Citadel Theatre playbill - Evangeline

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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

Bob Baker | Artistic Director penny ritco | executive Director

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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, Eva McGregor, 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

ENCORE | Campaign Support VISIONARY

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ATB Financial Bryan & Company LLP Capital Power Felesky Flynn LLP The Highbury Foundation Muriel Hole Richard & Erin Kirby Jack & Lorraine McBain Morgan Construction Rob & Beth Reynolds Chris & Dale Sheard Susan Wylie & Bruce Hagstrom

Gifts of $1,000,000 and above

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Gifts of $500,000 - $999,999 The Eldon & Anne Foote Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation

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Gifts of $250,000 - $499,999 Darren & Laurel Durstling

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Gifts of $100,000 - $249,999 David & Jan Bentley Dentons Ashif, Zainul, Kinza & Aariz Mawji Arliss Miller Al & Fran Olson The Shoctor Family

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Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999 J.G. Greenough Lisa & Marshall Sadd

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Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Keith & Valerie Alessi Lorraine Bray & Jim Carter Susan & James Burns Butler Family Foundation Lesley Cormack

L. Neil Gower Q.C. Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Lewis & Lindsay Nakatsui Catrin Owen & John Sumner Aleda Patterson & Family Sir Francis Price & The Honourable Marguerite Trussler Tom & Corrie Redl The Sequeira Family Micah & Kristi Slavens Moira & Larry Staples The Summit Foundation Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp Ralph & Gay Young

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Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Guy Bridgeman & Dianne Ross Don & Lorna Kramer Stuart & Sherry Lee Dave & Sandy Mowat Ester & Howard Starkman TELUS Charitable Giving Program Joseph & Nancy Thompson

| Annual Support Heinz Feldberg Lois Field The Honourable John C. R. French & Ruth Agrios Frank Gibson Anne Anfindsen Shirley Gifford Pamela Baadsgaard Isidor & Grace Gliener Diana Bacon Lilian Green Tommy & Ida Banks J.G. Greenough Luis & Alexis Baptista Tatsuyuki & Doris Maurice & Annette Hayashi Bastide Elizabeth, Rosalina, & Walter & Stella Baydala Cynthia Hicks David & Jan Bentley Ada Hole Barbara Blackley Muriel Hole Dr. Doug & Mary Bosko Chris Jager & Joyce Buchwald Jean Coutts Ronald Cavell Doris Kent Z. & M. Chrzanowski Ken & Jennifer Kouri Ruth Collins-Nakai Don & Lorna Kramer Marilyn Darwish Leo J. Krysa Family Marc de La Bruyère & Foundation Stacy Schiff Patricia Langan Allison & Glyn Edwards Valda Levin

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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

Government & Foundation Supporters

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

executive producer and founder, the citadel theatre

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 EVANGELINE

Dr. Ghalib Ahmed Eva Cairns, Catalyst Theatre

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JULIEN ARNOLD........................................................ Basil Lajeunesse JOSÉE BOUDREAU.................................................... Evangeline Bellefontaine HUNTER CARDINAL. . ................................................. Olivier Leblanc BRENT CARVER......................................................... Father Felician MARK CASSIUS......................................................... Clairborne RÉJEAN COURNOYER. . ............................................. Captain Hampson JAY DAVIS.................................................................. Gabriel Lajeunesse STEPHEN GUY-McGRATH. . ....................................... René Leblanc VALERIE HAWKINS.................................................... Orchard Leblanc SERA-LYS McARTHUR.............................................. Cornflower LAURIE MURDOCH.................................................... Colonel Winslow J.D. NICHOLSEN........................................................ Benedict Bellefontaine MATT O’CONNOR...................................................... Baptiste Leblanc KYDEN SEETOO. . ....................................................... Young Olivier With KEVIN AICHELE, KEVIN DENNIS, QUINN DOOLEY, SHELDON ELTER, SUSAN HENLEY, ALEX KELLY, LOUISE LAMBERT, DAVID LIGHT, CAMERON MacDUFFEE, TREVOR PATT, SHELLEY SIMESTER, ALICIA TONER Youth Chorus DECLAN BAKER, SOPHIE BERUBE, WILL BRISBIN, AVANI CARSTENSEN-SINHA, SAGE JEPSON, ANTHONY ROPPO, AOIFE ROWE-DOYLE, Nick van Herwaarden, LOGAN WEST, IMOGEN WYNTERS Director.......................................................................

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BOB BAKER BOB FOSTER DON HORSBURGH RICK FOX DAYNA TEKATCH JONATHAN PURVIS CORY SINCENNES CHARLOTTE DEAN MICHAEL WALTON PETER McBOYLE JAMIE NESBITT MATTHEW MacINNIS HEATHER LEWIS WAYNE PAQUETTE Merran Carr-Wiggin & Peg Young

This performance is approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes, including one 20 minute intermission. *Based on the World Premiere Production Design by Patrick Clark / Directed by Anne Allan and Ted Dykstra / Produced by The Charlottetown Festival.

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Ted Dykstra A dynamic radio, film, television and theatre actor, director, and playwright, Ted was born in Chatham, Ontario in 1961 and grew up in St. Albert, Alberta. He made his professional début at 15, in Frank Moher’s Odd Jobs.

Since his graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1984, Ted Dykstra has been in great demand and has performed at many of the country’s major theatres including the Citadel, Factory Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Canadian Stage, Neptune Theatre, the Shaw Festival, as well as the Stratford Festival.

The true splash in Ted Dykstra’s theatrical career may have occurred in his performance in the Toronto mega-musical Tommy, when, as Cousin Kevin, many felt that he stole the show away from lead Tylie Ross. For this performance, he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

From 1995 to 1998 he and Richard Greenblatt toured Canada and abroad with a new musical they had created. The smash hit 2 Pianos 4 Hands won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production and the Chalmers Award for Playwriting.

He is a founding member of the Soulpepper Theatre Company, and regularly directs its productions, including revivals of four plays by David French, and Billy Bishop Goes to War. He has directed David Widdcombe’s Science Fiction (Factory) and the San Francisco and Australian productions of 2 Pianos 4 Hands.

