A Coquitlam triple threat returns to Ontario next month to star in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
Jennifer Gillis, a Gleneagle secondary graduate, plays Ariel in the Port Hope production from Aug. 14 to Sept. 9, at the Capitol Theatre, with Colin Sheen as Prince Eric and Kent Sheridan as King Triton.
Gillis, who’s on the musical theatre faculty at Place des Arts for the Coquitlam arts facility’s 2018-’19 season, is best known for the CBC-TV reality show Over the Rainbow — a national competition that saw her perform before Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth for a chance to be cast as Dorothy Gale in Webber’s Toronto stage musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.
She placed seventh.
Since then, the 22-year-old has sung the national anthem on Parliament Hill on Canada Day in 2013, and appeared as Maria for Theatre Under the Stars’ West Side Story, Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical for Broken Wing Theatre and Miss Dorothy Brown in Throughly Modern Millie for Exit 22.
Gillis is a Capilano University musical theatre program graduate.
