Ovation Vol. 18 No. 2

M a n i to ba T h e at r e C e n t r e

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irving berlin’s based upon the

paramount pictures film written for the screen by

norman krasna, norman panama & Melvin Frank music & Lyrics by

Irving berlin

book by

David Ives & Paul Blake

Generously sponsored in part by the

by

conor mcpherson

Imagine Ernestine Jackson & Janice Lorraine in Cookin’ at the Cookery

Imagine human expression taking place in the present, but connecting us to other times and places.

Imagine a dynamic art form that combines sight, sound and expression. Imagine discovering insight about our world through the eyes of others. Imagine the power of a shared experience between audience and performers.

Proud supporters of the unimaginable.

Message fro m the Artistic Director

I’m writing this

the unseasonably warm weather

on a night when doorbells ring

turns to snow.

constantly, children with ghoul-

While the men in White Christmas

ish masks press their faces to the

are motivated by altruism (and

window, and otherwise abstemi-

a little romantic attraction), the

ous adults chew caramels and

Dubliners in Conor McPherson’s

candy bars. Tonight, the only

The Seafarer crave simple pleasures:

stakes we’re thinking about are

a Christmas drink (or two or 12),

the ones we’d drive through vampires’ hearts if the

a winning hand, and a few friends for a game of

make-believe world on our pumpkin-lit doorsteps

cards. It is a night of good cheer, a night when

ever came true.

even a stranger is welcomed in for a drink. But

There is another definition of “stakes,” of course, the one we use most often in the theatre. We sometimes read a script and say, “the stakes aren’t high enough;” we mean that none of the characters care desperately about what they’ll

like those children ringing our doorbells at Halloween, there is something a little sinister about the stranger. Soon, the stakes soar (literally and metaphorically), as the one sober man at the party must fight to save his very soul.

lose if they fail in their quest. When the stakes are

One play is dark and frightening, the other light

high, we sail through a story, our little narrative

and cheerful, yet they share themes that have

boat pushed forward by winds of purpose and

animated Christmas stories all the way back to

suspense. Without stakes, our ship sits motion-

the New Testament: love, redemption and the

less, becalmed, as we wait impatiently for a

possibility of miracles. Both plays make us believe

breeze—any breeze—to end the doldrums, and

the candles in our jack-o’-lanterns are never truly

push us into a safe harbour.

extinguished. They’ll be rekindled when we light

Not to worry. The stakes are plenty high in our two Christmas plays. In Irving Berlin’s classic White Christmas, Broadway stars Bob and Phil

our Christmas trees and Hanukkah menorahs, a reminder that hope and humanity burn within each of us all year round.

learn that their former commander will lose his Vermont inn unless he can fill the place with

Yours always,

guests for the holidays. The men team up (professionally and romantically) with a couple of talented sisters to put on a show that will pack them in. Yet all their passion and patriotism may not be enough to save General Waverly’s dream, unless nov/dec 2010

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Theatre Abbreviation Legend

Arts Club ATF ATP BAM Belfry Blyth Broadway CBC Citadel COC CS Dora GCTC Grand LKTYP Mirvish MTYP NAC Necessary Angel Neptune NFB NTS PTAM PTC

PTE Rainbow RNT Royal Alex RSC RWB Segal Shaw SIR SNAC Soulpepper Stratford TA Tarragon TC TNB Toronto Free TPM TSO TVO U of M U of T U of W West End WJT Black WSO

Arts Club Theatre Company, Vancouver BC Atlantic Theatre Festival, Wolfville NS Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary AB Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC The Belfry Theatre, Victoria BC Blyth Theatre Festival, Blyth ON New York Theatre District Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton AB Canadian Opera Company, Toronto ON The Canadian Stage Company, Toronto ON Dora Mavor Moore Award, Toronto ON The Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa ON The Grand Theatre, London ON Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Toronto ON Mirvish Productions, Toronto ON Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Winnipeg MB National Arts Centre, Ottawa ON Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Toronto ON Neptune Theatre, Halifax NS National Film Board of Canada National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal QC Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB Playhouse Theatre Company (formerly Vancouver Playhouse), Vancouver BC Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg MB Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg MB Royal National Theatre, London, England The Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto ON Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England Royal Winnipeg Ballet The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal QC Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake ON Shakespeare in the Ruins, Winnipeg MB St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg MB Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto ON Stratford Festival, Stratford ON Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton ON Tarragon Theatre, Toronto ON Theatre Calgary, Calgary AB Theatre New Brunswick, Fredericton NB Toronto Free Theatre, Toronto ON Theatre Projects Manitoba, Winnipeg MB Toronto Symphony Orchestra TV Ontario University of Manitoba University of Toronto University of Winnipeg Theatre District, London, England Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

MTC gratefully acknowledges the support of all corporate and individual donors and foundations, and the assistance of: CMYK

With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council

Pantone

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $5.9 million in the arts in Manitoba.

Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 5,9 millions de dollars I’an dernier dans les arts au Manitoba.

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Setting the Stage

under the

snow

by Tara Seel

White Christmas is among those movies that people pop into the player every Christmas season to get themselves in the holiday spirit, and now that classic dose of yuletide cheer is onstage at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

Irving Berlin’s songs have crept into our common culture. These songs not only represent a “golden age” of musicals, but have survived the trials of modernity and are still relevant today. Berlin’s songs are still hitting the top of the charts with the countless re-recordings that are being made. But what was it really like to create White Christmas? What’s the real story behind this movie made into a play?

was cast in the role. Kaye and Crosby would go on to make the memorable Christmas classic opposite Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.

The title song, “White Christmas,” had already appeared in another film, Holiday Inn, and it had won the 1942 Oscar for Best Original Song.

The movie based on that song never received an Academy Award, but White Christmas was nominated for Best Original Song for “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep.” However, it is the title song that has made the lasting impression.

“White Christmas” has been recorded by every different type of artist: Elvis Presley, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Doris Day, The Supremes, Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bolton, Linda Ronstadt, Twisted Sister, Taylor Swift, Andrea Bocelli and Boy George, among others.

The song has crossed so many boundaries—class, gender, race—making it a song truly about the holiday spirit.

The 1954 film was supposed to be a vehicle to reunite the stars of Holiday Inn (1942) and Blue Skies “White Christmas” may (1946)—Bing Crosby and be the most well-known Irving Berlin reportedly loathed Elvis Presley’s Fred Astaire. However, tune from the production, cover of “White Christmas,” released as part Astaire passed on the but it certainly is not the of Elvis’ Christmas Album in 1957. According project, leaving the role of only one. Berlin penned to Jody Rosen, author of White Christmas: The Phil Davis open. The part the song “Snow” well in Story of an American Song, Berlin saw Presley’s version as a kind of “sacrilege” and attempted was reworked for Donald advance of the film being to have it banned from the airwaves.

O’Connor (probably most made. His original version famous for his role oppowas titled “Free,” had a site Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain), but O’Connor different lyric and nothing to do with Christmas pulled out of the production. Finally, Danny Kaye or snow. But perhaps one of the show’s most 6

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surprising music facts is that Vera-Ellen is heard singing at only one point in the movie, during the reprise of “Snow.” Other than that one scene, Trudy Stevens is the actual voice behind Vera-Ellen.

On the soundtrack album, Rosemary Clooney is replaced by Peggy Lee, as Clooney’s contract with Columbia Records forbade her from recording with the soundtrack label, Decca, but Columbia released an album with Clooney singing several of the songs from the film. A soundtrack that included all the singers from the movie—Crosby, Kaye, Clooney and Stevens—was never made.

The movie was extremely innovative, using Paramount’s widescreen filming technique— VistaVision—for the very first time as well as giving a trial run to the Perspecta directional sound system. The film topped the box office in 1954, becoming the highest-grossing film of that year. It premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and 50 years later, it premiered on stage

in San Francisco. The Broadway production ran for 53 performances after opening in November 2008, garnering two Tony Award nominations.

While White Christmas has done very well on the stage, this is one production that could not have been made without the film version, as many of the scenes, including the “midnight snack” scene where Bob Wallace offers his ideas on food and dreams, and the “Sisters” comedy act, were improvised or inspired by off-set goofing off between the actors. The actors did more than play the roles and improvise for the creative team; they helped develop the characters by lending their own speech patterns and idiosyncrasies to the writers. It truly was a creative endeavour, one that has continued onto the MTC stage. Please sit back, relax and be transported to that wonderful world created during that “golden age” of musicals and have a very merry White Christmas. nov/dec 2010

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curtain calls

white christmas White Christmas Music Director Don Horsburgh

has to do all of this in only a month. “I teach the ensemble, then the choreographer will set it, and then I’ll have to teach it again because they’ve forgotten it, and it kind of goes like that,” the Music Director chuckles.

Teaching isn’t too far outside Horsburgh’s wheelhouse. He began his career as a teacher and spent four years in the public school system in Toronto, teaching special education music and math. He also trained as a classical musician, but admits practicing was never his strong suit.

“I never practiced enough …. I can’t keep my butt on a piano bench for that long,” he laughs. He’s a pretty humble guy for someone who has won several prestigious theatre awards, one of which is a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Work & Musical Direction for Michael Hollingsworth’s Rigoletto. His work on Rigoletto showcases his ability to adapt a variety of musical works as well as his willingness to step out on a ledge and try something different.

by Tara Seel

If you’re watching a movie and turn off the sound, the same intensity of feeling is not there without the music. The same meaning is not conveyed.

The same goes for theatre. The sounds of the theatre make the meaning clearer and the feeling more tangible, and that never is more important than when staging a musical.

Preparing the music for White Christmas sounds simple: Irving Berlin and the gang have taken care of the score, and the music is well-known and loved (which oftentimes means it is not to be messed with). But simple it is not.

