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Costume Design by Cory Sincennes.

Photo by Mai Tilson.

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WELCOME I missed the first wave of Frozen. I was a busy 30-something artist, and animations weren’t really on my radar. All of that changed dramatically when my daughter was born. I couldn’t tell you the first time we watched the movie, but I can tell you the feeling of awe watching a tiny human belt out “Let It Go”. It was profound.

How far our princesses have come in a generation.

I grew up with Belle and Ariel throwing everything in their lives into chaos for a man. My daughter is growing up with Moana and Elsa and Anna. Kudos to Disney for the change, but also kudos to a society that demanded it. The first time I watched the film of Frozen and realized that the true love was not going to be what I was programmed to expect, I wept with joy. It felt like a new way of celebrating love.

I come to this project as someone with deep love of the source material. Along with the rest of the creative team, we set out on this journey to create a stage version that honours the original film: that delivers the heart and the humour and creates the key special moments.

We recognize the responsibility we hold. At the same time, we want to celebrate the differences between stage and film, playing into the magic of seeing things live, introducing spectacular theatre to the next generation, and allowing a fresh interpretation of the characters we all love so much.

My daughter has been our uncredited seven-year-old advisor at every step of this journey. People often advise emerging directors to imagine their “pristine audience” and to work to fulfill those needs and tastes. Instead, my mentor took a different approach and always advised me to create each of my productions for one very specific person I know well. With the goal being that we can then deliver on dreams from the specific to the universal.

Which means, undoubtedly, this one is for Anwen.

And for all of you.

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Spriet Stage, NOVEMBER 18, 2025 TO january 4, 2026 Opening Night NOVEMBER 21, 2025

The grand theatre production of

Music & Lyrics by

Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez book by

jennifer lee Originally directed on Broadway by

Michael Grandage

based on the disney jennifer lee and directed by chris buck & jennifer lee film written by

originally produced on broadway by

Disney Theatrical Productions Produced in association with the Citadel Theatre original broadway orchestrations by

Original Broadway Music Supervision and Arrangements by

Additional Broadway Dance Arrangements by

Dave metzger

Stephen Oremus

david chase

DISNEY’S FROZEN is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 423 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com DISNEY'S FROZEN runs 2 hours and 15 minutes, which includes one intermission.

Photography and video/audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

CAST pabbie / Ensemble VANCE AVERY ensemble CRYSTAL CASERA Weselton / Ensemble ANDREW COWNDEN† Olaf / Ensemble IZAD ETEMADI anna CHARIZ FAULMINO queen iduna / ensemble JENNIFER HARDING young anna HARMONY HOLDER elsa KELLY HOLIFF sven / ensemble RICHARD LEE HSI* young anna OAKAN OYAFUSO young elsa KYLIE PROUTY Oaken / Bishop / Ensemble LEE SIEGEL kristoff / ENSEMBLE MARK SINONGCO King Agnarr / Ensemble ADAM STEVENSON bulda / ensemble TAHIRIH VEJDANI Ensemble CHRIS VERGARA young elsa ALBA EVORA WEILER hans / ensemble ARAN WILSON-MCANALLY hand maiden / ensemble STEPHANIE WOLFE

Understudies Weselton VANCE AVERY hand maiden / anna CRYSTAL CASERA elsa JENNIFER HARDING King Agnarr LEE SIEGEL Pabbie / Weselton / Oaken / Bishop ADAM STEVENSON olaf TAHIRIH VEJDANI hans / sven / kristoff CHRIS VERGARA Queen Iduna / Bulda STEPHANIE WOLFE † FIGHT CAPTAIN * DANCE CAPTAIN

CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR RACHEL PEAKE MUSIC DIRECTOR ALEXANDRA KANE CHOREOGRAPHER AINSLEY HILLYARD music supervisor STEVEN GREENFIELD Set & Costume DESIGNER CORY SINCENNES lighting DESIGNER JARETH LI projection designer AMELIA SCOTT sound designer OWEN HUTCHINSON assistant director NICOLE WILSON stage manager KELLY LUFT Assistant sTAGE MANAGER JORDAN GUETTER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER LORE GREEN APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGEr ABBY STEVENSON Stage Management Student LAURIER CHAPPELL Youth Supervisor TAMEKA BROWN Youth Supervisor LINDA MARTIN puppet builders PUPPET STUFF CANADA

