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DEATH OF A SALESMAN

By Arthur Miller September 24 - October 16/11

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

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GOD OF CARNAGE

A new play by Yasmina Reza Translated by Christopher Hampton March 10 - April 1/12

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

By William Shakespeare April 7 - 29/12

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse April 21 - May 20/12

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Joe’s vision brought professional theatre to Edmonton Joe’s dream built The Citadel Theatre Joe’s spirit continues to inspire the theatre we create today Joe’s legacy lives on through a generous gift to The Citadel from his estate

HENRY HOLE, 1884 - 1954 On the Citadel’s 30th Anniversary, a gift was made by the Company of Harry Hole, James F. Hole, Ralph K. Hole and Robert W. Hole on behalf of the Hole family — in honour of their late father, Henry Hole.

The Citadel Theatre is proud to honour Henry Hole’s integrity, compassion and leadership in the dedication of this complex to his memory.

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GOD of CARNAGE

BY Yasmina Reza Translated by

Christopher Hampton Starring

FIONA REID as Veronica RIC REID as Michael ARI COHEN as Alan IRENE POOLE as Annette Directed by......................................................... JAMES MacDONALD Set & Lighting Designer. . ................................ DAVID FRASER Costume Designer............................................ NARDA McCARROLL Fight Director..................................................... JONATHAN PURVIS Stage Manager.................................................. MICHELLE CHAN Assistant Stage Manager.. .............................. TRACEY BYRNE This performance runs approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

GOD OF CARNAGE was produced on Broadway by Robert Fox, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Stuart Thompson, Scott Rudin, Jon B. Platt, The Weinstein Company, and The Shubert Organization.

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reat theatre always succeeds by illuminating the human condition – by holding up a mirror to our lives, and challenging our preconceptions about ourselves, our relationships, and our life choices. That this exploration often takes the form of tragedy is, I suppose, indicative of our human need for catharsis. Yet the tragic exists on a razor’s edge with the comic – and life can be absurd, whimsical, farcical, and darkly funny.

Yasmina Reza understands that lurking beneath the veneer of polite society are thoughts and feelings to which we rarely give voice – at least not without provocation. She also recognizes that the people we love the most – spouses, children, parents – are the ones who drive us most quickly to the brink.

There is fun to be had in looking at our foibles, our pretensions, and our obsessions. This play gives us all of that…but in the end, it gives us much more, providing as profound an insight into the human condition as a great tragedy.

Enjoy.

James MacDonald

ABOUT THE

PLAYWRIGHT YASMINA REZA Y

asmina Reza (b. 1959) studied at Paris X University and later at the Jacques Lecoq Drama School. She began working as an actress in France and appeared in numerous plays by contemporary authors as well as plays by Molière, Marivaux, and Sacha Guitry.

In 1987 she wrote Conversations after a Burial for performance in France and won the prestigious Molière Award for best author as well as many other awards.

Following its performance in France, the play was produced in translation in Europe and South America.

Reza’s French translation of Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis for performance by Roman Polanski was nominated for the 1988 Molière Award for translation. Winter Crossing (1990), her second play, won the 1990 Molière Award for best fringe production that year. “Art” premiered in Berlin and opened in Paris in 1994, where it won the Molière Award for best author, best play, and best production. It also won prizes in London for best comedy and in Germany for best foreign play.

The Unexpected Man (1995) was produced in London, France, and several other European countries. It was revived in 1998 by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican in London and has also played in New York.

In addition to playwriting, Yasmina Reza has also been engaged in screenwriting, with two recent films shown in Europe: See You Tomorrow and Lulu Kreutz’s Picnic. Her novel, Hammerklavier, was published in 1997.

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hristopher Hampton’s plays, musicals and translations have garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award. Prizes for his film and television work include an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, a Writer’s Guild of America Award, the Prix Italian and a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His plays for the Royal Court include Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Total Eclipse, Marya and When Did You Last See My Mother? Other plays include Embers, Three Sisters, “Art”, Sunset Boulevard, The Talking Cure, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, White Chameleon, Tales From Hollywood, Don Juan Comes Back From the War, Tales from the Vienna Woods, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, Life X 3, Tartuffe, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Unexpected Man and Conversations After a Burial. Hampton’s plays have been performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida, the Royal National Theatre and both on the West End and Broadway. His television credits include The Ginger Tree, Hotel du Lac, The History of Man and Able’s Will. He has written the screenplays for Atonement, Imagining Argentina, The Quiet American, The Secret Agent, Mary Reilly, Carrington, Total Eclipse, Dangerous Liaisons, Wolf at the Door, The Good Father, The Honorary Consul, Tales from the Vienna Woods and A Doll’s House.

