2013 Anne of Green Gables - The Musical - House Programme

Anne of Green Gables - The Musical™ Book by Donald Harron Music by Norman Campbell Lyrics by Donald Harron Norman Campbell Mavor Moore Elaine Campbell Creative Consultants Brian Robertson and Kelley Harron Based upon the novel, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, by L.M. Montgomery

April 23 - June 2, 2013

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Up Next

My preparation for this new production began over 30 years ago in my childhood when we would visit my father’s family on Prince Edward Island. That is when I first encountered Island hospitality.

We went clam digging, enjoyed fresh lobster, and breathed in that incredible sea air. I returned to the Island this past summer as part of my research to direct this beloved musical. As I explored the province, the sights and sounds of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s magical world came alive and vivid images poured out at every bend in the road.

Last summer we began our historic collaboration with Mount Royal University to support and celebrate emerging theatre artists in Alberta.

I hope you will join us for an evening in Prince’s Island Park among the trees, cheering on bright new faces in one of the most beautiful plays ever written—William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Simply put, this is Canada’s greatest musical. Anne’s vivid imagination and her ability to inspire everyone 10-year-old Dennis in PEI. she encounters continue to delight people around the world. Writers Don Harron, Norman Campbell, Mavor Moore and Elaine Campbell have created a marvel in musical ideas and a deeply moving portrayal of the people in the wonderful world of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Avonlea.

Theatre Calgary led a national audition tour featuring 200 auditions, 40 callbacks and 3 cities, to create an outstanding company of 22 performers plus an additional large, live orchestra. Our production features all new orchestrations and arrangements by Emmy award-winning composer Dave Pierce, specially created in honour of the musical’s 50th anniversary. The inspiration for the visual world on our stage is a late-Victorian, illustrated children’s book—a lovely, lace-drenched design, evoking the feminine quality of both the title character, Anne, and the author.

It is an honour and a joy to celebrate this gorgeous musical and also to sing the praises of Prince Edward Island – the heart of the world.

Welcome.

Dennis Garnhum Artistic Director

Dennis at Green Gables House, PEI, in 2012.

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beeping cellular phones, pagers and watches intrude on other patrons’ enjoyment of the play. Please ensure that these items cannot sound during a performance. Alternatively, you may leave them with our staff at the coat check. good theatre etiquette benefits everyone. Please do not talk or unwrap candies during the performance. At the end of the performance, remain in your seat until the curtain call is finished and the house lights have been turned on. babies are not permitted in the theatre. assistive listening devices for the hard of hearing are available at the coat check of the Max Bell Theatre.

For first aid assistance, see the house manager or the nearest usher.

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Theatre Calgary presents

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES – THE MUSICAL™ Book by Donald Harron Music by Norman Campbell Lyrics by Donald Harron Norman Campbell Mavor Moore Elaine Campbell Creative Consultants Brian Robertson and Kelley Harron Based upon the novel, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, by L.M. Montgomery “Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Green Gables – The Musical” are trademarks of the Anne of Green Gables Licensing Authority Inc.

Th e C as t

Anne Shirley JILL AGOPSOWICZ

Marilla Cuthbert COLLEEN WINTON

Matthew Cuthbert BARRIE WOOD Rachel Lynde NORA MCLELLAN Gilbert Blythe JEREMY CRITTENDEN

Diana Barry JENNIE NEUMANN

Miss Stacey LEORA JOY GODDEN The Adults of Avonlea Lucilla, Mrs. MacPherson JUNE CROWLEY Earl the Mailman SHELDON DAVIS

Mr. Phillips TORY DOCTOR

Mrs. Blewett LEORA JOY GODDEN

Cecil the Farmer BRIAN MCKAY

Station Master DALE R. MILLER

Mrs. Pye, Mrs. Spencer BRIGITTE ROBINSON

Mrs. Barry JAN ALEXANDRA SMITH The Children of Avonlea

Moody MacPherson THOMAS ALDERSON

Tommy Sloane ROBERT ALLAN

Willie Boulter JAK BARRADELL Ruby Gillis SIERRA BREWERTON

Prissy Andrews JACLYN HERDER

Josie Pye ANNA HURSHMAN Gertie Pye Liz Tookey

Charlie Sloane TYRELL WITHERSPOON

SETT I NG

Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, a century ago.

Director DENNIS GARNHUM

Musical Director ELIZABETH BAIRD

Choreographer LISA STEVENS

Music Supervisor,

Arrangements & Orchestrations DAVE PIERCE

Set & Costume Design PATRICK CLARK Lighting Design GERALD KING

Sound Design CHRIS JACKO

Associate Musical Director BRUCE PETHERICK

Vocal Coach JANE MACFARLANE

Dance Captain ROBERT ALLAN

Theatre Calgary gratefully acknowledges the support provided from the Alberta Lottery Fund, by the Government of Alberta through The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the City of Calgary through Calgary Arts Development, the Community Spirit Donation Grant Program, the Government of Canada through the Canada Council and Canadian Heritage and all corporate and private contributors.

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Stage Manager EVAN R. KLASSEN

Assistant Stage Manager RUBY DAWN EUSTAQUIO

Assistant Stage Manager PATTI NEICE Head of Lighting CATHARINE BEVANS Head of Sound CHRIS JACKO

Wig & Hairstylist, Wardrobe Master RON SIEGMUND Head Stage Carpenter BEN WILSON

Assistant Head Stage Carpenter ADAM SCHRADER

Assistant Head of Sound SAM HINDLE

Stage Hand ANDREW RAFUSE

Followspot Operator BRONWYN BOWLBY

Followspot Operator KALYNA CONRAD

Dresser CARLEY LAINE POWELL

Dresser RACHEL SHERIDAN Anne of Green Gables – the Musical™ has one 20-minute intermission.