ORCHESTRA conductor / keyboard I ALEXANDRA KANE trumpet ALEXA BROWN reeds JENNIFER CAHILL trombone SIDNEE MCLEOD bass ANNA PIN keyboard II ANGELA SOUTHERN drums / percussion MARK SWAN

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musical numbers Act One Opening

Dangerous to Dream

Young Anna, Young Elsa, King Agnarr, Queen Iduna, Townspeople

Elsa, Townspeople

Love Is an Open Door

A Little Bit of You

Anna, Hans

Young Anna, Young Elsa

Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People

First Joik / Northern Lights

Kristoff

queen iduna, pabbie, young elsa king agnarr, company

What Do You Know About Love?

Anna, Kristoff

Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

Young Anna, Young Elsa, Anna

In Summer Olaf

For the First Time in Forever Anna, Elsa, Townspeople

Hans of the Southern Isles (Reprise) Hans, Weselton, Townspeople

Hans of the Southern Isles Hans

Let It Go Elsa

Act TWO Entr’acte Hygge

oaken, oaken's family, kristoff, anna, olaf

I Can't Lose You anna, elsa

Fixer Upper

Pabbie, Bulda, Hidden Folk, Olaf

Kristoff Lullaby kristoff

Monster

elsa, Hans, men

Colder by the Minute

Anna, Kristoff, Elsa, Hans, townspeople

Finale

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Q&A

YOUNGcompany what excites you about your role in

disney’s frozen at the grand theatre?

Harmony Holder Young Anna “The very first time I watched the movie I fell in love with the Anna character, so I am thrilled to play the role of one of my favourite characters ever! I also think that Young Anna has a very funny and quirky personality, and I feel that her personality is very similar to mine. Being able to show that personality, while playing a dream role AND while doing something I love, is an honour and is probably what excites me most about playing Young Anna at the Grand!”

oakan oyafuso Young Anna

“I’m excited about this role because I get to have a big sibling and I’ve always wanted an older sibling!”

Kylie Prouty Young Elsa

“I'm excited to play Young Elsa in the Grand Theatre's Frozen because I get to play the older sister but back at home, I am the little sister with two older siblings. I'm also excited to make magic for the audience.”

Alba Evora Weiler Young Elsa

“Playing Young Elsa is very exciting for me because I have always been fascinated by magic. I can’t wait to start training and making Elsa’s powers a reality on stage.”

PICTURED: HARMONY HOLDER, OAKAN OYAFUSO, KYLIE POUTY, AND ALBA EVORA WEILER. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MELISSA MAE SHIPLEY.

ARTISTS

vance avery

crystal casera

andrew Cownden

izad Etemadi

Vance Avery

Andrew Cownden

For The Grand Theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Frozen, Jersey Boys, Hadestown (Citadel); The Sound of Music (RMTC/ Citadel); Come From Away (Arts Club/Citadel); Cabaret (Roundabout Theatre/Broadway, South Korea, Japan); Sweet Charity (Lincoln Centre); A Connecticut Yankee (City Center Encores, N.Y.); The Black Rider (Ahmanson, L.A.); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Livent); Les Misérables (Mirvish); CATS (Really Useful); Chicago (Neptune); Mamma Mia!, Rock of Ages, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lend Me a Tenor (Mayfield); Footloose (Stage West); Sweeney Todd (Plain Jane).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): My Favourite Broadway: Love Songs (PBS), Waiting for Waldemar.

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): As You Like It (Theatre Calgary); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre); 42nd Street (Theatre Under The Stars); Cabaret (Royal City Musical Co.) OTHER: Graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts web: andrewcownden.com, andrewcowndenbooks.com

Pabbie / Ensemble

Crystal Casera Ensemble

For the Grand Theatre: The Sound of Music.

Theatre Credits (Selected): The Frogs (Talk is Free Theatre); Heathers: The Musical (Theatre Sheridan); The SpongeBob Musical (Mansfield Entertainment); Joan & Olivia: A Hollywood Ghost Story (Ebb & Flow Theatre).

OTHER: Graduate of Sheridan College’s Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance Program.

