NEW!!! on July 19/10 @8:00pm

Zappacosta and Janet are appearing together

for one night only at The Guild Theatre in PEI

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CabaRomantico

A Concert Cabaret featuring the music of Zappacosta and starring Alfie Zappacosta

and Janet MacEwen

CabaRomantico

Do you believe in love at first sight? Have you ever waited by the phone, or dialed and hung up, or gone back to the last place you saw your lover ... just in case? Have you ever loved and lost; or loved and fought to win only to discover that there was nothing wrong in the first place? Can old lovers become friends? Can old friends become lovers? Do you believe that love and laughter make even the worst of times much, much better? Have you ever lain awake at night wondering why falling in love is so easy, while staying in love can be so hard.

Delphi Productions in association with Janet MacEwen and Alfie Zappacosta is pleased to present

the Canadian premiere of CabaRomantico -

an intimate Concert Cabaret written, conceived by and starring Janet MacEwen and Alfie Zappacosta and featuring passionate selections from Zappacosta's impressive song catalogue. 

The Papermill Theatre is one of the more underrated small theatres in Toronto, bearing a resemblance to the still missed Artword Theatre which closed down a few years back in downtown Toronto to make way for a condo development. No such nefarious plans are in store for the Papermill Theatre, nestled as it does in a valley in Todmorden Mills in central Toronto. Part of the Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre, the only deterrent for audiences is that the theatre is somewhat off the beaten track on winding Pottery Road and a little hard to find at night.
It recently played host for a three-night Concert Cabaret called CabaRomantico, a show which will be touring various locales in Ontario this year with its two talented stars, Alfie Zappacosta and Janet MacEwen. Zappacosta, a guitarist, songwriter and singer, a Juno and an American Music Award winner, has a large fan base, many of whom were in the audience for his three night stand with the sexy Janet MacEwan, who has been featured in and toured with shows like Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia and Anne of Green Gables.
Zappacosta has had a long and successful career as a vocalist and song writer then left his pop stardom behind in the mid 1990's to pursue a more intimate style of writing and performing. The charismatic Zappacosta is at the top of his form with the jazz and pop infused CabaRomantico which features 15 of his own songs, many of which can be heard on his various CDs. But to see them brought to life with Zappacosta and MacEwen alternately crooning ( in the best sense of the word) and belting out numbers The Dance is Over and Passion is a lot of heat on a chilly winter's evening.

The style is relaxed, the mood is intimate, a little more supper club than cabaret, though there is somewhat of a theme which fits the bill for this cabaret romantico."Falling in love is so easy" reads the introduction to the show, "while staying in love can be so hard." There's nothing terribly original in that - just about every cabaret that's come along in the last 25 years or so is about contemporary relationships. And in fact Zappacosta and MacEwen could sing the phone book and make it sound good, but romance is decidedly in the air with the two. MacEwan relates to Zappacosta in the duets like a cat with the cream; on her own she shares some friendly space with master accordionist/violist Claudio Vena who can make his instruments sound as if the music is wafting from a favorite Hungarian cafe.
Backed by a fine four piece band, there is sometimes a little too much music in the air for such a small theatre but Zappacosta and MacEwen are great song stylists and there's never any lack of rapport between you and the night and the music. Like a fine brandy, CabaRomantico sends you back out into the night air with a nice glow.

(Reviewed by Jeniva Berger for Scene Changes.comJan. 29/10)

Janet's debut CD: BACK WHERE I BELONGnominated in 3 categories in the 2010 Music PEI Awards

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BACK WHERE I BELONG

Official CD Release - January 16, 2009

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BACK WHERE I BELONG

CD now available for retail purchase in

Toronto and Charlottetown  and online @ www.CDbaby.com/cd/janetmacewen

Juno and American Music Award winning singer/songwriter/actor/musician Alfie Zappacosta, music produced this elegant smooth jazz CD which was recorded @ Wellesley Sound in Toronto, RandB Productions in Halifax N.S., and Louis Sedmak Studios in Edmonton AB. BACK WHERE I BELONG was mastered at MetalWorks

Printing and duplication by Music Manufacturing Services. Website and CD cover design by Access Studio.

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The Charlottetown Festival and

DanCap Productions in Toronto presented:

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

in Toronto - The Elgin Theatre May 07- 24/09

Janet played Marilla Cuthbert* in this long awaited co-production of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.  

*Janet was awarded the People's Choice TWISI Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Marilla Cuthbert in The Elgin Theatre Toronto run of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.     

Charlottetown Festival 2006 - 2009:
Janet enjoyed 4 consecutive seasons in the demanding role of Marilla Cuthbert in ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - the longest running musical in Canada.

Late Night @ Mavor's 2006-2009: Janet hosted post-show Saturday night cabaret performances @Mavor's Restaurant where the Festival stars could be seen in a different light as they belted it out with the Late Night Band.

2009 PEI JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL : Janet joined a select group of 'Festival All Stars' including Terry Hatty and Joey Kitson, in a special Sunday afternoon Jazz and Blues Festival closing performance in the Festival's main tent on Queen Street.

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CD - duet release: Frank MacKay's 2008 Nova Scotia Music Award nominated CD BELIEVE IT OR NOT features their co-written duet, "One True Love" .

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CD single release: Janet recorded and released David Warrack's ballad "My Prince Edward Island" as a CD single.

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