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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES – THE MUSICAL™ ACT I Overture Great Workers for the Cause Where is Matthew Going?

Gee I’m Glad I’m No One Else But Me We Clearly Requested A Boy The Facts Where’d Marilla Come From?

Humble Pie Apology Back To School Avonlea, We Love Thee Wond’rin’ Did You Hear?

Ice Cream

ACT II Where Did the Summer Go To? Kindred Spirits Open The Window The Words I’ll Show Him General Store Prince Edward Island, The Heart of the World If It Hadn’t Been For Me Golden Summer Anne Of Green Gables The Words (Reprise) Wond’rin’ (Finale)

ORCHESTRA

Musical Director ELIZABETH BAIRD

Music Supervisor, Arrangements & Orchestrations DAVE PIERCE

Associate Musical Director BRUCE PETHERICK Reed I MARY SULLIVAN Reed II JEREMY BROWN Reed III ERIN FUNG

Trumpet JAY MICHALAK Horn I ROBERT MCCOSH, CINNAMON ANDERSON Horn II CINNAMON ANDERSON, DOUGLAS UMANA

Trombone, Tuba DAVID REID

Synthesizer I MARK LIMACHER

Synthesizer II MICHELLE GRÉGOIRE

Synthesizer III JON DAY

Violin ADRIANA LEBEDOVICH

Cello BETH ROOT SANDVOSS Guitar AARON YOUNG

Bass JEREMY COATES

Drums JEFF FAFARD

Percussion KYLE EUSTACE

ORCHESTRA SUBSTITUTES Reed II ERIC ALLISON Reed III ILANA DAHL

Cello ANDREA CASE

Trombone, Tuba ALDEN LOWREY

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JILL AGOPSOWICZ

SIERRA BREWERTON

Anne Shirley

Ruby Gillis

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Hair, Bathurst Street Theatre; Provenance, Annex Theatre; [title of show], Edmonton Fringe; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Citadel Young Musical Company.

Originally from Edmonton, Jill recently graduated from the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in Toronto.

ROBERT ALLAN Tommy Sloane, Dance Captain for theatre calgary: Cats. elsewhere: West Side Story, Neptune Theatre/Vancouver Opera; Anne of Green Gables, Charlottetown Festival; Death in Venice, La Boheme, Canadian Opera Company; Anne of Green Gables, Music Man, Port Hope Festival; The Producers, Neptune Theatre; White Christmas, Arts Club. Director and/or Choreographer – Anne of Green Gables, Fireside Songs of 1954, Smile Theatre; A Chorus Line, Toronto Youth Theatre; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Sheridan College. Upcoming for Robert is Spamalot with Drayton Entertainment.

JEREMY CRITTENDEN

THOMAS ALDERSON

Gilbert Blythe

Moody MacPherson Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: How to Succeed in Business, Hairspray, High School Musical, Drayton Entertainment; White Christmas, MTC; The Music Man, Port Hope Festival; La Cage Aux Folles, Neptune Theatre; Camelot, National Tour; The King and I, Huron County Playhouse. film/television: David Martin in the upcoming Stage Fright with Meatloaf and Minnie Driver. Thomas is a proud graduate of the Sheridan College Music Theatre Performance Program.

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Gypsy, Arts Club; The Sound of Music, Footlight Theatre; Singin’ in the Rain, Theatre Under the Stars; Christmas With the Queens, River Rock Theatre. awards: Grace MacDonald Award – Most Promising Dancer – Singin’ in the Rain, BC Provincial Champion in Dance.

JAK BARRADELL Willie Boulter for theatre calgary: Cats. elsewhere: Hairspray, White Christmas, Altar Boyz, Arts Club; A Chorus Line, Royal City Music Theatre; Footloose, Exit 22.

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: A Christmas Carol, Little Women: The Musical, The Three Musketeers, Citadel Theatre; Amadeus, Chemainus Theatre Festival; The Life Inside, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Belfry Theatre; Altar Boyz, Cabaret, Miss Saigon, Arts Club; The World Goes Round, Not Another Musical Co-op. film/television: Stan Helsing, The Dead Zone, The L Word. awards: Jessie Award – Ensemble Performance, Ovation Award – Supporting Actor – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jessie Nomination – Ensemble Performance – Altar Boyz, The World Goes Round, Ovation Award – Ensemble Performance – Altar Boyz.

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J A C LY N H E R D E R

Lucilla, Mrs. MacPherson

Prissy Andrews

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: The Mikado, Drayton Entertainment; Kiss Me Kate, Jesus Christ Superstar, Orillia Opera House; The Secret Garden, Huron Country Playhouse; The Music Man, Peter Pan, The King and I, Theatre Aquarius; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Stage West; Swing Step, Elgin Theatre; Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Music Man, Stratford Festival; Dracula, Neptune Theatre; Phantom of the Opera, Pantages Theatre/US/ Canadian National Tours; Peter Pan, Shaw Festival.

Selected Concert Credits – Broadway Beauties, Simply Grand, Starbright, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Cast Recordings – The Phantom of the Opera, Swingstep, The Voices of Starbright, Favourite Things (solo). June holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto and performed with the Canadian Opera Company. She is a member of the Voice Faculty at Sheridan College and The Randolph Academy. June is also a greatly respected Vocal Adjudicator. Next performance is Hollywood Sings 2 at the Victoria Playhouse in Petrolia, Ontario.