Weselton / Ensemble / Dance Captain

Izad Etemadi

Olaf / Ensemble

For the Grand Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong, Elf: The Musical, Grow. upcoming at the Grand: Come from Away.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Come From Away (You Are Here Inc., ACC Gander); Frozen (Citadel); The Bidding War (Crow's Theatre); Mad Madge (Nightwood Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Neptune); Sweeney Todd, Music Man, Play Joey, The Gamblers, Amadeus (Talk Is Free Theatre).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), Settle Down (CBC Gem), Ghosts (CBS), Cows Come Home (Bell Fibe TV), The Love Club (W Network), Mother Father Sister Brother Frank (Highball TV), The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+), Tall Boyz, Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Overlord and the Underwoods (CBC).

OTHER: Canadian Film Centre Alumni. His new comedy series, Wine Boys, will air on Bell Fibe TV1 in 2026. web: @izadetemadi

ARTISTS

chariz Faulmino

jennifer harding

harmony holder

Kelly holiff

Chariz Faulmino

Harmony Holder

For The Grand Theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Bring It On: The Musical (Globe Theatre); Frozen, Prison Dancer, Almost A Full Moon, A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre); The Invisible - Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Catalyst Theatre); Prison Dancer (National Arts Centre); The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Grease, Mamma Mia! (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); Joni Mitchell's Songs Of A Prairie Girl, A Doll's House Part II (Theatre Network/Wild Side Productions). web: @cheeky.rizz

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Molly in Annie (Stratford); Elle Woods in Legally Blonde Jr. (Spotlight Academy).

OTHER: Vocal Training: Michelle Cuyugan, Young Voices Toronto. Acting Training: Kids, Camera, Acting!, The Actor’s Room, Rachel Luttrell.

Dance Training: Swansea School of Dance, Rhonda Roberts. Accolades: Ontario Music Festivals Association, 2024 - 1st place in Beginner Popular Voice and Beginner Musical Theatre.

Love and gratitude to Mom, Uncle Darryl, Tita Carmelita, Grandma, my entire family, M.A.M (my chosen family) and my supportive friends!

Deepest appreciation to the Grand Theatre and to Shari at AMI. web: @harmonyalicyn

Anna

Jennifer Harding

Queen Iduna / Ensemble

For the Grand Theatre: The Graduate.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story (The Grove Theatre); Frozen (The Citadel Theatre); Into The Woods, The Comedy Of Errors (The Grove Theatre); Night Of The Living Dead (Pleasance Theatre, London, England); It’s Only Life (London Premiere); Company (Aberdeen Arts Centre, Scotland); Funny Girl (directed by Michael Mayer, Cinematic Release); Legally Blonde (Kilworth House Theatre, UK); Mamma Mia! (Premiere UK Tour/ International); The Clockmaker’s Daughter (World Premiere, Landor Theatre, London); Copacabana (UK/European National Tour).

OTHER: Recording: Debut album, Sunday School Teacher (aRTy Records), Cool Rider (Original Studio Cast Recording), ReArrangement (Nick Barstow, Auburn Records). Nominations: HELLO! Magazine (Rising Star of 2018), Off West End Theatre Award Nomination for Best Female Performance (The Clockmaker’s Daughter), 2015 BroadwayWorld UK Award Nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (The Clockmaker’s Daughter). Selected Training: George Brown Theatre School, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Professional Program.

Young Anna

Kelly Holiff Elsa

For the Grand theatre: Million Dollar Quartet.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Frozen (Citadel Theatre); Rent, Wrinkle In Time (Stratford Festival); Priscilla, Man Of La Mancha, Little Mermaid (Drayton); Peter Pan (Neptune Theatre); Brooke in Noises Off (Mayfield Theatre); 9 to 5: The Musical (Capitol Theatre); Uncovered, Mixed Tape (Musical Stage Co); Taking The A Train (Soulpepper); Anne Of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival); Knishes and Grits (Harold Green).

OTHER: Kelly is a theatre, cabaret, and concert performer based in Toronto. Selected performance highlights include touring as special guest with Colm Wilkinson, opening for President Bush and President Clinton, creating/headlining in Rumour Has It: The Songbook Of Adele (Neptune Theatre), and being a voice for The Heart and Stroke Foundation. Kelly dedicates this show to

Ava, Lilia, Nora, Lucy, Leo, and Izzy.