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Now, Horsburgh has set his musical sights on MTC’s production of White Christmas, and, while he is well-versed with the whole play, the music needs to accompany each moment.

“One has the sense of what one wants to be conveying moment by moment by moment through the score, but really, my focus is landing the last note of the first act and cutting it off just as the fly hits the floor. It’s making sure it’s perfect every time and that we get a better performance every time,” says the musician.

While always aiming for perfection, that is not what drives Horsburgh—the music does that; it inspires him. “Music, to me, whether listening or actively participating in some manner of performance, is my bliss, and it just always has been,” he emphasizes. “It really fires my brain to be tracking what is going on and to be, at the same time, emotionally involved in the experience. I just think I’m one hell of a lucky guy to be able to scrap out a living doing what I love.”

photo courtesy don horsburgh

Music Director Don Horsburgh has to prepare a large cast and get them as familiar with the melodies and lyrics as they are with the dance steps and the spoken lines. Horsburgh also has to prepare and manage the orchestra—including as many local musicians as possible—and he

“I did a revisionist Rigoletto at Theatre Passe Muraille,” recalls Horsburgh. “I turned it into a rock opera. It was accompanied by a rock ensemble. I kept all Verdi’s tunes, but I changed the metre very often …. I took jaunty triple-metre Italian folk ballad-type things, and I turned them into rock ballads. I slowed them down, put a heavy drum kit on it and played it in 4/4 …. It was like a rock concert!”

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Steven Schipper, Artistic Director

Zaz Bajon, General Manager

Presents

irving berlin’s

based upon the

paramount pictures film

written for the screen by

Norman Panama

Music and lyrics by book by

norman krasna, Melvin Frank

and

irving berlin

David Ives and Paul Blake

original stage production directed by

Walter Bobbie

orchestrations larry blank vocal and dance arrangements bruce pomahac

November 25 – December 18, 2010

White Christmas runs approximately two hours and 25 minutes, including one intermission.

irving berlin’s white christmas is presented through special arrangement with r & H theatricals: www.rnhtheatricals.com.

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Director Music Director Choreographer (Original Broadway Production) Choreographer (Re-creation & Adaptation) Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Assistant Choreographer Apprentice Set & Costume Designer Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

Robb Paterson Don Horsburgh Randy Skinner Emily Morgan Michael Gianfrancesco Charlotte Dean Scott Henderson John Bent Jr. Sofia Costantini Janelle Regalbuto* Evan R. Klassen Melissa Novecosky Leslie Sidley Jessica Freundl

the cast (in alphabetical order)

Scooter/Ensemble Waiter/Al/Ensemble Phil Davis Susan Waverly Conductor/Marty/Ensemble Cigarette Girl/Loretta/Ensemble Mrs. Snoring Man/Gloria/Ensemble Mike Nulty/Ed Sullivan Announcer Jimmy/Jim/Ensemble Rhoda/Ensemble General Waverly Ezekiel Foster/Snoring Man Betty Haynes Rita/Ensemble/Dance Captain Tessie/Debbie/Assistant Seamstress/Ensemble Bob Wallace Connie/Seamstress/Ensemble Judy Haynes Martha Watson Mark/Ensemble Ralph Sheldrake Scott/Ensemble

Thomas Alderson Matthew Armet Kyle Blair Becky Frohlinger Timothy Gledhill Kalie Hunter Kayla James Kevin Klassen Jeffrey Kohut Lindsay Kramer Walter Learning Stan Lesk Jennifer Lyon Stephanie (S.A.M.) Manchulenko Marisa McIntyre Stephen Patterson Paula Potosky Kimberley Rampersad Jan Skene Justin Stadnyk Gordon Tanner Ryan Wilson

setting

New York City and Vermont, 1954. thank You: da costa talent (stephen greig), Laurie Lam (for lending her dulcet tones to the show), neptune theatre, roger’s shoe repair, sets hair salon (Zane Kirk), st. john’s music, city of winnipeg (Dave) *Position funded through the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre apprenticeship program.

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musical numbers Act I

Happy Holiday

White Christmas

Happy Holiday/Let Yourself Go

Love and the Weather

Sisters

The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing

Snow

What Can You Do with a General?

Let Me Sing and I’m Happy

Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep

Blue Skies

Bob, Phil & Sheldrake Bob, Phil, Sheldrake & GIs Bob, Phil & Ensemble Bob & Betty Betty & Judy Phil, Judy & Quintet Phil, Judy, Bob, Betty, Snoring Man, Mrs. Snoring Man & Passengers Martha, Bob & Phil Martha Bob & Betty Bob & Ensemble

Act II

I Love a Piano

Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun

Sisters (Reprise) Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me/How Deep is the Ocean?

The Old Man

Let Me Sing and I’m Happy (Reprise)

How Deep is the Ocean? (Reprise)

The Old Man (Reprise)

White Christmas

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Phil, Judy & Ensemble Martha, Betty & Judy Bob & Phil Betty & Bob Bob & Male Ensemble Susan Betty & Bob Bob, Phil, Sheldrake & Male Ensemble The Company The Company

musicians

Music Director/Keyboard I Woodwind I Woodwind II Woodwind III Trumpet I Trumpet II Keyboard II/Trumpet III Trombone I/Bass Trombone Violin Cello Upright Bass Drums/Percussion Rehearsal Pianist Contractor

Don Horsburgh Janice Finlay Sharon Atkinson Shane Nestruck Dave Lawton Richard Gillis Rick Boughton David Grott Louise Pauls Karin Erhardt Nenad Zdjelar Tony Cyre Andrew St. Hilaire Dave Lawton

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ARTISTS

Thomas Alderson

Kyle Blair

Scooter/Ensemble

Phil Davis

MTC First appearance.

MTC The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC).

OTHER THEATRE Camelot (North American tour);

OTHER THEATRE Two seasons with Shaw, including

High School Musical, The Music Man (Drayton Entertainment); Anne of Green Gables (Port Hope Festival Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Grand); A New Brain, Brigadoon (Theatre Sheridan).

TRAINING Proud graduate of the Sheridan Institute’s

Music Theatre performance program.

ET CETERA Thomas is thrilled to be enjoying Christ-

mastime working at the beautiful Manitoba Theatre Centre! Enjoy!

Rodney Hatch in One Touch of Venus, Serious Money, Sunday in the Park with George, Play, Orchestra, Play; seven seasons with Stratford, including Will Parker in Oklahoma!, Jack in Into the Woods, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, My One and Only, Hello, Dolly!, Timon of Athens, Cymbeline, The Threepenny Opera; John and Jen, A Man of No Importance (Acting Up Stage); Guys and Dolls (NAC); Seussical the Musical (TA); It’s a Wonderful Life (Grand); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Drayton Entertainment).

TRAINING Kyle holds a BFA from the University of

Matthew Armet

Windsor and is a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre (Stratford Festival).

Waiter/Al/Ensemble

ET CETERA Upcoming: Ernest in The Admirable Crich-

ton (Shaw). Kyle is a two-time recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Award.

Becky Frohlinger MTC First appearance.

Susan Waverly

OTHER THEATRE Brad in Hairspray, Les Feux Follets

(Charlottetown Festival); Peter Pan, High School Musical (Neptune); Peter Pan (Elgin Theatre); Princess Cruise Lines; Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver). Matthew recently finished directing and starring in his first collaborative show with Faye Rauw, in Toronto, titled Grief: Another Common Bond.

TV Music videos for Feist songs “1234” and “My

Moon, My Man”; How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (CBC).

OTHER THEATRE The Nutcracker (RWB); Joseph and

the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); A Flicker of Light on a Holiday’s Night (WSO).

Performing Arts.

FILM/TV Shall We Dance? (Miramax), Strike! – The Musical (Proof of Concept), Minipop Kids II CD (K-Tel), voice of Rosie on Caillou soundtrack (daCapo/Paquin Entertainment).

ET CETERA Matthew proudly hails from Battleford,

TRAINING Kickit Dance Studio, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

TRAINING Graduate of the Canadian College of

SK, and is so excited to be returning to the Prairies to sing about having no snow while being up to his ears in it! Love to his family and friends who came from SK to see him! www.matthewarmet.com

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MTC A Christmas Carol, Fiddler on the Roof.

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School, Donna Fletcher (voice), Broadway Theatre Project (Tampa).

ET CETERA World Tap Dance Championships in

Germany—member of Team Canada—2009 Gold Medal Junior Formation, Bronze Medal Small Group, 2008 Bronze Medal Junior Formation; 2008 Red River Exhibition Stars of Tomorrow Youth Talent Competition Winner; Maccabi Games Detroit, Michigan (2008) and Westchester, New York (2009) multiple medalist in Dance. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Judge Ron Meyers, mentor and friend.

For a full list of theatre abbreviations, please Refer to legend on page 4

ARTISTS

Timothy Gledhill

Kayla James

Conductor/Marty/ Ensemble

Mrs. Snoring Man/Gloria/ Ensemble

MTC The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), My Fair Lady.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Favourites include: Les Misérables,

OTHER THEATRE West Side Story (Theatre St. John’s);

The Producers (Arts Club); The Drowsy Chaperone (PTC, Citadel, NAC); Evita, Strike!, Tune Town (Persephone Theatre); 42nd Street (Drayton Entertainment); Assassins, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden (Dry Cold Productions); Forever Plaid, The Wizard of Oz, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, Grease (Rainbow); Funny Girl (WJT).

TRAINING Graduate of Sheridan College Music Theatre

TRAINING Timothy is a graduate of the two-year

Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz (Citadel); White Christmas (TA).

Performance Program.

ET CETERA Thank you to this wonderful artistic team

for including me in this process. Love to family and W.P.

Enriched Performing Arts Program at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, BC.

