Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story - Show Program

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Alan Janes Featuring

Zachary Stevenson

Zachary Stevenson David Cooper Photography James A Glen Design

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Alan Janes Director & Choreographer

Sarah-Jeanne Hosie Musical Director

Christopher King Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Assistant Lighting Designer Sound Designer Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

Hipockets Duncan/Big Bopper Omanie Elias Apollo Performer/Snow Bird Norma Bowen Ritchie Valens Rebekah Johnson Peggy Sue/Snow Bird Karley Wolfert Murray Deutch/Hayrider Paul Tedeschini Vi Petty/Snow Bird David Baughan Norman Petty Jessica McLeod Hayrider/4th Cricket Shelby Nicholson-McCoy Jerry Allison Maria Elena/Snow Bird Buddy Holly Joe B. Mauldin

Greg Barry Jenni Burke Darren Burkett Sarah Carlé Brad L’Écuyer Janet Gigliotti Christopher King Scott Perrie Daniel Pitout Jess Amy Shead Zachary Stevenson Kraig Waye

SETTING: The action takes place in Lubbock Texas, Clovis New Mexico, New York and Clear Lake Iowa, between January 1956 and February 1959.

INTERMISSION: There will be one 20-minute intermission Presented with the generous assistance of:

www.buddythemusical.com The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

The Chemainus Theatre Festival engages, under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The Chemainus Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and its members.

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MESSAGE FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR RANDAL HUBER

Looking for 55 supporting role players…

June 4th, 1993 the Playbill Dining Room swung open its doors as the opening act of the Chemainus Theatre Experience.

Founded solely to support the creation of theatre, the Playbill has served this purpose admirably and all proceeds from food service have been used to create and sustain the plays staged here at the Chemainus Theatre.

Twenty one seasons and 650,000 diners later, the venerable Playbill was looking dated and fatigued and we decided that it was time for a refresh. We carefully reviewed the feedback that we’ve received and assembled a team to set about re-creating the Playbill Dining Room.

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Back to those supporting roles that need filling. This is a casting call of a different sort. We’re searching for 55 sponsors – one for each table in the dining room. It’s $400 to sponsor a table for four and $250 for a deuce. In return for this kind act of generosity, we offer a charitable tax receipt along with heartfelt recognition on one of the table signs. Getting involved is easy. You can stop by the box office for more details.

We thank the team from RW Bob Wall Construction and Patti Ransom Design for transforming our dining room – putting it in good stead to serve you for many seasons to come.

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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MARK DUMEZ

The kick-off to a season of theatre is always a time to celebrate, and for the Chemainus Theatre Festival – which produces theatre 11 months a year, with over 330 performances – it’s a particularly good time. I’m very pleased to start the year off by bringing back The Buddy Holly Story with such a fine group of actors, multi-talented musicians and artists. In theatre we often design a show, build it, rehearse it, perform it and then MARK DUMEZ“strike it” to live in memory. It’s always nice when a show can be remounted in other parts of the province or, in this case, when it comes back to roost on our boards.

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2014 has shaped up to be an exciting and diverse season of theatre, from this modern musical to British and Italian family comedies to stirring intellectual challenges – you can read all about it in the season brochure. I’d like to thank the dedicated season ticket subscribers, members, donors, sponsors and patrons who partner with this theatre in such lively, creative and thoughtful ways. Through these vital partnerships and by purchasing a ticket for the show before you, you are supporting live professional theatre on Vancouver Island, the life and work of artists and creators, youth and family outreach programs and the Kidzplay Series – and building a strong and vibrant community along the coast of the Salish Sea. We are all part of something special here at the Chemainus Theatre Festival – something as uniquely crafted as the wind and wave carved rocks along our coast. Thank you – and enjoy the show.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES SARA-JEANNE HOSIE

Charles Hardin Holley, known to us as Buddy Holly, did what so many artists long to do. He made an everlasting mark in this world through his extraordinary talent. Determined, passionate, beautifully awkward, and honest, Buddy Holly, in an all-too brief career, changed the face of popular music.

As a singer/songwriter myself, and someone familiar with iconic life storytelling (Patsy Cline), I am truly honored and humbled to help bring Buddy’s story to life. I have been gifted with a team of talented artists, musicians, designers, and technical wizards; led beautifully by the seasoned and charismatic Zachary Stevenson. I hope this date to the theatre will gift many of you with a trip down memory lane, and perhaps some, with a new found passion for this remarkable artist.

Whether you write music, play music, or listen to music, Buddy’s story challenges us all to live fully, speak boldly, dream big and to cherish every note… every moment. And hey, if that pair of eccentric glasses you bought make you happy… wear’em!

“One of the main things about the Beatles is that we started out writing our own material. People these days take it for granted that you do, but nobody used to then. John and I started to write because of Buddy Holly. It was like, ‘Wow! he writes and is a musician.... in our imaginations back then, John was Buddy and I was Little Richard or Elvis.”

