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Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Chair Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Tom Redl, Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Marc de La Bruyère Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole Ralph B. MacMillan Sandy Mactaggart (Honourary) Jack McBain Arliss Miller Catrin Owen Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Sheila Witwicky Ex Officio Ralph Young
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Sheila Witwicky President Catrin Owen Past President Dave Mowat Vice President Jane Halford Treasurer Julie Afanasiff Jane Batty Jeff Boadway Lesley Cormack Wendy Dupree Robert Fernandez Neil Gower Dave Hancock Sandra Haskins Richard Kirby Margot Ross-Graham Micki Ruth Peter Silverstone Micah Slavens Larry Staples
HonoUrary Directors Jack N. Agrios, Ken Bautista, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Christine Bishop, Dan Block, Guy Bridgeman, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Len Dolgoy, Allison Edwards, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, James Gillespie, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Becky Hole, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Stuart Lee, Beverlee Loat, Al Maurer, Ashif Mawji, Maureen McCaw, Lisa Miller, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Rob Reynolds, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, Gaurav Singhmar, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, Chief Justice A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa
BOOM Written, Directed & Performed by Rick Miller Sep 19 – Oct 11, 2015 Presented by
EVANGELINE Book, lyrics & music by Ted Dykstra Oct 31 – Nov 22, 2015 Presented by
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens Nov 28 – Dec 23, 2015 Presented by
The Songs Of Leonard Cohen Conceived & Directed by Tracey Power Jan 13 – 24, 2016
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? By Edward Albee Jan 23 – Feb 13, 2016
THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT Created & Performed by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn & Andrew Kushnir Feb 10 – 27, 2016
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS By Lewis Carroll Adapted for the stage by James Reaney Feb 27 – Mar 20, 2016 Presented by
OTHER DESERT CITIES By Jon Robin Baitz Apr 9 – May 1, 2016
WEST SIDE STORY Conception & Choreography by Jerome Robbins Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Apr 23 – May 22, 2016 Presented by
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
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. 8 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 2015/16
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Set Designer. . .................................................... Marshall McMahen Costume Designer............................................ Barbara Clayden Lighting Designer.............................................. Ted Roberts Sound Designer................................................ Xavier Berbudeau Artistic Producer............................................... Donna Spencer Dramaturge.. ...................................................... James MacDonald Stage Manager. . ................................................ Jaimie Tait Assistant Stage Manager................................. Jillian Perry
Featuring Rachel Aberle Steve Charles Sean Cronin Christina Cuglietta Benjamin Elliott Jonathan Gould Tracey Power This performance is approximately 87 minutes long, with one 20 minute intermission. The Citadel engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Production personnel for the Citadel Theatre are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Employees (I.A.T.S.E.)
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About the
CREATOR Tracey Power was born and raised in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island and moved to Edmonton in 1995 to attend Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Arts Program. Select acting credits include Clybourne Park and Blackbird (Citadel); UBUNTU (Theatre Calgary/ WCT); La Cage Aux Folles (Vancouver Playhouse); Urinetown and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (Firehall); Les Miserables (Western Canada Theatre); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and The Back Kitchen (Arts Club); STRAY (Workshop West); The Bone House (FTA, Edinburgh Fringe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry V (Freewill Players). Tracey conceived, directed and choreographed Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen for the Firehall Arts Centre in 2012. The powerful and inspirational hit production has since played at Persephone Theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Theatre Calgary, Belfry Theatre, and will continue on to Theatre Passe Muraille, presented by Theatre 20 in Toronto. Passionate about the creation of new work, Tracey premiered her new musical Miss Shakespeare for Musical TheatreWorks this summer in Vancouver running in repertory with J. Caesar, an all-female adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play, both directed by James MacDonald. She is also currently developing a new play in the Citadel Play Development Program entitled Glory, about 1930s Canadian women’s hockey team, the Preston Rivulettes. Other produced plays include Garage Alec (a bilingual comedy), The Great Mountain, Back to You; The Life and Music of Lucille Starr, The Big Sneeze, and Living Shadows; A Story of Mary Pickford. Tracey also wrote an adaptation of The Jungle Book, published by Samuel French which premiered in 2008 with Geordie Productions before touring to the Citadel Theatre and Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Recently, she directed and choreographed Singin’ in the Rain for the Chemainus Theatre Festival, choreographed Les Miserables for Western Canada Theatre, the last two seasons of the East Van Panto for Theatre Replacement at The Cultch, Miss Shakespeare and she will choreograph the world premiere of the new musical Onegin for The Arts Club this spring. Tracey’s work has been seen nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes and Jessie Richardson Awards. www.traceypower.ca 22 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 2015/16
