Show ifWN Louisa Pitre and her husband actor Joe Matheson now consider thomsolvos Now Yorkers We've sold everything in Canada and moved here” aha said Pitra was bom in Ontario ' V to dad is bilingual and hap mom till speaks only French Pitre didn’t start learning English until age 12 but her accent is perfect She studied to TVY MAY 6 WHEN Bom Jan ' V 1957 in Smooth Rock Falla Ontario Canada Married to Joo Mathaaon tinea 1999 1 the Tony Award nom--II I jnation? are released we all should be bet-fter informed about I I I just who Louise Pitre is and why in her very first season on The Great White Way she’s winning fans and selling tickets She’s the star of the hit musical Momma Mia! featuring Yl i Includes Stood Brothers 1988 Jacques Brel It Alive and Well and JJ Living in Parity the songs 1988 Rook 'N RoK 1988 Let MitdraUet 1989 The World Goet ’Round 1992 Piet 1992 Who’t Afraid of Virginia WoolfP 1994 The Roar of the becomes teacher at the - ' Greaiepaint Western Ontario In her senior year however she was bitten by the acting bug and it wae off to Toronto— the' country's of the 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA And Pitre is yet another very talented Canadian perfotmer working for the Yankee dollar much in the tradition of Jim Carrey Michael J Fox Mike Myers Clline Dion and Dan Aykroyd I was unable to get to Pitre's big theater town— to her stuff Pitre also try waitraaaad in "a little French restaurant she said “It's been arainbow” Pitre is an actress first and a the Smell of dressing room to do the the Crowd view so she trotted ova to my singer and dancer next On the 1994 Cabaret Toronto stage long before she 1995 Mamma Manhattan apartment delightMia! 2001 be a to fully willing good sport invaded the States she won the and not play prima donna We Dora —the Canadian equivalent met on a day with snow flurries of the Tony Award— for Best “How do you like the snow?” Actress three times One was 1 asked “Snow?This isn’t snow” for Putf playing die legendary said Pitre very much sounding and tragic French chanteuse the winter-savv-y Edith Piaf who broke hearts Canadian She's a tidy size 4 and was with her songs Was Piaf Pitre's wearing jeans a ski sweater and inspiration or idol? ?I looked lin- - up to her and to Judy Garland” a raincoat with a camel-ha- ir she said “I think you have to but Pitre does 45 turned ing just look not it though shehas pre- have tragic moments and to maturely silvered haic ENer think liave lived' to make people fed of dyeing it? ‘1 dyed it for yeare" and respond to you” - University of v inter- PHOTO BY EDDIE ADAMS STYUSTUZ DANIELS DBESS BY DAVID BODBKHJEZ: SCARF BY SYLVIA HEtSEL dwiawi Tks Meanwhile this dynamic per- former and her show are selling Csnsflu bzzter Lndnntn— where my love of French wine and cooking 7 began” she told me Pitre out the Wmter Garden Theatre said she’s a cook So night after nighL And in a gen- great her husband is erally tepid y&iMamma Mia! fatandJollyP "No we both is said to be the work out Ike grossing show on Broadway after The Producers Pitre has There’s a Ftwneh phrase a contract and says that mesne they’re interested in her ex- - to play the tending it and so is she le pitro Tm acomecHenne AndwassheanABBAfanas a kind a youngster? “No” said Pitre clown”ofPitre T was out dancing in discos pointed out I have but I didn't Have any of their "Don’t the perfect albums I was much more into last nameP” Earth Wind Fire and Blood Sweat & Tears” ( second-bigge- £&& iwculuJ 4 ccdifntrrlq st one-ye- ar tta lentil IBM— UsralrnhniL ' : 0 FACI M SUWON tOt 1001 MMOa NU8AZMI I |