelees. "I thought I was the only one! I dream I'm lost and I'm on the subway without my makeup."

Both erupt with laughter over their Starbucks coffees. This is the morning after the night before, which included a postshow party that lasted well into the early hours.

"Sometimes, I dream that I have only half my tail," Tremblay trembles. "That show went so deep," she says, clutching dramatically at her midsection. "It's so inside your bones."

Read the complete article. (PDF file)

By Robert Crewe
Saturday, April 25, 2005

Already a successful cabaret performer who smoothly blends jazz and musical theatre, and with a CD called Break n' Enter to her credit, she has now decided to launch an extended "musical adventure" of her own.

The intention is to use music to bring the two solitudes closer together, and it's quite a blitz.

She will be front and centre at next month's Distillery Jazz Festival: On May 22 and 23, she and actor/director John Evans (her husband) will present their Art Deco Show; on May 26, the Lyne Tremblay Quartet will perform French jazz in a program called Boulevards of Paris; and on May 27 Evans will direct her in Decadent Berlin Revue. (She will perform the same revue in Barrie the next evening).

Read the complete article. (PDF file)

"All too often I have suffered through interminable evenings of indifferent food and self-congratulatory blather.  But the Iris Ball last Saturday was a treat.  The highlight: a world class performance by Cabaret Deco, with husband and wife team John Evans and Lyne Tremblay celebrating the decadent nightlife of the jazz era.  This featured his wicked impersonation of Noel Coward (with a touch of Christopher Plummer at his most droll) and hers of Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret.  The Scott Marshall Zeitgeist Sextet jazz band was outstanding.  Certainly, this is the best little show in Toronto in a long, long time."

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