Kevin Klassen

ET CETERA Timothy is very excited to be home

Mike Nulty/ Ed Sullivan Announcer

performing for the holidays. He would like to thank his family for their continued love and support.

Merry Christmas.

Kalie Hunter Cigarette Girl/Loretta/ Ensemble

MTC It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bleeding Hearts, Our Town, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, The Dresser, Feelgood (with GCTC), King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.

OTHER THEATRE Grand-Guignol On The Prairie, The

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Beauty and the Beast (Citadel); Dirty

Rotten Scoundrels (TC); Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/ TC); Grief: Another Common Bond (Fayez 1 Productions); Jean Anne Ryan Productions (Silverseas Cruise Lines); Ballet Espressivo (Toronto); La Caravan Dance Theatre (Calgary).

TRAINING Kalie has a BA in Dance from the School

of Alberta Ballet and the University of Calgary. She was also fortunate enough to partake in a dance travel study throughout Poland with the University of Calgary and W&M Physical Theatre.

Skriker, The Poet and the Rent, Jumpers, The Twits (Echo Theatre); Death of a Salesman (WJT); Peter Pan (Rainbow); Urinetown (Dry Cold Productions); Mesa (PTE); well over a dozen productions as a member of Shakespeare in the Ruins.

FILM/TV New in Town, Elijah, Gavin Alcock, Niagara Motel.

ET CETERA Perennial nominee for the “Les Nessman

Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role with Bowtie and/or Vintage Eyewear.”

Love to Charlie.

Jeffrey Kohut Jimmy/Jim/Ensemble

ET CETERA Originally from Victoria, BC, Kalie now

considers Toronto home and is on staff at Metro Movement. Thank you to her family, Peter, Stephen and Phil for all of the continued love and support.

Merry Christmas!

MTC Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, The Full Monty, Miss Saigon, Crazy For You (Rainbow); Die Fledermaus (Manitoba Opera); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Stage West). nov/dec 2010

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ARTISTS TRAINING University of Winnipeg Department of

Theatre and Film, Ken Peter Dance Express, Drewitz Dance Productions.

ET CETERA Jeffrey currently serves as Artistic Direc-

Stan Lesk Ezekiel Foster/Snoring Man

tor of White Rabbit Productions (Lucrezia Borgia, Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare, The Chip).

Jeffrey wishes all a Merry Christmas!

Lindsay Kramer Rhoda/Ensemble

MTC One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC), Our Town, King Lear, Of Mice and Men, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Affections of May, A View from the Bridge, B-Movie, Henry V, Falstaff, We Can’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! OTHER THEATRE Shaw Festival, Charlottetown

Festival, Canadian Stage, Citadel. Last year, Stan was inducted into the Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame, having performed in more than 25 productions, including Beauty and the Beast and The Wizard of Oz.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Val in A Chorus Line (Randolph

Academy); Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/TC); Gymnasia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Drayton Entertainment); Martha in High School Musical (Neptune); Celebrity Cruise Lines.

TV YTV, MuchMusic.

TRAINING/TEACHING Lindsay is a graduate of the Randolph Academy, where she currently teaches.

ET CETERA Lindsay is from Edmonton and lives in

FILM/TV Less Than Kind, Mother’s Day, Shall We Dance?

ET CETERA Stan and Frank Adamson are the dynamic

duo, Frankanstan, performing onstage and on the TV series Klutz On…. Stan and Lorraine Lessard Lesk have three children, Micheline, Bernard and Melanie.

Jennifer Lyon Betty Haynes

Toronto. Thanks to Robb, Don, Emily and The Talent House. Love to Mom, Dad, Allen, Xan and Sue.

Walter Learning General Waverly

MTC Pride and Prejudice, Guys and Dolls (with TC/ Citadel), My Fair Lady, A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Steel Magnolias (1993).

OTHER THEATRE My Fair Lady (Arts Club); Skylight

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE There Goes the Bride (Upper Canada

Playhouse); Outlaw (Lighthouse Festival Theatre); Drinking Alone (Persephone); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (TNB).

FILM/TV Magnifier, Grindstone Road, Vendetta.

ET CETERA Learning is the Founding Artistic Director

of Theatre New Brunswick. He was also the Artistic Director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company and The Charlottetown Festival.

(TNB); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (PTE, Belfry); The Road to Hell, Communicating Doors (Persephone Theatre); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Godspell (PTE); Brigadoon, Singin’ in the Rain (Rainbow); Comet in Moominland (MTYP, Toronto, Montreal, NYC); Camelot, Man of La Mancha, The Miracle Worker (Stratford); The Who’s Tommy (Elgin Theatre, Canadian Tour).

Stephanie (S.A.M.) Manchulenko Rita/Ensemble/ Dance Captain

MTC Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE La Traviata, Carmen (Manitoba

Opera); two seasons of Anne of Green Gables/Emily

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ARTISTS (Charlottetown Festival); Chicago, West Side Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Singin’ in the Rain, Fame, A Chorus Line (Rainbow). Assistant Director: Napoleon (Talk Is Free Theatre). Choreographer: Bye Bye Birdie, Emily (Talk Is Free Theatre).

FILM/TV Shall We Dance?, Inside the Osmonds, Superstar, One Last Dance, commercials for Sprint and Life Canada.

and My Girl, World Goes Round (Drayton Entertainment); Marius in Broadway and touring companies of Les Misérables; Laurie in US national tour of Little Women; Bobby Strong in Urinetown (CS); Jerry in The Full Monty, South Pacific (Stage West); White Christmas, Blood Brothers, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Anne of Green Gables (TA).

TRAINING Sheridan College Musical Theatre Program.

ET CETERA Sam is creator of the Lifestyle Pass, a

ET CETERA Look for Stephen’s CD, Tonight at

project to promote healthy and joyful living in Winnipeg and Calgary. This year, the Lifestyle Pass is partnering with Free the Children to adopt a village in Kenya. For more information, visit www.thelifestylepass.com.

Eight, available at cdbaby.com. RHW3 www.stephenpatterson.tv

Paula Potosky Connie/Seamstress/ Ensemble

Marisa McIntyre Tessie/Debbie/ Assistant Seamstress/ Ensemble MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow);

Snapshots, Naughty Baby, Street Scenes (Up Front Productions).

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Sophie Sheridan in Mamma Mia!

(Royal Alexandra Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Theatre); Janet Van De Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone (Thousand Island Playhouse); Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables and Anne & Gilbert (Globe, Thousand Island Playhouse); Aladdin, Cinderella (Waterloo Stage Theatre); The Music Man (Stratford); He Sang, She Sang (Rose Theatre).

TV Top-four finalist on How Do You Solve a Problem

Like Maria? (CBC); Salem Witch Trials (Alliance Atlantis); Rebecca on Doc (PAX); Judy Rogers on Tru Calling (FOX); comedy pilot Eat TV (YTV); The Stalking of Laurie Show (movie of the week); Exhibit A (Discovery).

TRAINING/TEACHING Music (Voice) and Education Degrees from the U of M. Choir/Jazz teacher at Maples Collegiate. Producer/Director of four musicals at Glenlawn Collegiate.

ET CETERA Paula thanks her husband and our “Little

Bird” for love, support and encouragement.

Kimberley Rampersad Judy Haynes

ET CETERA Marisa will be appearing next in I Love

You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Rose Theatre).

Stephen Patterson

MTC Dreamgirls (with TA), Guys and Dolls (with TC/ Citadel), Lady, Be Good!. Choreographer & Assistant Director: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play.

Bob Wallace

OTHER THEATRE Sweet Charity, Guys and Dolls (Drayton

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Liv-

ing in Paris, As You Like It (Stratford); Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ché in Evita, Jeff in Brigadoon, Chris in Miss Saigon, Padre in Man of La Mancha, title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Me

Entertainment); Legends (Grand); Oliver! (Citadel); Company, Into the Woods (Dry Cold Productions); Funny Girl (WJT); Carol Shields Festival (PTE); Carmen (Manitoba Opera); Charlottetown Festival; Chicago, Smokey Joe’s Café, 42nd Street (Rainbow).

Associate Choreographer: Hairspray (NETworks Presentations). Assistant Director: Toronto The Good (Factory Theatre). Choreographer: Seussical the Musical, Honk! (MTYP); Miss Saigon (Rainbow).

FILM/TV Snake River, Shall We Dance?, The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick.

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ARTISTS TRAINING Kimberly is a graduate of the U of M.

Gordon Tanner

ET CETERA Kimberley is a proud past recipient of the

Maude Whitmore Scholarship from the Charlottetown Festival and the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship from MTC.

Ralph Sheldrake

Jan Skene Martha Watson

MTC It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Good Sisters (Les Belles Soeurs), A Christmas Carol.

OTHER THEATRE Includes: A Year with Frog and Toad

(MTYP/Citadel); Honk, Peter Pan, See Saw (MTYP); Having Hope at Home, Fashion Power Guilt (PTE); Stretching Hide, Albertine in Five Times (TPM); Company, Nine, A Little Night Music (Dry Cold Productions); The King and I, Big: The Musical, Footloose (Rainbow); Russell’s World (MTYP/LKTYP).

MTC It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Strong Poison, Our Town, The Retreat from Moscow, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winslow Boy (with TA), The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes.

OTHER THEATRE Favourites include: In The Chamber,

The Elmwood Visitation (TPM); Death of a Salesman, Lebensraum (WJT); Moonlight and Magnolias, Something Drastic (PTE); The Full Monty (Rainbow); Des Fraises en janvier, La Trappe (Le Cercle Molière); The Mousetrap (Segal); Paradise Lost (Adhere And Deny); Assassins (Dry Cold Productions).

FILM/TV Gordon has appeared in more than 20 locally shot film and television productions.

