Curtain comes down on Gotta Sing Gotta Dance - Footnotes will workshop their future

By Gazette Staff

June 22nd, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

They have been doing it for more than 25 years, and they want to continue doing it – and at the same time adjust to changing times and circumstances. Every year Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance put on two shows that would always come real close to selling out.…

They have been doing it for more than 25 years, and they want to continue doing it – and at the same time adjust to changing times and circumstances.

Every year Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance puts on a show at the Performing Arts Centre that is a Matinee Performance and an Evening show.  There was a time when it was always a sold out event.

The end of a Great program. Tickets are still available

The annual Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance has, in the past, filled the stage at the Performing Arts Centre

While attendance is still strong Sue Pritchard, President of the organization that pulls it all together said recently that attendance is falling.

“We began to see it during Covid and it didn’t recover the way we thought it would.

“So we are holding two workshops to do a deep dive into what we have been doing, what we should be doing and looking at who we are serving.”

The annual performances are not just a local event.  Tour buses from Kitchener arrive most years. “We draw a considerable audience from Hamilton, and a significant number of people from Toronto make the trip.

In the meantime, the final performance of Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance as we have known it will take place on June 23rd.

Up until now, the Footnotes have been seen as an “over 50  demographic,” explains Pritchard.  We want to change that to an “18 and up” and we want to be more than an annual performance organization.  Membership to the Footnotes is an annual $40 and $60 for a family.

While preparing for the annual event takes a lot of time there are social events sprinkled throughout the year.

There are classes in different types of dancing.  “We have a class that teaches people how to do tap dancing while sitting in a chair” said Pritchard.

There is dancer on the stage this year who is 89.