ARTISTS

richard Lee Hsi

Oakan Oyafuso

Kylie Prouty

Lee Siegel

Richard Lee Hsi

Kylie Prouty

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Disney's Frozen, Peter and the Starcatcher, Alice Through the Looking Glass (Citadel); Cowgirl Up, Games (Alberta Theatre Projects); Everybody Loves Robbie, Victoria Martin Math Team Queen (Northern Light Theatre); The Particulars (Punctuate Theatre); Consent, Paper Song, Are We There Yet?, Under Cover (Concrete Theatre); Shocker’s Delight (Teatro Live); Cowboy vs.

Samurai (Chromatic Theatre). other: Holds a MFA Movement Direction and Teaching (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), and a BFA Acting (University of Alberta).

Sessional Movement Instructor for MacEwan Theatre Arts BFA Music Theatre Performance and University of Alberta BFA Acting programs.

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Elephant & Piggie (Original Kids Theatre Company); Whispers of Whimsy (Magic in Motion).

Dance Credits (Selected): This is Us (Dance Steps). other: Kylie studies voice and piano with Dr. Andrew Rethazi and is a Grade 4 student at Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts. Heartfelt thanks to Rick Kish for his inspiring coaching and to her siblings Kieran and Erin for their constant support and contagious enthusiasm.

Kylie is delighted to join the Grand's production of Disney's Frozen and extends her gratitude to the artistic team for this magical opportunity.

Sven / Ensemble / Fight Captain

Oakan Oyafuso Young Anna

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Matilda (The Community Players New Hamburg). other: Oakan is delighted to be performing as Young Anna in this magical production! She has been a devoted fan since the age of three and feels a deep connection to Anna’s joy and enthusiasm.

Oakan is grateful to be studying Vocal Training with Suzanne Grondin, as well as Dance and Musical Theatre with Stratford Dance Company under the guidance of Breanna Willis. She has also trained with Playmakers Theatre School.

Oakan is especially tickled to share the stage with another “Oaken” (though, as she notes, the spelling differs).

Young Elsa

Lee Siegel

Oaken / Bishop / Ensemble

For the Grand theatre: Waitress, Dreamgirls, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Shrek.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Jesus Christ Superstar, Paradise Square (Broadway); Rent, Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelot, Fiddler On The Roof (Stratford Festival); Les Misérables, Cats, Miss Saigon, Little Shop Of Horrors, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, Sister Act (Drayton); Jesus Christ Superstar, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival); Cats (Neptune); Seussical, Dreamgirls, A Christmas Story (Theatre Aquarius).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): 66th Annual Tony Awards (CBS).

OTHER: Special thanks and love to God, Mom, Dad, Mike, Talent House.

ARTISTS

Mark Sinongco

Adam Stevenson

Tahirih Vejdani

Chris Vergara

Mark Sinongco

Tahirih Vejdani

For The Grand Theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Frozen, Legally Blonde (Citadel Theatre); Bring It On (Globe Theatre); Grease (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); The Rocky Horror Show, Die Harsh, Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer (Grindstone Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Plain Jane Theatre); Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s (Teatro Live); Ride the Cyclone (Uniform Theatre and SATCo).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Me and Mr. Christmas.

OTHER: Graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. web: @markiesays

For the Grand theatre: The Invisible - Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Grand Ghosts.

Theatre Credits (Selected): HMS Pinafore, Treasure Island, The Pirates of Penzance, Elektra (Stratford Festival); Frozen (Citadel Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors, The Full Monty (Capitol Theatre); Ctrl Alt Delete (Toronto Fringe); Sweeney Todd (Talk Is Free Theatre); Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - #2B (Vertigo Theatre); Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff); The Men in White (Factory Theatre); Taming of the Shrew (Driftwood Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Tarragon Theatre); The Jungle Book (Young People’s Theatre); The Hobbit, Shrek The Musical, Honk!

(Globe Theatre).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS); Kim’s Convenience (CBC).

OTHER: Tahirih teaches voice at Sheridan College and is completing her Master’s in Voice Pedagogy at University of Essex. web: tahirihvejdani.com

Kristoff / Ensemble

Adam Stevenson

King Agnarr/ Ensemble

For the Grand Theatre: The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Aladdin (National Tour); The Play That Goes Wrong, Maggie (Charlottetown Festival); Pollyanna, Maggie, Ring of Fire, Home For the Holidays, Forever Plaid, The Sound of Music, Evita, Wizard of Oz (Theatre Aquarius); Lank Hawkins, Crazy For You, Prouvaire, Les Misérables (Drayton); Ross Petty's Robin Hood (Elgin Theatre); Young Frankenstein, Spamalot, California Dreamin (Stage West); Race Day (Lighthouse Festival); Plaid Tidings (Neptune Theatre); The Wedding Singer (Mayfield Theatre).

