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Season 2015/16 Board of Governors

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ACADEMY

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

Board of Directors

CHELSEA HOTEL

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

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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

Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999

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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FRIENDS

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999

DREAMER

Guy Bridgeman & Dianne Ross Don & Lorna Kramer Stuart & Sherry Lee Dave & Sandy Mowat Esther & Howard Starkman Joseph & Nancy Thompson

VISIONARY

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Maclab Enterprises

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

Gifts of $1,000,000 and above

FOUNDER

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

LEADER

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

Gifts of $50,000 - $99,999

INITIATOR

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

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

25 years +

Linda & Kim Mackenzie Associates Sandy & Cecile Mactaggart Gordon & Norma McIntosh Dr. Bubbles & Evelyn Meer Arliss Miller Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Q.C Maggie & John Mitchell Lewis & Lindsay Nakatsui Al & Fran Olson Esther Ondrack Fred & Mary Paranchych Aleda Patterson Donna Pawliw Tom & Judith Peacocke Gordon Peterson Gerald Piro E. Fay Plomp

The Poole Family Sir Francis Price & The Hounourable Marguerite Trussler Helen Primrose Diana Purdy Rob & Beth Reynolds Ron & Carol Ritch Sol & Marilyn Rolingher Arnold & Grace Rumbold Marshall & Debby Shoctor Kayla Shoctor Brian & Marnie Sproule Campbell & Rosalind Sydie Neil & Merle Taylor Allison Theman Susan Watson Paddy Webb Weir Family Fund Ralph & Gay Young OTHER DESERT CITIES 5

15 years + The Honourable Darlene Acton Dagny & Graeme Alston James Archibald & Heidi Christoph Bob Baker & Tom Wood Fiona & Stephen Bamforth Bruce & Carol Bentley Beverley Boren E. Ross Bradley Norma Brekke David & Marlene Burnett Brent Christopherson John & Judith Cosco Delbert & Jane Dahl J. Susan Davis L.A. Dushenski Rod Eidem Rose Fowler Jean Fukushima Ghislaine Hebert Patsy Ho Cecil & Anne Hoffman Donna Holwaychuk In Memory of Dr. Kris Kristjanson Gail & Andrew Jarema Evelyn Jensen James & Maggie Laing Jack & Diane Latham Don & Gwen Lawrence Edward & Nikki Lazar Robert & Dawn Lemke Shirley MacArthur Jack & Lorraine McBain Douglas & Claire McConnell Hugh McPhail & Yolanda Van Wachem Maureen & Jim Moran Norbert & Patricia Morgenstern David Mundy Jennifer Oakes Fred & Helen Otto Richard Remund Henry & Helen Resta Charles & Marilyn Schroder Richard Sherbaniuk Sheila Sirdar Dale Somerville Eira Spaner Gerard Tertzakin Kathleen Tomyn David Verbicky Buddy Victor Doug & Dorothy Warren

Dave Wilson & Wendy Kotow John Wodak

Vital & Colleen Ouellette Catrin Owen Kathy Packford 5 years + Marian Palahniuk 10 years + Greg Alcorn PCL Constructors Inc. Carol & Rae Allen Gail Andrew Leslie & Rick Penny Diana & Laurence Jim & Helen Banks Susan Priestner Andriashek Ingrid Barlow Curtis & Sandra Prosko William & Carole Barton Becker Sheila Ringrose Guy Bridgeman Madhu & Sundri Alan Rose & Jack Brown Bhambhani Judy Schroder Norman & Anne Burgess Terri & Gary Biasini Orla Ryan Frank Calder Lucille Birkett & Kay Savey Robert Crosbie Randy Busby Aroon Sequeira & Dr.Elizabeth Dixon & Angie Bogner Ellen Sitler Dr. Ben Macedo Robert & Maureen Braun Doug & Devika Short Grant Dunlop & Erika James & Joan Carlson Ellie Shuster Norheim Lesley Cormack Sol & Shirley Sigurdson Francis & Muriel Marilyn Cree Barbara & Gerry Sinn Dunnigan Patrick & Luxie Crowe Keith & Beverley Noella Fagnan Alison Dinwoodie Spencer Paul Greenwood Roland Duquette Larry & Moira Staples Dan & Jill Hodges Douglas Duval Jean & Gerry Staring Robert & Laurel Hudson Gail Faulkner Fund Elesavata Hymonyk Tony Thai & Robert Fleming Wolfgang & Elizabeth Betty & Mike Gibbins Alvin Schrader Kaminski Maggie Thompson Gaie Goin Norman & Valerie Mary-Ann Trachimowich Sheila Gynane Kneteman Larry Trekofski Lois & Chan Hawkins Sylvia A. Kother Darcy & Marion Turner Robert Henderson Christine Kyriakides Peter Vana Bill & Jana Holden Ruth & George Lauf Chris Vilcsak Ray & Elaine Hook Chris & Cecilie Lord Sarah Wylie Brenda & John Inglis Douglas MacDougall Leon & Vonnie Zupan Erik & Franziska Teresa Mardon Jacobsen - Royal Lepage 2 years + Ian & Linda McConnan Paula Jamison Martin & Anna Andrea Liz Kohle Gordon & Agneta Bonnie Andriachuk & Linda & Siegfried McKenzie Darrel Ewaschuk Kowand Ove & Susan Minsos Patricia Anholt Anita Kozyrskyj & Doug & Kathy Murray Brad & Lori Armstrong Kevin Hall Edna & Cal Nichols Bonnie Austen Allen Lee James & Beverley Jane Batty Stuart & Sherry Lee Orieux Andrew & Barbara Belch Mary Lister Jean & Edward Posyniak Anne Brereton Myron & Maureen Aline Pratch Liviniuk Emma Brinson Penny Ritco Mary Machum Angela Brown Allan & Marianne Scott Estelle Marshall Linda Brownlee Glenn & Margaret Neil & Pamela Martin Jeremiah Burak Sharples Betty McMillan Brian & Barbara Burrows Elaine Solez Linda Medland Davis John Bylhouwer Elout Starreveld Gordon & Cathy Martin Carroll Delores Stefaniszyn Moorhouse Harold Chyczij & Marianne & Kent Stewart Al Morrow Cathy Flood John & Alana Tucker Kevin Mott Gordon & Janet Henriette van Hees Clanachan Kevin & Robyn Mott Robert & Ann Weir Douglas & Derrick Marie Muszynski Susan Wright Claybrook Craig Neuman & Dr. Randall & Nancy Karen Cox Leita Siever Yatscoff Kim & Rick Craig G. Douglas Oakley & Elizabeth McAfee Jillian Dal Bello