TV Includes: What If God Were the Sun (Lifetime);

Ryan Wilson

The Atwood Stories (W); Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story, The Many Trials of One Jane Doe, Fred Penner’s Place (CBC); Tipi Tales (YTV/APTN).

Scott/Ensemble

Justin Stadnyk Mark/Ensemble MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Anne of Green Gables, Hairspray

MTC The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Fiddler on the Roof, The Wave.

OTHER THEATRE Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat, Rent, Good News, Fame (Rainbow); Robin Hood, Cinderella (Elgin Theatre); A Little Night Music, Wonderful Town (Shaw); Glorious, Anne of Green Gables (Stage West Mississauga); Canadian Explosion (Stage West Calgary); Camelot, The Mikado (Drayton Entertainment); Blood Brothers (TA); Emily (Talk Is Free Theatre).

TV YTV’s King of the Camp.

(Charlottetown Festival); Peter Pan, White Christmas (Neptune); White Christmas (TA); The Music Man, Moby Dick, Oklahoma!, King Lear (Stratford); Hairspray (Mirvish, first US National tour).

ET CETERA Ryan would like to thank his family and

friends for their constant support. Thanks to Kevin, Hunter: je t’aime, guys. This is dedicated to the loving memory of Lindsay Thomas. Live your life to the fullest. Enjoy the show.

Irving Berlin Music & Lyrics

ET CETERA After spending the summer in Winnipeg,

Justin is excited to be back in his hometown to celebrate the holidays.

With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasted over 1,000 songs, Irving Berlin epitomized Jerome Kern’s famous maxim that

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ARTISTS “Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music.”

A sampling of Irving Berlin standards include “Always,” “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” In a class by itself is his paean to his beloved country, “God Bless America.”

He was equally at home writing for Broadway and Hollywood. He wrote 17 complete scores for Broadway musicals and revues, including the phenomenally successful Annie Get Your Gun. Among the Hollywood musical classics with scores by Irving Berlin are Easter Parade, White Christmas and There’s No Business Like Show Business. His songs have provided memorable moments in dozens of other films, from The Jazz Singer (1927) to blockbusters like Home Alone (1991) and Titanic (1997). Among his many awards were a special Tony Award (1963) and the Academy Award for Best Song of the Year for “White Christmas” in 1942.

Irving Berlin died in his sleep at the age of 101 on September 22, 1989, in New York City.

David Ives Book

Robb Paterson Director

MTC Directing credits include: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bleeding Hearts, Pride and Prejudice, Our Town, Rope’s End, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), Trying, My Fair Lady, Steel Magnolias, An Inspector Calls, The Retreat from Moscow (MTC); Chicago, Cabaret, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, The Pajama Game (MBA/MTC). Acting credits include: Richard III, Lady, Be Good!, True West, Little Shop of Horrors, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Billy Bishop Goes to War, A Christmas Carol.

OTHER THEATRE Directing credits include: The

Immigrant, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (WJT); Beauty and the Beast (2009, 2005), Peter Pan, The King and I, Big: The Musical, Footloose, Crazy for You, 42nd Street (Rainbow); Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, Seussical the Musical, Pippi Longstocking (MTYP). Acting credits include: Marvin’s Room (PTE); Oliver!, Angels in America (Centaur); Chicago, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, Damn Yankees (Rainbow).

ET CETERA Robb has appeared in more than 150

David Ives was born in Chicago and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. A former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, he is probably best known for his evening of one-act comedies called All in the Timing.

His short plays are collected in two anthologies, All in the Timing (Vintage) and Time Flies (Grove). His full-length works for theatre are available in Polish Joke and Other Plays (Grove). He is also the author of two young-adult novels: Monsieur Eek, the almosttrue story of how a chimpanzee got mistaken for a Frenchman; and Scrib, the tale of a boy who runs away to the Wild West, where he writes love letters for cowboys and desperadoes.

productions in Canada over the past 30 years.

Don Horsburgh Music Director

MTC Composer: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Music Director: Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), Cabaret (with Grand).

OTHER THEATRE Music Director: Beauty and the Beast,

Paul Blake Book Paul Blake has served as Executive Producer of the St. Louis Muny since 1988. With 11,350 seats, the Muny is America’s largest theatre. At the Muny, where Irving Berlin’s White Christmas began in summer 2000, Paul Blake has produced more than 100 productions, which starred such legends as Phyllis Diller, Captain Kangaroo and the Radio City Rockettes. His other new musical, Roman Holiday, with a score by Cole Porter, is currently on a successful tour of Italy, where it is known as Vacanze Romane.

West Side Story (Citadel/TC); Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music (Rainbow); Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, Oliver!, Into the Woods, The Sound of Music, Cabaret (Citadel); Oliver!

(TA); Oliver! (Neptune); Into the Woods (TC/CS); The Sound of Music (Broadway revival US tour); A Little Night Music (CS/Grand); The Threepenny Opera (Stratford).

Composer: King Lear, London Assurance, Fallen Angels, The Brothers Karamazov, Noises Off, Present Laughter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Tempest-Tost, The Winter’s Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Waiting for Godot, As You Like It, Juno and the Paycock (Stratford); August: Osage County, As You Like It, Blythe Spirit (Citadel).

Upcoming: Music Director of Little Women, the Musical (Citadel). nov/dec 2010

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ARTISTS TEACHING Faculty of Citadel Young Companies, acting/music theatre, and the Citadel Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

ET CETERA Recipient of five Dora Awards for his

Michael Gianfrancesco Set Designer

contributions to Rigoletto, Fire, Lillies and A Little Night Music.

Randy Skinner Choreographer (Original Broadway Production)

MTC The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), The Rocky Horror Show (with CS). Set & Costume Designer: Looking Back – West, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bad Dates, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. Costume Designer: Fiddler on the Roof, Long Day’s Journey into Night.

OTHER THEATRE Recent productions include A View

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Broadway: 42nd Street (Tony, Drama

From the Bridge (Segal, set); Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour (Queen of Puddings Music Theatre); One Touch of Venus, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (Shaw, costumes); Stuff Happens (Studio 180/Mirvish); Rock ‘n’ Roll (CS/Citadel); world premiere of In Colour (National Ballet of Canada). At the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, he has designed productions at the Studio, Avon and Festival theatres over seven seasons. In 2006, Michael designed The Midnight Court for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, which premiered at the Harbourfront Centre and the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire nominations); Ain’t Broadway Grand (Tony, Outer Critics nominations); Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Tony, Drama Desk nominations); State Fair (Outer Critics nomination); After the Night and the Music (Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore); Do Re Mi, Of Thee I Sing, Face the Music, No, No, Nanette (City Center Encores); Lone Star Love (Lucille Lortel nomination); An American in Paris (Alley Theatre). Los Angeles: Happy Days, Hello, Dolly! (with Nell Carter); Pal Joey (with Dixie Carter, Elaine Stritch); Strike Up the Band (with Tom Bosley).

FILM Production Designer for Christmas Dreams (CBC).

TV 2001 Tony Award telecast (opening number).

ET CETERA Michael has received a Tyrone Guthrie

TEACHING Randy is a guest instructor at Steps,

Award and the Brian Jackson Award from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He was the 2008 recipient of the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design from the Ontario Arts Foundation.

Broadway Dance Center as well as various universities.

ET CETERA Randy has received the LA Drama Critics,

LA Dramalogue, Bay Area Critics, Connecticut Critics, and Cleveland Times Theatre Awards.

Charlotte Dean Emily Morgan

Costume Designer

Choreographer (Re-creation & Adaptation)

MTC First engagement.

MTC The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Philadelphia Story, The Monument, Arcadia, Not Wanted on the Voyage.

OTHER THEATRE Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (first

OTHER THEATRE No Great Mischief (Neptune); The

US National Broadway tour); Hurricane (New York Musical Theatre Festival); Girls’ Night (Off Broadway); 42nd Street (European tour). Assistant Director: Cactus Flower (Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany).

TRAINING Political Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Doctor’s Dilemma, A Little Night Music, Design for Living (Shaw); Love’s Labour’s Lost, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghosts, The Brothers Karamazov (Stratford); Betrayal, An Ideal Husband (TC); Pélagie: An Acadian Musical Odyssey (NAC/CS); Doubt, A Parable (CS); Humble Boy, Democracy, Molière (Tarragon). Upcoming: The Misanthrope (Tarragon); The Admirable Crichton (Shaw).

ARTISTS TRAINING/TEACHING Charlotte holds a BFA from York University and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. She has coached Costume Rendering at the National Theatre School.

Tuesdays with Morrie, My Fair Lady, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cookin’ at the Cookery (with CS), Evita (with TC), Camelot (with TC/Citadel), King Lear, Wit.

ET CETERA Charlotte is the 2009 recipient of the

Theatre); The Diary of Anne Frank (Segal/Neptune); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Keely and Du, The Heart as It Lived, Grace (ATP); Lion in the Streets (Sage Theatre); Some Assembly Required (Northern Light Theatre).

Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. She has received five Doras for Outstanding Design, and has been nominated for Sterling Awards and Betty Mitchell Awards.

OTHER THEATRE The Shadowy Waters (Eternal Rose

ET CETERA John has received two Betty Mitchell

Scott Henderson Lighting Designer

Awards for Outstanding Soundscape (Grace, Lion in the Streets) and is a member of IATSE Local 63. He is also a founding member of Eternal Rose Theatre.

Sofia Costantini Assistant Choreographer MTC More than 35 productions since 1995, including Steel Magnolias, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Doubt, A Parable (with TC), Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), Humble Boy, A Christmas Carol (2005), The Diary of Anne Frank (Mainstage); Top Girls, The Shape of Things, Closer, Poor Super Man (Warehouse). Associate Lighting Designer: The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish).