OTHER: Thank you to everyone at the Grand Theatre and to Kate, Sam and Frankie. Cheers!

Bulda / Ensemble

Chris Vergara Ensemble

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): La Cage aux Folles, Wendy & Peter Pan (Stratford Festival); RENT (Rainbow Stage); Cinderella, Elf: The Musical (Neptune Theatre); A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Toronto Fringe, Patrons' Pick Winner); A Christmas Carol (Magnus Theatre); High School Musical (Theatre Aquarius).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): The Terminal List (Prime).

OTHER: Alum of Fiasco Theatre's 9W Conservatory (Off-Broadway, NYC). Pinoy ako.

Out and proud. Thanks to my family, my people, 10 Talent. Endless gratitude for my unwavering husband Richard. web: @verbitty

ARTISTS

Alba Evora Weiler

Aran Wilson-McAnally

Stephanie Wolfe

Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Alba Evora Weiler

Stephanie Wolfe

For the Grand theatre: The Sound of Music.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Jacob Two-Two & The Hooded Fang (Stratford Festival Workshop); Beaches, the Musical (Theatre Calgary).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Under the Banner of Heaven (Disney/FX); Börje the Journey of a Legend (Warner Bros./Viaplay); Into the Dark (CBC/ Warner Bros).

OTHER: Alba is thrilled to join the cast of Disney's Frozen at The Grand!

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Shirley Valentine (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); Frozen, 9-5, The Garneau Block (Citadel Theatre); As You Like It (Theatre Calgary); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Othello (National Arts Centre). Upcoming: Come From Away (The Arts Club, Vancouver).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Dark Match, Christmas in Alaska, Meet Me at Christmas, A Frosty Affair, Coupled Up for Christmas, Tiny Plastic Men, Abducted.

OTHER: BFA University of Alberta, BA in English and Theatre from the University of Saskatchewan.

Young Elsa

Aran Wilson-McAnally Hans / Ensemble

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Disney's Frozen, The Vinyl Cafe [workshop] (Citadel Theatre); High School Musical (Uniform Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Plain Jane Theatre Co.); Ride the Cyclone (Uniform Theatre/SATCo).

OTHER: Graduate of the MacEwan Theatre Arts Program. web: @aran_wilson

Hand Maiden / Ensemble

Kristen Anderson-Lopez Music & Lyrics

Theatre Credits (Selected): Kristen Anderson-Lopez's Broadway credits include: co-creator/writer of In Transit (Broadway's first a cappella musical) and Frozen. Other theatrical works include Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), Finding Nemo: The Musical (Disney World, running since 2006).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Pixar's Coco (Oscar® Best Original Song win for "Remember Me"), Frozen (Oscar and Grammy Award® wins for "Let It Go"), Disney's Frozen 2, Winnie The Pooh, songs for 87th Academy Awards (Emmy® nomination), "The Comedians," "The Wonder Pets."

OTHER: 2014 recipient, and now proud board member, of the Lilly Awards. Williams College grad, BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild council She lives in Brooklyn with Robert and their two daughters.

ARTISTS

robert lopez

jennifer lee

rachel peake

Alexandra Kane

Robert Lopez

Rachel Peake

Theatre Credits (Selected): Robert Lopez's Broadway credits include co-creator/writer of The Book of Mormon (nine Tony® Awards including Best Book, Best Original Score and Best Musical), co-creator/songwriter of Avenue Q (three Tony Awards including Best Original Score and Best Musical). Other theatrical works include: Frozen (Denver Center), Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), 1001 Nights (Atlantic Theater).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Pixar's Coco (Oscar® Best Original Song win for "Remember Me"), Frozen (Oscar Best Original Song win for "Let It Go"), Disney's Frozen 2, songs for The 87th Academy Awards, "The Simpsons," "South Park," "Scrubs," "The Wonder Pets." One of 12 artists to win Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar and Tony Awards (EGOT).

OTHER: Yale University grad, BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild council. A NYC native, he lives in Brooklyn with Kristen and their two daughters.

For the Grand theatre: Artistic Director.