In 2013, the Charlottetown Festival premiered Evangeline with book, lyrics, and music all by Ted Dykstra.

His many awards include four Doras (acting, musical direction, production), one Gemini (acting), an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (musical direction), a Merritt Award (directing), and a Chalmers Award (writing). But of all his accomplishments, none top being the father of Theo and Rosie!

My first professional job was as a company member of Les Feux Follets at Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre of the Arts, in 1974.

For a prairie boy, it was an amazing opportunity, not only to work with the great Alan Lund, but to learn about the incredible diversity of our country’s heritage in the place where it all began. The experience awakened in me a deep sense of Canadian pride. Forty one years later, I am honoured to have had the chance to return to Confederation Centre to direct a major new Canadian musical telling an important Canadian story. I couldn’t be happier to bring it home to Edmonton to share this escapade with my hometown.

The story of Evangeline is a story of family, community, and extraordinary devotion. We become invested in the story because we all yearn to have as deep and complete a love as that of Evangeline and Gabriel. Longfellow borrowed the historical context of the Acadian expulsion of 1755 and penned an epic love story spanning two continents and four decades. Ted Dykstra has further refined and dramatized the story, as well as enriching the experience by composing a stirring and powerful score. Our goal is to honour the authenticity of this important, but often overlooked, episode of Canada’s history while focussing on the spirit and fortitude of the Acadian people and the extraordinary love shared by our heroes.

The exceptionally talented group of artists assembled to enliven this work were very grateful to Confederation Centre’s former Artistic Director Anne Allan, for producing the World Premiere of Evangeline in 2013. It is rare enough that new Canadian works of this scale and ambition are produced at all, but even more rare is the opportunity to revisit the work with lessons learned and a new perspective.

The Citadel Theatre is pleased to join forces with Confederation Centre, and Artistic Director Adam Brazier, to bring this new production to audiences in both Charlottetown and Edmonton. This musical and these artists are all proudly Canadian and their devotion to sharing this story across the country is inspiring.

We hope you share our pride, — BOB BAKER, Director Artistic Director, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton

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music ACT ONE

ACT TWO

Prologue

Lullaby

The Finest House

Exhilaration

All My Memories Are You

Help Us To Go On

The Wedding Song

All My Memories (Reprise 2)

Forgive Them

Exhilaration (Reprise)

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Atchafalaya/Freedom

All My Memories (Reprise 1)

I Hear Only Your Voice

If It Takes All That I Am

Don’t Stand By I’m Growing Old Without You Is This Heaven?

musicians Flute. . .......................................................... Liz Faulkner Clarinet/Bass Clarinet.............................. Echo Mazur Horn............................................................ Mary Fearon Trumpet.. .................................................... Russ Whitehead Trombone.................................................. Alden Lowrey Percussion................................................. Tim Mulligan Second Keyboard.................................... Liz Han Guitar/Mandolin........................................ Chris Corrigan First Violin.................................................. Jim Cockell Second Violin............................................ Kate Svrcek Viola............................................................ Sarah Woodman Cello........................................................... Ian Woodman Bass. . .......................................................... Josh McHan Music Supervisor.. .................................... Bob Foster Music Director/First Keyboard............... Don Horsburgh Orchestra Contractor. . ............................. Jim Cockell Evangeline has been developed in part by the Confederation Centre of the Arts with the support of Dr. Regis Duffy and Mrs. Joan Duffy, the Citadel Theatre’s Play Development Program which is supported by BMO Financial Group and through The Collaborations – at Canada’s National Arts Centre. Evangeline was originally commissioned by Mirvish Productions, Toronto.

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A Theatre forAll Seasons part 2

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Jean-Pierre Fournier and Patrick Christoper in Hosanna, 1976

When John Neville arrived in 1973,

to take over the reins of the Citadel, he said he had two main reasons to come to Edmonton. He wanted to see the Canadian North (and he did with the theatre’s outreach program, “The Citadel on Wheels”) and to develop a second space for edgy alternative theatre.

In 1975, he built a secret theatre. Neville knew Citadel producer Joe Shoctor would never okay the expense (to be fair to Shoctor – he had to answer to a Board of Directors). With a group of fellow plotters (including Margaret Mooney who, was among other things, coordinator of drama workshops) they took over a small space in the Sovereign Building just down the street (Shoctor owned the building). They gutted the rooms, tore out the supporting beams and painted it black. Says Mooney, “One of us was always looking out the window. If Shoctor came into sight, we would close things down. Everybody’d lie in the dark and hold our breaths until Joe was gone.”

Citadel Too, as Neville called it, was John’s baby and he spread the love around. He appeared on the small stage as Clov in Beckett’s Endgame. Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna addressed issues like gender, sexual identity, the acceptance of ageing, and overt homosexuality.

While the big theatre next door was benefiting from Dear Liar (with Neville and Dame Peggy Ashcroft), The Sunshine Boys and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, John was delighting in presenting small plays by Canadians Sharon Pollock and David Freeman.

In 1976, about half way through Neville’s reign as Artistic Director, the old Citadel had long since outgrown its original roots and Shoctor set his mind on a new theatre. The mountain he had to climb was the price tag of $6.5 million. He started with his original backers who were, mostly, still in the game. Sandy Mactaggart, thinking back to the “fortune” that Shoctor suggested they’d make on the Citadel, saw Joe coming. “After ten years we did manage to build up the return a bit and I was beginning to think that ‘Oh well, at least we’re going to get some of our money back’. Joe managed to persuade all of us to put all the profits back in. And he came back several times.”

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The formidable Shoctor money-generating machine was something to behold. Remembers David Bentley, who this season celebrates 50 years as a Citadel subscriber (and Board Member), “I know of two occasions when Joe sent a cheque which he felt was not enough, back to the donor. I think there was some sort of comment that the donor obviously needed the money more than the Citadel did.” Shoctor brought the provincial government into the fold by securing hands-on help from theatre-loving Premier Lougheed and his energetic Minister of Culture, Dr. Horst Schmid, who successfully lobbied for grants. With Shoctor’s prodding, individual and corporate donors opened their hearts and wallets. The building was paid for before construction began.

