CONTENTS Theater Staff.......................................................................................................... 2 Whitney Morse on The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center........................ 3 Biographies........................................................................................................4-7
STAFF Director of Operations................................................................... Jason Goedken Artistic Director.............................................................................Whitney Morse Technical Director..................................................................... Kenneth Constant Production Manager..............................................................................Jon Cronin Booking Coordinator & Administrator....................................Elizabeth Constant Executive Administrator.................................................................... Sean Graham Lighting Director..............................................................................David Krupla Artist Liaison/Hospitality Management........................................... Leslie Munson Cassandra Francois Audio/Visual.........................................................................................Luke Bezio Sound/AV Designer.........................................................................Nick Erickson House Manager...................................................................................Heather Ard Director of Ticketing & Customer Relations............................... Yasmeen Stogden Promotion & Marketing...................................... The Villages Sales & Marketing Ad Sales.........................................................................The Villages Media Group
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WHITNEY MORSE on
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PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Dear Patron of the Arts
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Welcome to The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center! We are so grateful to re-open our doors after such a trying season. We invite you back to view the national and international performing art tours we host here for your entertainment. 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 hope we have established a relationship of trust; that any show at The Sharon will be 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!
Whitney Morse
See You at The Sharon,
Artistic Director
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BIOGRAPHIES CAMERON BARCLAY The first New Zealander to join the group, Cameron hails from Auckland and studied extensively in his early years, graduating from both the University of Auckland and the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington. Prior to joining TTT, Cameron kept busy as a member of the Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, and performed in numerous shows and concerts, including The Phantom of the Opera in Japan, The Pirates of Penzance in New Zealand, Die Fledermaus, Albert Herring, Handel’s Messiah and Margaret Wegener’s Ode to a Nightingale with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in the first recording of this work.
DANIEL BELLE Sydney-sider Daniel joined TTT after studying at both the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Australian Institute of Music, and has been a vital member of the group across several tours and albums. He has managed to balance his work with TTT with an exciting line up of extra gigs including roles in Jerry Springer the Opera (at the Sydney Opera House), Les Misérables (on tour throughout Australia and Asia), Sideshow at the Hayes Theatre and My Fair Lady in Sydney.
MICHAEL EDWARDS A love of singing has always been part of life for Michael, who began his career performing with a number of choirs, starting with the Australian Boys Choral Institute at the age of eight. He followed this with stints performing with groups including the National Youth Choir of Australia, the Adelaide Chamber Singers and The Consort of Melbourne before studying at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (where he was part of an award-winning vocal quartet) and moving into opera. He has performed in a range of productions with the Victorian Opera Chorus, including Nixon in China, La Traviata, and I Pagliacci, and was part of the company’s ANZAC centenary production, Remembrance.
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BIOGRAPHIES ADRIAN LI DONNI Adrian is the Broadway king of the group, having spent three years living in New York City studying at the Circle in the Square Theatre School. His time on the Great White Way has served him well, and he’s gone on to perform in productions of many of the most iconic musical theatre shows including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Melbourne Zoo, Jesus Christ Superstar in Slovenia and Miss Saigon on the Gold Coast. He won a Green Room Award in 2014 for his performance in Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, and reprised the role of Lun Tha for numerous productions of The King and I in Texas, Melbourne, the UK/Ireland and on an Australian tour that included the Sydney Opera House.
SEBASTIAN MACLAINE Seb is originally from Tasmania but grew up in Brisbane. His love of classical singing started early as a chorister at St John’s Cathedral, before appearing in his first opera as a 12-yearold boy soprano in Opera Queensland’s production of Tosca. These experiences instilled a passion for singing that led him to attain a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the Queensland Conservatorium and a Master of Music from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. He has subsequently performed in productions with companies such as Opera Queensland and the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and held a long-term position at the Theater für Niedersachsen in Hildesheim, Germany.
JARED NEWALL As an ardent fan of musicals from a young age, it was natural for Jared to embrace the musical theatre scene in his hometown of Perth from a young age. He cut his teeth on some of the classics including Oliver and Guys and Dolls, before making his professional debut more than a decade ago in productions of Hair and Rent. This was followed by a busy period studying musical theatre at the University of Ballarat, where he played a range of roles, followed by a variety of professional engagements, and numerous international tours and album recordings with TTT.
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BIOGRAPHIES BOYD OWEN Boyd grew up in Melbourne and is a citizen of both Australia and New Zealand. Boyd has extensive experience in the world of opera. The current season has seen him making his debut in a number of other new roles: Rodrigo in Rossini’s Otello (Melbourne, Australia); Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata (Whuan, China); Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Wellington, New Zealand); Evangelist in Bach’s St John’s Passion (Shanghai, China); Elvino in Bellini’s La Sonnambula (Orvieto, Italy). He also won first prize in the Sydney Eisteddfod Operatic Scholarship singing competition.
RILEY SUTTON Originally from Adelaide, Riley trained in Music Theatre at WAAPA. Since graduating, he has performed as u/s Bobby Darin and ensemble in Dream Lover (Gordon Frost), u/s Peter van Leden and ensemble in Madiba the Musical, (Prestige Presents), Rapunzel’s Prince and the Steward in Into The Woods, (Harvest Rain), ensemble in Catch Me If You Can (Hayes Theatre), and u/s Princeton/Rod and ensemble/swing in Avenue Q (LWP).
GRADY SWITHENBANK Born and raised in country Western Australia, Grady began his career at the age of eleven in WA Opera’s production of La Bohéme. Grady’s passion for performing continued to grow leading him to study Musical Theatre at both WAAPA and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Brisbane. Whilst studying he played various roles in musicals such as: Sweet Charity, The Life, and as Tony in West Side Story. Since graduating, Grady performed with Brainstorm Productions, touring around the Australian East-Coast performing plays raising awareness about Mental Health and Bullying. Grady made his professional musical theatre debut in The Bridges of Madison County at The Hayes Theatre where he played the role of Michael. Grady is thrilled to be joining The Ten Tenors.
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BIOGRAPHIES SAM WARD Melbourner Sam Ward is the newest addition to The TEN Tenors – and we’re thrilled to have him on board! Although he didn’t take his first formal singing lesson until the age of 17 (when he was cast in the title role of his school production of Sweeney Todd), Sam has made up for lost time since then and performed in a wide range of productions. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016 (where he was awarded the 2015 Cassidy Bequest Scholarship), Sam has toured Europe and the Caribbean performing the role of Frank, and understudying the roles of Tick and Bob, in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on the Norwegian Epic. He’s also had roles in various productions including Jesus Christ Superstar for The Production Company, Les Misérables and 42nd Street for Free-Rain Theatre Company, The Beautiful Game for Manilla Street Productions and Falsettos for StageArt. In 2017 he was a finalist for the Rob Guest Endowment, and was awarded the ‘Playbill Future Prospect Award’.
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