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CONTENTS Theatre Staff.......................................................................................................... 2 Whitney Morse on The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center........................ 3 BOOM Production............................................................................................... 8 Song List..........................................................................................................9-10 Biographies....................................................................................................11-13 Writer’s Notes...................................................................................................... 14 Production History............................................................................................. 14 Continue the Experience..................................................................................... 15 Acknowledgments............................................................................................... 15 Coming Soon.................................................................................................16-21

THEATRE STAFF Executive Director........................................................................... Jason Goedken Artistic Director............................................................................. Whitney Morse Associate Artistic Director.................................................................. Angel Creeks Director of Operations.......................................................................... Jon Cronin Director of People, Projects & Culture................................................Leslie Becker Production Manager........................................................................ Mike Giovinco Booking Manager................................................................................. Sierra Weiss Senior Business Manager....................................................................Sean Graham Lighting Supervisor.......................................................................... Ally Southgate Associate Lighting Supervisor........................................................... Dio Raquel Jr. Senior Production Coordinator...............................................................Madi Carr Audio Visual Director............................................................................Luke Bezio Production Coordinator................................................................. Nichole Pollack Production Manager................................................................Mark Kirschenbaum House Manager..................................................................................... Alec Speers Assistant House Manager............................................................ Savannah Wagner Director of Ticketing & Customer Relations................................Yasmeen Stogden Marketing Director...................................................................... Monica Berdecio Ad Sales...................................................... marketing@significantproductions.org

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Dear Patron of the Arts, Welcome to The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center!

Much like the building’s namesake, my grandmother, Sharon L. Morse, we love all varieties of the performing arts here. It is in her memory that I, along with my amazing team of artists and arts administrators, strive to bring many different types of the highest quality entertainment here to The Sharon.

Since opening in 2015, we have strived to establish your trust, that a show at The Sharon is a show worth seeing. Perhaps you find yourself here today to see a concert of one of your favorite musicians, or to take in the national tour of a Broadway show. Either way, we encourage you to consider trying out a new show that perhaps you haven’t heard of before, knowing that it has been intentionally curated by our team.

We welcome you to The Sharon: a place for you to see an old favorite, but also a place to discover your new favorite. I sincerely hope you enjoy the show today, and I look forward to seeing you here again soon!

See You at The Sharon,

Whitney Morse Artistic Director

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ART. ARTISTS. AUDIENCE. SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTIONS (SIGPRO) is a Non-Profit arts organization that operates The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center (The Sharon) & The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol (The Studio).

OUR MISSION; SigPro cultivates a diverse collaborative community with a focus on artists' well-being that strives to provoke thought and spark conversation through high quality performing arts.

OUR TEAM MEMBERS We believe that fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace is essential for the creation of exceptional art. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion extends to our employees. This ensures every individual who contributes to our productions feels valued and empowered. We actively promote a workplace culture that embraces differences and encourages collaboration among our diverse team of artists, technicians, administrators, and volunteers.

Thank You

FOR SUPPORTING SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTIONS In order of contributions: MULTI-DONORS Mary Homko

Liza Diana Walters

Donna Taylor

Donna Silver

Russell Jones

Jim Ward

INDIVIDUAL DONORS Sarah Lindmeier

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Edward & Gale Labuda

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Private Donor

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John Van Dyke Diann Sherwin Brian Grode IN HONOR OF Peg Fiore

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Jason Goedken & Whitney Morse

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BOOM PRODUCTION Produced by Kidoons and WYRD Productions, in association with The 20K Collective RICK MILLER: Writer / Director / Performer* JEFF LORD: Executive Producer CRAIG FRANCIS: Stage Manager* RICK MILLER: Production Manager AIDAN WARE: Technical Director DAVID LECLERC: Projection Designer BRUNO MATTE: Lighting Designer CREIGHTON DOANE: Composer / Sound Designer YANNIK LARIVEE: Set / Costume / Props Designer RAVI JAIN: Directing Consultant ARDON BESS: Laurence Davis, on video* LOGOGRAPH: Graphic Design / Multimedia / Marketing CRAIG FRANCIS: Original illustrations USA / MEXICO BOOKING AGENT: Robin Klinger Entertainment, New York RobinKlingerEntertainment.com CANADA BOOKING AGENT: Rick Miller INT’L BOOKING AGENT: Menno Plukker Theatre Agent (with Isaïe Richard and Magdalena Marszalek) MUSIC LICENSING: Michael Perlmutter (Instinct) OFFICIAL SITE: boomtheshow.com PODCAST SITE: xingthegap.com SOCIAL FB/TW/IG: @kidoons, @rickmilleractor, @BoomTheShow *WYRD Productions engages under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

