SondheimFest 2013

13th Master Playwright Festival FREE PROGRAM

Celebrating the music and songs of

January 16 – February 3

www.masterplaywrightfest.com

Presented by

Stephen Sondheim

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120 King Street Phone 204-957-7710

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Message from MTC’s Artistic Director................ 4 Lectures. ........................................................... 6 Sondheim’s list of works................................... 4 how sondheimFest works. .................................. 6 about Stephen Sondheim.................................... 5 festival planner............................................... 12

SondheimFestPARTNERS Assassins..........................................................7 Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Dear Mama........................................................ 8 Impel Theatre

Follies............................................................. 9 Dry Cold Productions

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. ................................10 Kiss the Giraffe Productions

Impromptu Splendor........................................ 11 Winnipeg Jewish Theatre

Into the Woods................................................14 District Theatre Collective

The Last of Sheila........................................... 15 Resonator Theatrical

Sondheim Karaoke........................................... 16 The Actors’ Fund of Canada

Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure. ...... 17 Naughty Sailboat/The 28th Minute Shadling Productions/Snakeskin Jacket

Sunday in the Park with George. .....................18 Gallery Works Free Screening

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street................... 19 Winnipeg Public Library free screening

West Side Story............................................... 19 Winnipeg Public Library Staged reading

What’s Love Got to Do with It?........................20 Manitoba Association of Playwrights Accompanying Event

Me and My Town: Thom Allison in Concert....... 21 zone41 theatre Accompanying event

Rehearsal for Murder: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim.......................22 Tara Players/Murder on the Menu

Each Production has unique box office policies.

Details are listed on each company page.

For More Information, Please call the royal manitoba theatre centre box office at 204-942-6537, toll-free at 1-877-446-4500 or visit us online at www.masterplaywrightfest.com .

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Message from MTC’s

Artistic Director Steven Schipper

In 1968, feminist and undercover Playboy Bunny Gloria Steinem asked her puzzle-loving friend Stephen Sondheim to concoct some cryptic crosswords for a new magazine called New York. Over the next two years, the playwright created 41 of the most diabolically difficult puzzles of their kind, stopping only because he had to finish writing Company, a play that ultimately won Tony Awards for best musical and best score.

Doesn’t this story say a lot about Sondheim’s plays? They’re as sexy as Steinem, as defiantly brilliant as his puzzles, and as imbued with urban chic as the city that inspired Sondheim’s life and work. At the very heart of both the puzzles and his plays is virtuosic wordplay.

Sondheim is as unsentimental as Brecht, as cerebral as Beckett, as blackly funny as Mamet, and as keen a social observer as Shaw, but he writes in rhyme. Long before hip hop made it cool again, Sondheim was creating rhymes that delight and surprise and, in retrospect, feel inevitable, as if there were really no other civilized way to express that idea or emotion. His lyrics are clever while seeming effortless,

revealing while hiding masses of subtext, and since A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1962, they’ve been paired almost exclusively with Sondheim’s own incomparable music.

Today, you can’t buy a copy of the rare spiral-bound collection of Sondheim’s cryptic crosswords, but you can come to SondheimFest and experience his plays. They will charm and challenge you, and, as Sondheim said of his puzzles, offer you the deeply satisfying pleasure of following and matching his devious mind.

Yours always,

A Selection of Works by Stephen Sondheim Saturday Night (1954) | not produced until 1997 West Side Story (1957) | Lyrics *

Sweeney Todd (1979) * Marry Me A Little (1980) | Revue

Gypsy (1959) | Lyrics

Merrily We Roll Along (1981)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) *

You’re Going to Love Tomorrow (1983) | Revue

Anyone Can Whistle (1964)

Sunday in the Park with George (1984) *

Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)

Into the Woods (1987) *

Company (1970)

Assassins (1990) *

Follies (1971) * A Little Night Music (1973)

Passion (1994)

The Last of Sheila (1973) | Film *

Getting Away with Murder (1996)

The Frogs (1974)

Bounce (2003)

Pacific Overtures (1976)

Sondheim on Sondheim (2010) | Revue

Side by Side by Sondheim (1976) | Revue

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Putting it Together (1992) | Revue

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* works featured at sondheimfest

About Stephen Sondheim Stephen Sondheim has been called the greatest artist in musical theatre, and the founding father of the modern musical who revolutionized the medium. Over the course of his career, he’s won an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, multiple Grammy Awards, Laurence Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. He’s written music and lyrics for more than 19 major works, has composed film scores and has been the subject of multiple anthologies and revues.