DIRECTOR’S Notes
Creating a new piece of theatre is such a rewarding and exhilarating
experience. When the piece being created is brought to life through the lyrics and poetry of Leonard Cohen, creative inspiration is limitless. Much in the same way Cohen uses words to paint a poetic picture, I used his songs as inspiration to paint a theatrical one. Thank you to Donna Spencer for her belief and guidance, to Steve Charles for his musical brilliance and creative partnership, to James MacDonald for his influence and beautiful heart, and to this incredible company who joined me for this creative journey with such trust, passion and artistry. This is a story of love, of pain, of artistic struggle that begins and ends with Cohen’s words but lives within us. I invite you to lose yourself in our world and feel Cohen’s songs once again, for the very first time. A special thank you to Bob, James, and the entire Citadel team for joining us on the Chelsea Hotel journey. I graduated from Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Arts program in 1997, and having recently moved back to Edmonton, it means so much to share this show with a community that was such an inspiration at the start of my career. Thank you and enjoy!
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Shoctor planned the opening of the first play in his new theatre well. How do you attract audiences willing to pay professional prices for tickets, to a new theatre that was mostly known as a Salvation Army church? You put on a play that had already generated considerable controversy in that centre of all things sophisticated and worldly, New York. In 1963, Virginia Woolf won a Tony and a Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. It was selected for a Pulitzer Prize but the trustees of Columbia University, the awards advisory board, objected to the play’s use of profanity and sexual themes and overrode the committee’s suggestion. They felt that playwright Edward Albee was a nihilist and Virginia Woolf was depressing, angry and cynical. It later turned out that some of the advisory board had not read or seen the play. Albee seems sanguine about the slight. He says (echoing the controversy that later would envelop the Citadel’s production), “I realized fairly quickly that I would get much more publicity out of having the Columbia board turn down Virginia Woolf than I would ever have gotten for getting it.” Over the years, Albee has been awarded three Pulitzers for his plays A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women. Says Albee, “When people ask how many Pulitzer prizes I have, I say, ‘three-and-a-half.’” Looking back at the fracas years later he observed, “The function of art is to instruct us. If we want our arts to be escapist, if we want them to conform with our opinions of ourselves,
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what earthly good are they? I don’t think there is any point in experiencing anything in the arts that leaves you exactly where you started.” Back at the Citadel, the controversy continued with a buzz commenting on the number of audience members who left during intermission. There were letters to the editor, phone calls to radio stations and many discussions around the water cooler. Edmonton knew there was a new theatre in town. Now, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has taken its place as a timeless theatre classic. It is still a popular choice of directors all over the world and is oft produced. So, what better production to help celebrate the Citadel’s fiftieth anniversary than the one that began it all? How has the now venerable vehicle stood the test of time? Does it still have the power to delight and horrify us? Does it still pack a cogent, emotional and theatrical wallop after half a century? After all, emotional violence on stage, blistering family discord (See Clybourne Park/God of Carnage) and scorching street language is so common on today’s stages as to barely register on modern audiences.
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The early sixties had a profound effect on how Virginia Woolf was received. Sure, there was the cold war but on television we watched Leave It To Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet. The American Dream was unfolding its butterfly wings and leading us into a profound belief in “exceptionalism” — success can be achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. Then along came Albee, an upstart 32 year-old New York academic who forced us to examine some closely held and cherished beliefs. The title came to Albee one night when he was in a pub having a beer. He saw Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? scrawled on a bar of soap. “When I started to write the play it cropped up in my mind again. And of course who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf... who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.” The play is divided into three parts – Fun and Games, Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night) and The Exorcism. The play opens with George and Martha returning from a booze fuelled night at a college party. We learn that another couple, Nick and Honey, will be joining them. The two taunt each other. They have been married a long time and know how to wound deeply but have managed to skirt the ugliness of their marriage by taking refuge in illusion. Their early ripostes are low key but we sense something big is coming. Martha digs at him, “I swear...