The show runs approximately 100 minutes, plus 1 intermission

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SONG LIST SPOILER ALERT! If you’d like to be surprised by the content of the show, please skip over this section.

In alphabetical order.

ALL MY LOVING (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) SONY/ATV Songs BLUE MOON (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart) SONY/ATV Songs BOBBY SOX TO STOCKINGS (Richard Di Cicco, Russell Faith, Clarence Way Kehner) UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP. CIRCLE GAME (Joni Mitchell) SONY/ATV Songs COLD COLD HEART (Hank Williams) SONY/ATV Songs CRYING, WAITING, HOPING (Buddy Holly) Peermusic Canada Inc. EVE OF DESTRUCTION (P. F. Sloan) UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP. THE FAT MAN (David Bartholomew, Antoine Domino) SONY/ATV Songs FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS (William Best, Deek Watson SONGS OF UNIVERSAL, INC. 352-751-7799

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE (Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer) SONY/ATV Songs and Warner Chappell Music HOUND DOG (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) SONY/ATV Songs and Warner Chappell Music I WANNA BE YOUR MAN (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Round Hill Music LP and Gil Music Corp c/o Red Brick Music Publishing I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER (Sylvester Stewart) SONY/ATV Songs THE LOCO MOTION (Gerald Goffin, Carole King) SONY/ATV Songs MAGIC CARPET RIDE John Kay, Rushton John Moreve SONGS OF UNIVERSAL, INC. MY GENERATION (Pete Townshend) Devon Music, Inc. PIECE OF MY HEART (Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Russel) Sloopy II Music and SONY/ATV Songs and Warner Chappell Music

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SONG LIST RELEASE ME (Eddie Miller, James William Pebworth, Robert Gene Yount) Roschelle Publishing Co. And SONY/ ATV Songs

TUTTI FRUTTI (Dorothy La Bostrie, Joe Lubin, Richard Penninman) SONY/ATV Songs and Warner Chappell Music

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK (Max Freedman, James Myers) SONY/ATV & Measureless Publishing

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) SONY/ATV Songs

SPACE ODDITY (David Bowie) Essex Music International, Inc. TENNESSEE WALTZ (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) SONY/ATV Songs TILL THE END OF TIME (Buddy Kaye, Ted Mossman) SONY/ATV Songs and Warner Chappell Music

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YOUNG BLOOD (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) SONY/ATV Songs YOUR CHEATING HEART (Hank Williams) SONY/ATV Songs

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BIOGRAPHIES RICK MILLER: Writer / Director / Performer / Production Manager Rick Miller is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer / director / actor / musician / educator who has performed in five languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. He has created and toured solo shows such as the BOOM Trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ), MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; and family shows with Craig Francis and Kidoons, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, The Dragon’s Trilogy, and on the film Possible Worlds. Current projects in development include MONEY, HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales, and The Time Machine. Rick hosts an intergenerational podcast called Xing The Gap, and sometimes teaches an interdisciplinary class at the University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity. He lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist. www.rickmiller.ca JEFF LORD: Executive Producer Jeff has a lifelong passion and vision for combining art and technology to develop original works. His projects are inspired by a love of storytelling and innovation.

Through Kidoons theatrical productions, WYRD theatrical productions, and digital works on the Kidoons Network, Jeff’s artist collaborators help organizations to tell their stories onstage and online. He works with Not-for-Profit and corporate clients across Canada and the United States with a vision to inspire and empower all generations. His work on the BOOM trilogy is dedicated to his mother, Evelyn Lord.

