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PREMIER | SUPPORTERS We are proud to recognize our Premier Supporters, our partners in the creation of theatre at the Citadel Theatre/Robbins Academy. The Hole Family • The John and Barbara Poole Family Fund the Eldon & Anne Foote Fund • The Robbins Foundation Canada The Joseph H. Shoctor fund
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Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor, 1922 – 2001
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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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THE CITADEL WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE ON
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Dr. Ghalib Ahmed, and the friendly staff at Coast Edmonton House.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES No doubt we have all been distracted by a cell phone, pager or watch alarm ringing or lighting up when attending the theatre. Out of consideration for your fellow audience members we ask that you turn off all electronic devices that emit noise or light. Thank you. ALLERGY ALERT For the safety of those with allergies, please refrain from the use of perfumes or scented products before coming to the theatre. H E A R I N G A D VA N C E M E N T H E A D S E T S We offer headsets to patrons with hearing difficulties. Ask the usher at the door of the theatre. These are provided free of charge. You will be asked to leave your driver’s license as a deposit until the headset is returned at the end of the performance.
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STUDENTS CLUB Another exciting season is upon us and we are pleased to welcome back over 1000 Students Club Members! The Maclab Enterprises Students Club is a Citadel Theatre/ Robbins Academy program that offers a unique glimpse into the world of professional theatre to a wide range of junior and senior high school students from Edmonton and surrounding areas. On the first three Tuesdays and Wednesdays of our season’s productions, Students Club members gather to enjoy a small reception before the show and participate in a highly engaging, interactive presentation/demonstration involving a different one of the Citadel’s talented theatre artists each show. Following the performance, students are invited to stay for a lively talkback session with members of the production’s cast and crew. Prior to seeing 2 Pianos 4 Hands, students will be treated to a presentation by members of Grindstone Theatre’s popular improvised musical, The 11 O’Clock Number. There’s no script, and no safety net as Edmonton’s best emerging talent bring improvised song, dance and comedy to local stages. Focusing on developing and showcasing the next generation of performers, students will be getting a sneak peek into how Grindstone creates their unique work. The 11 O’Clock Number performs at The Varscona Theatre 10329 83Ave, Edmonton at 11PM every Friday, from September 27th to December 20th. If you would like to become part of this season’s Students Club, or require more information about the program, please contact Shar Powell, Booking Coordinator, at 428-2127. For individual students who are interested in joining please email Shar at spowell@citadeltheatre.com and leave your name, contact information and the name of the school you attend.
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“REPRESENTS ALL THAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT AT THE CITADEL.” GRAHAM HICKS, EDMONTON SUN
NOV 30 - DEC 23/13 ADAPTED BY TOM WOOD BASED ON THE STORY BY CHARLES DICKENS DIRECTED BY BOB BAKER STARRING JAMES MACDONALD
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Ted Dykstra & Richard Greenblatt Production Designer.......................................... STEVE LUCAS Stage Manager................................................... BEATRICE CAMPBELL Production Manager.......................................... ANDREW TUGWELL Associate Production Designer.. . ..................... JASON GOLINSKY Apprentice Stage Manager............................... MOLLY PEARSON Produced by. . ...................................................... ROBERT RICHARDSON & COLIN RIVERS 2 Pianos 4 Hands is approximately 2 hours long with one intermission of 15 minutes. Photography, videotaping and audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Dedicated to our Piano Teachers Dr. Lillian Upright of Edmonton and the late Professor Dorothy Morton of MontrĂŠal 2 Pianos 4 Hands was originally produced in April 1996, by the Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, in association with Talking Fingers Inc. and produced across North America and in London, UK by Mirvish Productions (off-Broadway and U.S. tour co-producers with Ben Sprecher and William P. Miller).
