Desc: Stock Characters: The Cooking Show: Directed by Elaine Carol. With Elaine Carol, Karine Larue, Dakota Prince, Herb Varley. Get in touch with your inner food. Glee with grit. Lady Gaga meets Mad Hot Ballroom. Tough Indigenous and immigrant youth of color struggle in a music theater/dance boot camp run by a benevolent drill sergeant. MISCELLANEOUS Productions' professional artists collaborate with East Vancouver at-risk youth, working diligently to create and present a hip hop musical satirizing the Japanese Iron Chef television show. Just as all looks promising, the main funding for the play falls through and Dakota, a 15-year-old Indigenous youth performer, disappears. MISCELLANEOUS Productions struggles to replace the funding despite opposition from politicians that deny such work to be a priority. Meanwhile, the young performers strive to achieve some meaning and value in their lives. Will they make it to opening night?