OTHER THEATRE Recent credits: The Savannah

Disputation (PTE); Rent, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rainbow); Strike! – The Musical (Danny Schur Productions); The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold Productions). Scott has designed for opera, dance and theatre companies in Winnipeg and across Canada, including the Stratford and Shaw Festivals.

TRAINING Scott is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre

School and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

ET CETERA Special thanks to Karen, Sean and Alex

for love and support.

John Bent Jr.

MTC The Producers (MBA/MTC).

OTHER THEATRE I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

(PTE); The Magic Flute (Little Opera Company); Fiddler on the Roof (Rainbow); Hair, Altar Boyz (Winnipeg Studio Theatre).

FILM/TV Dance credits: The Toy Castle, Shall We Dance?, Make It Happen. Choreography credits: Less Than Kind, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, The Stone Angel, The Saddest Music in the World.

TEACHING “Ms. Sofia” teaches dance education and leads DTC at Tec Voc High School. She conducts dance seminars, adjudicates and appears as a guest teacher all across Canada. She has been Jazz Department Head for the prestigious Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, developed the jazz curriculum for the RWB Teacher’s Course and has choreographed for the RWB Company.

ET CETERA Sofia is honoured to be working with such

an amazing group of talented artists.

Sound Designer

Janelle Regalbuto Apprentice Set & Costume Designer MTC More than 30 productions since 1998, including Steel Magnolias, Educating Rita, The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), Strong Poison, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), The Syringa Tree, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), Fiddler on the Roof, Our Town, Over the Tavern, The Rocky Horror Show (with CS), The Clean House (with PTC), Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), A Christmas Carol, Crowns (with CS/NAC), Trying,

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Costume Designer: Lenin’s Embalmers

(WJT). Set & Costume Designer: Some Things You Keep (WJT). Set Designer: Wonka, Sleepy Hollow, nov/dec 2010

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ARTISTS A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MTYP’s Musical Theatre Company and Shakespeare Company); Prairie Spirits (2009 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival). Scenic Artist: Back To You (PTE); House at Pooh Corner, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Skinny Lie, Russell’s World, The Big League, Honk!, Kindness, Rick: The Rick Hansen Story (MTYP); Soap & Laughter, Talk, Lebensraum, Speedthe-Plow, Death of a Salesman (WJT); Macbeth (SIR).

TRAINING Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the

(The Banff Centre). Assistant Production Stage Manager: Banff Summer Arts Festival 2007. Apprentice Stage Manager: The Entertainer, Play, Orchestra, Play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Little Foxes (Shaw); Otello (Manitoba Opera). Production Assistant: Die Fledermaus (Manitoba Opera).

TRAINING Melissa is a graduate of the technical

production program at NTS.

University of Manitoba.

Leslie Sidley

ET CETERA The opportunity to work and learn under

the talent of Charlotte and Michael—and MTC’s entire production team—has been both a thrill and an honour. Thanks to the supporters of the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Apprenticeship Program and to Wayne Buss for giving me my start in the wonderful world of theatre. Love to Ken and my family.

Evan R. Klassen Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

MTC Looking Back – West, Bad Dates, Pride and Prejudice, Fiddler on the Roof, Educating Rita regional tour, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Glorious!, Moonlight and Magnolias,

Marion Bridge (PTE); Rent, Beauty and the Beast, The Full Monty (Rainbow); Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice (SIR); The Forbidden Phoenix (MTYP).

MTC The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), Jitters, Fiddler on the Roof, The Real Thing, The Innocent Eye Test (with Mirvish), Humble Boy, Evita (with TC).

TRAINING Sheridan College Institute of Technology

OTHER THEATRE Recent credits (selected): Rent,

two months of CHRISTMAS! Thanks cast, crew and the wonderful stage management team!

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rainbow); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (TC); Bordertown Café (PTE); Rigoletto (Edmonton Opera); Country Legends (Drayton Entertainment); Candide, Il Trovatore, Transit of Venus, La Bohème, The Elixir of Love, Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Così fan tutte (Manitoba Opera); three seasons with the Shaw Festival.

and Advanced Learning.

ET CETERA Leslie can’t think of anything better than

Jessica Freundl Apprentice Stage Manager

ET CETERA Evan is most unlike Mike: And we did it by remaining CALM! MTC Looking Back – West.

Melissa Novecosky Assistant Stage Manager

MTC It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Jitters, Our Town, What Lies Before Us, The Real Thing, The Tempest.

OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: Driving Miss Daisy

(Stirling Festival Theatre); Out the Window (Crow’s Theatre); A Boy Called Newfoundland (Theatre Smash); A Story Before Time, Scorched Earth Cabaret

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OTHER THEATRE Lenin’s Embalmers (WJT); Kayak

(Sarasvàti Productions’ FemFest); Juliet and Romeo, Doctor Faustus: A Fantasy, Pericles: Prince of Tyre, The Distance from Here (U of W); Saint Joan, The Bush Ladies (Theatre by the River); Patience, The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg); Thoroughly Modern Millie, Seussical the Musical (Brenda Gorlick’s YoungStars).

TRAINING Jessica is a graduate of the U of W theatre

department, majoring in Stage Management and Production.

ET CETERA Thank you for all of the support I’ve

received!

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setting the stage While White Christmas plays on the John Hirsch Theatre Mainstage, the fare at the Tom Hendry Theatre Warehouse takes a decidedly different turn. The Seafarer is a dark Irish tale where the outcome of a boozy card game could cost a very high price—your soul.

Playing a high-stakes card game on Christmas Eve while getting thoroughly sloshed is not common Christmas tradition, but the whole idea

of Christmas not being the happiest times is far from new. There is an anti-Christmas movement that has taken hold in many places, especially in England. Some people follow the movement because they feel Christmas has become a latent consumer holiday, while others go as far as to believe Christmas destroys the planet, causes poverty, affects climate change and even causes war. In the “all must be merry and bright” version of Christmas, there is no room for those who are

Not so merry and bright

by Tara Seel

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the seafarer less than cheery during the holiday season. One famous example of this is the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which was originally written for Vincente Minnelli’s 1944 musical Meet Me in Saint Louis, starring Judy Garland. Garland’s character is meant to be comforting her sister during their last Christmas at home before moving away. The original lyrics, which Garland and Minnelli thought too depressing, were:

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last, Next year we may all be living in the past Have yourself a merry little Christmas, pop that champagne cork, Next year we will all be living in New York.

No good times like the olden days, happy golden days of yore, Faithful friends who were dear to us, will be near to us no more.

But at least we all will be together, if the Fates allow, From now on we’ll have to muddle through somehow.

So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

Christopher Sigurdson as Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge’s chain-rattling former partner, in MTC’s A Christmas Carol (2005/06).

Garland insisted the lyrics be changed to something more uplifting and cheery.

Frank Sinatra had songwriter Hugh Martin revise the lyrics even further for his 1957 recording, and “muddle through somehow” became “Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.” However, those lyrics are not always the ones used in more modern renditions. Considering the anti-Christmas movement and the counter-culture artistry of Bob Dylan, it is no surprise Dylan’s version did not include the Martin rewrite.

The cries of Christmas becoming a consumerist and pro-capitalist holiday, ignoring its roots in the celebration of Jesus Christ, is far from a new concept. In the 1640s, the Puritan Party passed legislation to ban Christmas. People were celebrating the holiday with food, gifts, alcohol and stage plays, among other things, and were relishing the fact the English Civil War was over, so the Puritans in Parliament felt the religious aspect of the holiday was being lost. Parliament decided to have the military hit the streets of London and remove any food being cooked for a Christmas celebration and take down any Christmas-themed decorations, such as holly and ivy, and rosemary and bays. When the Monarchy was restored in 1660, these measures were done away with, although it appears the measures had been largely ignored by the people anyway.

Photo by Bruce Monk

Now, the anti-Christmas movement is less to do with religion and more to do with anti-consumerism, but both have the same aim—to abolish the December celebration.

In The Seafarer, one will experience Christmas a whole different way. While not everything is merry and bright for these fellows, there is some truth in this perspective as well.

References: tvtropes.org | The Guardian, 28 December 2000 | Slate, December 2005 | Grist.org | Chris Trueman, History Learning Site | The Cromwell Association

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Did you Hear that

Sound?

by Tara Seel

Susan Stackhouse has heard it all. Well, maybe not all, but she certainly has an ear for the intricacies of sound.

As an actor herself, the voice specialist understands the need to be as accurate on the stage as possible. “Professional actors work really hard to make sure they are as specific as possible,” starts Stackhouse, “which is really important because you run the risk of insulting someone if you are general with your sound and kind of doing it as a party piece, if you will, so you really try to be as specific as possible.” In the case of The Seafarer, being as specific as possible means that not just any old Irish accent will do.

“The melody of the Irish dialect that we all sort of stereotypically know for Dublin is kind of a very light and lyrical, up-and-down inflection kind of sound, and this is not the sound we’re working on for The Seafarer. The sound we’re going for is broader, flatter, a little harsher, and so finding that melody is best learned by listening to the native speakers over and over and over again so that you can get the difference between that lyrical Dublin sound and this North Dublin kind of sound.”

As a voice and speech specialist, she studies all different kinds of sound, and then figures out the best way to teach people how to make the most of those sounds, whether that be in making business presentations or acting on stage. Stackhouse is at MTC to coach the actors appearing in the Tom Hendry Theatre production of The Seafarer on how to speak with an Irish accent.

This is where Stackhouse’s research skills come to the forefront. She gathers source materials, such as radio broadcasts and documentaries featuring the native speakers, and passes that along to the actors. She also collects information on the area so the actors can really get a feel for where their characters come from and how they live. Stackhouse sends these materials in advance so the actors can start preparing. “They can go to sleep at night listening to this sound, so it’s almost by osmosis that they start to take it on,” she explains. “A student of acting would also do what we call ‘track the sound,’ which is where you listen to particular vowel sounds and repeat them. It’s drilling, drilling, drilling so that it starts to go into your body and become second nature to you.”