CRAIG FRANCIS: Stage Manager / Dramaturg Craig Francis (he/him) is a writer, director, illustrator, and multidisciplinary creator. His shows have toured Canada and the US, including Off-Broadway in 2016 and 2019. A founding member of The 20K Collective, Craig co-created Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Game of Clones, Jungle Book, and HANS: My Life In Fairy Tales with Rick Miller; and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book with Miller and Paul Van Dyck. He’s a producer, dramaturg, and stage manager for Miller’s solo trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ) in Canada, US, France, and Taiwan. Craig co-directed a workshop of new musical Blocked (TheaterWorksUSA), and mentors emerging artists, including co-authoring Redwood Avenue with Andrea Friesen. New projects include CYNIC and The Time Machine. Craig is a speaker on LGBTQA2S+ issues. He performed improv comedy with Just For Laughs, CBC, CTV and Showtime. Videos he co-created with Kidoons and not-for-profit organizations are in museums in six provinces.

Craig lives in Montréal, has illustrated books, and voiced animated series.

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BIOGRAPHIES AIDAN WARE: Technical Director Aidan Ware hails from Calgary, Alberta, and is a graduate of the BFA Technical Theatre program at the University of Alberta. Upon completing an 18-month lighting practicum program at the Banff Centre, Aidan moved to Toronto where his creativity and passion for bringing new technologies to live performance have led him to work with various creative houses including Solotech, Moment Factory, TIFA, and TOlive. He was the Assistant Technical Director at Canadian Stage and Director of Production for Fall for Dance North for multiple seasons. He is currently part of a team designing a new state-of-the-art space for the BMO lab at the University of Toronto, focusing on emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in performance. He continues to freelance as a Technical Director and Lighting Designer in Toronto. Other credits with Kidoons and WYRD Productions include BOOM X (TD / Associate Lighting Designer), BOOM YZ (TD/LD), HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales (TD/LD), and upcoming projects.

DAVID LECLERC: Projection Designer David Leclerc is a motion graphic designer based in Quebec City. He has worked on productions with Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina, including The Andersen Project, Lipsynch, The Blue Dragon, La Tempête, Playing Cards SPADES and HEARTS and the opera The Tempest (presented at the MET). His works include Je Pense à Yu directed by Marie Gignac, Nick Dear’s Frankenstein directed by Jean Leclerc, Bernstein’s Candide directed by Sam Brown (L’Opéra National de Lorraine), Vania

by Marie Gignac, and Rick Miller’s BOOM. Since 2003 he’s collaborated on the production of the prestigious Forces AVENIR galas that recognize, honour and promote student involvement at all academic levels. studiobionic.com BRUNO MATTE: Lighting Designer Born and raised in Quebec City, Bruno graduated from Cegep Limoilou in 2005 in audiovisual design. He began his career as a lighting designer for concerts, from Richard Séguin to Charlotte Cardin to Cypress Hill to Daniel Lanois. To expand his creative research, Bruno worked on several bold theatre productions: with Ex Machina and Kidoons, he found ways to seamlessly integrate lighting with video under rigorous technical constraints. He has worked with La Rotonde choreographers on dance productions such as Alan Lake’s Les Caveaux. Bruno designs for the circus with Flip Fabrique to Machine de Cirque, a natural fulfillment of his experience in music, theatre and movement.