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It ran at the late, lamented Varscona movie theatre longer than any cinema in the British empire.

When Bob Baker included Tom Wood’s production in his 2004 season, it was met with glowing reviews and became one of the most successful shows in Baker’s tenure as Artistic Director.

For those who have never seen the Citadel’s production, and for those who want to experience its warmth, humour and captivating characters again, it will be back to end the Citadel’s season this year. “There is really nothing like The Sound of Music,” enthuses Baker, who takes over the reins as director this time. “Rodgers and Hammerstein weren’t afraid of addressing social issues and were exceptional at telling a great story.”

In the Citadel’s 2004 production, Wood went back to the original concept of the musical, written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, which gave considerably more weight to the Nazi threat than you see in the movie. As he has done in numerous adaptations (A Christmas Carol/Vanya) and directorial stints at the Citadel, he demanded that, musical or not, the characters be more than stock images. He wanted real ‘flesh and blood’ people.

One of the problems is that the show is front-loaded with all the best songs – “The Sound of Music,” “The Lonely Goatherd,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-re-me” and “My Favourite Things,”are all in the first act. The Citadel production concentrated on the very real dangers the family faced, providing a stronger second act than we are used

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to. Captain von Trapp’s singing of “Edelweiss” (and no, its not an old Austrian folk song – it was written for the show by Rodgers and Hammerstein) took on a whole new meaning as a brave and final act of love for his country hurled into the teeth of the oppressors. As the family “climb ev’ry mountain...”, there was the feeling that what they were escaping could very well have been a concentration camp.

Rodgers and Hammerstein had a long and illustrious Broadway career, penning such perennial hits as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and The King and I. Hammerstein was the lyricist – he always wrote the words first to which, later, Rodgers added the music. The man who was able to write about “bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens” was dying of stomach cancer when he wrote those words. He died on August 23, 1960, living to see the success of the Broadway show but not the movie. The film made $79 million on a budget of $8.2 million, thus rescuing 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy after the debacle of Cleopatra.

Far be it for me to let any air out of a beloved tale of heroism and familial love, but the story just did not happen that way. Shortly before her death on March 28, 1987, I had the great pleasure of spending an afternoon with Countess Maria von Trapp. She looked like neither Mary Martin nor Julie Andrews but she certainly generated the kind of simple warmth that so endeared her, first to the children, and then to the Baron himself. Despite their playing fast and loose with the facts, she loved the Broadway show and the movie – in fact, she appeared in the film. If you look closely at the scene where Julie Andrews trips gaily through a brick archway singing, “I Have Confidence...” you’ll see two Austrian women dressed in peasant garb. One of them is Maria von Trapp.

Remember those towering Alps with the von Trapps stoutly climbing complete with teeny backpacks and lederhosen? Well, said the Baroness, “We didn’t escape to Switzerland...” (which was about a hundred miles South West of their suburban home in Austria).

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“Didn’t they bother to look at a map?” inquired the world’s most famous ex-nun. “Italy was about thirty miles due South and that’s where we went.” Running from Hitler’s frying pan to Mussolini’s fire doesn’t sound like “finding your dream” but it was the first step in getting the family to where they wanted to go – the United States. And, they went by train. No snow covered mountains, no lederhosen and hearty bursting into song. Maria did express some unhappiness with the way the Captain was portrayed in the film. “He was not stern and cold prior to my arrival but a loving father,” she said.

The image was not helped by Christopher Plummer’s wooden performance. As he is today, he was then regarded as one of the great interpreters of Shakespeare and considered doing a musical as slumming. All it takes is one look at his glum performance to realize how much he hated it. He called the movie “The Sound of Mucus.” Many years later he went to a birthday party where the film was played and, as he points out in his very readable autobiography, he fell in love with it. And no, he did not do his own singing – but then, neither did the kids.

The director of the film was to have been Hollywood icon William Wyler (Wuthering Heights, Ben Hur) but he hated the show and wanted tanks and other examples of Nazi might.

Robert Wise was then chosen as director. He wanted Yul Brunner as the Baron. Sean Connery and Richard Burton were also considered. Doris Day was up for the role of Maria.

The opening scene with Andrews on a hill top in full voice singing “The Hills are Alive...” remains one of cinema’s most exuberant moments. It was not the way Wise had seen it. He wanted a meadow with tall waving grass – which would ripple in the wind like a Saskatchewan wheat field. But the accommodating farmer who owned the field wanted it to appear neat so he cut the grass. Wise went ahead and shot anyway. It was also freezing cold and Andrews had a hard time to keep from shivering on camera.