—Paul McCartney of the Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 2000

SARA-JEANNE HOSIE Director & Choreographer

Sara-Jeanne is an actor, director and choreographer. This is her 11th production with Chemainus Theatre Festival and she would like to thank Mark, Nicole and their team for continuing to bring her home to the Island. As a director/ choreographer her work includes My Fair Lady (Bluebridge Repertory Theatre); Chickens (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Blood Brothers, The Altar Boyz, SUDS “the Rockin 60’s Musical” (Arts Club); Ruthless (Ophidian); Title of Show, Glory Days, and Songs for a New World. NEXT UP! Sara-Jeanne will be Assistant Directing Man of La Mancha at the Stratford Festival! For more info on SJ’s adventures please visit www.sjhosie.com.

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GREG BARRY Hipockets Duncan/Big Bopper Greg is thrilled to return to Chemainus for Buddy. A multi-faceted performer, Greg has entertained audiences on stage, screen, and in various music venues. Selected credits: Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, The Full Monty, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival); Urinetown (The Canadian Stage Company); Tony ‘N Tina’s Wedding (Second City). Love and thanks to family and friends for continued and unwavering support. www.gregbarry.ca

DAVID BAUGHAN Stage Manager Born in England, David is a theatre stage manager, lighting designer, author and photographer. Stage management credits in BC include numerous productions for TheatreOne (Nanaimo), Graffiti Theatre (Salt Spring Island) and Chemainus Theatre Festival. David is pleased to return to Chemainus where he has already stage managed over 30 productions.

Many of David’s photographs are held in the Musée national d’art moderne collection in Paris.

NORMA BOWEN Costume Designer While an Associate Artist with Chemainus Theatre Festival, Norma costumed or performed in more than 40 shows over the last ten years. Favourite design credits include: Amadeus, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, The Miracle Worker, and A Streetcar Named Desire and most recently, Little Shop of Horrors, and Hairspray for Shawnigan Lake. Norma has also costumed shows for TheatreOne, Carousel Theatre, Theatre North West and Studio 58 (of which she is a graduate).

JENNI BURKE Apollo Performer/Snow Bird Jenni is delighted to return to Chemainus Theatre! Since last year: Drowsy Chaperone, Funny Girl and a role TV series Sensitive Skin. Other favorite credits include: Rookie Blue, Warehouse 13, If I were You, Da Kink In my Hair, Blues Brothers 2000, Half Baked, Under Cover Brother, The Music Man. Theatre Credits include: Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Heart of the Sangoma, The Vagina Monologues, Bat Boy, The Miracle Worker. Next up the world premiere of Bemused for Theatre North West.

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DARREN BURKETT Ritchie Valens Darren is thrilled to be returning to Chemainus to play Ritchie Valens! He recently returned from Australia, having performed in the International Tour of Angelina Ballerina. Selected credits include: Delicious Lies, Joseph, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!

(Chemainus Theatre Festival); Hairspray, White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast (Arts Club), The Wizard of Oz, a Jessie award for A Year With Frog and Toad and Seussical (Carousel Theatre). Many thanks to his family!

SARAH CARLÉ Peggy Sue/Snow Bird Sarah is so happy to be back in Chemainus! In this last year she has been working in Victoria with Gotta Getta Gimmick and Theatre SKAM. Her winter season was spent performing at the David Foster Foundation Theatre in Oak Bay. Favourite credits include: Chiffon, Little Shop of Horrors (Blue Bridge Rep); City Her, The Gifts of the Magi (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Annelle, Steel Magnolias (Chemainus Theatre Festival/ Gateway Theatre) for which she received a Jessie Award nomination.

BRAD L’ÉCUYER Murray Deutch/Hayrider An actor, musician, composer and writer, Brad is also artistic director of Victoria’s Gotta Getta Gimmick. Favorite credits include: Joseph (Chemainus Theatre Festival); GGG’s Chorus|Line|Cabaret series; Year of Magical Thinking, Spelling Bee, Urinetown (Belfry); Sunday in the Park with George, Play Orchestra Play (Shaw Festival); Mary’s Wedding (POV); Into The Woods (Guild); Smalltown (SKAM); Blood Brothers (Co. C); Sweeney Todd, Falsettos, JSK (GGG) www.gggarts.org

OMANIE ELIAS Set Designer As a professional designer and scenic artist Omanie has worked on over 250 productions in BC. Past set designs include Oklahoma!, Hello Dolly & Will Rogers Follies (RCMT); Grease (Studio 58); Romeo & Juliet (Trinity Western University); The December Man (Green Thumb); and A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, A Miracle on 34th Street & Lost in Yonkers (Chemainus Theatre). Omanie is a member of Associated Designers of Canada.