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PRODUCTION HISTORY In 1994 Ted and Richard formed Talking Fingers to write and workshop their new script 2 Pianos 4 Hands. The play was subsequently programmed as part of Tarragon Theatre’s 1995-’96 season in Toronto, and premiered in April 1996 to rave reviews and sold-out houses. Talking Fingers and Tarragon Theatre shared the 1996 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production, and Ted and Richard received the Chalmers Award – Canada’s National Playwriting Award – that same year. Immediately following the premiere run in Toronto, Ted and Richard embarked on a national tour. 2 Pianos 4 Hands travelled from coast to coast, stopping back at the Tarragon for a second run in the fall of 1996, and concluding in Vancouver in September of 1997 at the Vancouver Playhouse. In October of 1997, backed by a team of producers including David and Ed Mirvish, 2 Pianos 4 Hands opened Off Broadway at The Promenade Theatre. The production was widely acclaimed, and ran for six months before transferring to the Kennedy Centre in Washington in the spring of 1998. Ted and Richard returned to Toronto later that summer, this time at the historic Royal Alexandra Theatre, with Mirvish Productions. The show had its European premiere at the Birmingham Rep in 1999, a production that transferred later that year to the Comedy Theatre in the West End of London. Since then, Ted and Richard have twice reunited to perform in Toronto with Mirvish Productions, twice toured to Japan (with Shochiku), where they have performed in Tokyo and throughout the country, and in 2011/12 embarked on a Farewell Tour that included visits to Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Edmonton. There have been many other productions with other actors, both male and female, in Canada and across the globe. Since its premiere, 2 Pianos 4 Hands has had 4,000 performances at 200 different theatres throughout Canada, the US, the UK, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Europe and beyond. Nearly 2 million people have seen the play on 5 continents worldwide making it one of the most successful Canadian plays ever. For more information about 2 Pianos 4 Hands please visit the official show website: www.2pianos4hands.com and www.marquisent.ca.
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With the return of the Citadel’s phenomenally popular entertainment, Tom Wood’s resonant adaptation of A Christmas Carol, it might be a good time to look at the impact the great author has had upon the way we observe the season. “I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard. I girded it on of my own free will and of my own free will I wore it.” The origins of our Christmas are lost in the whirling mists of time. The ancient Romans, who loved a good party, celebrated Saturnalia on December 17 in a most exuberant fashion which included “drunkenness and sexual license.” In the second century, Pope Julius, hoping to take advantage of the celebratory aspects of the old Roman holiday, incorporated it into the new date he chose for Christ’s birth – December 25. (There is no reference in the Bible as to when Christ was born.) After the Protestant Reformation of the 14th century, that sour old roundhead Oliver Cromwell, citing the “trappings of popery,” outlawed the celebration. But in the small villages of rural England the flame continued to flicker like a votive candle. “What Place is this?” Asked Scrooge. “A place where miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth,” returned the Spirit. “But they know me.”
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The Industrial Revolution, which began in 1760, just about put an end to that as large numbers of people left their ancestral villages to find work in the big city, leaving behind their cultural traditions. Christmas had little place in a society where children as young as five could be forced to work 12 to 16 hours a day in dark and gloomy textile mills. By the time Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, Christmas had devolved into a rather minor affair. There were no Christmas cards, few Christmas trees, no presents were exchanged, there was no Christmas turkey or even midnight mass celebrating the birth of Christ. However, at the dawn of the 19th century the stirrings of a renewed interest in the age old celebration wafted in the air like the smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree. After her marriage to her German cousin Prince Albert, Queen Victoria took great delight in the teutonic custom of the illuminated Christmas tree with the presents strewn around the base. The First Noel, I Saw Three Ships and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen were published in 1833 by one William Sandys in a volume entitled Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, and enthusiastically picked up and sung in pub and church alike. In 1822, American journalist Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem, A Visit From St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas...). Clement rescued St. Nick from his image as a rather cadaverous and often malevolent spirit who was as apt to administer a good smack to the bottom as a present. Moore’s poem was warmly received in England and helped popularize the idea of exchanging gifts.