Born in 1930 in New York, Sondheim grew up with his mother in rural Pennsylvania after his parents divorced when he was 10. An only child, Sondheim became friends with the son of playwright, lyricist and producer Oscar Hammerstein, who happened to be his neighbour.

When Sondheim was a teenager, Hammerstein became a mentor, fostering a love of musical theatre in his student and teaching him “more about songwriting and the musical theatre than most people learn in a lifetime.”

While Sondheim pursued formal education in music at Williams College, Hammerstein continued to tutor him, having him write scripts and scores for four musicals.

After college, Sondheim moved to New York to study composition with Milton Babbit.

Sondheim was only 25 when he landed his first professional writing job as lyricist for West Side Story. He followed that assignment with another Arthur Laurents/ Jerome Robbins collaboration when he wrote the lyrics for Gypsy in 1959. These two musicals were called “daring and unorthodox” at the time, and they marked a departure from Broadway musicals written before the Second World War. Former New York Times critic Frank Rich said Sondheim “was a rebel advancing a cause: a new, jarring, adult kind of Broadway musical.”

Others agree that every new musical since has been influenced in one way or another by the “new rules” Sondheim established.

Photo by Jerry Jackson

While he started his career as a lyricist, Sondheim prefers to write both music and lyrics for a piece, which he first achieved in 1962 with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 1972, he collaborated for the first time with Harold Prince. They created Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. After more than a decade, the two friends amicably sought new partnerships. Sondheim went to work with playwright and director James Lapine. Together, they won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George, one of only nine musicals to receive the honour. Three years later, the pair achieved success again with Into the Woods.

In the ‘90s, Sondheim wrote music and lyrics for Assassins and Passion, and won a Best Song Oscar for Dick Tracy’s “Sooner or Later.” In 2008, he received a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. Two years later, in honour of his 80th birthday, the Henry Miller Theatre in New York was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

Turning 83 in March, Sondheim shows no intention of retiring. Early in 2012, he announced plans for a new musical with playwright David Ives. He remains Executive Vice President of the organization Young Playwrights, which he founded in 1981 to inspire youth to write for the theatre. His work continues to inspire as his musicals are remounted regularly on Broadway and around the world.

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Free Lecture Series

Introducing Sondheim King’s Head Pub and Eatery

Wed jan 16 7:00pm

120 King Street (2nd Floor)

no wheelchair access

Stephen Sondheim is the undisputed master of musical theatre. A renowned composer and lyricist, he ushered in a new era of Broadway in the ‘50s and has been writing top-notch musicals for seven decades. Guest lecturer Donna Fletcher will give an overview of Sondheim’s life while exploring his influence on musical theatre history.

Donna Fletcher is an accomplished director, actor and concert performer with a wide range of experience in theatre and musical theatre. She

is the co-creator of Dry Cold Productions and directs the Musical Theatre Ensemble at the University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music. In the summer of 2012, she directed Annie at Rainbow Stage where she was inducted onto their Wall of Fame. She will appear as Sally in Dry Cold’s SondheimFest offering of Follies.

Discovering Sondheim Directors Panel

Tom Hendry Warehouse

sat jan 19 12:00pm

140 Rupert Avenue at Lily Street

wheelchair accessible

Producing the works of the man who transformed musical theatre comes with its own set of challenges and rewards. Join the directors behind three of Sondheim’s signature productions as they talk about bringing these masterworks to the stage.