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Holding off a heart attack and putting his life at some danger, Shoctor was the driving force behind a brand-new, glass and brick palace located very near the spot where his immigrant father had run his chicken and junk stand.

The new theatre opened in 1976 with Romeo and Juliet. Brent Carver was a memorable Romeo, Juliet was a young and appealing Nicky Guadagni (with Tom Wood as Mercutio).

The Rice Theatre saw productions of Sharon Pollock’s The Komagata Maru Incident and Rex Deverell’s The Boiler Room Suite.

When the theatre was finally built, Joe had his heart attack. It’s been said that the red in the bricks of the new Citadel was the red of Joe’s blood.

Peter Coe was a heavy hitter. In 1961 he had three hits running simultaneously in London’s West End: The Miracle Worker, The World of Suzie Wong and Oliver!. He got the job of Artistic Director after sending Joe a handwritten note asking for it. In an interview shortly after he arrived he said (echoing Nero) he wanted to bring “bread and circuses” to Edmonton. It was a forecast that, alas, proved to be true. He brought us bad Shakespeare (telling The Edmonton Journal, “In Shakespeare, the words don’t matter.”), Ron Moody (Fagin) in a Nazi uniform and Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins) as an aging dipsomaniac. He cared little for finances and darn near broke the theatre. During his time, however, the Citadel did present a number of notable Canadian plays including George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and John Gray’s Billy Bishop Goes to War. Coe spent little time in Edmonton and had a notable dislike of any other local theatres. He left before his three years were up leaving the unfortunate, but lingering impression that the Citadel was the great ship of state and all the others were rowboats.

Peter Coe, 1979

Canadian theatre guru Gerry Potter, who famously once stood outside the Citadel in a rainstorm with a sandwich board giving out pamphlets for Workshop West, his alternative Canadian theatre, put it into perspective when he called Joe Shoctor a “builder.” “The Citadel,” he said, “made us a real theatre town, calling attention to theatre in general and bringing theatre people to Edmonton.”

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EVANGELINE

is an epic new Canadian musical that tells of the enduring power of love over all obstacles. Evangeline and Gabriel are torn from each other’s arms on their wedding day by British colonial forces during what is now known as The Great Expulsion of the Acadians. Evangeline spends the next forty years wandering North America in search of her husband.

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for another eight years.

Almost three-quarters of the Acadian population of 15,000 had their lands and goods taken from them and were transported to various locations throughout the British Empire. Many Acadians settled in Louisiana, becoming the Cajun people of the southern United States. Some made the long journey back to what had been Acadia. Finally, in 1764, the Acadians were officially given permission to resettle in Nova Scotia. The war was over and France had given up her empire in North America.

The Acadians were no longer considered a threat to the security of the British colony.

THE GREAT EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS

was the result of years of conflict between the English and the French. The French colony of Acadie (present day Nova Scotia and parts of Quebec and Maine) had been passed back and forth from English to French control until the British finally took possession of Acadia under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. In the years that followed, British governors repeatedly asked the Acadians to take an oath of loyalty to the Crown but accepted instead an Acadian promise to remain neutral in any conflict with France.

Finally, in 1755, Governor Lawrence demanded the Acadians take the oath of loyalty or face expulsion. The Acadians again refused and, in the fall of 1755, six thousand Acadians were rounded up and dispersed throughout the English colonies, where it was hoped they would be assimilated.

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By the 1840’s, Dickens had become fascinated by the United States.

He regarded it as a bastion of freedom, a place where the human spirit could expand and all who dwelt therein could have an equal shot at the American Dream. As a committed social reformer Dickens wanted to use his trip to examine American democracy first hand and determine if it was an improvement on class-ridden Victorian England.

By then, he had written The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickelby and Oliver Twist and, at the age of 30, had become the best known writer in the English speaking world. But seeking even more fame and adulation, and propelled by a desire to personally confront those pesky American publishers who were making fortunes by reprinting his books without any remittance to the author, he was determined to go to the new world. He knew a whole new generation of Americans had sprung up. They were schooled and literate and they loved his books.

And so the redoubtable author, commandeering his ever-game wife, Catherine (and her maid), and armed with a contract from his publishers to release a new book on his adventures, set sail from Liverpool on an early steam packet named “Britannia” on January 4, 1842. Perhaps the voyage might be regarded as the shape of things to come. As described by Dickens himself in his travelogue, American Notes for Circulation, “... a bad winter’s night in the wild Atlantic is impossible for the most vivid imagination to conceive.

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(The ship...) is flung down on her side in the waves, (and then...) springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea strikes her with the noise of a hundred guns and hurls her back.” Both he and his wife were terribly seasick for days. (At the end of their trip, the three took a proper sailing vessel back to England).

Dickens’ attitude was considerably brightened by his welcome in Boston on January 22.

There were balls and concerts. By night the excited author wandered through the snowy streets delightedly reading aloud the signs on the shops.

His welcome was even greater in New York. The Park Theatre was decorated with wreaths and paintings proclaiming him as “the world’s best known author.” He and Catherine danced the night away in the company of 3000 guests. The next night he enthused during a speech, “If I should live to grow old, the scenes of this and other evenings will shine as brightly to my dull eyes 50 years hence as now.”

Alas, such golden memories were not to be. The reality of his famous “quarrel with America” was about to set in and, as has been suggested by a number of biographers, his experiences in America helped generate the gathering darkness of his later works.

If Dickens was the visiting rock star of his time, he remonstrated against his fame in terms that would not sound unfamiliar from the mouth of Justin Bieber. “I turn into the street and I

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am followed by a multitude. I can’t drink a glass of water without having 100 people looking down my throat when I open my mouth to swallow.” He was deeply disturbed during a train stopover in Cleveland when he was awakened to find “a party of gentlemen staring through the cabin window as my wife lay in bed.”

His growing distaste for America was founded on much more than the difficulties of fame.

