He has created over thirty works for the company: among them, The Tin Soldier, Oliver Button is a Sissy, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Brandenburg Concerto #3. William Orlowski co-founded the National Tap Dance Company of Canada in 1977 and for 27 years has been it’s Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer. Cinders 1996 and tap choreographer and featured performer Lady, Be Good! 1994. His choreography was seen in the 1999-2000 season with She Loves Me!, the smash hit Gershwin musical A Foggy Day 1998-99, The Chocolate Soldier 1997, choreographer and featured performer Mr. He returns for his seventh season in 2001 as choreographer for the Noel Coward musical Shadow Play. William Orlowski has won critical acclaim for his work at the Shaw Festival. He created special choreography for Ginger Rogers in the television series The Palace Presents hosted by Jack Jones. He has also appeared on television in such acclaimed works as the CBC’s award-winning documentary, Dance Makes Waves, and All That Bach which was nominated for an Emmy award.

He is featured in a tap dance short aired on TVO and was seen on CBC in Cynthia! as special guest and tap choreographer. With nostalgic black-and-white photos from the era throughout, this treasure of a book offers an authentic, poignant glimpse into one family's struggle to stay together when the world around them was falling apart.William Orlowski is one of the greatest tap dancers Canada has ever produced, not to mention an award-winning choreographer! Orlowski has won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Choreography in a Musical Dames at Sea, That Scatterbrain Booky and was assistant choreographer for the Paramount Pictures feature film, Stepping Out, starring Liza Minnelli. And soon, soon, she knows her parents will stop fighting, her hunger pangs will subside, and her family will laugh again. Yes, life is full of setbacks.īut through the eyes of Booky Thomson the world has an energetic, rosy tinge: there are street games to play at night with the neighbourhood kids butter and white sugar sandwiches important talks with her Grandpa riding the streetcar to her Aunt Susan's nut and candy shop and an oh-so-special afternoon at the talking picture show. Booky's father can't find work her mother is expecting another baby the bailiff keeps threatening to evict the family from their home and her older brother Arthur is terribly annoying. It's almost 1933 and the Great Depression has hit the east end of Toronto. Scatterbrained, incorrigible and irrepressible - Booky will win you over in this Canadian classic set in Depression-era Toronto.

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