Canadian Actors Equity: Barenaked Ladies

Evelyne Anderson Dept: Steven Page, formerly the lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, has agreed to play the male lead in the $10-million movie version of Strike! that could begin shooting as early as next year, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Evelyne Anderson was honoured by Canadian Actors Equity for her lifetime achievement in the performing arts and page centre with Strike! co-producers Novak left and Schur. The Toronto-based tenor is the first to sign on to appear in the long-simmering big-screen adaptation of the Danny Schur/Rick Chafe 2005 stage musical set against the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. Page, 42, will portray Mike Sokolowski, the Ukrainian immigrant Everyman who unwittingly finds himself at the epicentre of the labour strife. Enlarge Image (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.