Director: Waitress, The Sound of Music.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Frozen, 9 to 5, The Garneau Block (Citadel); Ring of Fire, Sense and Sensibility (Arts Club); The Sound of Music (Citadel/RMTC); Something Rotten (Theatre Under the Stars); The Contest of the Winds (Caravan Farm); A Christmas Carol (Gateway); Trout Stanley (Persephone); The Snow Queen (Globe Theatre); Green Lake, cool beans, After Jerusalem (Solo Collective).

Opera Credits (Selected): Carmen, Marriage of Figaro, La Cenerentola, The Pearl Fishers, La Voix Humaine (Vancouver Opera); Macbeth (Calgary Opera); Phaedra/Serenade, The Little Sweep (Pacific Opera Victoria).

OTHER: Ovation Award and three-time Jessie Richardson Award-winner. web: rachelpeake.com

Music & Lyrics

Jennifer Lee Book

Jennifer Lee is the Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is the Academy Award®-winning writer of Walt Disney Animation Studio's Frozen, which she also directed with Chris Buck. It became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, worldwide. For her work on Frozen, Lee received numerous awards including a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award®. She wrote the book for the Broadway stage adaptation of Frozen, receiving a Tony Award® nomination for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote and co-directed Frozen 2. Her Disney Animation career began as co-writer of the Oscar®-nominated Wreck-It Ralph. She also wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2018 release, A Wrinkle in Time.

Director

Alexandra Kane

Music Director / Conductor / Keyboard I

For the Grand theatre: The Sound of Music, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Controlled Damage, Elf: The Musical, Finding Black Joy. Theatre Credits (Selected): Jesus Christ Superstar (Sheridan College and YES! Theatre), YES! Theatre’s Ride the Cyclone, One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company). Music Instructor: ROOM (Mirvish).

OTHER: Production: Sounds of Home (London Symphonia). Executive Producer: Forest City London Music Awards, Fracture, Nova:Prime, Shelter (AK Arts Academy), Listen and Engage (Black London Network). web: i_am_alexandra_kane

ARTISTS

Ainsley Hillyard

Steven Greenfield

Cory Sincennes

Jareth Li

Ainsley Hillyard

Cory Sincennes

For the Grand theatre: The Sound of Music.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Choreographer: Sound of Music (Citadel Theatre/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Deafy, Pride and Prejudice, Almost a Full Moon, Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre); Mermaid Leds (Skirts A Fire); Mr. Burns: A post electric play (You are Here Theatre/Blarney Productions).

OTHER: Ainsley would like to express a huge thank you to Mhari Berg, her assistant choreographer. She is thrilled to be working on Frozen and so grateful for the incredible team on this production.

For the Grand theatre: Mamma Mia! Theatre Credits (Selected): Prince Caspian, Gypsy, Damn Yankees (Shaw Festival); Anne of Green Gables, Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); Billy Elliot, Secret Garden (Theatre Calgary).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): A Christmas Carol (CBC/Family Channel). web: corysincennes.com, ADC659.

Chroreographer

Steven Greenfield Music Supervisor

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): The Little Mermaid (Persephone); Grease (WCT); The Wrong People Have Money (Shadow); Million Dollar Quartet (TC, Arts Club); After Mourning, Before van Gogh (Shadow); Little Women (Citadel); Newsies (Ross Sheppard).

OTHER: Steven is an Edmonton-based actor, music director and theatre educator (FTS, Artstrek, CapU, Studio 58, MacEwan). web: stevengreenfield.ca

Set & Costume Designer

Jareth Li

Lighting Designer

For the Grand theatre: Matilda, Kim’s Convenience, Controlled Damage.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Sense and Sensibility, Every Little Nookie (Stratford Festival); Vinyl Cafe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Frozen, Jersey Boys, Ring of Fire (Citadel Theatre); The Orphan of Chao, Prince Caspian (Shaw Festival). other: Instructor at York University, Member of IATSE 659 - The Associated Designers of Canada.

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Amelia Scott

Owen Hutchinson

Amelia Scott

Projection Designer

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage); The Master Plan, Stars: Together (Crow's Theatre); Projet Polytechnique, The Assembly (Porte Parole); Romeo and Juliet (VSO); Takwahiminana, First Métis Man of Odesa (Punctuate!

Theatre); Kohkom's Babushka, Alina (Pyretic Theatre); Bonne Bonnes (Nervous Hunter); The Mountaintop (The Citadel Theatre).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): J'ai frôlé la mort, Pas d’chicane dans ma cabane, Star Wars Kid, Le 11 septembre et moi.