He found American table manners crude. In his book about Dickens, An Innocent Abroad, Professor Jerome Meckier writes, “He began to find them overbearing, boastful, vulgar, uncivil, insensitive and above all acquisitive.” In short, says Professor Meckier, “The Americans were simply not English enough.”

In Washington, Dickens met President John Tyler at his morning reception but was horrified to see everyone spittin’ their chaw. Even in the White House.

The politicians? “Like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.

Washington is the home of despicable trickery at elections, underhanded tamperings with public offices and cowardly attacks on opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields and hired pens for daggers.” He went to prisons and mental institutions and was horrified at the misery he saw. He had originally planned to travel as far south as Charleston but he was so appalled by slavery he cancelled the trip. “Pah!,” he wrote, “I never knew what it was to feel disgust and contempt ‘till I travelled in America.”

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As might be expected the press turned against him as did many of his literary friends. And what’s more, to use an America baseball term, he struck out with American publishers. They were in no hurry to send remittance cheques to the English author who was making them so much money. He left for England on June 7th under a cloud.

Dickens’ writing tone turned more melancholy and less optimistic in such later novels as Hard Times, David Copperfield and Bleak House. Martin Chuzzlewit retreats from the difficulties of making his way in England only to find that survival is even more trying on the American frontier. Little Dorrit is an innocent child who suffers the world’s abuses. Domby and Son examines the negative values of a business society on the personal fortunes of the Domby family.

In 1843, Dickens lightened his tone considerably. He became gripped with an idea of how he could put his humanitarian vision, his concerns about poverty and social injustice into a deeply felt Christmas tale. He would produce a story of the redemption of an embittered old miser. As the idea took shape the author became engrossed in the book. He turned it out in a frenzied six weeks observing later that as the tale unfolded he “wept and laughed, and wept again.” His powerful and enduring story was an immediate success and changed the celebration of Christmas forever.

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Then in 1853, a new event was to change Dickens’ life. He invented the one-man show. As a money raiser for the Birmingham Literary and Scientific Library in 1853, he put some of his writings together, and, taking advantage of his experience as an amateur actor, presented a reading of his stories. It was a hit and he began to give readings throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. Despite his fame as a writer, Dickens lived the big life and spent money as fast as he made it. Despite his earlier misgivings, he recognized the new world as a place to make a lot of money.

And besides, despite being branded “a traitor” by the press, his love affair with the American public continued unabated. His books continued to sell well and the author continued to make his American publishers rich. The Old Curiosity Shop so obsessed the Americans that readers, eager for the next installment of the novel, would stand on New York docks and yell out to passengers on incoming packet liners asking if “Little Nell was still alive.” And so, twenty five years later, he went back. His triumphant return eclipsed the earlier trip. Line-ups for tickets reached around the block in New York and established a new business – the ticket scalper. It made him a rich man. In six months, he earned the equivalent of three million dollars.

No reading he gave had more impact than the small Christmas novella he whipped off in six weeks in 1843.

Through all his writings, Dickens used vitriol and satire to change public opinion in regard to the exploitation and oppression of the poor. The thundering social critic changed English (and North American) society and I’m sure his restless ghost would gaze with satisfaction on the smudge-faced urchins that stand in the Citadel lobby after performances with outstretched caps raising money for those whose Christmas might be as empty as the Cratchit pantry. In the 15 years they have been asking Citadel audiences for assistance, the performers have gathered more than $753,000.00, which goes to the Edmonton Food Bank.

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bios Kevin Aichele

Ensemble

Most recently at the Citadel, Kevin performed in Mary Poppins, Spamalot and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Other selected theatre credits include Les Miserables (Rainbow Stage); Gun Metal Blues (The Globe Theatre); Mary Poppins (Theatre Calgary); Jesus Christ Superstar (Stage West Calgary); Urinetown (Persephone Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Vertigo Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall); Oliver! (The Stirling Festival); and My Fair Lady (MTC). Film and television credits include Something Beneath, Faces in The Crowd, True Crime, The Pinkertons, and Sunnyside.

Julien Arnold

Basil Lajeunesse

Julien’s Citadel Theatre credits include One Man, Two Guvnors, Make Mine Love, Spamalot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sterling Award), The Rocky Horror Show, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Einstein’s Gift, Servant of Two Masters, Hamlet, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other theatre credits include Sleuth, Happy Toes, The Ambassador’s Wives (Teatro La Quindicina); King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); The End of Civilization (Punctuate Theatre); and The Laws of Thermodynamics (Theatre Yes). Julien has also directed Going to St. Ives and Shipwrecked! (Atlas Theatre). Love to Juliette!

Josée Boudreau Evangeline Bellefontaine

Josée is happy to return to the Citadel, having previously performed in A Christmas Carol, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women: The Broadway Musical, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Other theatre credits include The Founding Father, Canada ROCKS!, Evangeline, Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™, The Buddy Holly Story (Confederation Centre); and The Sound of Music (Mirvish). She is featured on the 2014 album The Music of Evangeline, and is also a graduate of the Citadel/ Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. Shout out to Bruce and the Talent House gang. Merci à mon nouveau mari et à toute ma famille et mes ami(e)s acadiens. Vive l’acadie!

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bios Hunter Cardinal

Olivier Leblanc

Hunter is a local Edmonton actor, recent graduate of the University of Alberta’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting program, and is very excited to have had the chance to perform in Evangeline in both Charlottetown and at home. Previous selected theatre credits include The Three Penny Opera (Studio Theatre); RENT (Strathcona Alumni Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); and Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Studio Theatre).

Hunter was a Citadel Young Company member and performed in Spring Awakening. He is also a regular improviser at Rapid Fire Theatre. Many thanks to my friends, family, and mentors!

