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Applications are being accepted until April 1 for Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance.
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Musical theatre program celebrates 25th anniversary
Published 12:49 PDT, Thu March 14, 2019
Last Updated: 2:12 PDT, Wed May 12, 2021
It’s the 25th anniversary of
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, an intensive musical theatre program that was the
brainchild of Richmond lawyer Perry Ehrlich.
“As a parent, I was looking for
camps and programs she could participate in and there wasn’t really one to my
liking,” Ehrlich recalls of when his daughter expressed an interest in singing
and dancing.
So Ehrlich poured his creative
energy into Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, which is operated from the Jewish
Community Centre at 41st Avenue and Oak Street in Vancouver, and draws children
from across the Lower Mainland, including Richmond.
“It’s an intensive musical
theatre program with a focus on developing skills and self esteem but also
instilling in each participant core values like commitment and respect and
teamwork,” Ehrlich said.
Applications for the program are
being accepted until April 1, with auditions starting in the next couple of
weeks.
Two sessions of Gotta Sing, Gotta
Dance are offered over the summer (July 2 to 25, or Aug. 6 to 29), each
comprising 18 days of instruction from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Ehrlich writes a new show almost
every year, and this year’s show is entitled Shamilton, a too-good-to-be-true
story about a TV show contest in which the first 10 callers are told they’ll
get free tickets to see Hamilton.
“Everyone thinks they’re going to
see the show on Broadway,” Ehrlich said.
Those interested in auditioning
must have some basic skills, including being able to sing confidently and dance
with a degree of comfort, he said.
Participants will get three hours
of dance classes a day.
A total of 70 people are accepted
into the program each year, and the culmination of the program is a two-hour
show with 30 choreographed numbers.
Ehrlich said thousands of dollars
in financial scholarships are offered, which means no child is turned away
because of an inability to pay.
The program costs $850.
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