OTHER: Instructor of Video Design and Technology at The National Theatre School of Canada. web: ameliascott.ca

Owen Hutchinson Sound Designer

For the Grand theatre: As You Like It. Theatre Credits (Selected): Arcadia, Million Dollar Quartet, Almost a Full Moon, Prison Dancer (Citadel Theatre).

OTHER: Owen is the recipient of the 2022 Jack King Award, and holds the position of Principal Audio Operator at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.

Nicole Wilson

Assistant Director

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Actor: Common Ground (The Orillia Opera House); Clue (The Segal Centre); Dead Elephants, One Left Hour - The Life and Work of Daniil Kharms, Two Character Play, Potosi (Good Old Neon); The Real Sherlock Holmes (Lighthouse Theatre Festival); The Belt

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and the Necklace (Odyssey Theatre); Mankind UK Tour (PLS); Brimstone and Treacle (Precisely Peters Productions); The Seagull (Chekhov Collective). Director: Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (George Brown Theatre School); Phaedra’s Love (Stratford Festival); Dead Elephants, The Last Mammoth, Blue Remembered Hills (Good Old Neon); Frankenstein(esque) (Silent Protagonist). Assistant Director: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Canadian Stage); London Assurance (Stratford Festival).

FILM & TV Credits (Selected): The Good Witch (Seasons 6 & 7).

Kelly Luft

Stage Manager

For the Grand theatre (selected): Pride and Prejudice, The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, and Elf: The Musical.

Theatre Credits (Selected): The Art of War, The Diviners, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet-911, A Festival Queerstory, The Front Page, The Komagata Maru Incident (Stratford Festival); Disney's Frozen (Citadel Theatre); Rubaboo (Arts Club); The Sound of Music, Hairspray (Drayton Entertainment); Le Bal (Theatre Plus); Not Wanted on the Voyage (Canadian Stage Company); 2 years in London, England’s West End. Opera Credits (Selected): 12 seasons with Opera Lyra Ottawa, 10 seasons with Hawaii Opera Theatre, 7 seasons with Orchestra London and Opera Pacific Victoria, 16 seasons with Opera Hamilton / Opera Ontario, Wagner’s Ring Cycle - Götterdämmerung for the Canadian Opera Company, and Idomeneo for Opera Atelier.

Upcoming: Orpheus & Eurydice (Pacific Opera Victoria).

OTHER: Much love to Jesse and Maclean!

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Jordan Guetter

Lore Green

Abby Stevenson

alexa brown

Jennifer Cahill

Jordan Guetter

Abby Stevenson

For the Grand theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong, Elf: The Musical, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, A Christmas Carol, Chariots of Fire, Home for the Holidays.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Richard II, The Diviners, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Stratford Festival); Don Giovanni, Carmen, Die Vögel, Il Trittico (Pacific Opera Victoria); Mamma Mia! (Neptune); Baskerville (Chemainus); The Music Man, Serving Elizabeth, Kim’s Convenience, Ring of Fire (Thousand Islands Playhouse); R.U.R. A Torrent of Light, Oksana G (Tapestry Opera); Cock (TIFT); Passing Strange (The Musical Stage Company/Obsidian); The Brothers Size, The Testament of Mary, Hosanna (Soulpepper).

OTHER: Jordan has also worked with Volcano, Drayton Entertainment, Cahoots, b current, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre, and more.

For the Grand theatre: Debut.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Hurry Hard (Upper Canada Playhouse); Anne of Green Gables (Stratford Festival); The Winter’s Tale (Birmingham Conservatory); The Phoenix Lottery (Theatre Aezir).

OTHER: Production Assistant of the Tom Patterson Theatre.

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Lore Green

Assistant Stage Manager

For the Grand theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong, The Wars, Mamma Mia!, and Titanic.

Theatre Credits (Selected): A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sense & Sensibility, Hadestown, Silver Arrow, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Clue, Jersey Boys, Rubaboo, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Disney's Frozen (Citadel Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/RMTC); First Métis Man of Odesa and Takwahiminana (Punctuate! Theatre).

OTHER: For Julien Arnold.

Apprentice Stage Manager

Alexa Brown Trumpet

For the Grand theatre: Newsies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Legally Blonde, Beauty and the Beast, The Addams Family, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Garden City Productions).

