Nick Georges, Chris Orros,
John Georgopoulos |
Christine
Calfous and
Athena Matsoukis |
Jimmy
Santis |
MY
BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
Greek Orthodox Party
For Premiere of TV Series
Story
by Roger Webster
Photos by Chris Orros
 HE
Fellowship of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral threw
their own Big Fat Greek Wedding Party. The smashing event was in
honor of Nia Nardalos, the release of the tape and DVD of My
Big Fat Greek Wedding and the premiere of her TV series.
Jimmy
Santis and Renée
Panagos Felice, otherwise known as
Los Super Greeks, performed hilarious comedy sketches. They
did a Sonny and Cher parody with their song You’re
Not Greek Babe. Cathie
Julius choreographed and starred in a dance routine with Christine
Calfous, Chris
Kavasilas, Jim
Kardiasmenos, Andre Herzegovitch
and Athena Matsoukis.
George
Zapantis and Calliope
Petris won the Greek Idol singing contest with a spontaneous
duet of the standard Feelings.
There
was a delicious Mezedakia buffet provided by Zenon restaurant. The
hit film was playing in the screening room and, of course, there
was a bottle of Windex on every table in case anyone got hurt.
Nick
Kanellopoulos
and his company Dash of Class added special lighting effects and
spun the music. That brought such guests as
Dean Sirigos, Lilly Georgopoulis, Liz Psaros, Demitrios
Brilis, Vivian Adamakos, Constantine Morphopoulos, Liz Economou,
Jason Grant, Galen Gaarder, Christopher and Kiki Mose, Manthos
Kallios, Tina Rosengarten, Tim Papyianni, Athena Kotsinos, Ely
Papadeas, Melody Kratsios, Florence Givelis, Maria and Caroline
Lyrist, Theano Muzithris, and Andy Yiannakos to their
feet.
Kudos
to the team that put it all together including Andrea Pappas,
Nick Georges, Chris Orros, Steve Kalcanides, Helene Savvides, John
Georgopoulos, Sophia Brilis and Anthony Vlahos. |
