09/17/2005
Ah, sweet success
I am in heaven. All of my anxieties and fears are quelled. We had a full house - almost sold-out, in our big venue - and the audience was just plain happy the whole way through. What a relief - to know that the word is out that our show is good, that it's a fun show, that people are coming. We had two reviews, one excellent, one good, and people are talking about it. What an excellent feeling.
Our last show is Saturday the 17th at 6:15pm. I have a feeling it's going to be sold-out. Come early!
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09/15/2005
Rave Review in Vancouver Courier
Quantum Physics: The Musical
Sept. 15, 16 and 17, Stage 2
You have to see it to believe that partners Vanessa LeBourdais and Ian Gschwind can make quantum physics sexy and funny. Step on board the rocket ship Lollipop with Capt. Joe Arthur and crew and take a trip to the subatomic level where everything is very, very small. Watch the captain go ga-ga over his very own hadron accelerator. Get the lowdown on atoms, hadrons and quarks. Brush up on your Bohr's Law of Complementarity, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Theory of Parallel Universes. LeBourdais' music, ranging from tango and calypso to heavy metal and ballad-and everything in between-is upbeat and catchy. The choreography is lively, the lyrics are a hoot and the four performers have enough energy to put NASA to shame. You can't take your eyes off pint-sized live wire Amy Wallis and Barbara Tomasic simply sizzles when she sings "Gravity is Getting Me Down." If this show tours the country's high schools-and it should-you can expect a whole new generation of atomic scientists to emerge. -Jo Ledingham
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09/14/2005
Contact us
I just realized that other than posting a reply to one of my posts, there isn't really a way to contact me directly from this website. I'm trying to fix that, and my email address has been in the 'about me' section for a while. However, here's where you can contact us:
ifoundaquarter@shaw.ca
Sorry for the lack of hyperlink on that. I'll see what I can do.
Vanessa
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09/10/2005
We're open!
Quantum Physics: The Musical opened last night and the audience loved it! They laughed, they cheered, they laughed again. We had a real mix of people, from young physics students to older theatre goers to artists. I stood at the door hawking our show CDs - which ran through my hands into theirs almost as fast as I could sell them - as people went by saying "Great work!" "Good show!" and the like.
I think I spent most of the show in another dimension. I feel like I've just give birth. The cast is flying high after all the opening night nerves we all had.
Jo Ledingham, the reviewer from the Vancouver Courier, said she fully enjoyed the show and that it should travel all across the country. Look for her review next week.
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09/07/2005
Quantum Press release
QUANTUM PHYSICS: THE MUSICAL
Hold onto your seats, get ready to jump into the quantum world on the Space-Time Ship Lollipop with Captain Joe Arthur and his crew. Award-winning musical theatre creators Vanessa LeBourdais (Composer, Larger Than Life: The Musical, Gremlin) and Ian Gschwind (Gremlin) are teaming up again for a musical comedy about the quantum world set to blast off during this year's Vancouver Fringe Festival.
A top-notch cast of Vancouver musical theatre performers are crewing the Lollipop, including Amy Wallis (Evita, Alice: A Wonderland, and Beauty in the Arts Club's upcoming Beauty and the Beast), Barbara Tomasic (The Last Five Years, Sound of Music), Leon Willey (Storyeum,The Fantasticks), and Michael Walker (A Christmas Carol, Can-Can). Keri Minty joins the crew as quantum choreographer.
Quantum Flux Equity Co-Op presents:
QUANTUM PHYSICS: THE MUSICAL
Book and lyrics by Vanessa LeBourdais and Ian Gschwind
Music by Vanessa LeBourdais
Director/Stage Manager/Producer: Ian Gschwind
Musical Director/Producer: Vanessa LeBourdais
Choreography: Keri Minty
With Barbara Tomasic, Michael Walker, Amy Wallis & Leon Willey
Waterfront Theatre, Granville Island
Friday, September 9 at 7:45 pm
Saturday, September 10 at 10:45 pm
Sunday, September 11 at 2:00 pm
Thursday, September 15 at 10:15 pm
Friday, September 16 at 9:45 pm
Saturday, September 17 at 6:15 pm
Tickets $10/8 at the door 604-255-0366
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