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(Posted
4:30 p.m., Feb. 21)
Former Canadian Idol contestants post 8-song EP on YouTube
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online
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 Steffi
Didomenicantonio as Sally Bowles in the recent
Manitoba Theatre Centre production of 'Caberet'.
Photo supplied
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Former
Canadian Idol contestants Steffi D and Chad Doucette have
posted an 8-song EP on YouTube that is a result of a "side
project" they began working on several years ago.
The
two singers became friends on Season 4 of the Canadian
version of the popular American reality show in 2006.
Steffi
D, whose full name is Steffi Didomenicantonio, was the
fifth contestant to get voted off the show, while Doucette
was shown the door a week later.
The
pair began collaborating a couple of years afterwards
and the result can be found at www.youtube.com.
The EP, entitled "Good Together", contains an
eclectic mix of songs with titles like Meat and Potatoes,
Sitting in a Tree, Love Me, and I Wanna Get You Drunk.
Since
her experience on Canadian Idol, Steffi has pursued a
career in cinema and musical theatre. The Orléans
native, who now lives in Toronto, played Ilse in the national
touring production of the Broadway hit "Spring Awakening",
and Bethany in the horror musical, "Stage Fright".
In
the past year Steffi has appeared in three different productions
in Toronto, Cambridge and Sudbury where she played Jamet
Weiss in the Sudbury Theatre Centre production of "The
Rocky Horror Picture Show" last fall.
Her
most recent work was in the Manitoba Theatre Centre's
production of "Caberet" in which she played
Sally Bowles, a role made famous by Steffi lookalike Liza
Minelli.
(This
story was made possible thanks to the generous support of
our local business partners.)
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