Brent Carver

Father Felician

Brent’s first Citadel production ran during our 73/74 season when he played Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing. Since then, he has returned to the theatre to perform in Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Robin Hood, Cyrano de Bergerac and Richard III. Selected theatre credits include Kronborg 1582 (Confederation Centre); Don Carlos, Glenn (Soulpepper, TO); Fiddler on the Roof and Elizabeth Rex (Stratford Festival). Other selected credits include Lilies, Ararat, Tale of Teeka, The Event, Kiss of The Spider Woman (Tony Award); and Parade (Tony nomination). Brent is the founding artist of Theatre 20 and the recipient of the 2014 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.

Mark Cassius

Clairborne

Selected theatre credits include Jesus Christ Superstar, Ragtime, Shenandoah (Broadway Revival); Damn Yankees, The Little Mermaid, Sweet Charity, Dance Legends (Drayton); Dreamgirls (Theatre Aquarius); The Grapes of Wrath, Jesus Christ Superstar, My One and Only, Oklahoma (Stratford); Lulu and A Connecticut Yankee (Shaw); Miss Saigon (Mirvish); and CATS (Elgin Theatre).

Mark is a member of the a cappella group The Nylons. He is a graduate of Sheridan College and is now an instructor at Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. He also holds various credits as a composer/arranger/lyricist/musical director/adjudicator.

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bios Réjean Cournoyer Captain Hampson

Réjean is happy to return to the Citadel once again, having previously performed in The Music of Jacques Brel, A Christmas Carol, Next to Normal, The Sound of Music, Pride and Prejudice, Sweeney Todd, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Other selected theatre credits include Evangeline, Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™, Canada ROCKS!, The Founding Father (Confederation Centre); Peter and the Starcatcher (WCT); A Misfortune (NSTF); L’Homme de la Mancha (Unithéatre); Les Misérables, White Christmas (Artsclub); Tuesdays with Morrie (six city tours); Little Shop of Horrors, Pélagie (CanStage); A Few Good Men, Oliver!, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Neptune). Film and television credits include October 1970 (CBC); Rideau Hall (Topsail); The Event (E-Motion Pictures – Actra Award). He is a graduate of the Citadel/ Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. @reyjey

Jay Davis

Gabriel Lajeunesse

Jay is excited to be making his Edmonton debut at the Citadel.

He feels honoured to be involved in the telling of this important Canadian story through this powerful and beautiful show. Jay has starred in several award winning musicals, and has enjoyed a twenty-year long career that has spanned the globe. Past credits include Miss Saigon (London West End); Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour); Assassins (Dora Award Best Musical); I Love You Because (Dora Award Best Musical); and Floyd Collins (Jessie Nomination, Special Achievement). Jay would like to thank The Talent House, as well as his family and friends for all of their support over the years. Special thanks to the Evangeline creative team, cast and crew from Charlottetown and Edmonton. Enjoy the show!

Kevin Dennis

Ensemble

Kevin is a proud alumnus of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and last appeared at the Citadel as Touchstone in As You Like It. Other theatre credits include Assassins (RMTC/ Birdland/TIFT); Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (Neptune Theatre); A Year with Frog and Toad (YPT); Hair, The Beard of Avon (Canadian Stage); Gypsy, Floyd Collins, Happy End, Three Men on a Horse and Widowers’ Houses (Shaw Festival).

Kevin’s TV credits include 11/22/63 (Bad Robot – 2016); The Strain; Orphan Black; Reign; Warehouse 13; Flashpoint; Mayday; Murdoch Mysteries; Queer as Folk; and Emily of New Moon. Twitter/Instagram: @GottaBeKDog. Kevin thanks his lovely wife Adrienne Merrell for her continued love and support. In loving memory of two dearly departed friends and fellow actors, Amy Wallis and James Pendarves.

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bios Quinn Dooley

Ensemble

Quinn is thrilled to be back at the Citadel. She performed in A Christmas Carol for four seasons, and as a member of the Citadel Young Company, she appeared in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Pippin. Quinn is a proud graduate of Sheridan’s Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance Program where her credits include Brantwood 1920-2020, A Man of No Importance, Hello Dolly!, Prom Queen, Parade and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Prior to Evangeline, she played Red Girl in Shout! The Mod Musical (Capitol Theatre, Port Hope). Love and thanks to the entire cast and crew, the Dooley clan, CJHM, and the team at Talent House. @quinndooley

Sheldon Elter

Ensemble

Sheldon’s previous Citadel credits include performances in One Man, Two Guvnors, A Prairie Boy’s Winter and Vimy. Other selected theatre credits include Bears (Pyretic Productions); Tartuffe, Sound of Music, Enron (National Arts Centre); Nevermore (Catalyst Theatre); and Metis Mutt (One Little Indian Productions, two Sterling Awards). Television credits include Delmer and Marta, Caution: May Contain Nuts, Hank Williams First Nation (APTN); and Hell on Wheels (AMC). Sheldon was a Top 14 finalist on Canadian Idol in 2006. He is also a core member of the ukulele rock band sensation The Be Arthurs.

Stephen Guy-McGrath René Leblanc

Stephen’s selected theatre credits include performing as Billy in the DORA Award winning production of ONCE (Mirvish); every production of No Great Mischief (Tarragon, GCTC, Vancouver Playhouse, T.I.P. & Neptune); SwingStep (Elgin); Fire (Blue Water); Jack and the Giant Beanstalk (YPT); Power Of The Unemployed (LSPU Hall); The Edible Woman, Small Time, Raceday, Culture Shock (Director), Marry Me A Little (Theatre on the Grand); Pelagie (Canstage & NAC); Much Ado about Nothing (Resurgence); Perils of Persephone and Dear Santa (Theatre Orangeville); and five seasons with Soulpepper Theatre.

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bios Valerie Hawkins

Orchard Leblanc

Evangeline marks Valerie’s Citadel debut. Selected theatre credits include Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™, Something Wonderful (Confederation Centre); Ragtime (Livent/Broadway); Starmites (Amas/Steinman off-Broadway); Fiddler on the Roof, Romeo and Juliet (Stratford Festival); Les Misérables (Mirvish/ National Tour); and Orpheus Descending (Mirvish/MTC). Val sends her heartfelt love and thanks for the incredible support from all friends and family... and of course to YOU – thanks for supporting live theatre!