TORY DOCTOR Mr. Phillips for theatre calgary: Cats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Citadel co-pro), Evita (1993), Cyrano de Bergerac, Anne of Green Gables (1994), A Christmas Carol (1996 - 97). elsewhere: Jeremy de Bergerac, Forte Musical Theatre; In Flanders Fields, Lunchbox Theatre; Grease, Stage West; Blood Brothers, Me and My Girl, My Fair Lady, Legends, Drayton Entertainment; Rocky Horror Picture Show, Project X. awards: 2011 Greg Bond Memorial Award - Outstanding contribution to Musical Theatre. Tory has also written three musicals, The Dragon Knight, Rhythms on the Rails and The Fallen: A Tale of Jack the Ripper with his partners, Dave Zabriskie and world renowned author Jack Whyte. Tory is the resident Musical Theatre teacher at the Calgary Actors’ Studio.

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Rent, Freckleface Strawberry, Lower Ossington Theatre; The Comedy of Errors, Blood Brothers, Company C; Kiss Me Kate, The Winter’s Tale, The Boyfriend, Canadian College of Performing Arts; Les Miserables, Grease, Facey Fine Arts. Jaclyn studied at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria BC before relocating to Toronto.

ANNA HURSHMAN Josie Pye

SHELDON DAVIS Earl the Mailman Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Little Shop of Horrors, The Gifts of The Magi, Dear Santa, Jasper Station, Theatre New Brunswick; The Wizard of Oz, Mesa, Globe Theatre; Queen For A Day, April 30th Entertainment; Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Man of La Mancha, Theatre By the Bay; The Whimsy State, Lunchbox Theatre; The Producers, Stage West; A Christmas Carol, Neptune Theatre; Little Shop of Horrors, Urinetown, Canadian Stage Company; The Last Resort, The Foursome, Drayton Entertainment; The 39 Steps, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Sudbury Theatre Centre; Anne of Green Gables, Fauntleroy, Charlottetown Festival.

Sheldon studied acting at Dalhousie University’s Department of Theatre.

LEORA JOY GODDEN Mrs. Blewett, Miss Stacey Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Shout Sister, Honk!, Anne of Green Gables, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Globe Theatre; Songs of a Prairie Girl: Joni Mitchell, National Arts Centre; Evita, Little Women, Little Shop of Horrors, Strike! The Musical, Persephone Theatre; Snow White, Chemainus Theatre Festival; The Full Monty, GZT/H&M; Canada’s Songbird…Anne Murray, Eastern Front Theatre; It’s Raining in Barcelona, National Fringe Tour; numerous concerts as soloist with the Regina Symphony Orchestra & Philharmonic Chorus.

Leora is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (NYC), and holds her Associate in Vocal Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Back in ’59, Showboat Festival; The Drowsy Chaperone, Sudbury Theatre Centre; Legally Blonde, Lower Ossington; You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Jaques Brel is Alive and Well…, Chester Playhouse; West Side Story, Neptune Theatre; Snow White, Cinderella, RISA Productions; The Andrews Brothers – The Canadian Premiere, Cornerstone Theatre; Grease, Brigadoon, Two Gentlemen of Verona – the Rock Musical, Theatre Sheridan. Anna graduated with honours from the Music Theatre Performance Program at Sheridan College.

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BRIGITTE ROBINSON

Cecil the Farmer

Mrs. Pye, Mrs. Spencer

for theatre calgary: Hamlet, Evita (1993). elsewhere: Les Miserables, Mirvish (National Tour); ten seasons with the Charlottetown Festival; four seasons with the Stratford Festival; over two hundred productions as actor, writer or director in Canada and the US including The Royal Alexandra, Elgin, Hummingbird, Winter Garden, Ford, Vancouver Playhouse, National Arts Centre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, MTC, Citadel Theatre, Drayton Entertainment, Charles Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Broadway. awards: Two Dora Mavor Moore nominations, ACTRA Award – Best Writer – Come by the Hills, ACTRA Award for his work in television. He is a former Associate Professor at Dalhousie University and former Artistic Director of Huron Country Playhouse and the Carousel Playhouse. Brian has been a guest artist with the Vancouver, Edmonton, Halifax, Winnipeg, Toronto, Peterborough, North York and London Symphony Orchestras. He lives in beautiful Stratford, Ontario.

DALE R. MILLER Station Master for theatre calgary: Evita (1993). elsewhere: Living with Henry, NYMF/Off Broadway; Summer in the City, Stage West; Seussical The Musical, YPT/ Citadel Theatre; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mayfield Dinner Theatre; Les Miserables, Thousand Island Playhouse; The Giant’s Garden, Toronto Fringe 2011; Plaid Tidings, Centre in Vancouver; Cats, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Cabaret, Gypsy, Neptune Theatre; The Handmaid’s Tale, Canadian Opera Company. Dale received his Bachelor of Music in Voice and Music Education from Acadia University.

He is in the Celtic-Rock band “up all night” and is the Assistant Musical Director at MCC Toronto. Dale starred with Ryan Kelly in their cabaret Dudettes which garnered rave reviews in Toronto and has recently completed his first script Shed.

