Experience the Dazzling Performance of a Treasured Broadway Star!
“A show that everyone should see” – CBC Radio“Metro Morning”
Canada’s “First Lady of Musical Theatre”
LOUISE PITRE
in
Autumn Rhapsody
“A tribute to Edith Piaf and selections from Mamma Mia!, Les Misérables and other shows”
Saturday, October 20th, 2012, at 8:00p.m.
Cathedral Arts is proud to present Canadian Treasure, Louise Pitre, multiple award-winning star of theatre, television and concert stages across North America and Europe.
In addition to headlining the Toronto, Broadway and US touring company casts of Mamma Mia!, Louise is known for her signature performances as Fantine in Les Misérables (Toronto, Montreal and Paris) and the title character in Edith Piaf. She also earned rave reviews for leading roles in Annie Get Your Gun, Song & Dance, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; The World Goes ‘Round; Blood Brothers; Tartuffe; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?; The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd; Applause; Rock ‘n’ Roll etc.; The Toxic Avenger; and A Year With Frog and Toad.
Her small screen appearances include Lifetime’s A Christmas Wedding, Recipe for a Perfect Christmas, MVP –The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives, Flashpoint, and the CBC biopic, Celine,in which she played Celine Dion’s mother, Thérèse.
Louise Pitre has released several CD’s, including her first live album recorded during a one-night only, sold-out concert at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts’ Jane Mallett Theatre. In July 2011, Toronto Life magazine named “Louise Pitre’s musical theatre renaissance” as #12 in its “50 Reasons to love Toronto” feature article.
She can currently be seen as the host of Star Portraits on Bravo! She has just been named one of the three judges on the CBC television
series “Over the Rainbow” (the search for Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz”) airing September 16 to November 5, 2012.
This concert will support The Ottawa Citizen Literacy Foundation.