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if you existed, I’d divorce you.” Nick and Honey arrive. She is drunk, giggles a lot and is in way over her head. Nick is a hustler ready to bed a few professors’ wives to get to the top. The verbal jousting turns ominous – full of personal revelations. George and Martha are obviously using Nick and Honey as foils for a mutual abuse they have woven into the fabric of their marriage. George says, “I warned you not to go too far.” Martha snarls, “I’m just beginning.” Having no real marital bond, or at least none that either is willing to admit, Martha holds desperately to a belief that they have a son. But does he exist? In this coruscating play, the destruction of illusion does not result in any apparent reality – or relief. “All truth,” George grinds out, “[is] relative.” Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will be directed at the Citadel by James MacDonald who has just finished off another season as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. MacDonald is also an Associate Director of the theatre. After a stint of directing some of the theatre’s most prestigious productions over the years, most of them stark modern dramas (Equus/Vimy/ God of Carnage/A Few Good Men/Clybourne Park), you might ask if he ever thought of prevailing upon his boss to give him Charlie’s Aunt, or The Importance of Being Ernest to direct. “Actually,” he chuckles, “I love to listen to an audience laugh and, surprisingly unlike
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what you may have heard, Virginia Woolf is very funny. Hate and love, pain and laughter are just different sides of the same coin. It is a phenomenally well written play and actually veers between nastiness and humour. It’s unsettling because we never know when Albee is going to pull the rug out from under us. Whenever you say, ‘Oh, I know where this is going,’ all of a sudden it’s going in the other direction. In casting the show I chose actors who were able to find the humour in the play.” So given the bloody battlefield their marriage has become, why do George and Martha continue their relationship? MacDonald posits, “There are many reasons. They need each other as companions. They have shared histories extending back many years. The two literally can’t live with each other – but they can’t live without each other. They understand what is going on. Much of the pain they inflict is, in an obtuse way, support for the other. I suspect they would not be any more happy outside of their relationship.” As a director, is it daunting to approach so complex a play? “I don’t like to overthink plays,” observes the genial MacDonald. “Finding the historic content and the themes of the play is interesting and handy but ultimately it’s the play itself. My job is to keep the audience off balance. I have to make them aware of who these people are. At the beginning, the characters tend to speak in paragraphs — highly intellectual and articulate paragraphs — but as the evening goes on they are speaking halting sentences. The cadence of the language speaks for itself. So I try to find approaches that will help the actors in their understanding of the language. One of the best ways to understand Albee is getting at the ebb and flow of the dialogue.” As Albee once said, “Put the play on its feet and the audience will know what it’s about.” George and Martha continue their epic battle when Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? previews on the Shoctor stage on January 23rd.
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Rachel Aberle Four years in, Rachel still counts herself lucky to be one of the long term residents at the Chelsea Hotel. A graduate of Studio 58, Rachel has appeared at Summerworks Musical Works in Concert (Toronto, ON); Caravan Farm Theatre (Armstrong, BC); Chemainus Theatre Festival (Chemainus, BC); Persephone Theatre (Saskatoon, SK); Manitoba Theatre Centre and Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg, MB); and The Arts Club, Vancouver Playhouse, Only-Child Collective, Miscast Collective and Green Thumb Theatre (Vancouver, BC). Off stage, Rachel works as a voiceover artist, playwright, and arts administrator. Her play Still/ Falling, which tackles teen depression and anxiety, is touring this year with Green Thumb Theatre, where she also works as the Community Engagement and Development Coordinator.