NORA MCLELLAN

JENNIE NEUMANN

Rachel Lynde

Diana Barry

for theatre calgary: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Charley’s Aunt, Wrong for Each Other. elsewhere: August: Osage County, Arts Club; Harvey, Segal Theatre; For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Shirley Valentine, Persephone Theatre; The Drowsy Chaperone, Noises Off, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Jessie Award), The Millionairess, Charley’s Aunt, A Little Night Music, Vancouver Playhouse; Uncle Vanya, Farther West, Music for Contortionist (Dora Award), Tarragon Theatre; The Stone Angel, The Threepenny Opera, Canadian Stage Company; 4 seasons at the Stratford Festival including roles in The Matchmaker, King of Thieves, Cabaret, The Trojan Women, Oklahoma!, Pentecost; twenty-two seasons for the Shaw Festival including roles in Gypsy, Time & the Conways, Cavalcade, Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The House of Bernarda Alba as well as shows at the Grand Theatre, Citadel Theatre, and Seattle Rep.

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Next to Normal, Hairspray, Les Miserables, Gypsy, Arts Club; Ordinary Days, Relephant Theatre; Marvelous Wonderettes, Hey Look!; Grease, Footlight; Seussical The Musical, Carousel; Song for a New World, The World Goes Round, Not Another Musical Co-op; A Chorus Line, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Royal City Musical Theatre. awards: Jessie nominations for Seussical The Musical and The World Goes Round. Jennie was part of the inaugural class of The Capilano University Musical Theatre Program.

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: August: Osage County, Calendar Girls, Mirvish/MTC/Toronto/The Grand Theatre; The Sound of Music, Mirvish; The Price, Theatre Aquarius; over 25 productions with the Shaw Festival, favorites include: The Importance of Being Ernest, On the 20th Century, Return of the Prodigal, 6 Characters in Search of an Author, All My Sons, You Can’t Take It With You, An Ideal Husband, Petrified Forest, Cavalcade, Marathon 33; Fallen Angels, Saidye Bronfman; Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, Citadel Theatre; All Fall Down, The Dining Room, A Christmas Carol, Grand Theatre; Naomi’s Road, Twelfth Night, YPT; Season’s Greetings, ATP; Sinners, Goodnight Disgrace, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay, Talking With…, National Arts Centre; Patria 1, Canadian Opera Company/Shaw Festival; The Art of War, Great Canadian Theatre Co. film/television (recent):The Christmas Song, CTV; Murdoch Mysteries, XIII. Up next for Brigitte is The Coronation at the Elora Music Festival.

JAN ALEXANDRA SMITH Mrs. Barry for theatre calgary: Director – God of Carnage.

Actor – Lost - A Memoir, Betrayal, An Ideal Husband. elsewhere: Director – The Mousetrap, Capitol Theatre; Dangerous Corner, Murder on the Nile, Vertigo Theatre. Director and Choreographer – Nunsense II, Thousand Islands Playhouse; Fascinating Ladies, Lunchbox Theatre; The Buddy Holly Story, Stage West; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Mayfield Inn. Actor (selected) – Bloodless, Theatre 20; Forests, Tarragon Theatre; How Do I Love Thee?, Tyland, Falsettos, How I Learned to Drive, ATP; An Inspector Calls, Spider’s Web, Vertigo Theatre; An Ideal Husband, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, You Never Can Tell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seagull, Shaw Festival; Shakespeare’s Will, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Popcorn, Beauty Queen of Leenane, My Fair Lady, Citadel Theatre; One For the Pot, Les Miserables, Royal Alexandra Theatre. awards: Betty Mitchell Award – An Ideal Husband; Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award – Popcorn.

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DENNIS GARNHUM

Gertie Pye

Director

Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Dirty Dancing, Mirvish; Encore, Tokyo Disney Sea. film/television: Reefer Madness, Hellcats, CW Network; Psych, Once Upon a Time. Liz has had the opportunity to travel the world with Princess Cruises and has had the honour of entertaining our Canadian Troops in Israel and Egypt under a show tour with Big Fish Management.

TYRELL WITHERSPOON Charlie Sloane Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Footloose, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, The Full Monty, Good news, Miss Saigon, Singin’ In the Rain, Rainbow Stage; Beauty and the Beast, Citadel Theatre; West Side Story, Vancouver Opera. film/ television: Hellcats, Once Upon a Time, Ragz, Girl vs. Monster, Gay Dude. Tyrell has worked on many stages in Western Canada as well as a featured dancer for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. He is also an accomplished dance/pop vocal artist with two albums released worldwide. Upcoming for Tyrell is Mary Poppins.

for theatre calgary: Pride and Prejudice (National Arts Centre co-pro), To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, Lost – A Memoir, Beyond Eden, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Timothy Findley’s The Wars (Vancouver Playhouse co-pro), Of Mice and Men, Enchanted April, Trying, A Christmas Carol (2006 2012). elsewhere: Carmen, Pacific Opera; Barber of Seville, Vancouver Opera; La Traviata, Pacific Opera (Victoria); This Could Be Love, New York City Musical Festival; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Shadows, The Trials of Ezra Pound, Stratford Festival; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Still Life, Sorry, Wrong Number, S.S. Tenacity, Shaw Festival; Two Orphans, Brandeis Theatre Company (Boston); Rat in the Skull, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Down the Main Drag, ATP playRites ‘04; Vinci, National Arts Centre/MTC/Canadian Stage Company; Skylight, Slavs, Tarragon Theatre; Closer, Three Tall Women, MTC; The Laramie Project, National Theatre School. awards: Governor General’s Literary Award Nomination – Lost – A Memoir; Sterling Award – Outstanding Director – Of Mice and Men. Dennis was appointed Artistic Director at Theatre Calgary in September, 2005.