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When the helicopter swooshed in for a close-up, the downdraft knocked her over.

The original idea for the show, based on an obscure German film on the von Trapps, was brought to Mary Martin and her producer/husband Richard Halliday.

The concept was for a straight play with the occasional Austrian folk song added to give Martin a chance to sing. Well, maybe they could add one song – and they could get their friends Richard and Oscar to write it.

Rodgers and Hammerstein declined to write the song but offered to write an entire musical. The Hallidays thought that was a great idea and scurried around gathering up the rights. Julie Andrews made $225,000 for her starring role in the movie – the Hallidays made millions for the rights. Maria had earlier sold her own story to a German producer for $10,000. The unscrupulous fellow slipped in a clause that gave him the rights to any subsequent films that might be made. Later Hollywood gave Maria 3/8 of 1 percent of the movie. She was very grateful.

When the von Trapps arrived in America in 1942, they were unknown displaced persons from a war-ravaged Europe. For years they toured the world singing their songs to appreciative audiences. They opened a successful skiing lodge in Vermont in 1950. The Baron died in 1947.

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean Bob Baker has assembled an impressive cast for this new production that includes Réjean Cournoyer (At the Citadel: Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast) as the Baron and Josée Boudreau (At the Citadel: Little Women, Beauty and the Beast) as Maria and featuring such well-known local performers as Susan Gilmour, Jeremy Baumung, Jocelyn Ahlf and Elena Porter.

It will be interesting to see what he does with the beloved musical.

I asked Maria how she felt about her life since her dramatic escape from Austria. She told me, “I feel I have climbed all those mountains and now I’m living my life in the broad, sunshine filled valleys on the other side.”

Bob Baker’s production of The Sound of Music opens on the Shoctor Stage of the Citadel on April 21.

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Carnage Le Dieu du Carnage was written by Parisian playwright Yasmina

Reza in 2006, known to Citadel fans as the playwright for our 2001 production of “Art”. After a number of successful productions in French, the play was translated to English by Christopher Hampton in 2008 for a West End run in London.

The play came to Broadway in 2009, where it was an instant success.

All four actors (Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden) were nominated for Tony awards for their performances.

The play won Tony awards that year for Best Play, Best Leading Actress in a Play (Marcia Gay Harden) and Best Direction of a Play (Matthew Warchus, who also directed the London production).

Since then, the play has been re-produced at local theatres across the globe. Our production marks the western Canadian Premiere of God of Carnage.

The premise is simple – two sets of parents meet after one child assaults the other in a neighbourhood playground. They are civil and polite – on the surface…

A film adaptation titled simply Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski, was released in select movie theatres worldwide late in 2011. The film was nominated for two Golden Globe awards, but we humbly submit that the live theatre experience is where this script belongs.

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Ari was last seen at the Citadel in Courageous. Other Citadel credits include Proof and A Streetcar Named Desire ( co-productions with Manitoba Theatre Centre). Select credits include Awake and Sing, Death of A Salesman for Soulpepper Theatre Company; Generous and Rune Arlidge for Tarragon Theatre, Frost Nixon for Canadian Stage/Vancouver Playhouse; Sunday Father for Canadian Stage and Noises Off for Vancouver Playhouse. Recent film and television appearances include The Firm, Flashpoint, Suits, Against the Wall, Republic of Doyle, Lost Girl, Haven and Rookie Blue.

Ari has had recurring roles on The L Word and Smallville, was a series regular on The Tournament for CBC and currently appears in My Babysitter’s a Vampire for Disney. Upcoming projects include Speed The Plow and Death of a Salesman (remount) at Soulpepper, the release of a feature film comedy, Whiskey Business and a short film entitled The Enormous Radio, which he co-wrote and is co-producing (with Michael Healey) and which indie legend Bruce McDonald will direct.

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IRENE POOLE

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This is Irene’s first appearance at the Citadel. Most recently she played Kate in John Mighton’s The Little Years at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Other credits at the Stratford Festival include The Taming of the Shrew, Three Sisters, Phedre, Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth. Elsewhere, Irene’s credits include The Leisure Society (Dora Award) for Factory Theatre; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Dora Award) for Birdland Theatre; The Age of Arousal for Alberta Theatre Projects; Escape From Happiness and Better Living for Factory Theatre; Possible Worlds, directed by Yoshi Oida for Canadian Rep Company and Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Talley’s Folly for Resurgence Theatre. Film and television work includes Republic of Doyle, Breakout Kings and Rookie Blue. She also directed the Canadian premiere of David Mamet’s Romance.