Steve Charles Steve Charles is a musician, composer and performer from Vancouver. Highlights of the past few years include Urinetown (Firehall); Avenue Q (Arts Club); Brief Encounter (Playhouse/ MTC); Dance Marathon (international tours with Bluemouth Inc.); Salmon Row (Mortal Coil); and many Fringe, folk and jazz festivals across Canada, the US, and Europe. He was also Music Director for Galala on TV Unis and is the annual Music Director for Pacifique en Chanson. With the Escape Artists he co-produced Miss Shakespeare and J. Caesar. Steve co-created and continues to perform in productions of Chelsea Hotel in theatres across Canada. He tours internationally with bands Viper Central and The Fugitives. A very active member of Vancouver’s music scene, Steve is in demand as a multi-instrumentalist, sound designer and for his easy-going versatility. www.stevenjohncharles.com
Sean Cronin Sean Cronin has toured across Canada, Europe, and the US with jazz, rock and bluegrass bands, as well as his own groups Too Big to Care Marching Band, and the award-winning theatre-rock ensemble Sean Cronin’s Very Good. Along the way he has picked up a deep knowledge of multiple instruments including bass, guitar, piano, banjolele, drums, and saxophone. Upon relocating from Vancouver to Brooklyn in 2012, Sean became involved in the city’s Ragtime and Traditional Jazz scene, as well as the Off-Broadway theatre scene. His score for Kill Me Like You Mean It earned him a Drama Desk nomination in 2015 for best music in a play. Sean is currently writing his own play, an absurdist rock-opera to be performed by Sean Cronin’s Very Good. chelsea hotel 33
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Christina Cuglietta As a Vancouver based multidisciplinary artist, Christina is thrilled to join the Chelsea Hotel team! She works as an actor, instrumentalist, musical director and theatre educator across Canada. Select theatre, performance and direction credits include Peter and the Starcatcher (Western Canada Theatre); The Pied Piper (Sum Theatre); The Buddy Holly Story (Theatre North West); You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Project X); The Forbidden Phoenix (Gateway Theatre); and My Fair Lady (Western Canada Theatre). Coming up in March of 2016, she will be performing in The Out Vigil (Firehall Arts Centre/Twenty Something Theatre). Christina is a graduate from the Canadian College of Performing Arts and holds her Grade Ten Royal Conservatory of Music Practical Certificates in piano and violin.
Benjamin Elliott Ben is an actor and composer based in Vancouver. Recent credits include Are We Cool Now? (WCT); Comedy of Errors and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Bard on the Beach) for which he was also the Music Director. He is the cowriter of The Best Laid Plans: A Musical which premiered this fall. He is also the in-house composer for the sketch comedy show Human Town which is in its first season on CBC television. Coming up, Ben will be appearing in Good People (Arts Club) at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver and then heading back to Bard on the Beach where he will be performing in Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ontario). Ben is a Jessie Richardson Award recipient and graduate of Studio 58. www.benelliott.ca
Jonathan Gould After graduating from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Classical Theatre, Jonathan has gone on to perform across North America, including several seasons with the Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Grand Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Magnus Theatre, Lincoln Center Institute and The Kennedy Center. Select film and television credits include Buck Calder Experience, Beyblade, Budrus and Baby Brain. Jonathan is a singer, songwriter and musician based in Toronto and was a contributor to the Juno Award winning album Music Soup. He currently voices the role of Dave in the animated series Scaredy Squirrel for YTV and Disney Channel. Jonathan is a graduate of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.
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Marshall McMahen Set Designer
Marshall’s designs have been seen around Vancouver and across the country, including Love’s Labour’s Lost & Shakespeare’s Rebel (Bard on the Beach); Spamalot and Avenue Q (Arts Club); All the Way Home (Electric Company); and many more productions with Caravan Farm Theatre, Chemainus, Gateway, Green Thumb, Urban Ink and others. Last season Marshall was the Resident Associate Designer with Pacific Opera Victoria. He is a member of Associated Designers of Canada, a graduate of UBC, and the recipient of a Jessie Award, three Ovation Awards, and the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award.
Barbara Clayden Costume Designer
Barbara Clayden has been a theatre artist for over 30 years, designing costumes and sometimes sets for various theatre and dance companies around Vancouver, including the Arts Club Theatre, Blackbird Theatre, Carousel Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, Neworld Theatre, Presentation House, Pi Theatre, Rumble, and Theatre Replacement. She has been nominated for numerous Jessie Awards and won a few along the way. Most recently, her work was seen in Pi Theatre’s production of Except in the Unlikely Event of War and the Arts Club’s The Odd Couple.