COLLEEN WINTON Marilla Cuthbert Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Hello Dolly!, Royal City Musical Theatre; Fiddler on the Roof, Chemainus Theatre Festival; The Sound of Music, Gateway Theatre; Calendar Girls, Arts Club; The Black Rider, November Theatre/Tarragon Theatre; The Three Musketeers, Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, Citadel Theatre; productions with Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Charlottetown Festival, original Canadian company for Cats, Show Boat; numerous directing and choreography. awards: Jessie and Ovation Awards. Favourite roles include Dolly Levi, Golde, Glinda and now Marilla, having previously enjoyed playing Mrs. Pye and Miss Stacey. She recently recorded L.M. Montgomery’s first three Anne books to audio books for Post Hypnotic Press.

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BARRIE WOOD Matthew Cuthbert Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Six seasons at Stratford Festival; five seasons at Charlottetown Festival; original Cats Canada; Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Toronto and two US National tours; Crazy for You, Saidye Bronfman; Crazy for You, Royal Alexandra Theatre; The Who’s Tommy, Canadian National Tour; A Man of No Importance, Acting Up Stage Company; My Fair Lady, Huron Country Playhouse; Coriolanus, Oklahoma!, Stratford Festival; Singin’ in the Rain, Limelight Theatre; Brigadoon, Drayton Entertainment; Mine, Globus Theatre; Oliver, Port Hope Festival, small cabaret shows, large TV variety shows, summer stock, cruise ships, industrial shows and TV commercials. Barrie has also directed, choreographed and written for the stage.

ELIZABETH BAIRD Musical Director for theatre calgary: Cats, The Drowsy Chaperone (Betty Mitchell Nomination). selected credits: Musical Director – Mary Poppins, Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, Mamma Mia! White Christmas, The Full Monty, Little Shop of Horrors, Seussical The Musical (Dora nomination), Fireweeds, Women Fully Clothed, God Almighty’s Second-Class Saloon: A Brecht/Weill Cabaret (Dora nomination), The Second City National Touring Company. film/television: Music Consultant – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Over the Rainbow Canada; So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Musical Director/ Composer – Improv Heaven & Hell, TCN; Not to Be Repeated, CTV; It’s Alive, PJ Katie’s Farm, The Bittles, System Crash, YTV; Killerwhale & Crocodile, BRAVO!; HBO Family 411, Who Knew?, HBO.

LISA STEVENS

CHRIS JACKO

Choreographer

Sound Design

for theatre calgary: Cats, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Betty Mitchell nominations). elsewhere: Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5 The Musical, US and UK Tours; Xanadu (Ovation Award Nomination), Arts Club; World Premieres of Disney's High School Musical 1 and 2, US Tour, UK Tour, Japan, Australia, West End, London; Bombay Dreams US Tour. Associate Choreographer – Bombay Dreams, Broadway and West End companies; The First Wives Club, The Old Globe San Diego. Off Broadway: Bingo! The Musical, NYMF; Common Grounds (NYMF Choreography Award), Fiddler on the Roof (Jessie Richardson Award), Hello Dolly! (Jessie Richardson nomination), The Music Man, Vancouver Playhouse. Other: Cabaret, Urinetown, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys & Dolls. film/television: The Swinging Nutcracker; The Royal Variety Performance, Stay Tuned, Top of the Pops. Upcoming for Lisa is the feature film Tackling Romeo, 9 To 5 The Musical in London’s West End and Spamalot for Drayton Entertainment.

DAVE PIERCE Music Supervisor, Arrangements & Orchestrations Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Orchestrator – Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Tony Awards, American Music Awards, Twyla Tharp/Frank Sinatra: Come Fly Away (NYC) and Dance With Me (Las Vegas & Nat'l Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel, Chicago, Dr. Dolittle, Crazy For You, Forever Swing, Annie Get Your Gun, Movin' Out. Composer – 2010 Olympic Winter Games, 2011 Arab Olympic Games, Queen's Royal Visit 2005, Calgary Stampede Evening Show (20 years). Arranger – Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado, Bryan Adams, Carrie Underwood, Carly Rae Jepson, Rod Stewart, Jann Arden, Paul Brandt, Alanis Morissette. awards: Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Music Direction – 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Global Music Award winner for Composer – 2011 Arab Olympic Games in Doha, Qatar.

for theatre calgary: Set & Costume Design – Pride and Prejudice (National Arts Centre co-pro), A Christmas Carol (2011 - 12), Costume Design – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (1993). elsewhere: New Brunswick based set and costume designer Patrick Clark has worked in theatres and taught in schools across Canada for the past twenty five years. His designs have been seen onstage at the Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Guthrie Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre Company and Theatre Aquarius.

Patrick has won three Nova Scotia Merritt Awards for Costume Design. He is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

for theatre calgary: Head of Sound (2007 – present).

Sound Design – Next to Normal, Cats, A Christmas Carol (2011 – 12), The Drowsy Chaperone, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Beyond Eden (Jessie Richardson Nomination). Sound Engineer – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (Citadel co-pro). elsewhere: Sound Design – You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Wizard of Oz, Seussical The Musical, ATP; British Invasion, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Canadian Explosion, Nunsense, Victor Victoria, Stage West. Sound System Designer – Urinetown, GZT/H&M. awards: Recipient of the 2012 Greg Bond Memorial Award.

Chris has been involved in theatrical sound design and production for the past nineteen years, having earned his BFA in Technical Theatre from Ryerson University in Toronto. Previously, he has worked as the head of sound for the University of Calgary’s University Theatre Services and for Theatre Junction at the Grand.