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Christmas cards were the idea of a harried publisher, Sir Henry Cole, who found himself buried in work as the season approached and, in 1843, produced a thousand or so lithographs wishing all a “Merry Christmas.” Sir Henry’s inspired enterprise caught on almost immediately. In that same year, Charles Dickens was on hard times. At only 31, he was hugely popular – the first great literary superstar. But his latest serialized book The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit was not selling. He had moved his family into a huge (and expensive) dwelling in London and additional members were moving in. His profligate father was a constant money drain. He and his wife Carolyn were expecting their 5th child. He was in debt and in desperate need of money. So, the original inspiration for A Christmas Carol was monetary. He wrote what he called his “little Christmas ghost story” to earn some quick cash. But a strange thing happened – he found himself overcome, nay obsessed, with his tale. He took to walking the streets of London late at night watching the nocturnal lives of its inhabitants – his mind whirling. Dickens was a man of huge emotions and often, he would admit later, he would find himself standing in the street laughing or crying at the thoughts that enveloped him. Tiny Tim, Scrooge, the family Cratchit, Marley and the Three Ghosts sprang from his vivid imagination on those nocturnal wanderings.
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A Christmas Carol became a spiritual quest. He would write a book of the redemption of a lost human soul. “At this rolling time of the year, I suffer the most. Why did I walk through crowds of my fellow beings with my eyes turned down?” It was only 6 weeks before Christmas, but overcome by his fevered vision, he would arise and take a cold bath every morning at 7 AM and then passionately transcribe his feelings of the night before. An examination of his manuscript shows how much care he took – writing and re-writing – making sure it was right. He expressed the hope that his little book would function in the lives of his readers as much as the ghosts functioned in the life of Scrooge. A Christmas Carol was released on December 19, 1843 and was an immediate hit. The first printing of six thousand copies sold out in a few days. Alas for Dickens, he had been so particular about the expensive bindings and illustrations (he wanted the book to be a handsome Christmas present) that the first edition did not yield the profit for which he hoped. Since then, however, it has never been out of print. Dickens’ impact on our modern celebrations of Christmas cannot be overstated. Just look at the words and phrases that have entered the language: “God Bless us every one,” “Scrooge,” “Merry Christmas,” “... dead as a doornail,” “Bah Humbug!”
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Dickens elevated Christmas to the position of a major holiday. He focussed the celebration to two or three days rather than the traditional 12. He redefined Christmas as an occasion for family and friends to gather for food, singing, dancing and games. Prior to the writing of A Christmas Carol, the traditional Christmas roast was a goose. With the success of Dickens’ tale, the turkey took over as master of the groaning table and darn near ruined the goose industry. Dickens felt that Christmas was a time for being generous to the poor. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business, charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence were all my business.” Dickens and Clement Moore combined to reconfigure the medieval figure of Father Christmas. You don’t have to look too hard to recognize Santa Claus in that most jovial of spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Present. We will probably never know what Christmas would have been like without Charles Dickens but it would definitely not be the same as we enjoy it today. No man of the church, he held the Christian view that saw the season as a time of benevolence amongst all – love, and compassion is what transforms hearts – with a little help from the supernatural. Dickens tried to repeat his success – in fact he wrote four more Christmas stories – but he was never able to recreate the magic of his first. But, each year we return eagerly to his hopeful vision of the season and vow, once again, to find the best in ourselves and our fellow humans. “I have always thought of Christmastime as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calender of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely and think of people below them as if they really were passengers to the grave and not a race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore uncle, though it has not put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it.” Again this year the Citadel invites us to share Dickens’ durable one hundred and fifty year old vision of a life transformed. For many Edmontonians over the years, Bob Baker’s production has signalled the beginning of the true Christmas season. Previews begin November 30th and the show runs through December 23rd.
