What are you doing on New Year's Eve? Times Colonist, Page D6, New Year's Eve looms. Do you envision donning a tux (or gown), hiring a shiny Cadillac Escalade and doing the funky chicken at some upscale soiree? Or will it be sipping cheapo Spanish "champagne" as you delight in the ineffable attractions of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2006? We asked local notables in the arts and entertainment scene what they were planning for La Grande Nuit. |
Britt Small (actor, director, neo-vaudevillian): Small has yet to make big plans for New Year's. She does recall a memorable celebration several years ago, however. That New Year's Eve, she and pals attended a house party where a game of charades transmogrified into a sort of talent show. Actor Celine Stubel then taught everyone at the bash the choreography to a dance number from Chicago. The out-of-control party overflowed onto the street, then to Swan's pub, where the celebrants performed the dance for bewildered patrons. "Now that I think about it, I imagine the seeds of [improv company] Atomic Vaudeville became embedded that night, and the tipsy tawdry talent family was born," says Small. |