GERALD KING

J A N E M A C FA R L A N E

Lighting Design

Vocal Coach

for theatre calgary: Cats, Much Ado About Nothing, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Heiress, The Importance of Being Earnest. elsewhere: Opera – Madama Butterfly, Opera Omaha; Tosca, Carmen, Vanessa, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly, Pacific Opera Victoria; La Boheme, Romeo et Julietta, Salome, La Traviatta, Cosi Fan Tutti, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Clemenza Di Tito, Vancouver Opera; La Boheme, Manitoba Opera Centre; The Tales of Hoffman, Opera Lyra. Dance – A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rite of Spring, Ballet BC; A Simple Way, (Brackets), LSD, Sunyata, Kokoro Dance. Theatre – MacBeth, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Bard on the Beach; La Cage Aux Folles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Death of A Salesman, The Fantasticks, Vancouver Playhouse; The Drowsy Chaperone, Citadel Theatre/National Arts Centre; Toronto Mississippi, Theatre Aquarius; Educating Rita, Ubuntu, The Syringa Tree, Wit, Western Canada Theatre.

for theatre calgary: Over 30 productions in the past 12 years, including: The Kite Runner (Citadel Theatre co-pro), Pride and Prejudice (National Arts Centre copro), Enron, To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (MTC copro), 7 Stories (Canadian Stage Company co-pro), Ideal Husband, Miracle Worker and 11 years of A Christmas Carol. elsewhere: Toad of Toad Hall, That Elusive Spark, Treasure Island, Vincent in Brixton, Syringa Tree, ATP; Filth, Trainspotting, Sage Theatre; Submarine, Lunchbox Theatre. Jane teaches Voice and Acting in the Performance Program at Mount Royal University. She is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary.

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in the wings

By Zach Moull, Assistant Dramaturg

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY “Human nature is a queer thing. No wonder biographers and historians can never arrive at the ultimate truth about anybody or any event.”

– Lucy Maud Montgomery

forever linked in our imaginations. Although Montgomery lived in Ontario for half her life, all but one of her twenty novels is set on Prince Edward Island. As children’s author Dierdre Kessler writes, “there exists an overlay of her vision of the place on top of the physical island.”

ANNE OF THE WORLD

In a letter to Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mark Lucy Maud Montgomery (known as ‘Maud’ Twain called Anne Shirley “the sweetest to family and friends) was born in 1874 creation of child life since the immortal in New London, Prince Edward Island.

Alice.” As it turns out, this was When she was less than two years old, prescient praise. Since her creation, her mother died from tuberculosis, Anne has continued to capture and her father gave her over to the imagination of generation the custody of her maternal after generation, and has lived on grandparents and left PEI for through the years in countless western Canada. She was raised permutations. by her grandparents in rural Cavendish, along the north shore The clamour for more Anne began of the Island. A strong student, right after Anne of Green Gables she earned a teacher’s license was first published in 1908. To from Prince of Wales College in satisfy the massive demand, Charlottetown and studied for Montgomery’s publisher issued a year at Dalhousie University three reprintings of the original in Halifax. In her early twenties, book in as many months, and the she taught at a series of schools first of seven sequels, Anne of across PEI. When her grandfather Avonlea, was published soon after died in 1898, she moved back to her in 1909. childhood home, where she lived with Anne first crossed over into cinema her grandmother for the next thirteen with a 1919 silent film that Montgomery years. During this time, she supported mocked for a scene in which Anne faces herself by writing fiction, first with short down a mob with a shotgun. Even worse, stories for magazines and then novels. Anne the flag flying at Anne’s graduation is the Stars of Green Gables, her first novel, was published and Stripes.

Montgomery liked the 1934 talkie in 1908 and remains her best-known work. When Lucy Maud Montgomery, c. 1900 much better.

In fact, that film was so popular that her grandmother passed away in 1911, she lead actress Dawn O’Day used “Anne Shirley” as married Ewen Macdonald, the local Presbyterian her stage name for the rest of her career. minister. They moved to Ontario, where Montgomery had two sons and Macdonald became minister in Leaskdale and then Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™ premiered at the Norval. They retired to Toronto in 1936 and Montgomery passed Charlottetown Festival in 1965 and has been performed there away in 1942, having written twenty novels and hundreds of every summer since, making it Canada’s longest-running short stories and poems. musical. But the story of the project goes back a full decade Montgomery’s fiction is animated by the experiences of her own life. Her most famous character is, like her, a sensitive and creative orphan raised by an elderly couple, who grows up to become a teacher and a respected member of her community.

Montgomery was an imaginative child who named the landscape around her: “Haunted Wood,” “Lovers’ Lane.”

The Green Gables farmhouse, which belonged to Montgomery’s cousins down the road, was known as such only to her.

Anne of Green Gables creates so vivid a picture of the time and place that Montgomery and Anne, Cavendish and Avonlea, are 16

earlier to 1955, when Don Harron lent Norman Campbell a copy of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel.

Harron and Campbell met in Toronto, where both were working with CBC’s new television department. Campbell dismissed Anne as a “kid’s book,” but Harron urged him to read it anyway.

Campbell found himself at the piano that very night and their collaboration on the musical began. The hour-long television movie was broadcast live in 1956 and was so well received that it was remounted just two years later.

The house that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery’s “Green Gables” is now a popular tourist destination for Anne fans from all over the world.

