February ~ March 2026 Production
"Legally Blonde"
Audition & Behind the scenes Information
Our Creative Team:
Creative Director Brady VanVaerenbergh
This is Brady's first production with PCOS, but he is not a stranger to the stage. Brady is a graduate of St Clair College’s Music Theatre Performance program. He currently works as the Guest Experience Manager at Dillon's Small Batch Distillers.
Garden City Productions: Director/Choreographer for You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Addams Family, Beautiful:The Carole King Musical and Choreographer for Beauty and the Beast . He also appeared as Matt in GCP's The Fantasticks.
Co-Choreographer at St Michael's College School: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Addam's Family, Beauty and the Beast, Oklahoma!
Select Performance Credits Include: Singer in Broadway Showstoppers (Oh Canada, Eh!), Alex in Whole World (Carousel Players), Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (Magnus Theatre), Mowgli in The Jungle Book Circus (China and Singapore), Jafar in Aladdin (Qatar), Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, Rolf in The Sound of Music,(The Lower Ossington Theatre), Paris/Gregory in Romeo and Juliet (Theatre by the Bay), Eugene, u/s Doody in Grease das Musical (German and European Tour), Drew in Mending Fences (Showboat Festival)
Choreographer Georgina Schultz
Georgia is excited to be working with PCOS for the first time! Her choreography credits include: co-choreographer for Beautiful: The Carol King Musical, assistant choreographer for The Addam’s Family, Beauty and the Beast, and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown with Garden City Productions. She and her husband, director Brady VanVaerenbergh also co-choreographed musicals at St. Michael’s College School, including The Drowsy Chaperone, The Addam's Family, Beauty and the Beast and Oklahoma!
Georgia sings and performs in theatre, audio drama and is an aerial artist specializing is aerial hoop and silks! Selected theatre credits include Kaa in The Jungle Book (Magnus Theatre), Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (The Rose Theatre), Princess Leora in The Balloon Tree (Solar Stage), Let The Sun Shine (KooGle Theatre). Select voiceover work: Lauren the Caterpillar and Belsie the Siamese Cat in the animated series Kol's World (Kol TV), Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden and Cinderella in Cinderella (both nominated for ATC Seneca awards for best leading actress), Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White in Snow White (Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre), all available on iTunes, audible and at the Toronto Public Library.
Musical Director Chelsea DiFranco
Chelsea is so excited to be working with PCOS for the first time. Previous music directing credits include: Garden City Productions (“Beautiful: A Carole King Musical”, “Legally Blonde”, and “The Addams Family Musical”; assistant music director for “Rent”), Firehall Theatre (“The Drowsy Chaperone”, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”), NewWerx Productions (“Country Superstars” and “A-Caroling We Go”), Oh Canada, Eh?! (“Out of This World”, “Broadway Superstars”), Yellow Door Theatre Project (“The Lion King Jr.”, “Aladdin Jr.”, “The Big 1-0”), DSBN (“Grease Jr.”, “Shrek, The Musical”, “Disney’s Camp Rock”). Some of her favourite performance credits include “Beautiful: A Carole King Musical” (Carole King), “Damn Yankees” (Lola), “Into The Woods” (Cinderella).
Set Designer & Co-Costume Designer Alix Sobschak
Legally Blonde the Musical will be Alix’s debut with Port Colborne Operatic Society. Alix is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on Set and Costumes but experience in lighting and sound design as well. Alix takes pride in being a well rounded designer with the capability of working in any department. Alix attended the Theatre Production program at Humber Polytechnic, formerly Humber College, after graduating from the Digital Photography program at Niagara College. Alix is also a retired Drag performer after 10+ years performing under the guise Raven S Klawe.
Select Credits include: The Woman in black- Production Designer (Firehall Theatre), Roberto Zucco- Assistant Set & Costume Designer (Buddies in Bad Times), Candida- Assistant Set Designer (Shaw Festival), RENT-Costume Designer (Garden City Productions), Assistant Set & Costume Designer- Gypsy, Assistant Set & Costume Designer- Prince Caspian (Shaw Festival), Various Productions- Costume Designer (Club Med Turks & Caicos), Legally Blonde- Costume & Co-Set Designer (Garden City Productions).
About Port Colborne Operatic Society
The oldest amateur theatre company in Niagara, Port Colborne Operatic Society has been presenting their annual musical production since 1945. Since it's humble beginnings on the stage at the old INCO (now Vale) hall, the society has called the 600 seat theatre at Lakeshore Catholic High School (formerly Lockview Park Secondary High School) home since it opened. The volunteer cast and crew devote countless hours to making the annual production an unforgettable experience for our audiences. Not just for fun, the Society is a serious supporter of charitable causes with all monies above production costs benefiting charities including the Port Colborne Festival of the Arts, Toronto Sick Kids Hospital, Santa’s Helpers, Arts scholarships for local High School students and more.
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