“Gina Wilkinson (the director) and the text, in this case, are very specific. These gentlemen (in the play) come from an area north of Dublin. It’s in Dublin, but it is just north, like a suburb of Dublin,

Once the actors have had time to sift through the resources Stackhouse sends in advance, the detailed work begins as the actors and coach come together during rehearsals. The actors practice

Have you ever heard someone try to speak in an accent unfamiliar to them? Often, it does not work very well, as how we speak is ingrained in us from a very early age. To try and change those habits is a monumental task, but a task Stackhouse takes on with a vengeance.

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Susan Stackhouse, Voice & Dialect Coach for The Seafarer, instructs actors on how to speak in certain dialects.

Here are some of her secret weapons: Above, this page and opposite: Thom Allison, as Aldopho in MTC’s The Drowsy Chaperone (2009/10), emotes, enunciates—and eviscerates—the English language. Photos by Bruce Monk

making the sounds, often mimicking the sounds they hear.

“When we’re just learning to speak,” she explains, “for the most part, we’re mimicking our sounds.

We hear other people speak and we mimic, but typically, nobody ever says, ‘When you make an s, you’re supposed to place your tongue here or the th sound, here let me look inside of your mouth.’ Nobody ever does that; we just mimic.”

So Stackhouse uses what comes naturally and breaks down the sounds the actors will have to use when speaking in a particular dialect, and then has them make those sounds.

When it comes to the dialect in The Seafarer, Stackhouse has pinpointed that the vowel sounds will be the most challenging to learn, but the consonant sounds have their own sound as well.

“They’re very similar to a British Standard sound, but things like the r sound is what we refer to as more retroflex, or farther back, so you take your tongue up to the roof of your mouth and curl it backwards to make that sound. The th sound, as in birthday, would become just a plain t sound, so instead of saying ‘birthday,’ it would be birtday. You just go to the t. Just the t sound, as in country, becomes a th, so in ‘country’, it becomes counthy. So there are little things like that we will be taking a look at. Any words ending in ing will, unless we’re making a specific point in the moment, we’ll drop the g. That’s very Canadian,” Stackhouse laughs, “so I don’t think that will be very hard for the actors. Instead of ‘coming’ or ‘going,’ it will become ‘comin’ or ‘goin’.”

Stackhouse points out that, whether we hear it or not, we all speak with our own dialect, which means that everyone in the cast has to get on the same page when it comes to how words will sound. With the North Dublin sound in The Seafarer, the vowels are drawn out, or become diphthong sounds, to use Stackhouse’s term.

Talking Canadian is a 43-minute DVD sold by CBC. An amusing look at our dialect, intonation and vocabulary, the DVD is narrated

by Ben Carlson (Mr. Lockhart in MTC’s The Seafarer).

It is important to watch the whole body of the speaker and not just listen to a tape or CD. When trying to learn a dialect, watch a video of the native speaker, but with the sound turned off. Copy the body language of the speaker, being very specific, even copying the movement of the face, eyes and lips. Then make the sound imagining how that speaker would sound. More often than not, when you turn the sound back up, you will be pretty close to the actual dialect you are going after.

The Dialect Handbook: Learning, Researching, and Performing a Dialect Role by Ginny Kopf not only teaches how to learn dialects, but has a listing of hundreds of feature films, television series, audio tapes, books and dialect instructional tapes for studying more than 30 different dialects.

An online dialect repository called International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), of which Susan Stackhouse is an Associate Editor, was created in 1997 as a free online archive of primary source dialect and accent recording for the performing arts.

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curtain calls “A good example of this diphthong sound is the word ‘time.’ This is a diphthong sound anyway, but it will change to tame or to toime, and we have to figure out exactly which one we want, but there are different ways of pronouncing.”

Another pronunciation that is specific to the North Dublin sound is the u sound. “Very specific to this sound, I’m finding, is, for example, the word ‘up’ or ‘Dublin.’ That u sound becomes ep or Deblin instead of ‘up’ and ‘Dublin,’ or ‘couple’ becomes kepple or ‘pub’ becomes peb. I’m looking at about eight changes right now in the vowels, and I’m sure there will be more once we get more specific. That will be a big challenge, and I think that finding consistency in it all will be a challenge, too. In every sound I’m listening to, people are coming from the same area, but they’re all sounding a little bit different.”

This is a challenge because people from the same area typically pronounce words the same way. For example, depending on where you live in Canada, you can pronounce the word “again” as ag-en or a-gain. Or you can say bin instead of “been.”

the seafarer It is very important to be as specific as possible when working on a dialect or accent, and that work is not just about the sounds. One has to consider many things. “How, exactly, does the character think, breathe, move and sound? A generalized attempt is not good enough as not only would the director and cast run the risk of insulting an actual native speaker, but such an attempt would also hinder the telling of the story, and the audience could end up listening more to a dialect than to the play itself. We do not ever want to hear that the play became more about the dialects than about the story itself!” emphasizes Stackhouse.

Taking every aspect of character into consideration when it comes to the dialect, it goes without saying that teaching a dialect is not an easy endeavour, but for Stackhouse, it is art within art.

When the actors get it, when they can speak as though they were born in North Dublin, it adds an authenticity to the play that Stackhouse plays no small part in creating.

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ARTISTS ET CETERA Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago) for

Oliver Becker James “Sharky” Harkin

Hamlet; Dora Award for The Doll House (DVxT Theatre Company).

Omar Khan Nicky Giblin MTC The Diary of Anne Frank, The Weir (with CS).

OTHER THEATRE King of Thieves, Peter Pan, Cyrano

de Bergerac, Zastrozzi, Macbeth (Stratford); Beyond Mozambique, The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum, Better Living, Escape from Happiness (Factory Theatre); Wild Mouth (Tarragon); The Pillowman (Birdland Theatre/ CS); The Pillowman, Frozen (Citadel); A Whistle in the Dark (Company Theatre); Hamlet, The Bear, La Ronde (Soulpepper); Sideman, Soldier’s Heart (Tarragon); Cherry Docs, Macbeth (Grand); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Centaur); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (CS); Playboy of the Western World (Shaw). Upcoming: Richard III, Hosanna (Stratford).

TV Oliver appears as a series regular on The Weight

for TMN and Rent a Goalie for Showcase TV. Other television work includes Angela’s Eyes (Lifetime), Queer as Folk, Street Time, Odyssey 5 (Showtime), Salem Witch Trials (CBS) and Chasing Cain (CBC).

MTC Glengarry Glen Ross.

OTHER THEATRE Pygmalion, Johnny Belinda

(Montgomery Theatre); Betrayal (WJT); Moonlight and Magnolias (PTE); The Merchant of Venice (SIR).

FILM/TV Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Less Than Kind, You Kill Me, Zooey and Adam.

ET CETERA Omar sends out a big thank you to all his

Irish brothers and sisters at the Tara Players. And much love to The Cat.

Brian Richardson Richard Harkin

TRAINING Vancouver Playhouse Acting School.

ET CETERA Oliver is very happy to be back at MTC.

Ben Carlson Mr. Lockhart

MTC A View From the Bridge, Henry V, One in a Million, Born Yesterday, Creeps, Crabdance, The Plough and the Stars.

OTHER THEATRE All Restaurant Fires are Arson, Chimera,

MTC The Homecoming, Closer.

OTHER THEATRE Some favourites: title role in Hamlet,

Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Touchstone in As You Like It, John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest (Stratford); title roles in Macbeth and Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); John Tanner in Man and Superman, Eustace Jackson in The Return of the Prodigal, Chris Keller in All My Sons (Shaw); Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost (NAC); Biff in Death of a Salesman (Neptune); Jim O’Connor in The Glass Menagerie (PTE); Marchbanks in Candida (Theatre Calgary); Private Gar in Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia).

FILM/TV Grey Gardens, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, Angela’s Eyes, Slings and Arrows, The 11th Hour, Hemingway Vs. Callaghan, My Dog Vincent.

For a full list of theatre abbreviations, please Refer to legend on page 4

Drift (PTE); After Magritte (StoppardFest); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (BrechtFest); Are Ye Right? (The Royal Spa Hotel, Lisdoonvarna, Ireland); Patterns From Snow (Fusion Dance Theatre); A Christmas Carol (TC); Artistic Director of the Heritage Theatre at The Forks National Historic Site.

FILM/TV Billy, You Kill Me, Coming Forward, Lily the Witch, Heck’s Way Home, Lost in the Barrens, My Life as a Dog. TEACHING Brian lectures in Continuing Education at the U of W, presenting topics such as Canadian History and Celtic Consciousness. He will present the lecture series “Story at the Core” in spring 2011.

ET CETERA This production of The Seafarer is like a

homecoming for Brian: a play about his hometown, Dublin, in the theatre he has often played since arriving in Winnipeg. Thanks, Gina and Steven, for the chance to work with “the lads.” This one’s for Wayne Nicklas.

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ARTISTS OTHER THEATRE Director: Wide Awake Hearts

Tom Rooney Ivan

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well,

Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Stratford); Courageous, Benevolence, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Tarragon); My Mother’s Feet, Homechild (CS); Shining City (Persephone Theatre); Hairspray (Toronto and Broadway productions).

FILM/TV The Day After Tomorrow, Gilda Radner: It’s

Always Something, three seasons as Crown Attorney David Kaye on CBC’s This is Wonderland (two Gemini nominations).

(Tarragon); Half an Hour, Born Yesterday (Shaw); Faith Healer (Soulpepper); The Good Egg, Mick Unplugged, Mary’s Wedding (premieres; ATP); My Mother’s Feet, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (BeMe Theatre, Munich, Germany); The Drawer Boy, Moonlight and Magnolias, Relatively Speaking (Grand); The Woman in White, Over the River and Through the Woods (TA); Turn of the Screw, Grace (Belfry); Eyes of Heaven (Blyth); Guide to Mourning (Globe); For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Festival Antigonish).