Mavor Moore, who had led CBC’s television department in the early 1950s, became the founding Artistic Director of the Charlottetown Festival in 1964. Queen Elizabeth visited Prince Edward Island in October of that year for the centennial of the Charlottetown Conference and formally opened the festival’s new home, the Confederation Centre, at a gala that featured a performance of the title song. The Queen quite liked the tune and, informed that it was an excerpt from a musical, she told Moore that she “should like to see the rest of it.” As Harron puts it, “Moore regarded that as a Royal Command.”

So Harron and Campbell began the challenging work of expanding the television musical into a full-length production for the stage, a task that led them to rewrite the show almost entirely. After a successful premiere in 1965, the production toured across the country two years later to celebrate Canada’s centennial. A new production opened in London’s West End in 1969, and the Charlottetown production travelled all the way to Japan for the 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka. The musical, along with the 1985 CBC television movie (and the related Road to Avonlea series), guaranteed a place for Anne and Avonlea among our most cherished national symbols.

Anne of Green Gables is now an international phenomenon, translated into more than three dozen languages. The novel is particularly beloved in Japan, where it was published in 1952 as Akage no An (meaning Anne of Red Hair) and appeared in juniorhigh curricula for many years. The Anne industry in Japan has generated comic books, animated television series and even a short-lived theme park called Canadian World that had its own replica of Avonlea. All over the world, whether on the page, on the screen, or on stage, we recognize the power and beauty of Anne—who inspires Avonlea (and all of us) by simply being herself.

Sources Mel Atkey, Broadway North, Dundurn, 2006.

Irene Gammel, Looking for Anne, Key Porter, 2009.

Alexandra Heilborn and Kevin McCabe, eds, The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1999.

Dierdre Kessler, Green Gables, Formac, 2010.

The first edition of Anne of Green Gables, 1908.

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

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TALKBACK TUESDAYS Enhance Your Evening at Theatre Calgary Immediately following the performance, join members of the cast as they return to the stage for an intimate and lively discussion and Q&A session about the play, the theatre and the acting process. This is a great opportunity to share your questions and get a behind-the-scenes perspective on the performance.

You never know where the conversation will lead.

Talkbacks are approximately 15 - 20 minutes in duration.

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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES – THE MUSICAL ™ – THE CREATORS D on H arron Adaptor of the book and Co-lyricist Award-winning actor and author Don Harron started out in 1935 at the age of 10 drawing caricatures at banquets, and did his first radio series in 1936, three months before CBC got started. Thirty years ago, he spent five years in public radio (CBC’s Morningside) followed by his own television interview show (The Don Harron Show, CTV network). He has appeared in Canadian, English and American theatre: Stratford, Ontario; the annual revue Spring Thaw; the Bristol Old Vic; the Stratford Connecticut Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare in Central Park; Broadway (seven shows); and London’s West End (four shows). He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Ontario. He received an Actra award for Best Host in Radio and, more recently, Gemini’s ‘Earl Grey Lifetime Achievement Award’ for Film and Television.

N orman C ampbell Music Composer and Co-lyricist Emmy award-winning television producer and director Norman Campbell (1924-2004) composed the music and collaborated on the lyrics for Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™. He is recognized internationally for artistic excellence in directing such television classics as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (Emmy Awards), and Giselle (Prix Anik), and received the Celia Award in 1974 from the National Ballet of Canada. In 1978 he was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada for his contribution to Canadian culture and the performing arts. He was also named a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and received the Order of Ontario. Mr. Campbell composed the musicals Take It To The Woods, Private Turvey’s War, She Stoops to Conquer and The Wonder of It All. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Prince Edward Island.

M avor M oore Original Producer and Co-lyricist As the first CEO of the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Mavor Moore (1919-2006) launched the all-Canadian Festival in 1965, with Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™, Laugh with Leacock, Wayne & Shuster in Charlottetown and The Best of Spring Thaw. In 1967 he passed the Festival reins to Alan Lund, continuing to contribute as writer/ composer: Sunshine Town, The Ottawa Man, Johnny Belinda and Fauntleroy. He was CBC-TV’s first (1950) chief producer, founding chair of the Canadian Theatre Centre, first artist to chair the Canada Council for the Arts, first chair of the B.C. Arts Council, a Companion of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Governor General’s Award winner for Lifetime Achievement.

E laine C ampbell Co-lyricist Elaine Campbell (1925-2007) worked on behalf of many national arts groups. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, and made her first venture into lyric writing with Take It To The Woods, an Eric Nicol satire of the then Banff School of Fine Arts. She was lyricist for The Wonder of It All, and co-lyricist of Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™. She also contributed lyrics to a musical version of She Stoops to Conquer, the Charlottetown Festival’s Private Turvey’s War, and many television productions including CBC’s The Karen Kain Superspecial, Christmas at Rideau Hall, and two galas for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She was awarded an Honourary Doctorate from the University of Prince Edward Island.

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for theatre calgary: Cats. elsewhere: Musical Director – Rhythm of the Rails, Traintracks Productions; From Second Fiddle to Top Banana, Break and Enter Productions; Little Women, Central Memorial High School. Recent recordings include chillin’ & fillin’, Stealin’ Blue, with Deanne Matley; Between Friends: 20th Century Canadian Songs with Reid Spencer.

