On the 22nd January a press conference was held in order to launch to the
general public, as an official event of the 400th anniversary of the
City of Quebec, the “Musical Dina”,
both words and music by Mr Louis-Martin Lanthier.
The announcement was made with the words “It's official, Dina Bélanger
will be the star of a musical play for the 400th Festival. It was on
the occasion of the 49th International Eucharistic Congress that the
play would be first presented, from the 12th to the 22nd
of June 2008, to be later repeated from the 25th September to the 5th
October, all in the Dina Bélanger Hall of the Jesus and Mary College of
Sillery.
The producer, Bruno Marquis, was responsible for the completion of the
project, which included twenty or more singers and actors, accompanied by an
orchestra of ten members and with Myriam
Brousseau in the role of Dina Bélanger”.
The Dress Rehearsal of the musical play Dina took place on the 12th
June in the presence of His Emminence
Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Bishops Mgr. Maurice Couture and Mgr. Pierre
André Fournier, as well as dozens of priests, the civil authorities and a large
audience.
The opening night was on the 14th! The play was performed to
capacity audiences for a total of 15 performances, to the enthusiastic applause
of about 6000 delighted spectators :
adults – young people – religious – seminarians – priests - bishops 
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