Panelists | Kami Desilets, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Kiss the Giraffe Productions) Reid Harrison, Follies (Dry Cold Productions) | Connie Manfredi, Into the Woods (District Theatre Collective)

How SondheimFest Works The 13th annual Master Playwright Festival showcases the work of musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim through live performances, revues and readings. From January 16 to February 3, the action is non-stop with a steady offering of productions presented by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and 13 partner companies, in addition to the free lecture series.

Individual tickets | Tickets start at $10 and are available by contacting the box office for each production. See the company write-ups in this program for more details.

SondheimPass | The festival pass allows you to get your fill of Sondheim for only $80. A pass allows one admission to each SondheimFest production, at a savings of more than 50%. For the complete festival experience, we suggest you buy a SondheimPass. Hurry, though – the number of passes are limited! SondheimPasses are on sale at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Box Office. Please note: Me and My Town: Thom Allison in Concert and Rehearsal for Murder are not included in the SondheimPass.

Call 204-942-6537 or toll-free 1-877-446-4500 Please note: Admission to all events is subject to availability. All sales final. No exchanges or refunds.

Assassins Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Tom Hendry Warehouse 140 Rupert Avenue (at Lily Street) www.mtc.mb.ca

Bold, surreal and alarmingly funny, Stephen Sondheim’s controversial musical takes aim at nine people who assassinated – or tried to – the President of the United States. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, these lost souls believe the American dream has failed them and they’re ready to settle the score. If this is the land of opportunity, shouldn’t everyone get their shot?

Director | Adam Brazier Cast | Graham Abbey, Shane Carty, Kevin Dennis, Alex Fiddes,

Melody Johnson, Joe Matheson, Janet Porter, Steve Ross, Whitney Ross Baris, Christopher Stanton, Jonathan Tan, Alicia Toner, Geoffrey Tyler A Birdland theatre and talk is free theatre production

“Who do we believe? Who do we trust? What do we do?

We do the only thing we can do. We kill the President.” – Byck performances

Jan 17 – feb 2

monday, thursday, friday

8:00pm

saturday matinee

3:30pm

tuesday, wednesday

7:30pm

saturday evening

8:30pm

thursday jan 31 matinee 2:00pm

wheelchair accessible

CAPACITY 286

1hr 50mins

warning Strong Language, gunshots, Theatrical Haze

box office information

payment method cash/interac/visa/mastercard/american express.

Sondheimpass for best available ‘b’ seating. $20.00 Under 30? at the door box office opens 1 hour before showtime.

tickets start at

Ask about Rush tickets in advance reserve or purchase by phone at 204-942-6537 www.mtc.mb.ca/rush or online at www.mtc.mb.ca

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Dear Mama by kendra jones

Impel Theatre Studio 320 (Theatre Incarnate) 320–70 Albert Street www.impelartists.com

Inspired by Sondheim’s lyrics in Gypsy, this new piece delves into the mind and body of a girl obsessed with fame, beauty and attention.

Words have the power to build you up or tear you down.

“Beautiful. I’m beautiful. Look, Mama, I’m beautiful.” Mama will be proud.

Written & Performed by Kendra Jones Direction & Dramaturgy by Megan Andres

Each performance will be followed by a 30-minute Q & A session with the creative team.

“Not everyone is capable of being loved, Ruby.

They are too selfish. They aren’t willing to give themselves to the people who want to love them.” performances

thu jan 17 8:00pm

fri jan 18 8:00pm

no wheelchair access

sat jan 19 8:00pm

sun jan 20 2:00pm

CAPACITY 35

warning Language, mature themes

box office information

tickets $10.00

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at the door cash/sondheimpass. box office opens 45 minutes before showtime. in advance to reserve tickets, call 204-475-8747 or email kendra@impelartists.com

40mins

Follies Dry Cold Productions The Berney Theatre at the Asper Jewish Community Campus 123 Doncaster Street www.drycoldproductions.ca

A true theatrical event, this legendary masterpiece is considered by many to be the greatest musical ever created.