Susan Henley

Ensemble

Susan’s last time at the Citadel was during the run of The Sound of Music, in which she played Mother Abbess. Other selected theatre credits include: Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™, Evangeline, Canada ROCKS! (Confederation Centre); Last Chance Romance (Drayton); Guys and Dolls (Segal Centre, Montreal); Hairspray (Canada and first US National Tour as well as the movie with John Travolta) Irma La Douce, Comedy of Errors, Kiss Me Kate, All’s Well That Ends Well, Cabaret, and Othello (Stratford Festival, three seasons). Susan lives in Toronto with her husband, actor Michael Hanrahan, two sons and a beautiful herb garden.

Alex Kelly

Ensemble

Hailing all the way from Prince Edward Island, Alex has performed in such productions as We Are Canadian, Abegweit Soul of the Island (Confederation Centre); Tyler/Vince in Brantwood 19202020, Usnavi in In The Heights, Hello Dolly!, Rolly in Marathon of Hope, Governor Slaton in Parade, and Judas in Godspell (Theatre Sheridan). Alex is a participant in the 2016 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and will be performing in West Side Story. Thank you to my family, The Talent House, and the Sheridan BMT program for always being so supportive! @aakelly

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bios Louise Lambert

Ensemble

Previously at the Citadel Louise has performed in One Man, Two Governors and Romeo and Juliet. Other theatre credits include Catagory E (The Maggie Tree); The Pink Unicorn (Northern Light Theatre); Dracula, The Heart Tree (O’Leary Theatre); The Wind in The Willows (Hart House Theatre); and Second City Improv (John Candy Box Theatre). Television credits include Dragon Age Inquisition (Bioware); Train 48 (Global); and Werewolves: The Dark Survivors and Mug Shot (Productions). Louise is from Toronto but now makes her home in Edmonton. She is an award winning actor and a graduate of George Brown Theatre School, as well a graduate of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. Thank you for all the support from my beautiful family and my partner Teo.

David Light

Ensemble/Dance Captain

David made his Citadel debut in the 2010 production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Other selected theatre credits include Mr. Phillips in Anne of Green Gables– The Musical™, Canada ROCKS! (Confederation Centre); Billy Elliot–The Musical (First National Tour/Mirvish/NETWorks National Tour); Chicago (Drayton Entertainment); Cinderella, Little Mermaid, and Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions); as well as The Rocky Horror Show and Cabaret (LOT Productions). Television and film credits include Triple Sensation – Season II (CBC) and In the Light (Bravo). David is a participant in the 2016 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and will be performing in West Side Story. Love to Mom and Quinn xo @daviddelight

Cameron MacDuffee

Ensemble

Cameron is very happy to be making his Citadel Theatre debut with Evangeline, and sincerely hopes you enjoy this beautiful musical and important piece of Canadian history. He has worked in theatres all across Canada, including several seasons at the Shaw Festival. Some favourites include Billy Bishop Goes to War, Frank in Rocky Horror, Emcee in Cabaret (Aquarius); Assassins (Eclectic, Dora nomination); Chicago (Neptune, Merrit nomination); Floyd Collins (Shaw); Dear Johnny Deere (Charlottetown Festival); Beyond Eden (World Premiere, Theatre Calgary/Vancouver Playhouse); The Bricklin (TNB); and Grumpy Old Men (MTC).

Cameron recently moved to P.E.I. and is currently building a tiny, beautiful house with his tiny, beautiful wife, Karen.

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bios Sera-Lys McArthur

Cornflower

Evangeline marks Sera-Lys’ Citadel debut. Previous theatre credits include Smoke (Signature Center); Sacagawea: Bird Woman (Urban Stages); Where the Blood Mixes (WCT/Theatre Aquarius/Theatre Network); In Spirit (Native Earth/Article 11); Mistatim (Red Sky Performance). Television credits include Arctic Air, The Englishman’s Boy and Revenge of the Land (CBC); Hard Rock Medical (TVO/APTN); Skye & Chang (APTN); and Aliens in America (CW). Selected film credits include Hard Core Logo 2 (Foundation Features); The Lost Angel (Four Square Prod); and Abysm (Isle Empire Pictures). Pinamaya to all those who’ve helped me on my journey, especially my mother Rosalyn Huck! @seralys @serahyphenlys

Laurie Murdoch

Colonel Winslow

Laurie is thrilled to be a part of Evangeline, having been involved in the workshop process of this beautiful piece since 2005. Select theatre credits include Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™, Canada ROCKS! (Confederation Centre); Da in the DORA awardwinning cast of Once (Mirvish); The Sound of Music (Drayton Entertainment); and Hairspray (Arts Club). He starred for two seasons as Alan Duffy on CTV’s Dan for Mayor with recent guest appearances on Psych, Warehouse 13, Copper, Rookie Blue, and the upcoming feature film Spotlight.

J.D. Nicholsen

Benedict Bellefontaine

J.D. is thrilled to have been able to perform in both Charlottetown and Edmonton on this epic journey into L’Acadie.

Selected theatre credits include The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom (Confederation Centre); Dear Johnny Deere (Blyth Festival/ Lighthouse/Theatre Calgary, Critics Award: Best Actor); Mending Fences, Mrs. Parliament’s Night Out (Neptune); Billy Bishop Goes to War, St. Anne’s Reel (Blyth); Legally Blonde (Drayton); Goodness (Volcano/Edinburgh/National Tour/Rwanda); and No Great Mischief (Tarragon/1000 Island Playhouse). Television and film credits include The Shape of Rex (Factoria Films); Blizzard (Independent); Copper (BBC America); and Murdoch Mysteries (CityTV/UK TV).

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bios Matt O’Connor

Baptiste Leblanc

Raised in Toronto, Matt is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.

Selected theatre credits include Les Moutons, Flock of Flyers (Corpus Dance Projects, international touring); They All Do It (Odyssey Theatre); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre by the Bay).

Film and television credits include Country Crush, Carmilla, Golden Teachers, Lawmen, The Door, Ozion and Paranormal Witness. Matt is a participant in the 2016 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and will be performing in West Side Story. He is very excited and grateful to be a part of such an amazing cast and crew!

