CP Salon
MEDIA RELEASE


Toronto— From Good Hair Day Productions - a music driven theatre company that invites you to hear vocal music as you've never heard it before... CP Salon.

 Get under the skin and into the heart of disability through rhythm n' blues with singer Kazumi Tsuruoka and pianist Sageev Oore.  An intimate rediscovery of well known songs from a rarely heard perspective set in the living room of director and co-creator Fides Krucker.  It's about love.  It's about cerebral palsy.  It's about a man with a disability.

 Expressive arts facilitation: Roberto Nascimento; Subtle choreography: Kathleen Rea; Cozy environment:  Laird Macdonald.  Preview February 18th at 8pm - tickets $15.  Opening February 19th, 20 & 21 at 8 p.m. & Feb. 22 matinee at 2 p.m.- all tickets $20.  Location: 312 Sackville St. (2 blocks south of Carlton and one east of Parliament).  Please note that there is limited seating of 20 people per show plus space for 2 wheelchairs.  Tickets will be available at the door on a cash basis only.  Reserve your tickets early by calling 416-927-1534. Ticket confirmation will be verified by phone and if there are seats available walk-ups are welcome.
 
In 2002 Good Hair Day Productions produced Fides Krucker’s one-woman show “The girl with no door on her mouth” which was nominated for 3 Dora awards and won two in the lighting and set design categories. Fides Krucker and Sageev Oore then went on to stage the cabaret, “A little rain never hurt no one” which was nominated for a Dora for best music and was cited by NOW Magazine as one of the top 10 shows for 2002.

Kazumi Tsuruoka is a charismatic performer and political activist who has toured the Toronto school system speaking about disability rights through the prism of his own experience with Cerebral Palsy. In 1999 he became a core member of the Toronto Theatre Alliance's DIS THIS! Artists Group and has since trained in movement, voice and theatre performance through the Group's workshops. He is co-creator of Samson's Hair, a semi-autobiographical work-in-progress; performed in E(merge)ncy at SummerWorks 2000; presented at the KickstART Festival of Disability Arts in Vancouver, 2001, and at the Ryerson's Institute of Disability Studies' Culture Cauldron. He remains an active member and advisor to the TTA's Picasso Project.

Sageev Oore is an award-winning concert pianist, improviser, and Dora-nominated composer. He has performed piano concerti with symphony orchestras, free improvisation with saxophone monster Dani Oore and Gemini-award winning composer and drummer Dave Clark, alt. rock with Tragically Hip front man Gord Downie, Eastern-European fusion with trumpeter/composer/bandleader David Buchbinder and live soundtracks to the silent films of Charlie Chaplin. Dr. Oore is also a computer science professor and researcher specializing in interactive graphics and animation.

Fides Krucker is one of Canada’s premiere performers of contemporary vocal music. She has helped to create numerous operas and interdisciplinary works and has just returned from Italy where she performed Maurizio Squillante’s cyborg opera “The Wings of Daedalus” for which she co-composed her vocal music. Currently she is co-directing a new URGE work about the grade7/8 girl experience for Theatre Direct Canada. In 2002 she was named by NOW Magazine as one of the top 10 Theatre Artists in Toronto for the 3 shows that she produced, co-created and performed in that season.  Fides will not be singing in CP Salon but has co-written and is music director for the show.

Tickets are available at the door or in advance by calling the Reservation Ticket Line 416.927.1534.  For more information about Good Hair Day Productions or Fides Krucker, contact:  Fides Krucker Artistic Producer t: 416.927.1534 f: 416.927.0152  e: fides@fideskrucker.com  OR visit Good Hair Day Productions’ website:  www.fideskrucker.com