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for theatre calgary: A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird. elsewhere: Stage Manager – The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites, Mermaid Theatre tours of Canada/USA/Ireland/ South Korea & Singapore; Lillibet, Maddy Heisler, The Net, Shatter, Ship's Company Theatre; How it Works, Mulgrave Road Theatre. Assistant Stage Manager – Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show; The Valley, Dust, Intimate Apparel, Drama: Pilot Episode, Thinking of Yu, ATP; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Crazy for You, How the Other Half Loves, Drayton Entertainment; Marion Bridge, The Company Theatre.

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EVAN R . KLASSEN Stage Manager for theatre calgary: Much Ado About Nothing, The Drowsy Chaperone, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. elsewhere: Gone with the Wind, God of Carnage, Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, MTC; Rigoletto, Manitoba Opera; Little Women: The Musical, Sweeney Todd, Dry Cold Productions; Annie, Footloose, Hairspray, Cats, Rent, Rainbow Stage; House at Pooh Corner, MTYP; productions with Vancouver Playhouse, Edmonton Opera, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Drayton Entertainment, National Arts Centre, and three seasons at the Shaw Festival.

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Haysam Kadri, Shakespeare in the Park Education Coordinator.

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A: I was born and raised in Calgary and studied

Theatre Arts at Mount Royal College. I graduated with a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta and have taught sessional classes at the UofC, MRU, and Red Deer College. I am an actor, fight director, director, teacher, and currently Artistic Producer at the Shakespeare Company of Calgary.

Q: How long have you been involved with Shakespeare in the Park (SITP)?

A: In 1997 and 1998 I performed in SITP as a

student and later in my career I returned, as an Artistic Associate. Throughout my many seasons with SITP, I have had various roles as an artist; my involvement has varied from student, actor, Artistic Associate, to Director. Last year was my first experience as Education Coordinator, and I am really looking forward to continuing with that role.

Q: What is the main focus of the

SITP program?

A: To give emerging artists (recent graduates

from post-secondary institutions in Alberta) the opportunity to immediately work in a professional environment under Theatre Calgary’s guidance.

It’s a great program for emerging artists; they take ownership of the show and are given some great roles right out of school. Because Artistic Directors and people affiliated with SITP have had a chance to work with them, many of our graduates have gone on to act in professional shows immediately after and have very successful careers.

Q: How does SITP foster the growth and

development of these emerging artists?

our emerging artists are taught and mentored

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by talented professionals. The wealth of information absorbed by the artists over the summer is truly priceless.

Shakespeare in the Park

Q: What can SITP audiences expect to see?

A: First off, it’s outdoor theatre, which is exciting.

Second, it’s Shakespeare, the most celebrated playwright in the English language with some of the best plays ever written. Audiences will see extraordinary characters and circumstances, portrayed by emerging artists. What’s exciting is that we get to see the artists of the future perform today.

Q: Why do you think donating to this program is important?

A

: I believe the arts and culture of a city is its lifeline. Donations will help Theatre Calgary and Mount Royal University continue with this program for years to come. Donating is incredibly important because you are contributing directly to the future of our Canadian theatre artists; it’s as simple as that.

Q: Aside from being a well-established

Calgary summer tradition, what value does SITP bring to Calgary?

A: When I think of summer, I think of SITP.

It’s an important event that happens every year; it brings attention to our arts and culture scene, especially for tourists over the summer. Because the show is Pay-What-You-Will, we can provide entertainment to a larger demographic of people at a cost comfortable for everyone.

Q: Do you have any viewing suggestions for the SITP audience?

A: Come early, bring a blanket, pack some

food, and prepare for weather. It’s a great date night, and it’s a great family outing as well. The productions that we put on are very familyfriendly and they’re quite accessible to an audience that might not normally be exposed to Shakespeare. We don’t change the plays, but we do condense them to fit into a 90-minute show.

Q: How will this production of

Romeo and Juliet differ from other productions that audience members may have seen?

A: We are bringing in Joseph Ziegler, a high-

profile Canadian artist, to direct the show. I have worked with Joseph on productions at Stratford and he is a wonderful storyteller; he will bring an excitement and energy to the show that I know audiences will love.

Q: Is there anything else you would like to share about SITP?

A: I think it’s fantastic that Mount Royal

University and Theatre Calgary have teamed up.

MRU provides an educational component to the

Theatre Calgary and Mount Royal University teamed up last summer to return Shakespeare in the Park to Prince’s Island Park.

Now in its 26th season, the program mentors, celebrates, and encourages the next generation of Alberta theatre artists. This unique collaboration places the education of emerging artists (recent graduates from Alberta’s post-secondary training programs) front and centre.

ROMEO & JULIET

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

JUNE 26 – AUGUST 10, 2013 Showtimes (weather permitting) Wednesdays to Sundays at 7pm, with weekend matinees at 2pm.

Note: No performances June 29-30; Monday, July 1, 2pm performance only. No performances the week of July 24-28.

“O, ROMEO, ROMEO! WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO?” •

Admission is Pay-What-You-Will

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Performances are weather permitting

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Seating is lawn seating – pack a blanket and a picnic and enjoy the outdoors

For more information on sponsoring or donating to Shakespeare in the Park: Terry Roberts: (403) 294-7419 troberts@theatrecalgary.com For general information, or to volunteer: Lauren Rodych: (403) 294-7440 Ext. 1055 lrodych@theatrecalgary.com To find out more, visit: theatrecalgary.com Facebook: Shakespeare in the Park Calgary Twitter: @sitpyyc program, while Theatre Calgary’s resources bring in amazing artists that help with the growth and development of our emerging artists. SITP has been around for 26 years now, and with the addition of Theatre Calgary, it’s stronger than ever. It is an honour to be a part of Shakespeare in the Park.

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