Trevor Patt

Ensemble

Trevor’s selected theatre credits include Les Misérables, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins (Rainbow Stage); Made in Canada (Smile Theatre); Shrek, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Grand Theatre); The Sound of Music, 9 to 5 (Drayton); Broadway: ALW (Port Hope); Robin Hood and Disney’s High School Musical (Theatre Aquarius). Next up, Trevor will be performing in RMTC’s production of Billy Elliott. Coming up in spring, he will be a participant of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, preparing for his performance in West Side Story. Love and thanks to TH, Jade, and my family for their constant love and support.

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bios Kyden Seetoo

Young Olivier

Kyden is very excited to have had the chance to perform in both Charlottetown and Edmonton in Evangeline. Previous theatre credits include his performance as Philip Cratchit in last season’s production of A Christmas Carol, as well as studying at the Robbins Academy’s Foote Theatre School and Musical Theatre for Performing Arts at Festival Place. Thank you, Bob Baker for believing in me. Thank you to my Dad, Mama, and sisters. Love you everywhere.

Shelley Simester

Ensemble

Shelley’s last Citadel credits include The Rocky Horror Show, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz and Grease. Other selected theatre credits include The Pirates of Penzance (1000 Islands); Man of La Mancha (The Globe); The Music Man (Stratford Festival); Sweeney Todd (Neptune Theatre); Queen Marie (4th Line Theatre); [title of show] (Angelwalk); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (VPP, Stage West, TNB); The Last Resort (VPP, Drayton); and Elf (Neptune Theatre). Shelley has also been featured in the television programs Reign (The CW) and Saving Hope (CTV).

Alicia Toner

Ensemble

Alicia is thrilled to be making her Citadel debut with such an epic Canadian musical. Some of her recent credits include Once (Mirvish); A Misfortune, Canada Rocks!, Evangeline, Ring of Fire, Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™ (Charlottetown Festival); Cabaret, Legally Blonde, Poodle Skirts to Platform Shoes, The Buddy Holly Story (Theatre Aquarius); Assassins (TIFT/ Birdland/MTC); Great Expectations, Dear World and Ivan VS Ivan (TIFT). When she’s not performing, Alicia can be found playing music or teaching yoga in Toronto or her more recent home, Charlottetown. Many thanks to her ever supportive family and husband, MC.

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bios Bob Baker

Director

Since returning to his hometown of Edmonton 16 years ago, Bob Baker as Artistic Director has rejuvenated and expanded the Citadel Theatre. Programming season after season of world-class theatrical productions, Mr. Baker has ushered in an era of growth. Mr. Baker was instrumental in the creation of the Robbins Academy, incorporating four programs to build Canada’s most comprehensive centre for creative development in professional theatre. Mr. Baker was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for exceptional service, excellence and community involvement; a University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award; is a member of Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame; and is a recipient of a PACE award from Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical Institutes.

He was the Artistic Director during the successful turnaround of both the Phoenix Theatre in Edmonton (1982-87) and the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto (1990-98). This season, Mr. Baker will also direct the Citadel Theatre’s productions of A Christmas Carol and West Side Story.

Bob Foster

Music Supervisor

Previous theatre credits include Alice Through The LookingGlass, Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™, Disco Cirque (Confederation Centre); The Wizard Of Oz, Billy Elliot, Rock Of Ages, Hairspray, Dirty Dancing, The Boys in the Photograph (Mirvish); Snow White, Robin Hood, Cinderella (Ross Petty Productions); Batboy, Evita, Camelot, Little Shop Of Horrors (MTC, Theatre Calgary); Twist and Shout, Legends (Drayton); Into The Woods, Fire (Theatre Calgary); British Invasion 1 & 2; The Sound Of Music and A Chorus Line (Stage West Calgary).

Bob co-wrote the songs Good Mother and Looking for It with Jann Arden, also playing live and in studio with her for years.

He is the recipient of two SOCAN Airplay Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards.

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bios Don Horsburgh

Music Director

Recently Don has been the Music Director for Avenue Q, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Penelopiad, Next to Normal, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women, Hunchback (Citadel Theatre); The Threepenny Opera (Stratford Festival); Hairspray, White Christmas, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Winnipeg); Guys and Dolls (MTC, Theatre Calgary); Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Once On This Island (Canadian Stage); The Sound of Music and Aspects of Love (North American tours). Don has also provided original music for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Penelopiad, August: Osage County, Pride and Prejudice, Blithe Spirit, and The Constant Wife. He is the recipient of five Dora Awards, a Betty Mitchel Award, and three Sterling Haynes Awards.

Dayna Tekatch

Choreographer

Dayna’s previous Citadel credits include Avenue Q (Director), The Penelopiad and The Drowsy Chaperone (Choreographer).

Choreographic credits include Funny Girl, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Segal Centre); Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford/NAC/Charlottetown); Wizard of Oz (Globe); Buddy, The Rocky Horror Show (Aquarius); The Drowsy Chaperone (Vancouver Playhouse/NAC/1000 Islands). Directorial credits include Oliver! (NAC); The 39 Steps (Neptune/Stage West/1000 Islands); Same Time Next Year and Midlife (Orillia Opera House).

Dayna spent nine seasons at the Stratford Festival as an actor and choreographer and six seasons at the NAC as an actor, director, and choreographer. She lives in Toronto with her inspirations, son Liam and husband Sean C. Robertson.

Jonathan Purvis

Fight Director/Assistant Choreographer Jonathan’s previous theatre credits include Vigilante, Romeo and Juliet, Spamalot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Three Musketeers, Little Women, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Citadel); Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors (St. Lawrence); Pirates of Penzance, Little Shop of Horrors (Thousand Island Playhouse); Singin’ in the Rain (Chemainus); Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel, YPT, & MTYP); I Am for You (Concrete); and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Calgary). He has appeared as an actor and stuntman in numerous independent films and shorts, including: Painkillers, Reve De Champlain, Pet Heroes and Action Playground. He has studied stage combat, dance and gymnastics extensively alongside his acting career.