The time is 1971 and theatrical impresario Dimitri Weissmann hosts a reunion of ex-Follies performers in his crumbling theatre. The stage is set for a parade of brilliant pastiche numbers, including “Losing My Mind,” “I’m Still Here” and “Broadway Baby,” performed by the best of Winnipeg’s professional theatre artists. Amid the reminiscing, two middle-aged couples confront some unpleasant truths about their past and present, and come face to face with the future.

Director | Reid Harrison Music Director | Joseph Tritt Choreographer | Tim Gledhill

Cast | Frank Adamson, Gail Asper, Mariam Bernstein, Lara Ciekiewicz, Fred Cross,

Donna Fletcher, Tim Gledhill, Brenda Gorlick, Patricia Hunter, Aaron Hutton, Kevin Klassen, Debbie Maslowsky, Doug McKeag, Carson Nattrass, Paula Potosky, Trygve John Ringereide, Jan Skene, Phyllis Thomson, Jillian Willems

Set Design | Brian Perchaluk Lighting Design | Scott Henderson Stage Manager | Sylvia Fisher

“Good times and bum times, I’ve seen them all…

Seen all my dreams disappear but I’m still here.”

performances

wed jan 30 8:00pm

thu jan 31 8:00pm

fri feb 1 8:00pm

sat feb 2 8:00pm

sun feb 3 2:00pm

wheelchair accessible

CAPACITY 203

2hrs 30mins

box office information

at the door cash/visa/mastercard/american express/sondheimpass. box office opens 1 hour before showtime.

Note All sales for Friday, February 1 performance must be made in tickets $25.00 advance. no door sales for this show. in advance call 204-477-7478 or visit www.wjt.ca

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Kiss the Giraffe Productions Forrest Nickerson Theatre 285 Pembina Highway www.ktg.ca Kiss the Giraffe Productions, a team with a long history of comedic musicals, is thrilled to present a Sondheim classic!

Broadway’s greatest farce is fast-paced, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from the 2,000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville.

In this non-stop laughfest, a slave struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan for his young master in exchange for freedom. The plot twists and turns with slamming doors, cases of mistaken identity and a showgirl or two.

Director & Choreographer | Kami Desilets Musical Directors | Joseph Aragon, Heather Madill Cast | John Bluethner, Tyson Conrod, Phil Corrin, Katrina German, Peggy Hamilton, Dean Harder, Shawn Kowalke, Jean-marc Lafond,

Chantal Léveillé, Josh McSkimming, Kerri Potter, Chelsea Rankin, Mallory Schellenberg

performances

wed jan 23 7:30pm

thu jan 24 7:30pm

sat jan 26 8:00pm

sun jan 27 3:00pm

wheelchair accessible

fri jan 25 7:30pm

sat jan 26 3:00pm

CAPACITY 185

2hrs 20mins

warning Suggestive Content. Recommended for ages 13+

box office information tickets $15.00 students/seniors $12.00

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at the door cash/sondheimpass. box office opens 30 minutes before showtime. in advance to reserve tickets, call 204-227-1820 or contact ktgtickets@gmail.com

Impromptu Splendor by the national theatre of the world

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre The Berney Theatre at the Asper Jewish Community Campus 123 Doncaster Street www.wjt.ca

Canadian improv greats The National Theatre of the World return to WJT to perform five BRAND NEW NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN Sondheim musicals!

Yes, using only your suggestions and their talents, a new musical will be improvised in the style of Sondheim before your very eyes!

Last year, CBC’s Joff Schmidt said they created “magic and hilarity” on the WJT stage. History will repeat itself. Do not miss this special presentation!

Cast | Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus, Ronald Pederson

“Care, craft, and comic genius.”

