Synposis

June is just 11 years old when she sees a stripper for the first time. Sure, it's only Nikki, a character on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless, spinning around a pole but she is immediately bewitched, and at that moment has a life-changing epiphany - she too wants to be a stripper! On a soap opera!

Years later, bored at her job as a bank teller and buoyed by $300 won at a local strip club's amateur night, she decides to dance full-time to save enough for drama school. After taking the stage name April, however, she's shocked to discover that stripping isn't about what happens onstage at all. In fact, the real money is made performing private dances in the VIP lounge, and here April faces numerous hurdles from dealing with the bizarre requests of customers to navigating confusing lap-dance laws to the wrath of a veteran stripper named Poison. More than losing customers to her rivals, however, April's biggest obstacle is losing herself.

Alternating between lessons from the now older and wiser Miss April Day (on such matters as choosing a stage name, dealing with regulars, and where do strippers go when they die) and flashbacks to pivotal moments in June/April's career, Miss April Day's School for Burgeoning Young Strippers is a surprising, hysterical, and at times poignant look at what it's really like to be a exotic dancer in the era of lap-dancing.

Featuring original songs (composed to royalty-free music), a hilarious reworking of "My Favorite Things," a children's story ("The Dance in the Lap"), choreography by Elizabeth Dawn Snell (Artists' Play Studio), and a parody of a famous Canadian public service announcement, Miss April Day's School for Burgeoning Young Strippers takes the painful, bizarre, and historical aspects of exotic dancing and turns them into entertaining and enlightening vignettes.

Loosely based on the true experiences of playwright, performer and "retired" seven-year exotic dancer, June Morrow, Miss April Day's School for Burgeoning Young Strippers strips away the myths about exotic dancers and exposes it all. You'll never look at a lap-dance the same way again!

Coming summer 2007 to the Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver fringe festivals

Warning: mature content, language, not for children

For more information contact junemorrow @ rogers.com.