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JANET GIGLIOTTI Vi Petty/Snow Bird So happy to return to lovely Chemainus and work with this FANTASTIC group of people. Select credits: Glinda, Wizard of Oz (Carousel); Jacqueline, Don’t Dress For Dinner (Co-op); Adelaide, Guys & Dolls (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Year With Frog and Toad (Carousel, Jessie award); Les Misérables (Arts Club); Seussical (WCT); Mamma Mia! (Mirvish); My Way (Globe); Ado Annie, Oklahoma! (Port Hope); The Rainmaker (Stage Centre); Ten Lost Years (Alumnae Theatre); Nellie, South Pacific; Rosie, Bye Bye Birdie (TUTS); Godspell (URP).

REBEKAH JOHNSON Lighting Designer It’s always great to be back in Chemainus - shows designed here include A Streetcar Named Desire, Miracle Worker and Harvest. Other credits include the national tour of Ride the Cyclone for Atomic Vaudeville, My Fair Lady and Brighton Beach Memoirs for Blue Bridge Theatre where she is now the General Manager. She is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada, and IATSE 168. She lives here, in the beautiful Cowichan Valley.

CHRISTOPHER KING Musical Director & Norman Petty Chris is thrilled to be back with this multitalented cast and fantastic production. He is an actor, music director and composer who has worked extensively throughout Vancouver and BC. Credits include: The King & I (Gateway Theatre); How to Succeed (TUTS); Anything Goes (Chemainus Theatre Festival).

Chris will be back with Shrek at Theatre Under the Stars this summer. Love and thank you to Jenn.

JESSICA MCLEOD Assistant Stage Manager Jessica is delighted to be back working with this amazing group of people again for The Buddy Holly Story. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, she has worked with numerous theatre companies from BC to Saskatchewan. She spends her downtime farming organic vegetables and dressing up, even if there’s nowhere to go.

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SCOTT PERRIE Hayrider/4th Cricket/Buddy Understudy Scott is happy to be back with the Buddy crew after an exciting year! This past summer he released his debut solo EP “Everything Gives” and traveled from Vancouver to Halifax by train playing music with his fiancé, Leora Joy. Select Theatre: The Drowsy Chaperone (Globe Theatre); Bat Boy: The Musical (Patrick Street Productions); La Cage Aux Folles & A Little Night Music (Vancouver Playhouse); Les Misérables (The Arts Club). Upcoming: Spamalot (Arts Club). Find him online at scottperrie.com

DANIEL PITOUT Jerry Allison Daniel is glad to be back in Chemainus! Favourite acting credits: White Christmas, The Producers (Arts Club); Anything Goes, Munschworks (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Rooster in Annie, Action in West Side Story; Cabaret and Jesus Christ Superstar. As a musician, he is the drummer of the Vancouver punk band Nu Sensae and has played in over 12 different countries. He has been featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, MTV, Much Music & SPIN.

JESS AMY SHEAD Maria Elena/Snow Bird Jess has worked on and off-stage with many companies, such as The Belfry Theatre, Atomic Vaudeville, SNAFU Dance Theatre and Theatre SKAM. Jess has recently been seen in the role of Una in Blackbird with Theatre Inconnu, and in Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s production of FIRE. Jess is over the moon to be back with the Buddy team, and is ready to rock every last “Chantilly Lace” chorus with all y’all!

ZACHARY STEVENSON Buddy Holly Zachary is very proud to bring his portrayal of this rock ‘n roll icon to a hometown crowd. Raised just up the road on an apple orchard in Parksville, his dad taught high school in Chemainus, thus, began his life-long affinity for Billy’s Chocolate & Peanut butter ice cream. Zach has many credits to his name; please visit zacharystevenson.com for the details. A big thank you to Bruce Eyewear for his groovy new specs. Come say hi in the lobby!

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PAUL TEDESCHINI Sound Designer Paul is a sound designer, as well as a full time mixing and mastering audio engineer. Live mix credits include: Liona Boyd, Sheri Ulrich, Barney Bentall and Tom Taylor, John Gogo.

Recent sound design credits include: Home Is A Beautiful Word (The Belfry Theatre ); It’s a Wonderful Life, Chickens, The 39 Steps (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Noises Off (Western Canada Theatre); Fresco (Shadbolt Centre /TheCultch); and Circle Mirror Transformation (Arts Club Theatre).

KRAIG WAYE Joe B. Mauldin Kraig is thrilled to be here in beautiful Chemainus. He has appeared all across Canada in theatrical shows such as Songs For A New World, The Wedding Singer, The Last Resort, Forever Plaid and Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story to name a few. When not in theatre, Kraig is kept extremely busy working as a bassist/vocalist for numerous bands/ensembles in Southern Ontario. As always, love to Stephanie. Enjoy the show, and Rave On!

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The Crickets, were – pure performers; no tricks, no air guitar.