Playwright: My Mother’s Feet (CS); Whistle Me Home (SummerWorks Theatre Festival); Andersen’s Inkwell (Geordie Theatre; created with Micheline Chevrier).

Upcoming: directing The Cryptogram (Belfry) and Candida (Shaw).

Sue LePage Set & Costume Designer

Conor McPherson Playwright

MTC Death and the Maiden, Billy Bishop Goes to War (with Grand/NAC/Christopher Wootten).

OTHER THEATRE Recent: Lillian Alling (world premiere,

Conor McPherson was born in Dublin in 1971. He attended the University College in Dublin where he began to write and direct. His plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Blower, St. Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier Award, Best Play), Dublin Carol, Port Authority and Shining City (Tony Award nomination, Best Play). Film work includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and The Actors. Other awards include the George Devine Award, Critics’ Circle Award, Evening Standard Award, Meyer Whitworth Award, Stewart Parker Award, two Irish Film & Television Academy Best Screenplay Awards, CICAE Best Film Award—Berlin Film Festival (Saltwater), Best Film and Best Screenplay Awards—San Sebastian Film Festival (I Went Down).

Gina Wilkinson

Vancouver Opera); Age of Arousal, Harvey, Born Yesterday, Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Magic Fire among many others (Shaw); The Madonna Painter (Factory Theatre); Loot, Black Comedy, The Real Inspector Hound (Soulpepper); Group of Seven Nutcracker, Anastasia (Ballet Jörgen Canada).

Upcoming: August: Osage County (Citadel); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Shaw).

ET CETERA Sue has more than 150 theatre credits

to her name, including productions with Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, The National Arts Centre, the Banff Centre, the Grand Theatre, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People and the Charlottetown Festival. She has won two Dora Awards and calls Toronto home.

Larry Isacoff Lighting Designer

Director

MTC Actor: Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Quills, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, How I Learned to Drive.

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MTC Looking Back – West, Bleeding Hearts, Rope’s End, The Retreat from Moscow, Fully Committed, Mating Dance of the Werewolf, The Miracle Worker, Cloud Nine, Bedroom Farce, How I Got That Story, The Affections of May, Mrs. Klein, The Gin Game, Paper Wheat.

ARTISTS OTHER THEATRE Globe Theatre, 25th Street Theatre,

Susan Stackhouse

Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, PTE, MTYP.

Voice & Dialect Coach

Michael Wright Sound Designer MTC Looking Back – West, Top Girls, Rope’s End, Fully Committed, The Last Five Years, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Cherry Docs.

OTHER THEATRE North Main Gothic, The Monster

Trilogy, The Elmwood Visitation, Age of Arousal (TPM); Everything is Coming Up Roses (Gearshifting Performance Works); Mmm Munsch, Something Drastic, Puppet Munsch (PTE); Macbeth (SIR); The Designated Mourner (Persona Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival); Hedwig and the Angry Inch Atrocity Tour 2004 (Rose Tinted Productions, UK).

ET CETERA Michael is active in the music world with

over two dozen album credits. He lives in Winnipeg with his partner Arlea and is a member of IATSE 63.

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MTC Strong Poison.

OTHER THEATRE Sixteen seasons with the Shaw Festival

as a member of the Acting Ensemble and as a Voice Coach. Has also voice coached and/or acted at TNB, Neptune, Persephone Theatre, Blyth, Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre and Ship’s Company Theatre.

FILM/TV Includes dialect coaching on The River King, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, A Pyromaniac’s Love Story and episodes of various television series.

TRAINING/TEACHING Trained at Dalhousie University, the National Theatre School of Canada and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England (as a recipient of the Chevening Scholarship). Has taught at George Brown College, the National Theatre School, Ryerson University, and is now (since 1996) an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Dalhousie University, where she teaches in the Acting Programme.

ARTISTS ET CETERA Research includes collecting Canadian

dialects as an associate editor for the world’s first online dialect and accent repository, The International Dialects of English Archive. Susan has directed several DalTheatre productions.

Chris Pearce Stage Manager

Jacqueline Loewen Fight Director

MTC Selected: Fourteen productions at the Mainstage; four productions at the Warehouse: The Gin Game, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Paper Wheat, Ten Lost Years.

OTHER THEATRE Carmen (Manitoba Opera); Where

the Blood Mixes (PTE); The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold Productions); Kindness (MTYP).

MTC Actor: Top Girls.

OTHER THEATRE Selected fight directing: Tosca, Car-

men (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); All Restaurant Fires Are Arson (PTE).

TEACHING Jacqueline has taught stage combat at MTYP and PTE, and assistant taught at the U of W.

ET CETERA Stage Manager, Assembly Rooms,

Edinburgh Fringe (1981, 1982, 2010). Chris is a member of The Woodlot Association of Manitoba and The Manitoba Forestry Association and volunteers at SAVE OUR SEINE and TREES WINNIPEG.

ET CETERA Jacqueline is very pleased to be working with

Michael Duggan

the Manitoba Theatre Centre and such fine performers.

Apprentice Stage Manager

Krista Jackson Assistant Director

MTC Steel Magnolias.

OTHER THEATRE The Barber of Seville (Manitoba MTC Actor: The Threepenny Opera, Quills, The Good

Sisters (Les Belles Soeurs), The Sisters Rosensweig, Brighton Beach Memoirs.

OTHER THEATRE Favourite acting credits: North Main

Opera); Fen, FemFest (Sarasvàti Productions); Billy Bishop Goes to War, Saint Joan, Habitat (Theatre by the River); Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman (U of W); Zombie Prom (Winnipeg Fringe Festival); Altar Boyz (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); The Late Show (White Rabbit Productions).

Gothic, Age of Arousal (TPM); The Winter’s Tale (TomTom Theatre); Educating Rita, The Playboy of the Western World (Touchmark Theatre); Salt Water Moon (Theatre Orangeville); Dracula (Grand); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Showboat Festival Theatre); Sky (Coping Stone Theatre).

FILM Truce.

TRAINING Ryerson Theatre School.

ET CETERA Mike is happy to be back at MTC.

TRAINING Mike has recently finished his BA (Hons.) at

the U of W in theatre production/stage management.

ET CETERA Krista recently launched zone41: a new

theatre in Winnipeg. zone41 will present the world premiere of Bruce McManus’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (set in Moose Jaw in the late 1950s) in early fall 2011. Check us out at www.zone41.ca.

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MTC Receives Royal Designation On October 26, 2010, at a ceremony at the Manitoba Legislature, Premier Greg Selinger announced the Manitoba Theatre Centre had been given a royal designation from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, permitting MTC to be called the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. As the oldest Englishspeaking regional theatre in Canada, MTC has a long and storied history of enriching Manitoba’s cultural landscape, and this honour is a testament to MTC’s belief that theatre is an important part of this community.

With this designation, MTC joins two other Manitoba organizations that have been similarly honoured: the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Brandon Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. MTC is the second Canadian theatre to receive this honour. It has been more than 100 years since King Edward VII honoured the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto with a royal designation. Royal designations are quite rare, and the staff and artists at MTC are grateful for the recognition.

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“The royal designation has filled us with humility rather than pride, and we are grateful to Her Majesty and the Government of Manitoba for the distinction. This honour reaffirms our belief that live theatre can transform lives, one play at a time,” said MTC Artistic Director Steven Schipper.

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Eric Blais as Perry in last season’s world premiere of Looking Back – West. In addition to acting as Apprentice Director for MTC’s upcoming production of The 39 Steps, Eric takes the stage with a lead role in Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter in January.

Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship Fund During the run of White Christmas, MTC will be asking for your support of the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship Fund. Established in 1964, the fund has provided more than 700 awards to 400 Manitobans.

The Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship comprises two components: a scholarship division for students attending post-secondary theatre programs full-time and an apprenticeship division for emerging artists looking to gain experience in professional theatre.

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scholarships to post-secondary students and three apprenticeships to young professionals.

This year, scholarship recipients attended schools across North America, including Northwestern University (Chicago), the National Theatre School (Montreal), George Brown College, Randolph Academy, Humber College (Toronto), Sheridan College (Oakville), Studio 58 (Vancouver), the University of Alberta (Edmonton), the University of Calgary, the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg.

You’ve likely seen scholarship recipients on local stages, behind the scenes, in movies and more.

Past recipients include Thom Allison (Aldolpho, MTC’s The Drowsy Chaperone), Laurie Lam (Producer, MTC), Matthew Bates (Head Carpenter, Mamma Mia!), Donnelly Rhodes (Detective Leo Shannon on Da Vinci’s Inquest) and Nia Vardalos (writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding). At White Christmas performances, you’ll be seeing the work of three recipients—Kimberley Rampersad (Judy Haynes), Justin Stadnyk (Mark/Ensemble) and Janelle Regalbuto (Apprentice Set & Costume Designer).

The Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship is unique in that it allows students to receive support from audiences. Recipients appreciate your personal investment in their future. Ushers will be coming around to collect donations to the fund. We thank you in advance for continuing to support Manitoba artists.

Last season, we had our second-highest collection in the history of the fund. During the run of Steel Magnolias, you donated $28,251.37. Thank you for your support of up-and-coming local artists! From this collection, we allocated 21

For more information on the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship or for an application package, please visit www.mtc.mb.ca/scholarship. If you prefer, you can contact the MTC Outreach Coordinator at 934-0304 or outreach@mtc.mb.ca.