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Ted / Co-Creator / Co-Director Ted started playing piano at age six, and peaked at age twelve, when he had a particularly memorable string of firsts competing in the Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival. His acting career began at a young age in St Albert, Alberta, playing the 2nd Bird in Once Upon a Clothesline, but his breakout role was Bilbo Baggins in his school’s Grade 8 production of The Hobbit. Since then he has gone on to play leading roles on every major stage in Canada, often combining his musical skills in such roles as: Mozart in Amadeus; Cale Blackwell, a character based on Jerry Lee Lewis, in Fire (seven Canadian theatres); Shostakovitch in Master Class (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Glenn Gould in An Evening with Glenn Gould (National Arts Centre), Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Crow’s Theatre); and Cousin Kevin in The Who’s Tommy (Mirvish Productions). Other favourite acting roles include the title role in Hamlet (Theatre Calgary); for Soulpepper Theatre: Teach in American Buffalo, Daffyd Llewelyn in A Chorus of Disapproval and Yuri in The Kreutzer Sonata; for Stratford: title role in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ariel in The Tempest; as well as three seasons of leading roles for The Shaw Festival. He has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows including Shattered City and The Englishman’s Boy and look for him in the upcoming Netflix series Hemlock Grove. School children around the world know him as Bach in the film Bach’s Fight for Freedom. He also is the voice of Dad Tiger in Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood, and The Great White Butt in upcoming series The Day My Butt Went Psycho. Ted has directed many award winning shows across the country, notably for Soulpepper Theatre, (Leaving Home, Of The Fields Lately, Salt Water Moon, Jitters, Billy Bishop, Under Milk Wood, The Glass Menagerie, Sunshine Boys and this summer The Norman Conquests); Canadian Stage, (Rocky Horror Show, Little Shop of Horrors, Frost/Nixon); The Neptune Theatre, (Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird, Miracle Worker); Harold Green Jewish Theatre (Tuesdays with Morrie, Talk); and four Pantos for Ross Petty Productions. He has also directed 2P4H across America and in Australia and Hong Kong. His performance and adaptation of Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata received accolades from critics and colleagues alike. Recent: The world premiere, to rave reviews, of Evangeline, his new musical, at the Charlottetown Festival in PEI. He is a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre and in the award department he has received four Doras (acting, musical direction, producing), a Gemini (acting), a Sterling (musical direction), a Merritt (directing) and a Chalmers (writing). For him, all of the above pales compared to being the proud father of Theo, 11, and Rosie, 9. He loves playing and watching tennis. Oh, and Go Oilers.
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Richard / Co-Creator / Co-Director Richard is an actor, director, writer, and musician who has been a professional theatre artist for the last 39 years. He was born in Montréal and studied piano for 10 years with the late Professor Dorothy Morton of the McGill Conservatory of Music. He received his acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. Upon graduating, he worked at Leeds Playhouse for a season, returning to Canada in 1975. Since then, he has performed in theatres in Toronto, across Canada, and abroad, playing such diverse roles as Henry David Thoreau, Spinoza, and Sam Goldwyn, as well as in feature films, television and radio. Other favourite roles include The Fool in King Lear, Creon in Antigone, The Concierge in The Gladstone Variations, and Galbraith in Essay. He has directed well over 100 productions for theatres across the country; the vast majority being original and/or Canadian works, including plays by George F. Walker, Judith Thompson, Jason Sherman, Adam Pettle, Michael Healey, Diane Flacks, Shirley Cheechoo, and Rob Fothergill, amongst numerous others. Classical works he has directed include plays by Shakespeare, Chekov, Shaw, Brecht and Shepherd, amongst many others. As a writer, he wrote or co-wrote: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Sibs (also made into a TV movie for the CBC), The Theory of Relatives, i.d., Letters from Lehrer, Care and Soft Pedalling. 2 Pianos 4 Hands has played on five continents and in over 150 cities since it opened at the Tarragon Theatre in April 1996. Greenblatt himself has performed the play with co-creator Ted Dykstra over 900 times across Canada, and in New York City, Washington D.C., London and Tokyo. A mentor and teacher to young talent, he has taught acting, directing and play creation at most of the theatre training institutions in Canada, including Ryerson University, George Brown College, the National Theatre School of Canada, and the University of Alberta, where he directed Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard in 2007. He has also directed the premieres of many groundbreaking and award-winning plays for young audiences, including Seesaw; Mirror Game; Misha; Danny, King of the Basement; Wrecked; The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh; Tough Case