OTHER: Graduate of the BMus Honours in Orchestral Trumpet Program at the University of Western Ontario.

Jennifer Cahill Reeds

For the Grand theatre: The Sound of Music, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Theatre Credits (Selected): The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Allswell); Billy Elliot (South Collegiate); Legally Blonde, The Prom, Fun Home, Matilda (Original Kids); Company, The Beauty Underneath (MTP London).

OTHER: BMus, MMus. web: music.jennifercahill.ca

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Sidnee McLeod

Anna Pin

Angela Southern

Mark Swan

Sidnee McLeod

Angela Southern

For the Grand theatre: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Theatre Credits (Selected): Chicago (Original Kids); Cabaret (Shot in the Dark); Pippin (KCTC).

OTHER: MMus Conducting, Western University.

MMus Trombone Performance, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

For the Grand theatre: Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Mamma Mia!, Matilda.

Theatre Credits (Selected): The Full Monty (Fuse Productions); Gypsy (MTP); Anything Goes (MTP); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (LYTE); Spring Awakening (LYTE).

OTHER: Angela has composed for radio, and has written 2 full-length original musicals: The Texas Chainsaw Musical and Hell Hath No Fury. She has also written two original compositions for choir and instrumentalists in honour of Remembrance Day (Come and Dance with Me and The Greatest Canadians) featured on CBC. Angela has also conducted an ensemble that performed onstage with the band, Foreigner.

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Anna Pin Bass

For the Grand theatre: The Sound of Music.

Theatre Credits (Selected): A Crooners Christmas (Rick Kish); Heathers (Musical Theatre Productions).

OTHER: Anna was born in NYC and currently lives in London, ON. She has played in various groups in and around London for the last 15 years, including community orchestras, string ensembles, big bands, jazz ensembles, and concert bands. She has also played in the CNRS Big Band in Marseille, France, and the Gotham Hot Jazz Festival in NYC.

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For the Grand theatre: Newsies, Grease. film & tv credits (Selected): America's Got Talent (Season 10), The CFL Grey Cup ('24), Canadian Country Music Awards ('24), NHL All Star Game ('24).

OTHER: Mark Swan is a Musician,Drummer, Percussionist, and Musical Director based out of London, Ont. After receiving a BMus from UWO (‘17), he currently works as a freelance musician for hire and MD for international touring acts, recording studios as well as his own project Mark Swan’s GOOD HANG. web: @MarkSwanMusic

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The Evolution of The Snow Queen into Frozen

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Favourite Fairy Tales of the women leading Disney's Frozen to the Grand Theatre stage

Jack and the Beanstalk RACHEL PEAKE, DIRECTOR

First as a blockbuster film (and world-wide cultural moment) and then in its Broadway musical adaptation, Disney’s Frozen transform Gerda and Kai’s tale into a modern fable of sisterhood. The Snow Queen becomes Elsa, a conflicted heroine whose powers isolate her, while Gerda’s bravery is reborn in Anna’s warmth and loyalty. Together, they represent two facets of female strength – self-acceptance and unconditional love. On stage, their relationship deepens through music and movement – the songs “Let It Go” and “For the First Time in Forever” turning childhood emotions into theatrical catharsis.

For many, Frozen rekindles the wonder of Andersen’s tale through nostalgia, and taps into longing for a love that could melt any frost. Its evolution reflects contemporary values, where young women are agents of their own destinies, rewriting fairy tales to affirm that true magic lies in the power of love to see each other through safely.

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Disney’s Frozen that we know and love – on the screen and on the stage – is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, written almost two hundred years ago in 1844. This timeless fairy tale spins a story about friendship, innocence, and emotional resilience. At its heart are two children – Gerda and Kai – whose bond is tested when the Snow Queen lures Kai into her icy realm. Gerda’s courage and steadfast love guide her through a cold, symbolic landscape, making her one of Andersen’s earliest and strongest female protagonists – a child who rescues rather than is rescued.

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“The mermaid saves the prince, yet he marries someone else. Her sisters then give her a tool to exact her revenge on him but she decides against it and instead becomes something even greater than she was before. It teaches us to do the right 'thing always, and you’ll become an even greater version of yourself.”

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“I love the sense of danger and adventure in it, and of the idea of making your own luck. Though I also remember, even as a child, being shocked that he gets away with stealing!”

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