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Patricia Dawson Marcella Dejong Lorne & Edith Dixon Brad Doucette Julie-Ann Dron Liz Edmunds Michele & Lee Eickholt/Green Jacqueline & Martin Elton Pat Ferguson Kristen & Mark Finlay Gaston Fuentealba Ken & Barbara Galm Audrey Groeneveld Linda Henderson Brent & Deborah Hesje J.D. Hole Georgette Holyk Judith Hugh Bonnie Hutchinson Caroline Hyndman Richard & Laurel Innes Investors Group Sherwood Park Carolyn Johnson Joan Johnston Jerry Juzwa Brian & Ida Kaliel Jatinder Kalra Jerry & Miriam Katz Cherisse Killick Patrick & Jeananne Kirwin D Jill Konkin Tim Kruger John & Sylvia Laarhuis Sigmund Lee Theresa Lema Marilyn Lemay Don Lucas Don & Cristina Mah Jo Anne Mahood Sharon Marie & Tim Mavko Darren & Roxanne McLean Pamela & Dennis Melnyk Mark Mertens Marie Montgomery Jim & Celestine Montgomery Bonnie Moon Roy & Trudy Nickerson

Dianne Oberg & Marty Taylor David & Paula Onderwater Wade O’Neill Carol Pawlenchuk Richard & Catherine Perry Tammy Pidner Susan & Darrell Portz Paul & Leslie Precht Michael Prendergast Barb Prodor Jeff Ramage Barbara RedmondEllehoj James Ritco Betty Ross Deborah Salo Wayne Sartore Michele Sawatzky Lynn Smarsh Trina & Richard Smith Kimberlee Stadelmann Lori Stokowski Caroline Stuart Darren Sutton Mike & Michele Thompson Colin Tooth D. Lorne & LeeAnn Tyrrell Violet Watson Shirley Watson William & Debra Wells Willis Winter Lynn & Ed Holmes Wolff Colin Wylie Brian Zrobek & Pamela Chung

New donors Baha & Sharon Abu-Laban Gail Allford Sandra M. Anderson Anonymous Denise Assaly Cecilia Baxter The Birtles Family Marc Bisson Jessica Callele Barry Cavanaugh Anita Chalmers

Elizabeth Cherry Janet Clark Chris Danchuk Jack Dawe Bernard & Susan Demers John Devlin & Patti Proctor Simonne Doucette Melissa Doucette Randy & Wendy Dupree Erin & David Edwards Andy & Marianne Elder Carol Engelking Dean Evanger Thomas A. Farrell & Anne Henderson Lawrence & Alayne Farries Joe & Pat Fenrich Lil Filewych John Galanka Daniel Gamache Gail Gates Harry Gill Carole Anne Gramniak Brenda Gross Judy Hacon Kathy Hancock Christopher Head Thomas & Barbara Henderson Lorraine Herlein Sandy Hermiston & Mark Nicoll Lynn & Thomasz Hruczkowski Judy & Rob Hutchinson Christian Idicula Shiraz Jaffer Louise Jensen Scott & Lindsay Johnson Venta Kabzems & Stan Houston Janice Kent Nolton Knippel Darlene Kos Tina Kovlaske Allen & Patti Kramer Maureen Kular Lew Lamontagne Johann Laskin Emily Low Jeff Lukan