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BIOGRAPHIES CREIGHTON DOANE: Composer / Sound Designer Composition for theatre includes The 39 Steps, A Few Good Men (Theatre Aquarius), Frost Nixon (Canadian Stage), Tuesdays with Morrie (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company), Salt-Water Moon, Jitters, The Norman Conquests (SOULPEPPER), The Importance of Being Earnest (NAC), David Widdicombe’s Science Fiction (the play) and Rick Miller’s BOOM and BOOM X. YANNIK LARIVÉE: Set / Costume / Props Designer Originally from Montreal, Yannik Larivée trained at the National Theatre school of Canada and at Central Saint-Martins in London. Select credits include: Die Fledermaus at Nurenberg Staatstheater; Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail for the Opera National du Rhin, France; Barbe-Bleue for Opera Zuid in the Netherlands; Watch Her, Wolf ’s Court and Monument for the National Ballet of Canada; One of Three for American Ballet Theater, Lincoln Centre; Dreamland for the Royal Swedish Ballet; Castle Nowhere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Dangerous Liaisons, The Odd Couple, Houdini, Amadeus (Critics Circle Award); and Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana. yanniklarivee.com RAVI JAIN: Directing Consultant The founding Artistic Director of Why Not Theatre, Ravi has established himself with his inventive productions, international collaborations and innovative producing models. Select credits include A Brimful of Asha, Fault Lines, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Soulpepper), Alanna Mitchell’s Sea Sick (co-directed with Franco Boni, Theatre Centre), Lisa Codrington’s The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God and Sarena Parmar’s The Orchard After Chekhov (Shaw Festival), SaltWater Moon (Factory Theatre), Prince Hamlet (Why Not Theatre). He is adapting The Mahabharata with Why Not Theatre and the Shaw Festival.

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WRITER’S NOTES “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

Aldous Huxley (1959) I’m a storyteller, not a historian. Historical facts only interest me inasmuch as they help tell a story, for stories are how we learn from our mistakes – and from each other.

BOOM, Part 1 of a trilogy, is a collage of stories that I’ve documented about the generation that immediately preceded me: stories of the famous and the not-sofamous; stories of the living and the no-longer-living. Each story in itself might be worthy of a full play, but in this case I’ve chosen to paint them into a larger picture. My hope is that by spiraling through 25 tumultuous years (1945 to 1969), we can all gain perspective not only on who we were, but who we are now and where we’re going.

Think of BOOM as a living, breathing time capsule. It starts with a ‘boom’, it ends with a ‘boom’. I hope it stirs up your own stories, so that we can share them together in the lobby after the show. And I hope to see you again for Part 2, BOOM X! Explosively yours, Rick Miller

PRODUCTION HISTORY Originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival in 2011, BOOM is produced

by Kidoons and WYRD Productions. The show was developed from 2012-14 in a series of workshops at Ex Machina’s La Caserne in Quebec City. A January 2014 work-in-progress run was presented by Theatre Calgary in association with the High Performance Rodeo. Its Canadian premiere was with Mirvish Productions in Toronto in 2015. It has been performed over 400 times in North America, Europe and Asia. BOOM is the first part in a Trilogy of shows that now includes BOOM X (premiered 2019) and BOOM YZ (premiered 2021), collectively spanning 75 years of history, culture and politics, from 1945-2020.

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CONTINUE THE EXPERIENCE Listen to Rick Miller’s podcast, featuring intergenerational conversations with cool Canadians. www.xingthegap.com Watch real stories online about history and culture, for families, teachers and students. www.EncyclopediaCanada.com Watch our animated series on some communities featured in BOOM and other great places! www.kidoons.com

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BOOM has been a labour of love, and there are many people to whom we owe thanks: Antoni Cimolino, Bob White, and the Stratford Festival Des McAnuff Jeff Lord Sean Lynch Ravi Jain Robert Lepage, Michel Bernatchez and Ex Machina Jason Knight Michael Levine Moses Znaimer Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun Dennis Garnhum of The Grand Theatre, and Stafford Arima of Theatre Calgary The late Michael Green of One Yellow Rabbit Peggy Shannon and Peter Fleming at Ryerson Theatre School Mary Eva at Heritage Regional High School The Miller and Baptist clans for allowing us to use family photos and videos.

And a special heartfelt thank you to Kurt Miller and Donna Baptist, whose stories beat at the heart of BOOM.

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• Private lounge for the evening including home-like furnishings, private facilities, and direct access to the auditorium box for comfortable viewing of your show.

• Upgrades available such as a private bartender or personalized celebratory furnishings.

To explore accommodations and availability, please contact Yasmeen@SignificantProductions.org

ADVERTISE

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Increase your visibility by marketing your message to The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center’s local, engaged audience, as well as advertise in The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol’s Programs and our monthly Digital Newsletter, The Scoop!

For information on prices, ad sizes, and availability, please email us at marketing@significantproductions.org.

JAY LENO