Ronald Pederson, Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus in Impromptu Splendor. Photo by Dylan Hewlett

– NOW Magazine (Toronto)

“Theatre in its most high octane form.” – National Post performances

wed jan 23 8:00pm

thu jan 24 8:00pm

fri jan 25 8:00pm

sat jan 26 8:00pm

sun jan 27 2:00pm

wheelchair accessible

CAPACITY 206

60mins

box office information

at the door cash/interac/visa/mastercard/American Express/ sondheimpass. box office opens 1 hour before showtime. tickets $10.00 Note All sales for Friday, January 25 performance must be made in advance. no door sales for this show. in advance call 204-477-7478 or visit www.wjt.ca

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wednesday JANUARY 16 7:00pm Introducing Sondheim lecture

sunday

monday 20

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2:00pm Dear Mama 2:00pm Sunday in the Park with George 8:00pm Me and My Town Thom Allison in Concert

8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Sunday in the Park with George

7:00pm The Last of Sheila 7:00pm What’s Love Got to Do with It? Staged Reading

7:30pm Assassins 8:00pm Sunday in the Park with George

7:30pm Assassins 7:00pm What’s Love Got to Do with It? Staged Reading

7:30pm A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Forum 8:00pm Impromptu Splendor

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2:00pm Impromptu Splendor 2:00pm Sunday in the Park with George 3:00pm A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Forum 7:00pm The Last of Sheila

6:30pm Sweeney Todd Film Screening 8:00pm Assassins

3 2:00pm Follies

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tuesday

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7:00pm The Last of Sheila 7:30pm Assassins 8:00pm Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure

7:00pm The Last of Sheila 7:30pm Assassins 8:00pm Follies 8:00pm Into the Woods 8:00pm Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure

Assassins........................................................... 7 Dear Mama.......................................................... 8 Discovering Sondheim Directors Panel..................... 6 Follies............................................................... 9 A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the forum...............................10 Impromptu Splendor.......................................... 11 Into the Woods..................................................14

Thursday

friday 17

8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Dear Mama

saturday 18

12:00pm Discovering Sondheim Directors Panel 2:00pm West Side Story Film Screening 3:30pm Assassins 6:00pm Rehearsal for Murder: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim Dinner Theatre 8:00pm Dear Mama 8:30pm Assassins

8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Dear Mama

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24 7:00pm The Last of Sheila 7:00pm What’s Love Got to Do with It? Staged Reading 7:30pm A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Forum 8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Impromptu Splendor 8:00pm Sunday in the Park with George

Premiere

7:00pm The Last of Sheila 8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Follies 8:00pm Into the Woods 8:00pm Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure

Free Event

Introducing Sondheim Lecture.................................6 The Last of Sheila............................................... 15 Me and My Town: Thom Allison in Concert Accompanying Event.............................. 21 Rehearsal for Murder: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim Accompanying Event................. 22

26 2:00pm The Last of Sheila 2:00pm Sunday in the Park with George 3:00pm A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Forum 3:30pm Assassins 6:00pm Rehearsal for Murder: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim Dinner Theatre 7:00pm The Last of Sheila 8:00pm A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Forum 8:00pm Impromptu Splendor 8:00pm Sunday in the Park with George 8:30pm Assassins

7:00pm The Last of Sheila 7:30pm A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Forum 8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Impromptu Splendor 8:00pm Sunday in the Park with George

31 FEBRUARY 2:00pm Assassins 7:00pm The Last of Sheila 8:00pm Assassins 8:00pm Follies 8:00pm Into the Woods 8:00pm Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure

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2:00pm Into the Woods 2:00pm The Last of Sheila 2:00pm Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure 3:30pm Assassins 7:00pm The Last of Sheila 8:00pm Follies 8:00pm Into the Woods 8:00pm Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure 8:30pm Assassins 10:30pm Sondheim Karaoke

Accompanying Event Event not included in SondheimPass

Sondheim Karaoke............................................... 16 Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure. ...........17 Sunday in the Park with George. ......................... 18 Sweeney Todd Film Screening.................................... 19 West Side Story Film Screening................................. 19 What’s Love Got to Do With It? Staged Reading......... 20

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Into the Woods District Theatre Collective Gas Station Arts Centre 445 River Avenue www.districttheatrecollective.com

Sondheim’s spellbinding, romantic and hilariously dark Tony Award-winning masterpiece weaves classic fairy tales to find out what happens after “happily ever after.”