and Kindness. Most recently, Greenblatt directed R-E-B-E-C-C-A, a play about the developmentally delayed. He is dramaturging and directing a piece about medical ethics called Waiting Room, and is co-writing a play called Dirty Oil, which deals with the Oil Sands and the nature of protest. He has just finished performing in Late Company, which was awarded the Best Production Award at the SummerWorks Festival in Toronto, and Tainted, which examines the tainted blood scandal in Canada in the 1980’s. He has been Resident Director at Young People’s Theatre, Deputy Artistic Director at Canadian Stage and Artistic Director of The Hour Company. He has received numerous nominations for his work, and has won seven Dora Awards and two Chalmers Awards. He lives in Toronto with partner Tanya Greve and their four year old daughter, Amelia, and is the proud father of Natasha, Will and the dearly missed Luke Greenblatt. 2 Pianos 4 hands 37
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Production Designer
For the last 28 years Steve has designed award-winning sets and lighting for more than 300 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen in Canada, the United States, the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Steve has designed the world premieres of hundreds of shows, many of which have gone on to further acclaim. These include: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Never Swim Alone, The Drowsy Chaperone, Time After Time: The Chet Baker Project, The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, blood.claat, The Real McCoy, Revolutions in Therapy, 7 Important Things, and The Drawer Boy. Steve has received several awards including a MECCA award and four Dora Mavor Awards for his set and lighting designs. He has also been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Simonvitch Prize in Theatre, the Pauline McGibbon Award, the K.M. Hunter Award and twenty nine Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. In addition to his extensive theatre work, Steve also works with Canada’s leading Environmental Children’s Charity – Earth Rangers designing, developing and presenting wild animal shows that delight and inspire hundreds of thousands of children every year.
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Beatrice Campbell
Stage Manager
There are no awards for stage management but Bea feels she won a prize when she was asked to work on this show 17 years ago. From Tarragon to the present day, she has worked on several productions of 2P4H with many different actors, in a multitude of cities, in three countries. Though 2P4H is always a joy to work on, Bea is happiest when Richard and Ted take the stage. Other credits include PSM for The Drowsy Chaperone (Mirvish Productions); Stage Manager for Enchanted April, Come Back Little Sheba, Helen’s Necklace, Heartbreak House, The President, John Bull’s Other Island, The Cherry Orchard, The Entertainer, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, Getting Married, Hotel Peccadillo, Design for Living (Shaw Festival); Romeo and Juliet (Citadel Theatre), Present Laughter (Citadel/NAC). The Little Years, Wide Awake Hearts, Capture Me, Fathers and Sons, True West, Gravity Calling, The Faraway Nearby, Possible Maps, Pants on Fire (Tarragon Theatre); My Name is Rachel Corrie (neworldtheatre / Teesri Duniya Theatre); The Foursome, North, The Gin Game (Grand Theatre London); Tamara (Necessary Angel); The Fantasticks, Tango (Piggery Theatre); Zadie’s Shoes (Factory Theatre); and The Winter’s Tale (Oracle Theatre). Bea dedicates her work in this production to the memory of her friends and theatre artists Marc Desormeaux and Gina Wilkinson. The Gina Wilkinson Award for Emerging Female Theatre Directors welcomes contributions: www.ontarioartsfoundation.on.ca
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Andrew is a technical director and sound designer based in Vancouver. Having joined the team at Marquis Entertainment earlier this year for the production of Mom’s the Word: For Crying Out Loud at the Grand Theatre in London, he is pleased to be on board with 2 Pianos 4 Hands. As a sound designer, Andrew’s recent credits include Avenue Q, Dreamgirls, White Christmas, and Xanadu (for the Arts Club Theatre), West Side Story and Nixon in China (for the Vancouver Opera), Dancing at Lughnasa and The Madwoman of Chaillot (for UBC Theatre). Andrew teaches sound design at the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of the University of Victoria’s department of theatre.
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Jason has been the Associate Designer for 2 Pianos 4 Hands in Canada, the UK and the US including runs at the Panasonic Theatre, NAC, Arts Club, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Nissay Theatre and Dallas Theater Center. Jason has also been the Canadian Associate Lighting Designer for the Canadian production of Warhorse and Assistant Lighting Designer on We Will Rock You, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music, Rock of Ages (Mirvish Productions) and Orfeo Ed Euridice, Iphigenia in Tauris and Rigoletto (COC). Jason is the Touring Director for Tafelmusik’s The Galileo Project (2012), Lighting Director Stars on Ice (North America and Japan) and Lighting Director (and designer) for Ballet Jorgen. He is currently the production manager at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.