You’re about to witness the birth of rock n’ roll.

It was all about the music for Holly, and The Festival’s artistic team has done him proud. Countless hours have been spent dancing across the stage (and up the aisles) as we prepared over 20 of Holly’s greatest hits. If practice makes perfect, we’re sure you’ll find every note from Holly’s first hit single, That’ll Be The Day, to his final performance with the Big Bopper (Chantilly Lace) and Ritchie Valens (La Bamba) to be pure entertainment.

While we enjoy the happy moments of Holly’s story, the times of strife and tragedy are just as important to understanding his incredible achievements. Just as the world was getting used to his new kind of music, a 1959 plane crash took the 22 year-old’s life (along with We’re thrilled to bring back Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, a jukebox musical that fellow musicians The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens). The loss was mourned celebrates the short-lived career of an historic rock ‘n’ roll legend – and celebrate far and wide, and has become a global legend. Since opening in London’s West we have! The entire Festival team has End in 1989, Buddy, written by Alan Janes, been inspired by Holly’s unique gangly has become the “world’s most successful style, novel use of music phrasing and glottal stops (which became a hallmark of rock ‘n’ roll musical”. Over 22 million music fans have seen the show – from the UK to his “devil’s music”), and his dramatic life tale. Despite the decades since his untimely Broadway, and throughout the Americas, South Africa, Norway, Japan, Israel, death, we continue to find his sound Iceland, and beyond. impossible to resist.

Mastering the fast-moving scenes of Reviving Buddy was no small endeavour. songs and narrative is director and The show moves swiftly from moments choreographer, Sara-Jeanne Hosie, whom of nerdy charm to hothead hyperactivity, audiences may recognize from recent The stubborn smarts to artistic genius, and times of emotional turmoil. As we explored Chemainus Theatre Festival productions Chickens (2012) and A Closer Walk with deeper into his dream of “playing his Patsy Cline (2011). Her musical theatre music his way”, we realized just how experience, both on and off stage, have impressively talented Holly, and his band struck the perfect balance between At the Chemainus Theatre Festival, we’ve been reliving the days when the music of Bill Haley and The Comets, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis filled the airwaves.

While the 1950’s saw the rise of many famous performers, the most inspiring tale is of one man who dominated the charts and revolutionized the country music scene – all in a mere 18 months.

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“You’re about to witness the birth of rock n’ roll!”

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rollicking concert fun and emotionallycharged dramatics. The essence of the famous performer is alive and well under Hosie’s leadership.

Also alive and well is veteran Buddy star, Zachary Stevenson. Assuming the title role, he shows passion for (and uncanny reflection of) the iconic songwriter and composer. Stevenson ignites hit after hit, and inspires a top-notch ensemble of highly-energetic triple-threats.

Holly had a short career, but left a big story to tell, and our cast flawlessly assumes multiple roles to meet the challenge. Our thanks to: Kraig Waye (Joe B. Mauldin), Daniel Pitout (Jerry Allison), Greg Barry (Hipockets Duncan/ Big Bopper), Jess Amy Shead (Maria Elena/Snow Bird), Darren Burkett (Ritchie Valens), Scott Perrie (Hayrider/4th Cricket), Christopher King (Musical Director & Norman Petty), Brad L’Écuyer (Murray Deutch/Hayrider), Janet Gigliotti (Vi Petty/Snow Bird), Sarah Carlé (Peggy Sue/Snow Bird), and Jenni Burke (Apollo Performer/Snow Bird) for dedicating their talent to the show. We applaud the production team who have re-created the scene of 1950’s hellfire and nostalgia, including: Omanie Elias, Set Designer; Rebekah Johnson, Lighting Designer; Norma Bowen, Costume Designer; Paul Tedeschini, Sound Designer and David Baughan, Stage Manager.

“Stevenson ignites hit after hit”

GENTLE REMINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY The use of cameras, video equipment and other recording equipment is prohibited in the theatre.

HEARING SERVICES Audio assistance for the hearing impaired is available from the coat check 15 minutes to curtain.

PHONES Please turn off all your cellular phones or pagers in the theatre.

BABES IN ARMS In consideration of our patrons and performers, children three and under will not be admitted to Main Stage performances (excluding KidzPlay series).

NEW PERFUME Some patrons suffer from allergies related to fragrances. Please refrain from using perfumes for the health and well-being of your fellow patrons.

It has been a pleasure to bring Buddy back to the Chemainus Theatre Festival, and we welcome you to relive Holly’s own creative exhaustion, his urge to break away from tradition, and the freedom of letting the rock ‘n’ roll spirit take over!

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If you know of a school that would like to receive a free Island Savings Discover Theatre Workshop, please contact: Education Coordinator, Chemainus Theatre Festival education@chemainustheatre.ca or 250-246-9800 ext 728

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