Saguenay has become the little Broadway of Quebec (Montreal Gazette)

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by PETER LENEY , Freelance

Playing in the Jonquière district of Saguenay, a Québec Issime production presents about 20 singers, dancers and musicians and 400 costumes.

In Chicoutimi district, a dance show called Ecce Mundo is even larger, with 40 dancers and acrobats and 700 costumes in a review of 2,000 years of dance history. In La Baie district, La Nouvelle Fabuleuse is a revised version of a long-running theatrical treatment of local history with a cast of 200.

Much of Saguenay's show talent has learned the trade locally. The region has several dance schools, including Les Farandoles that supplies talent to Ecce Mundo, a music conservatory and a music program at the Collège d'Alma. Québec Issime's Villeneuve said 85 per cent of the performers in her show are locally trained.

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