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Apprentice Stage Manager Molly is a graduate of the BFA stage management program at the University of Alberta. Recent credits include apprentice stage managing The Penelopiad and A Christmas Carol for the Citadel, stage managing A Midsummer Nights’ Dream for Theatre Prospero, The Blue Flame Power Game for ATCO Energy Theatre, Alcina and Rusalka for Opera Nuova, The Gertrude Stein Project for Studio Theatre, assistant stage managing Unidentified Human Remains and The Good Woman of Setzuan for Studio theatre, stage managing Prairie Stars for Alberta Transportation and Echoes for Floating Stones Theatre. She is also a member of The UnNaturals, who have performed magic at The Edmonton Fringe Festival, The Edmonton Street Performers Festival, and The Orlando Fringe Festival.
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Robert Richardson & Colin Rivers / Marquis Entertainment Inc. Producers Founded on the belief that Canadian Theatre is relevant the world over, Marquis Entertainment has produced and/or licensed Canadian plays and musicals to nearly 50 countries. Theatrical Producing Credits include 2 Pianos 4 Hands in Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Australia, throughout the US and Canada; The Railway Children (w/Mirvish Productions, 2011 Audience Choice Dora Award Winner); Shakespeare’s Will on tour in Canada and US (Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Stratford Festival, etc.), Mom’s the Word throughout Canada; Adventures of A Black Girl in Search of God (w/Mirvish Productions); and Fully Committed starring Mark McKinney (w/Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver/JFL, Montréal). General Management credits include Ross Petty Productions’ Family Musicals at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre and the national tour Aladdin (Live Nation Canada); The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Stratford Festival). Upcoming: Arrabal for Base Entertainment and Mirvish Productions. Marquis currently represents the authors of 2 Pianos 4 Hands and Mom’s the Word – both produced in the West End of London and 2P4H also produced Off-Broadway. Marquis also represents the work of Dean Regan, Michele Riml, Aaron Bushkowsky, Jordan Tannahill, Michael Melski and Andrew Moodie. For more information please visit www.marquisent.ca.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Playwrights’ Acknowledgments Beatrice Campbell, Celia Chassels, Jean & Chalmers Doane, Melanie Doane, Theo & Rosie Dykstra, Theo & Truus Dykstra, Mallory Gilbert, Luke, Natasha, William & Amelia Greenblatt, Tanya Greve, Fiona Jones, Steve Lucas, Kate Lushington, Gloria Muzio, Robin McKim, Ontario Arts Council, the Tarragon Staff and all the people who attended and gave feedback on the first workshop of 2P4H. A special thank you to Urjo Kareda for his dramaturgical input and support of the original production. The playwrights would especially like to acknowledge Andy McKim’s role as the Consulting Director of the original production. His input was, and is still, greatly appreciated.
Producers’ Acknowledgments David & Ed Mirvish and all those at Mirvish Productions who have supported the show throughout the years, Ben Sprecher & William P. Miller, Rob Barg, Jim Welter, Darcy Eidt, Aya Sato and the team at Yamaha Canada, and John Schivletto, Amadeus Peruch and the team at Giovanni Music (Edmonton). A special thank you to Judy Richardson, for years of guidance.
Additional Production Credits Wardrobe Supervisor: Nancy Hawkins Production Bookkeepers: Richard Arnold 2 Pianos 4 Hands is produced by permission of Marquis Entertainment Inc. (www.marquisent.ca) and Talking Fingers Inc.