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Select past designs include the set for Urinetown, set and lighting for Menopositive! The Musical, and the lighting for Larger Than Life (Firehall Arts Centre). As Resident Designer for the Arts Club Theatre, recent designs include set designs for Disgraced, Les Miserables and In the Heights at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage; the sets of The Mountaintop and It’s Snowing on Saltspring; set and lighting for Red Rock Diner at the Granville Island Stage; the set for Sister Judy and lighting for A Twisted Christmas Carol at the Revue Stage; and lighting for My Chernobyl and Hedda Gabler at Persephone Theatre.
Xavier Berbudeau Sound Designer
Xavier Berbudeau is a Vancouver based sound engineer and designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He has worked with many organizations over the years including Chutzpah! Festival, French Festival, music festivals and corporate events. He runs Xavier Berbudeau Audio; a Vancouver based audio company that provides audio services and production management for live music, events and corporate organizations.
Donna Spencer Artistic Producer
Donna Spencer is the Artistic Producer of Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre and one of the Firehall’s founding directors. Donna provided dramaturgical and staging/production contributions to Chelsea Hotel. She was recently honoured with the 2012 Mayor’s Arts Award for Theatre and is the winner of the Jessie Richardson Outstanding Direction Award for Urinetown: The Musical and Reading Hebron. Her many directorial theatre credits include Vimy, Einstein’s Gift, Golden Child, The Yoko Ono Project and Wawatay. She has been recognized with the B.C. Community Achievement Award for her work for inclusivity in dance and theatre and is a member of the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame.
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For the Citadel, James has directed 15 productions over the past ten years, and performed in many others, including five years as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. As a dramaturge, director, and actor, James has been involved in the development of over 40 new Canadian plays, including directing the world premieres of Miss Shakespeare (Musical TheatreWorks); Vimy (Citadel – Sterling Award); With a Twist (Lunchbox Theatre); and The Myth of Summer (Alberta Theatre Projects). Other directing credits include Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); The Old Ladies (Shaw Festival); and Fire (Canadian Stage – Dora Award). James is the founding Artistic Director of Edmonton’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival, a position he held for six years. He is the Program Director for the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.
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Jaimie Tait Stage Manager
Jaimie has spent the last year living and working in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She is very happy to be back working on Chelsea Hotel. Favourite past credits include All the Way Home with The Electric Company, Snowman with Rumble Productions, Kismet one to one hundred with The Chop, and Leading Ladies with The Gateway Theatre. Upcoming, Jaimie will be stage managing the world premiere of Ours for Opera on the Avalon back in St. John’s. Jaimie is a graduate of Studio 58.
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Assistant Stage Manager Jillian is thrilled to be back with Chelsea Hotel. She has been the Assistant Stage manager for Chelsea Hotel for the past four years. She was glad she got the opportunity to Stage Manage it for the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary last January. Jillian is a graduate of the University of the Fraser Valley. Past stage management highlights include PROUD and Urinetown: The Musical (Firehall Arts Centre); Terminus and Visions of Vancouver (PI Theatre, Jesse Award Best Small Theatre Production); La Cage Aux Folles (Vancouver Playhouse); My Funny Valentine, Nelly Boy and Whale Riding Weather (Zee Zee Theatre); Home Coming King and Tiny Replicas (Below 0). Enjoy the Show!
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Firehall’s Artistic Producer Donna Spencer I would like to thank the Citadel Theatre for bringing our production to Edmonton and being a part of our 2015-2016 tour. Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen premiered at the Firehall Arts Centre in 2012 and since then has played over 250 performances in Calgary, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Victoria, Banff, Vernon and Fort McMurray. Following its run at the Citadel, the production will tour to Toronto. We hope you enjoy the show and go home humming to Cohen’s popular tunes.
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Firehall Arts Centre The Firehall Theatre Society, a not for profit charitable organization, operates the 155 seat Firehall Arts Centre in a 108 year-old heritage fire hall in downtown Vancouver. The Society’s mission is to entertain and engage audiences through the development, production and presentation of high quality theatre, dance, interdisciplinary performance and visual arts exhibitions, which are culturally inclusive and reflective of the Canadian experience. For additional information about the Society’s activities, please visit our website at www.firehallartscentre.ca. The Firehall gratefully acknowledges our sponsors:
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