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FIONA REID

Veronica

Last season at the Citadel, Ms. Reid appeared as Violet Weston in August: Osage County (Sterling Award for Outstanding Actress). Previously at the Citadel, she has appeared in The Glass Menagerie, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Blonde, The Brunette and The Vengeful Redhead, The Constant Wife, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Philadelphia Story, Fallen Angels, Hay Fever and Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and A Delicate Balance.

Ms. Reid has appeared in theatres across Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain. Favourite roles include Judith Bliss in Hay Fever; Flora Humble in Humble Boy (Jessie Award); Julia in Fallen Angels (Dora Award); Ouisa in Six Degrees of Separation (Dora Award); Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire; Clare in A Delicate Balance; Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest; Mme. Arkadina in The Seagull, title role in Hedda Gabler; Amanda in Private Lives and Calendar Girls for MTC/Mirvish. Ms. Reid has appeared in various movies including The Time Traveler’s Wife and My Big Fat Greek Wedding and on the television series, King of Kensington. A graduate of McGill University, Ms. Reid is a Member of the Order of Canada and is the recipient of an honorary degree from Bishop’s University, The Barbara Hamilton Memorial Award (2008) and The ACTRA Award of Excellence (2011).

RIC REID

Michael

Last season at the Citadel, Ric appeared in August: Osage County.

Citadel credits include Proof, Who Has Seen the Wind, “Art”, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Streetcar Named Desire. He has been a member of the Shaw Festival Acting Ensemble since 2003.

He and his wife, Kelly Daniels, produced St. Catharines 1st annual Busker Festival last August. He portrayed Frank in Educating Rita in November for Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects and will play Doc in Come Back Little Sheba at the Shaw Festival this year along with Bensinger in His Girl Friday.

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JAMES MacDONALD

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James’ Citadel directing credits include Billy Bishop Goes to War, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead, Fire, Shining City, Vimy (Sterling Award), Equus, I am My Own Wife and Stones in his Pockets. Elsewhere James’ directing credits include Julius Caesar for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; The Old Ladies for the Shaw Festival; Much Ado About Nothing, Fire (Dora Award) and As You Like It for Canadian Stage; With a Twist for Lunchbox Theatre; The Myth of Summer for Alberta Theatre Projects, and seven productions for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, where he was artistic director for five years. As an actor, James’ last appearance at the Citadel was as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Other Citadel credits include The Three Musketeers, Little Women: the Broadway Musical, Blackbird, Pride and Prejudice, Measure for Measure, Amadeus, Einstein’s Gift (Sterling Award), Wit, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Importance of Being Earnest, Noises Off, Othello and Of Mice and Men (Sterling Award). Elsewhere, his credits include the title roles in Macbeth and Henry V for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. Born in Montreal and raised in Edmonton, James is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program. He is an Artistic Associate at the Citadel, and the Program Director of the Citadel Theatre/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

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DAVID FRASER

Set and Lighting Designer Earlier this season, David was the lighting designer of Death of a Salesman. Previously at The Citadel Theatre, David has designed the set and lighting for Billy Bishop Goes to War, The Glass Menagerie and Blackbird and the lighting for Doubt, a parable and Another Home Invasion. As an Edmonton-based artist, he works extensively across the country in theatre, dance and opera. His theatrical designs have been seen from The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, to The Belfry Theatre in Victoria, and his designs in Dance have been seen both nationally and internationally with Edmonton-based choreographer Tania Alvarado. Most recently David has designed the lighting for Any Night, presented by Dual Minds at the 14th Street Theatre in NYC and the lighting for Lucia di Lammermoor with the Vancouver Opera. He has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award, A Betty Mitchell Award, and ten Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, and he has been the recipient once for his lighting design. David is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

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NARDA McCARROLL Costume Designer

Last season, Narda designed set & lighting for True Love Lies.

Narda’s other Citadel credits include lighting for As You Like It and The Goat; production design for Extinction Song, Shining City, Fully Committed, Blue Orange, The Syringa Tree and co-design for Vimy; lighting for The Forbidden Phoenix (also at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre and Manitoba Theatre for Young Audiences) and The Drowning Girls (cross Canada tour); and costumes for Julius Caesar, The Pillowman and Einstein’s Gift. Other favourite design credits include set/costumes for The Trespassers for Belfry Theatre/Vancouver Playhouse; lights for The Wizard of Oz, Shakespeare’s Dog and set/costumes for Vincent in Brixton for Alberta Theatre Projects; set/lights for The 39 Steps for Vertigo Theatre/Mayfield Dinner Theatre/Stage West and production design for The Last Tree of Rapa Nui for MTYP. Next she will be designing Mary’s Wedding for ATP and Sweeney Todd for Vertigo – both in Calgary. Narda has designed costumes for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival for thirteen lucky seasons. She is the recipient of three Sterling Awards and one Betty Mitchell Award.

