Flash d'information

On dit parfois que les plus beaux voyages sont ceux que l’on fait dans sa tête. Si tel est le cas, préparez-vous pour un inoubliable tour du monde en compagnie de Claire Jenkins, Amélie Lefebvre et Lyne Tremblay donneront le coup d’envoi à la seconde saison des cabarets-chanson de l’Alliance Française de Toronto.

La prémisse de Si la ville m’était chantée est toute simple : tracer un itinéraire balisé par ces chansons qui font de villes mythiques leur décor, et même leur protagoniste. Qu’il s’agisse des nuits bizarres de Bilbao (Weill et Brecht revu par Vian, qui dit mieux?), ou de l’aube blafarde sur les boulevards parisiens (Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille, de Jacques Dutronc), que l’on fasse le plein de souvenirs à Syracuse (merci, M’sieur Salvador!) ou le plein de neige à Montréal (où Charlebois se marie chaque année avec l’hiver), le rêve et le frisson seront au rendez-vous de ces voix croisées, qui nous promettent par ailleurs un hommage bien senti à Toronto.

Interprète sensible et sensuelle, Lyne Tremblay est bien connue des amoureux de jazz et de cabaret de la Ville-Reine.

Au printemps, elle partageait la scène avec l’irrépressible Amélie Lefebvre dans Et si on chantait..., du Théâtre français de Toronto. Et cet été, Amélie sillonnait le pays au sein de la tournée Francoforce.

Quant à l’auteure-compositrice torontoise Claire Jenkins, qui nous arrive elle aussi d’une tournée pan-canadienne, parions qu’elle sera pour plusieurs la grande surprise de cette soirée.

Dominique Denis
Directeur artistique des Cabarets-chanson

Avec le soutien du Conseil des Arts de l'Ontario.

Tarifs :
5$ pour les adultes
3$ pour les étudiants

Gratuit pour les membres
et les étudiants de l’AF

Rise Up

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

Lyne will be attending the festival in Los Angeles and performing live.

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."

Read the complete article. (PDF file)