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STAFF
BOB BAKER
Artistic Director •
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES Josh Languedoc James MacDonald
Director, Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program
Lianna Makuch Nadine Nahas
ADMINISTRATION
Brian Dooley
Marianne Bouthillier
Doug Mertz
Peni Christopher
Director, Play Development Director, FTS & Young Companies
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Associate Executive Director Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Company Manager
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Young Company Instructors Shannon Boyle Don Horsburgh Heather Inglis Jackie Pooke Linda Rubin Kate Ryan
DEVELOPMENT
Hannah Whittaker Director
Jeremy Baumung
Box Office Manager
Theresa Hovdestad House Manager
Debbie Theuss
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Assistant Rentals Manager
Guest Services Supervisors Myrna Gosnell Associate Amanda Gregoire Patrick Lundeen Mark Harding Associate Tara-Lee LaRose FACILITY Jacob Liska Louis Barron Alyssa McGowan Director Terry Schmolcke FTS Instructors Mark Stubbings Maintenance Mhairi Berg Jane Voloboeva Doug de Vries Adam Blocka Manager Guest Services Ashley Butler Roger Millen Representatives Gregory Caswell Assistant Maintenance Tonya Rae Chrystian Crystal Hanson Manager Joyce Dominguez Sally Hunt Bee Clean Services Carol Dreger Binaifer Kapadia Martin Flanagan Security Meghan Koshman Jessica Glover Alberta Crowd Annette Loiselle Management Marg Gronnestad Patrick Lundeen Christina Harbak Building Porter Michele Miller Jordy Kieto William Cardle Barb Mah Courtney Lair Tara Gale Andrew Ritchie Rebecca Loudon Matt Schuurman FINANCE Stuart McDougall Liana Shannon Sherry Card, CMA Brittany Molner Jennifer Spencer Director Abbie Murison Eileen Sproule Daniel Jee Carly Neis Accounts Payable/ Chris Powell FTS Teaching Assistants Receivable Mark Sinongco Sophie Gareau-Brennan Cheryl Sinclair Valerie Smart Katie Hudson Payroll Accountant Shirley Tran Associate
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Johanna Andreoff, Gale Arneson, Nelda Arnst, Judith Babcock, Connie Banigan, Carolyn Bell, Jacqueline Bell, Katarina Bell, Shelley Benson, Erika Beyer, Ursula Blumentrath, Jeanine Bonot, Florence Borch, Ken Borch, Shirley Boven, Loveth Bradley, Allan Budlong, Eileen Budlong, Jeanette Calder, Patrick Caron, Dee Cartledge, Gina Chea, Victoria DeJong, Carol Dreger, Shirley Dunn, Clifford Edwards, Lil Filewych, Laurie Fornal, Brenda Fraser, Wendy Fraser, Gilberte Gagné, Irene Gagné, Louise Gagné, Doreen Gagnon, Jackie Genest, Mervan Gorrie, Sharon Green, Christine Hall, Jeffrey Haswell, Rosemarie Heaney, Brad Heller, Marilyn Hemsing, Linelle Henderson, Daniel High, Amelia Hihn, Maria Hollinshead, Ron Homenchuk, Judy Hume, Bruce Johnson, Madalyn Johnson, Jessica Kavanagh, Carol Klass, Eva Kopecka, Arndt Kuethe, Janice Kuethe, Bonnie Labranche, Kim Lang, Nicole Leblanc-Lamarre, Coral Levang, Ron Levang, Karen Lewis-Caron, Fran Linklater, Elizabeth Luchko, Marlene Lukevich, Caroline Lutz, Ross MacHetchuk, Dawn Madill, Donna McKay, Tom McLean, Donna Miller, Karen Miller, Janice Minamide, Monica Molina-Ayala, Donna Molloy, Bob Moore, Joan Murchie, Sulochana Muthia, Patricia Navarro, Florence Nieberding, Gina Nolet, Gaetan Nolet, Dennis Nolan, Barbara Olynyk, Linda Orlecki, Nicole Orlecki, Susan Patenaude, Anna Popowich, Joyce Powell, Doreen Pysar, Tracy Renz Augustin, Monica Robillard, Louise Rogucki, Audrey Ross, Ian Ross, Liam Ross, Helen Rusich, Joyce Schwan, Angela Seery, Valerie Smart, Phyllis Solsberg, Evelyn Stark, Charlotte Stel, Eileen Stephens, Diane Trihardt, Rose Unguran, Mona Vandersluys, Brenda Voyce, Laura Wallace, Jason Way-Kowalchuk, Kay Willekes, Bonnie Woloschuk, Denise Woollard, Laura Wylde, Lil Yewchuk 2 Pianos 4 hands 53
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