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JONATHAN PURVIS

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Last season, Jonathan appeared in The Three Musketeers and Little Women: the Musical. He currently resides in Calgary, Alberta where he graduated from the Mount Royal University acting program. Other Citadel credits include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Forbidden Phoenix. On the Calgary stage, Jonathan has recently been seen in Love’s Labour’s Lost with the Shakespeare Company; Dying City at the Motel Space; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Beauty and the Beast for Theatre Calgary; Gnomes and The Princess and the Peabrain at the Calgary Fringe; Almost, Maine, a Jeezum-Crow production and FLOP! with Quest Theatre. He has also performed The Forbidden Phoenix at LKTYP Theatre in Toronto and MTYP Theatre in Winnipeg. Jonathan also dedicates extensive study to dancing, gymnastics, martial arts, stage combat, singing, and acoustic guitar. Jonathan would like to thank Mom and Dad for always pushing him forward and being there when he needed them.

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MICHELLE CHAN

Stage Manager

Earlier this season, Michelle was stage manger for The Rocky Horror Show. Last season, Michelle was stage manager for Little Women: the Musical, August: Osage County, A Christmas Carol and Billy Bishop Goes to War. Other Citadel stage manager credits are Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Carol, Blackbird, The Wizard of Oz, The Forbidden Phoenix, Vimy, Wingfield’s Inferno, The Pillowman, Bird Brain, Fully Committed, Vanya, Shakespeare’s Will, Wingfield on Ice, Stones In His Pockets, Homeward Bound and The Sword in the Stone. Assistant stage manager credits at the Citadel include Beauty and the Beast, Oliver!, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sound of Music, Grease, Servant of Two Masters, Hamlet, Cabaret and “Art”. Other favourite stage manager credits include God’s Eye and Mothership Down with Paper Tiger Productions; A Body of Water, Madagascar and Afterplay for Blarney Productions; Ilsa Queen of the Nazi Love Camp for Workshop West; Evelyn Strange, Cocktails at Pam’s and Fever Land for Teatro la Quindicina and The 7th Circle and A Hero for All for Fringe Theatre Adventures. Big thanks to Tracey.

TRACEY BYRNE

Assistant Stage Manager Earlier this season, Tracey was assistant stage manager for The Rocky Horror Show. Recent stage management credits include Othello and Twelfth Night for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival and The Woman in Black for Theatre Network.

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A true hub of activity in the company, our staff handle everything from registering students into acting classes, to recommending a restaurant to enjoy before the show.

We certainly are busy, but we always take the time to ensure that your experience at the Citadel Theatre is as enjoyable as possible. When you have questions, need directions, lose your tickets or just want to discuss the show you’re seeing, we are ready to help you out! Next time you are at the Citadel Theatre please stop by to take advantage of one of the MOST MAGNIFICENT box offices anywhere.

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Kimberlee Stadelmann – Box Office Manager has worked at the Citadel for 4 years Josh Wickard – Assistant Box Office Manager has worked at the Citadel for 4 months Kristen Hiemstra – Assistant Box Office Manager has worked at the Citadel for 5 years Shar Powell – School Booking Coordinator has worked at the Citadel for 8 years Mark Stubbings – Guest Services Supervisor has worked at the Citadel for 1.5 years Crystal Cassanova – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 5 months Jessica Glover – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 9 months Christina Harbak – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 7 Months Mark Harding – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 1.5 years Theresa Hovdestad – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 7 months Abbie Morrison – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 3 years Carly Neis – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 1.5 years Joyanne Rudiak – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 7 months Shirley Tran – Guest Services Representative has worked at the Citadel for 1 year

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Young Company Instructors Bob Baker Shannon Boyle Robert Clinton Chris Craddock Stephen Delano Don Horsburgh Heather Inglis James MacDonald Doug Mertz Phil Nero Mieko Ouchi Jackie Pooke Linda Rubin Kate Ryan Dawn Sadoway FTS Instructors Christine Bandelow April Banigan Shannon Boyle Tara Brodin Ashley Butler Jessica Carmichael Ellen Chorley Julie Golosky Crystal Hanson Melissa Havin Brad Heintzman Sally Hunt

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