When a baker and his wife learn they’ve been cursed, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell – swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack. Everyone’s wishes are granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them, with disastrous results.

An enchanting and whimsical reimagining of beloved childhood stories featuring dazzling lyrics, sumptuous melodies and a wickedly delectable plot.

From the company behind the sold-out Winnipeg premiere of Avenue Q. Director | Connie Manfredi Musical Director | Andrew St. Hilaire

“Wishes come true, not free.”

Cast | Kevin Anderson, Nelson Bettencourt, Aubree Erickson,

Nicki Kirton, Julie Lumsden, Darren Martens, Laura Olafson, Colin Peterson, Sam Plett, Paige Pooley, Robyn Pooley, Emma Stefanchuk, Haley Vincent, Mackenzie Wojcik

performances

wed jan 30 8:00pm

thu jan 31 8:00pm

fri feb 1 8:00pm

sat feb 2 2:00pm

sat feb 2 8:00pm

wheelchair accessible

CAPACITY 230

2hrs 45mins (including intermission)

box office information tickets $23.99

$14.99 student rush available one hour before showtime at box office.

Limited quantity available.

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at the door cash/visa/mastercard/sondheimpass. box office opens 1 hour before showtime. in advance visit www.districttheatrecollective.com or call 1-800-838-3006.

To reserve tickets with a SondheimPass, call 204-330-9877.

The Last of Sheila Resonator Theatrical Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre 3rd Floor, 91 Albert Street www.facebook.com/ResonatorTheatrical

Scenes! Sessions!

Resonator Theatrical returns to the Master Playwright Festival with more provocative theatre and the only non-musical production running at SondheimFest.

When an eccentric producer assembles a ragtag group of artists for a simple rehearsal, it turns into a sinister game with personal secrets unlocking deadly vendettas.

Rapist. Junkie. Arsonist. Murderer.

Clinton has something on each of them. He’s just mixed up the cards.

Stephen Sondheim’s and Anthony Perkins’ 1973 murder-mystery ensemble, adapted for the stage by Rob Brown.

“The harder you try to keep

Director | Kim Hamilton Cast | Warren Ellis, Aaron Hughes, Edwing Juarez,

Leanne Smith, Heather Forgie, Cheryl Gensiorek, Daniel Pop

a secret, the more it wants to get out.”

performances

tue jan 22 7:00pm

thu jan 24 7:00pm

fri jan 25 7:00pm

sat jan 26 2:00pm

sat jan 26 7:00pm

sun jan 27 7:00pm

tue jan 29 7:00pm

wed jan 30 7:00pm

thu jan 31 7:00pm

fri feb 1 7:00pm

sat feb 2 2:00pm

sat feb 2 7:00pm

no wheelchair access

CAPACITY 60

1hr 30mins

warning language, mild violence, stage cigarettes

box office information tickets $15.00 students/seniors $10.00

at the door cash/sondheimpass. box office opens 30 minutes before showtime. in advance to reserve tickets, call 204-219-8616 or email quirkhome@shaw.ca

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Sondheim Karaoke The Actors’ Fund of Canada Aqua Books 123 Princess Street (Lower Level) www.actorsfund.ca

“When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you’ve written.”

– Stephen Sondheim Come and show your style at Sondheim Karaoke! Serenade us with A Little Night Music, harmonize with Gypsy, warble with West Side Story, yodel with Into the Woods or belt out your favourite Sondheim.

