The curtain closes on Cloud 9 (photo: Cylla von Tiedemann)

While it’s hard to believe that we’ll never again hear David Jansen demanding “I WANT MY BEADS!!” in young Cathy’s suddenly husky baritone, CLOUD 9 has come to a close, with the Panasonic soon becoming home to a certain lesbian Jewish Wiccan wedding.

Meanwhile, the CLOUD 9 cast is already busy with new projects. Megan Follows has just begun a workshop of Necessary Angel’s Andromache with Scottish director Graham McLaren. Ben Carlson is off to Stratford where he’ll be appearing as Leontes in The Winter’s Tale and as Touchstone in As You Like It. Yanna McIntosh will be joining Ben in The Winter’s Tale as Hermione, as will be appearing in Dangerous Liaisons as well. And Evan Buliung is the third CLOUD 9 cast member setting up camp in Stratford for the summer; he’ll be portraying Mac in George F. Walker’s King of Thieves.

Director Alisa Palmer, on the other hand, will be spending her time down the road in Niagara-on-the-Lake. She’ll be directing The Women at the Shaw Festival.

Blair Williams is spending the next few months further west – he’s already in rehearsal for Theatre Calgary’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. And Ann-Marie MacDonald is busy at the CBC. Not only is she returning as host of Doc Zone, starting March 8^th her novel Fall on Your Knees will go mano-a-mano with four other Canadian classics as part of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads.

As for David Jansen’s Cathy… well she’s looking forward to starting Grade 1.