Jonathan is a two-time participant of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. Thanks to my family and wife for their endless love and support.

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bios Cory Sincennes

Set Designer

Cory’s previous Citadel credits include Venus in Fur, One Man, Two Guvnors, Mary Poppins, Romeo and Juliet, Make Mine Love, Monty Python’s Spamalot (Sterling Award), Next to Normal (Sterling Award), and The Rocky Horror Show. Other theatre credits include Where the Blood Mixes (Theatre Aquarius/WCT); Peter and the Starcatcher, Les Misérables (WCT); Chicago and Boeing Boeing (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); Mump and Smoot (ATP); Julius Caesar and The Tempest (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Bigshot (Surreal Soreal/Ghost River); Michel and Ti-Jean, Little One, and Armstrong’s War (Theatre Network). Cory holds a degree in Architectural Studies from Carleton University and a MFA in Theatre Design from U of A. He is the resident designer for Theatre Network and is a full member of Associated Designers of Canada. corysincennes.com

Charlotte Dean

Costume Designer

Previous Citadel credits include The King and I, Suddenly Last Summer and My Fair Lady. Other selected theatre credits include Evangeline, Dear Johnny Deere, Ring of Fire, Canada ROCKS! Saltwater Moon, Fire, The Dumbbells (Confederation Centre); Sweet Charity (Shaw Festival); She Stoops to Conquer (Stratford Festival) and many more. Charlotte holds five Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Design, as well as a Herbert Whittaker Award and the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Design. She is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Michael Walton

Lighting Designer

Michael’s previous Citadel credits include One Man, Two Guvnors, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women: The Broadway Musical and The Three Musketeers.

Other credits include eleven seasons with the Stratford Festival, including Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Oedipus Rex, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, Henry V, The Matchmaker, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, As You Like It, Macbeth; Così Fan Tutte (Canadian Opera Company); A Word or Two with Christopher Plummer (CTG/Stratford, Los Angeles); Albert Herring (Vancouver Opera/Pacific Opera); Maria Stuarda (Pacific Opera); Enron (NAC); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse, California); The Other Place, Harper Reagan, Venus in Fur, Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage); and Glenn, A Tender Thing (Soulpepper).

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bios Peter McBoyle

Sound Designer

For the past 20 years Peter has designed sound at most of the major theatres in Canada and he is thrilled to have now had the chance to work with both the Confederation Centre and the Citadel Theatre. He lives in Stratford, Ontario, home to the Stratford Festival, where he has designed over 60 productions and was their resident Sound Designer for thirteen seasons. His career has also included Broadway, Las Vegas, cruise ships, national tours and teaching. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music, both from McGill University. Peter sends special thanks to his wife Meghan and their daughters Ella and Beatrice for their unending support.

Jamie Nesbitt

Projection Designer

Last season, Jamie designed projections for the Citadel’s production of Avenue Q. His resume includes CanStage, NAC, Soulpepper, Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Palazzo Circus (Berlin), Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show, Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, Charlottetown Festival, Electric Company, Kidd Pivot (Germany/Canada), Pacific Opera, Opera de Quebec, Company 14 (New York), Vancouver Opera, Why Not, Neptune, The Belfry, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, ARC, Cahoots, PTE, Touchstone, Citadel, Vertigo, Pi Theatre, Theatre Network, Birdland Theatre, Rumble Productions, Gateway, Greenthumb, Yukon Arts Centre, and many more. A graduate of Studio 58, he is the recipient of eight Jessie nominations and one Jessie Award, three Critter nominations and one Critter Award, a Betty Mitchell Award, the 2008 Mayor Arts award, the 2007 Sam Payne award, and the 2006 Earl Klein Memorial Scholarship. jamienesbitt.ca

Matthew MacInnis

Stage Manager

Matthew is thrilled to be here at the beautiful Citadel Theatre with this equally beautiful show. He has been the Production Stage Manager at the Charlottetown Festival in Prince Edward Island for the past three years, where he was lucky to work on the original production of Evangeline in 2013. Charlottetown Festival credits include Anne of Green Gables (five seasons); The Full Monty, Ring of Fire, Canada Rocks! and Alice Through the Looking-Glass.

Originally from Nova Scotia, Matthew attended Sheridan College for Technical Theatre. Other credits include The Stratford Festival (two seasons), Neptune Theatre (six seasons), Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Aquarius, The Grand Theatre, and Festival Antigonish. Matthew returns to the Citadel this winter with Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Enjoy the show!

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bios Heather Lewis Assistant Stage Manager

Heather is pleased to be making her Charlottetown Festival and Citadel Theatre debut as part of the team of Evangeline. As a Nova Scotian with Acadian roots, Heather hopes the Edmonton audience is just as endeared by the strength of the story and beauty of its music. Heather has spent most of her career in Halifax, as SM & ASM for more than twenty shows at Neptune Theatre, most recently SM for The Addams Family, Billy Bishop, and Into the Woods. She has also worked for 2b theatre, Two Planks, Eastern Front, Centaur, Stirling Festival Theatre, and the Shaw Festival. All my love to my husband Mike, my sons, Joel & Owen, and to their grandparents, for all the extra babysitting.

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Wayne Paquette Assistant Stage Manager

Wayne is thrilled to be bringing Evangeline home, after making his Charlottetown Festival Debut. Other Citadel Stage Management credits include Spamalot, Next to Normal, The Sound of Music, and Death of a Salesman. For the Citadel, Wayne has directed Blackbird, co-directed The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, and assistant directed The Wizard of Oz, The Glass Menagerie and Doubt: a parable. Wayne is the Artistic Director of Blarney Productions and an Artistic Associate with Shadow Theatre, as well as an associate member of the Robbins Academy here at the Citadel Theatre. Most recently, Wayne directed a full season for Blarney, including Full Frontal Diva, MOTE, A Steady Rain, as well as four fringe shows: Bonnie & Clyde, Love Letters, A Slow Air, and Dark Vanilla Jungle. Much love to Denise.

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