Share Sondheim’s music and lyrics with an appreciative audience and help raise money for the Actors’ Fund at the same time. With so much to choose from, the hardest part is picking the song.

performance

sat feb 2 10:30pm

no wheelchair access

CAPACITY 110

1hr 15mins

box office information suggested donation $10.00

at the door only cash/sondheimpass. box office opens 1 hour before showtime. caea, map, pgc members pay what you can

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Stephen Sondheim’s Excellent Adventure Naughty Sailboat/The 28th Minute Shadling Productions/Snakeskin Jacket Studio 320 (Theatre Incarnate) 320–70 Albert Street www.naughtysailboat.com | www.snakeskinjacket.ca | www.shadling.com

Legend has it that before he was this year’s master playwright, a young Stephen Sondheim was mentored by musical theatre Jedi Oscar Hammerstein. Oscar gave the young Steve a series of four exercises which, if completed successfully, would make him a master of his craft.

Now, four stalwart and noble Manitoba theatre companies are banding together to take on Hammerstein’s schoolings in the hopes of collectively achieving a passing grade.

From the companies that brought you Orphans (HHHHH CBC), Almost an Evening (HHHH WFP), Trashbot Apocalypse (HHHH CBC) and Mary Rose (HHHH WFP).

Don’t miss this evening of short plays and excellent adventure.

performances

tue jan 29 8:00pm

wed jan 30 8:00pm

sat feb 2 2:00pm

sat feb 2 8:00pm

no wheelchair access

thu jan 31 8:00pm

CAPACITY 55

fri feb 1 8:00pm 1hr 35mins

box office information tickets $12.00 students/seniors $10.00

at the door cash/sondheimpass. box office opens 1 hour before showtime. in advance to reserve tickets, contact info@naughtysailboat.com

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Sunday in the Park with George Gallery Works Urban Shaman Gallery 203–290 McDermot Avenue www.galleryworkstheatre.blogspot.ca

Gallery Works presents Act One of Sunday in the Park with George – just as Sondheim first presented it.

This soaring musical is, at first glance, about a painter and a painting – A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – but it’s really about how we all so desperately want to make our mark on the world but rarely know how to live in it.

The dynamic setting of The Urban Shaman Gallery will transform into a life-size masterpiece, bringing audience members closer than ever to this remarkable painting.

Reserve your tickets – seating is limited!

Detail of Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) by Georges Seurat, 1884

Director | Arne MacPherson Music Director | Celoris Miller Designer | Carolyn Gray

“I am not hiding behind my canvas –

I am living in it.”

costume Design | Michelle Cook Stage Manager | Suzie Martin Cast | Simon Miron, Erin McGrath, Marina Stephenson Kerr,

David Playfair, Melanie Whyte, Stefanie Wiens, Dorothy Carroll, Derek Leenhouts, Andrea del Campo, Jane Testar, Nyk Bielak, Murray Farnell, Montanna Lehman, Karl Thordarson

performances

sun jan 20 2:00pm

Mon jan 21 8:00pm

tue jan 22 8:00pm

thu jan 24 8:00pm

fri jan 25 8:00pm

sat jan 26 2:00pm

sat jan 26 8:00pm

sun jan 27 2:00pm

no wheelchair access

CAPACITY 80

box office information

tickets $15.00

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at the door cash/sondheimpass.

Box office opens 30 minutes before showtime. in advance To reserve tickets, call 204-894-6800 or email galleryworkstheatre@gmail.com

1hr 30mins

film screenings

Sweeney Todd:

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

West Side Story Winnipeg Public Library Millennium Library | Carol Shields Auditorium 2nd Floor, 251 Donald Street www.wpl.winnipeg.ca/library

The Millennium Library hosts two film screenings in celebration of Stephen Sondheim.

West Side Story The greatest love story ever told – and an acclaimed musical. This electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York. Winner of four Academy Awards and starring Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Richard Beymer and George Chakiris. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street A man is unjustly sent to prison and uses his barbershop to get revenge with the help of his neighbour who makes diabolical meat pies. Stars Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. Music and lyrics

by Stephen Sondheim.