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news for some businesses. Ski resorts, snowmobile dealers and, believe it or not, the theatre all rely on a good sprinkle of snow and colder weather to prosper. In White Christmas, no snow means the inn in Vermont is losing customers and needs “some weather” to buoy occupancy. In the theatre world, ticket buyers are often slow to the box office for seasonal productions until the streets are blanketed with the first snowfall. So in a sense, the theatre, like many others, benefits from the gift of snow.

The holiday season is a time for many of us to share special gifts with loved ones. This year, White Christmas is MTC’s holiday gift to the community, an offering of an uplifting story, memorable songs and warm sentiments of the season.

The holiday season is also a time when donors have traditionally contributed generous gifts to MTC’s Annual Fund, and for this, we are very grateful. Together with the support of sponsors and funders, these gifts help pay for “half of your seat,” since 50% of production costs are not covered by ticket sales. Your gift as a donor also: • ensures the finest in local artistic talent is made available to our community through live theatre; • keeps our doors open wide with affordable ticket prices, and; • helps “make it snow” in our production of White Christmas.

Please consider a gift to MTC’s Annual Fund and take advantage of the December 31st deadline for a 2010 tax receipt.

In Manitoba, snow and colder weather means shovelling and shivering, pushing and plowing, and yet many of us pine for “a blanket of white” at this time of year. There is something wonderful about glistening snow-covered trees, sleigh rides, skating and hot chocolate, and sending cards and warm wishes to family and friends. We also treasure the memories of holidays past as we sing along to Irving Berlin’s famous words: I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

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theatre etiquette “… evening dress is always worn by both men and women at the theatre when there is anything especially good on, such as a touring English company, a great actor, or a noted play from New York.” – Etiquette in Canada by Gertrude Pringle, 1932

Well, times have changed.

Evening dress is now rare and “especially good” Canadian plays are now common. What’s remained constant is our mothers’ definition of etiquette: knowing how to put others at ease. When you visit the theatre, you sit close to many people in a quiet room for hours, and your behaviour has an enormous impact on their ability to enjoy the performance. Those attending the theatre for the first time may welcome some guidelines, while those who’ve been attending for years may be curious about how recent societal changes have influenced our collective code of theatrical conduct.

Arrival There is no such thing as being fashionably late at the theatre. Please arrive in time to find your seat before the performance starts. If not, you may end up watching the play on a monitor in the lobby until intermission or being shown to a seat at the back of the house during a scene break.

Please turn off your cell phones/iPods/gaming systems/cameras. Performers and patrons have complained about an increase in texting, surfing and gaming during performances (yes, other people can see you). The use of cameras and recording devices is strictly prohibited by our collective agreement, and we will confiscate film or delete digital images.

Dress There is no dress code at MTC, but hats should always be removed since they can interfere with other patrons’ view of the stage.

Food/Drinks Before the performances and during intermissions, the theatre sells snacks and drinks in the lobby, and provides complimentary water. Food and drinks are not allowed in the theatre. Of course, we welcome the use of cough candies in the auditorium, as long as you remove the noisy little wrappers before the play begins.

Scent You are probably aware that many patrons have serious respiratory conditions that make it difficult for them to be in contact with scented products. Please consider them before you use any scent. You will feel terrible if you forget, and someone has to be evacuated from the theatre in an ambulance (it has happened).

Superstitions Whistling or uttering the name of Shakespeare’s Scottish play can frighten theatre folk, as can the wearing of peacock feathers. Please humour us.

Talking During the Performance When you speak (even in a whisper), the actors and your neighbours can hear you. We will remove disruptive patrons from the theatre, so please wait until after the performance to share your thoughts and opinions.

Now that you know how to help others enjoy the performance, you should feel free to experience the joy, sorrow, anger and surprise that the playwright intended. After the performance, please thank the artists by applauding during the curtain call.

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Leaving Try not to leave the theatre during a performance as the other patrons and the actors onstage will notice the disruption. If you must leave, do so as quietly as possible and be prepared to follow the House Manager’s instructions before returning. She may ask you to watch the monitor in the lobby until she can reseat you, or she may place you in a vacant seat at the back of the house.

Su pporting Partners MTC expresses sincere thanks to our major corporate and government sponsors.

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Behind the scen es Honorary Members

Accounting/Finance

Production

His Honour, Lt. Governor Philip S. Lee The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship, Mayor Sam Katz

Sharon Burden, Accounting Yvonne O’Connor, Accounting Shelley Stroski, Controller

Executive Officers

Administration

Gary Hannaford, FCA, Chair Gerry Couture, past chair Jim McLandress, Secretary,

Brian Adolph, IT Manager Zaz Bajon, General Manager Natascha Hainsworth, Outreach Coordinator Daphne MacMillan, Administrative Secretary Debbie Neufeld, Reception/Marketing Assistant Alan Waite, Assistant General Manager

Laura Enns, Bookkeeper/Assistant Ian Kirk, Assistant to the Technical Director Laura Lindeblom, Assistant to the Production Manager Rick MacPherson, Technical Director, Tom Hendry Theatre Russell Martin, Production Manager Crystal L. Spicer, Technical Director, John Hirsch Theatre

Chair, Governance & Strategic Planning Patrick Green, Treasurer Kerry Dangerfield, Chair, Community Relations Robert Eastwood, Chair, Resource Development Shannon Ernst, Chair, Organizational Performance

Trustees David Carefoot David Christie Derrick Coupland Anthony C. Fletcher Debbie Gray Jeff Lamothe Bruce Leslie Michelle Weinberg Rod Woodcock Rick Workman Brenda Zaporzan

Advisory Council Lawrence Prout, Chair Gail Asper Morley Blankstein Doneta Brotchie Angus Campbell Albert D. Cohen Hy Dashevsky Glen Dyrda, FCA John F. Fraser Jean Giguere Charron Hamilton Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Gordon Keatch Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews Claire W. Miller Jeffrey Morton, FCA Hon. Jack Murta Lillian Neaman Shelley Nimchonok Andrew Ogaranko, QC James Pappas John Petersmeyer Jeff Quinton Patricia Rabson Margaret Redmond Susan Skinner Al Snyder Maureen Watchorn

Artistic Jeff Kennedy, Wordplay Coordinator Laurie Lam, Producer Robb Paterson, Associate Artistic Director Steven Schipper, Artistic Director Melinda Tallin, Artistic Coordinator

Carpentry Louis Gagne, Layout Carpenter Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Scenic Carpenter Lloyd Thomas, Carpenter

Communications Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Doowah Design Inc., Design Bruce Monk, Photographer Brent Phillips, Director of Marketing & Communications Mark Saunders, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Tara Seel, Publicist/Web Editor

Development Kristine Betker, Director of Fund Development Jade Dawson, Assistant special events coordinator Garth Johnson, Major, individual & planned Giving Officer Michael Joyal, Development Assistant Stephanie Lambert, Special & Donor Events Coordinator

John Hirsch Theatre Front-of-House Deborah Gay-de Vries, Front-of-House Manager Sheena Baird, Assistant House Manager Kim Cossette, Jenny Hall, Jonny Hall, Elfie Harvey, Sherri Kostecki, Erica Lasker, Tia Levine, Rex McTavish, Robyn Milligan, Jessica Olson, Miria Olson, Chris Pearce, Amariah Peterson, Angela Rajfur, Ray Strachan, Jennifer Schmidt, Caroline Shields, Cristin Sinclair, Kevin Stroski, Phyllis Van Drunen, Rita Vande Vyvere, Chelsea Zacharias, Derek Zorniak

Maintenance Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent

Paint Susan Groff, Head Scenic Artist Lawrence Van Went, Scenic Artist Assisted by: Kim Hamin, Pam Tubman, Pippi Johnson, Erin Brown

Patron Services Office Laurie Fletcher, Patron Services Office Manager Melanie Sexton, Ticketing Services Director Jennifer Skelly, Tessitura Application Coordinator Patron Services Representatives: Katie Adamson, Sheena Baird, Natercia Doucet, Alana Odokeychuk, Michaela Porter, Ali Robson, Jessica Ross

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Properties Peter Baureiss, Properties Builder Larry Demedash, Senior Properties Builder Kari Hagness, Head of Properties Samantha Harrison, Properties Builder Lorne Morriss, Properties Buyer James Sutherland, Properties Builder

Stage Crew Doug Antoine, stage crew Arlo C. Bates, stage crew John Bent Jr., Head of Sound Laurie Carpenter, dresser Ray Galinaitis, stage crew Hart Greenberg, Head Carpenter Alanna Holder-Riches, dresser Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Raymond Lemieux, stage crew Paul McWhinney, stage crew Frank Palmer, stage crew Benjamin Ross, Head Electrician Chris Seida, stage crew Bob Smith, stage crew Donna Talbot, dresser John Tomiuk, House Stage Hand Brenda Zachanowich, dresser

Tele-Sales Representative Sandra Rubin

Tom Hendry Theatre Rick MacPherson, Technical Director Alison Nutt, Head Carpenter Claude Robert, Head Electrician Michael Wright, Head of Sound

Tom Hendry Theatre Front-of-House Kim Cossette, Front-of-House Manager Phyllis Hildebrand, Pam Neal, Cristin Sinclair, Scott Tweedy

Wardrobe Amanda Isaak, First Hand Norma LaChance, sewer Thora Lamont, Cutter Barb Mackenzie, Sewer Lorraine O’Leary, Head of Wardrobe/Cutter Lois Powne, First Hand Yvonne Rempel, Sewer Hollis Spevack, sewer Evan Stillwater, Tailor Jackie Van Winkle, Buyer/Accessories Iris Wood, Sewer

Wigs Beverly Covert, Wigs & Makeup Supervisor Allison Mondesir, Wig Building & Design Zeitune Salah, Wigs & makeup assistant

Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival & Master Playwright Festival Deborah Axelrod, Festival Coordinator Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer

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