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Ruth Dallas Rich

"Still Okay To Dream"

Television and Theatre, Etc: Click on the pics

"Brigadoon" Churchill Secondary Grade nine. All dressed up for the chorus of Brigadoon with my little brother, Teddy, who was likely coerced into posing for my dad's ever present camera.	"Marriage of Figaro" Playing Suzanna and fake guitar. UBC Opera Workshop.	"Rusalka" Kitchen Boy in the Russian Opera, starring Ben Heppner as the Prince, before he was an international opera star. UBC Opera Workshop.
"Jericho Fools" With Maureen Worden and Ron Reed and the gang. White-face drama on the beaches of Kitsilano.	"The Terry Winter Show" Singing on Terry's evangelical program. Holden Bowker on piano (of Bowker Brothers fame). The show was seen across Canada on Sunday afternoons. My dad would take pictures of the TV screen when I was on.	"Fiddler on the Roof" T.U.T.S. Playing dead Grandma Tzeitel in 1997, and one of the chorus Mamas. "Theatre Under the Stars" produces great summer shows in Stanley Park, where racoons live under the stage and peacocks call out during the second act.
"The Sidekicks" Suzy Gemmell and me singing in one of our children's concerts.	"March for Jesus" Dancing through the streets of Vancouver with Adrienne Joiner, Barbara White, Sharon S. and other members of "Vessels of Clay," dance company. Can you spell EPHOD?	"Scooby Doo" With Josh, Naomi and Barry Hartley, getting ready for Pioneer Pacific Adventure Camp for children. Chery Chila found this "Mystery Machine" van at the house of a complete stranger and convinced the lady who owned it to let us take a photo in our costumes.
"Fiddler On the Roof" FVS 2008. Fruma Sarah, also dead. My first show with Fraser Valley Stage.	"Peter Pan" With Joel as Captain Hook and Bob as Smee. Pioneer Pacific Camp.	"Bridgadoon" Meg Brockie with her main squeeze (Jeff Solomon). Fraser Valley Stage.
"Disney Olympix" Cruella De Vil. Pioneer Pacific Adventure Camp.	Cruella Even evil villains have to get their household chores finished.	"Disney Olympix" Pluto, Woody, Pocahontas, The Wicked Stepmother, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Captain Hook, Cruella, and Micky.
"Starlight Radio Theatre Show." An original musical written for Fraser Valley Stage. Script by Faith Toronchuk. Singing "Java Jive" with the dashing Tony Roper.	"Alice in Wonderland" The Mad Hatter and the Red Queen meet other fairytale characters.	"Pirate Days" With Pinky, Stinky and the other pirates. (Cheryl Chila, Dani S., Naomi Hartley, Heather Cunnings).
"Tales of the Kingdom" Three sisters, Persimmon, Prunella and Pomposity, make themselves beautiful to win the affections of Prince Perfect. Pioneer Pacific Camp.	"Tales of the Kingdom" It turns out the imperfect ones inherit the kingdom.	"The Story of Ruth and Naomi" A sermon/theatre piece with lots and lots of scarves. Based on the Book of Ruth from the Old Testament. Silver Valley Community Church.
"Stranded at Westcliffe" Playing Lady Augusta Westcliffe with the deliciously catty Heather Davis. An original Gilbert and Sullivan musical, by Paulina Harskamp. Fraser Valley Stage.	"Oklahoma!" Out of Aunt Eller's way, Charles Wiebe and Phil Aldridge! A fantastic production of the beloved musical. Fraser Valley Stage.	"Oliver" Oliver played by the golden voiced Avery Pauls, with the always helpful Mrs. Bedwin. "Murder! Murder! Specc-tacular Productions.
"The Wild West" More cutting edge drama at Pioneer Pacific with Naomi Hartley (as Hopalong Cassidy) Craig Chila,(Ranger Whitewater) Cheryl Chila,(Narrator) Flirty Gerty McNerdy, (the Oldest Sunday School Teacher in the West) and...Sheriff Bob Mudd.	"Nights on Broadway" One of the merry murderesses in "Cell Block Tango" Specc-tacular Productions.

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