Free screenings

sat jan 19

2:00pm

rating PG

2hrs 33mins

sweeney todd mon jan 28

6:30pm

rating 18A

1hr 56mins

West Side story

wheelchair accessible

CAPACITY 120

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staged Reading

What’s Love Got to Do With It? by muriel hogue

Manitoba Association of Playwrights Aqua Books 123 Princess Street (Lower Level) www.mbplays.ca/news.html/

In a riff on Sondheim’s style, this is a staged reading of a new play by Muriel Hogue with direction by Robb Paterson.

September 5, 1975, Squeaky Fromme stands in Sacramento’s Capitol Park with a massive Colt .45 strapped to her leg. Waiting for the arrival of President Gerald Ford, she struggles between her need to prove her love for Charlie Manson and her love for all life forms. Suddenly, a fantastical blink in time occurs and five of your favourite Sondheim women come to her aid.

Note: No Sondheim music Director | Robb Paterson Cast | Doreen Brownstone, Jane Burpee, Nancy Drake,

Patricia Hunter, Jacquie Loewen, Maggie Nagle, Glen Thompson

“What’s love got to do with it? She wants to shoot

the President. Downright un-American.” performances

tue jan 22 7:00pm

wed jan 23 7:00pm

no wheelchair access

thu jan 24 7:00pm

CAPACITY 110

box office information

Suggested Donation $10.00

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at the door cash/cheque/sondheimpass. box office opens 1 hour before showtime. in advance to reserve tickets, call 204-942-8941 or email mbplay@mymts.net

60mins

accompanying event

Me and My Town Thom Allison in Concert From Winnipeg to Broadway and Back Again An Intimate Evening of Stephen Sondheim zone41 theatre Tom Hendry Warehouse 140 Rupert Avenue (at Lily Street) www.zone41.ca | www.thomallison.com

Star of CBC’s Over the Rainbow, the Shaw Festival’s Ragtime and Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Broadway, Thom Allison takes us on an autobiographical journey through the music of Stephen Sondheim. Winnipeg audiences were wowed by his Aldolpho in MTC’s The Drowsy Chaperone, Tom Collins in Rent and Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Rainbow Stage. In 2001, Thom was invited to be a guest soloist for Sondheim himself at the World Leaders’ Salute to Stephen Sondheim.

A one-night-only fundraiser for zone41 theatre – the company that brought you the acclaimed production of Shaw’s Village Wooing at last year’s festival.

Cast | Thom Allison with Scott Christian on piano

“… the great new leading man of Canadian musical theatre… His passion and commitment drive the work whenever he’s on stage.”

– Richard Ouzounian, The Toronto Star performance

sun jan 20 8:00pm

wheelchair accessible

CAPACITY 286

90mins

box office information

at the door cash/Visa/Mastercard/American Express. $41.00 box office opens 1 hour before showtime. (plus fees) in advance call 204-942-6537 or visit 174 Market Avenue, 9am–5pm, Mon. to Sat. tickets

please note event not included in sondheimpass

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accompanying event

Rehearsal for Murder: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim Tara Players/Murder on the menu Irish Association of Manitoba 654 Erin Street www.facebook.com/taraplayers

A famous director is murdered while rehearsing for his next blockbuster and a raucous debacle of whodunit ensues. The audience needs to determine who the murderer is before the next victim is found!

This tribute to the great Stephen Sondheim features excerpts from some of his most popular songs and plays.

Directors | Danielle Savage, Glenn Zaretski Cast | Luke Falconer, Craig Oliphant, Jessica Oliphant, Randall Payne, Spenser Payne, Danielle Savage, Glenn Zaretski

A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim

“Sondheim, Sondheim, I could write better songs in my sleep!�

performances

sat jan 19 6:00pm (Dinner theatre only)

wheelchair accessible

sat jan 26 6:00pm (dinner theatre only)

CAPACITY 88

3hrs (including dinner)

warning A Murder or Two

box office information Tickets $45.00

in advance contact taraplayers@hotmail.ca

please note event not included in sondheimpass

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