Shauna & George Lutzer Sam MacIsaac David Maplethorpe Ross W. McCrady Averie McNary Cecily Mills Alexis Morrow Erin O’Connell Soren Odegard Lynn & Daniel Otteson Clifford & Connie Otto Stacey & Chris Padbury Bhupen & Lata Parekh P. A. Pierce Jeff Polovick Laura D. Pratt Debra Robichaud Donna & David Roseman Tina & Tony Rota Alison & Tony Russell Lynora M. Saxinger Nancy Scrymgeour Perry & Sandra Segal Neil & Anke Seifried Sentinel Self-Storage Co. Paul Shelemey Chen Shen Naomi Shoctor Andrew Shum & Timothy Riordan Randy Sibulak Vivian Simmonds C Simonson Nicholas Spillios Sheila & Edward Steinhauer-Mozejko Lynn Storbakken Erin Thackeray Jim & Susan Thomson Joanne Treasure Nancy Tymchak The Honourable Allan & Elizabeth Wachowich Lori Anne Wall Fabian Way Michele Wedemire Ben Wiez Erik & Laurie Wikman Roberta Wildgoose Daniel & Tonya Wolfe Darryl Yeatman Linda Youell Gerrhard Zmatlo

To learn more about donating to the Citadel Theatre, please visit www.citadeltheatre.com or contact Sydney Stuart at 780.428.2142 or sstuart@citadeltheatre.com.

Charitable BN 11922 7387 RR0001 Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our donor information. Listing includes donations of $100 or more. If we have made an error or omission, please call us at 780.428.2142.

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We are proud to recognize our Premier Supporters; our partners in the creation of theatre at the Citadel.

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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T H E AT R E C O U R T E S I E S

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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EMERGENCY EXITS We ask that you please take a moment to identify the exit nearest you, so you can safely exit in the event of an emergency.

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students club The Citadel Theatre believes that young people are integral to the artistic fabric of our community. As such, we are committed to programming and initiatives that develop their creative voices and encourage their participation. The Maclab Students Club is such a program – one 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 main stage productions, Students Club members gather to enjoy a small reception before the show and then participate in a highly engaging, interactive presentation from one of our region’s talented theatre artists. Following the performance, students are invited to stay for an informative talkback session with members of the production’s cast and crew.

Prior to the performance, Samantha J. Rumball who has been a make-up and wig artist for film, television, and theatre for 30 years joined the students to introduce them to the important and unique role she plays in the creation of theatre and film.

Samantha has been working at the Citadel for five years and she has enjoyed the diversity of her career and all the opportunities it has brought working across Canada and internationally. One of her favourite jobs was working as the make-up artist with Phantom of the Opera. The students were able to learn the basics of the industry by watching as Samantha transformed some volunteers before their eyes.

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A Theatre forAll Seasons part 5

20052015

Said Citadel Artistic Director Bob Baker in 2005, repeating and reinforcing an

oft-quoted mantra, “I like to think that if you come to the Citadel, you never know what you’re going to get.” In his 17 years as Artistic Director, the Citadel has offered shows big (Disney’s Beauty written by and the Beast/A Christmas Carol) and Colin MacLean small (John Ullyatt, brilliant, in two one man shows, I Am My Own Wife and Billy Bishop Goes to War), serious (August: Osage County) or uproariously funny (One Man, Two Guvnors/Spamalot), family oriented (Mary Poppins) or peppery alternative (The Shape of Things). “Our audiences are very sophisticated and demand a wide variety of theatre,” says he cheerfully.

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In that year, Baker had every reason to feel optimistic about his theatre. His well-oiled production machine was the envy of every theatre in the country – just ask the many travelling shows that have played on any of the Citadel’s stages. Artistically, Bob’s unerring sense es to War Billy Bishop Go John Ullyatt in of returning to the author’s intent while locating the humanity of the characters guaranteed freshness to each of his productions. Actors who were cast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast observed that Bob kept insisting they were “not playing Disney animated characters but real people with real emotions.” Cardboard characters that for years had peen pasted on a flat poster of Rydell High became flesh and blood in Bob’s 2003 production of Grease. The two ill-starred lovers Tony and Maria provided a beating heart at the centre of all that high-energy dancing and street level smarts of West Side Story.

Audiences were increasing and by 2008 Bob could tell the board that subscriptions were up to 10,000. A Christmas Carol, which was originally expected to run a couple of years (if only to make back the original money invested) had become a beloved Edmonton tradition and a money machine for the theatre. Demonstrating that you don’t always have to look elsewhere, the Citadel developed a pool of local stars – this in an institution that used to import most of its casts. The group included John Ullyatt, Susan Gilmore, Réjean Cournoyer, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Jan Alexandra Smith, Julien Arnold, Tom Wood, James MacDonald, Beth Graham, etc. Baker’s philosophy is, “I look first locally – and then I look beyond.” Observes Citadel Executive Director Penny Ritco, “I think that’s a

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reason why so many of our brightest and best have not fled elsewhere.

A lot of talented people have stayed – and grown here.”

Ritco was an old friend of Baker’s from his Stratford acting days and for a number of years they had, individually, braved the chilly Toronto theatre scene. She was a seasoned producer of theatre and film and, one day, hearing of an opening at the Citadel, phoned Bob to say “Hello.” They discussed her applying for the Executive Director position and shortly thereafter, she was appointed. So began the onset of a smooth-running, long-time relationship born in theatrical heaven. Baker, like many of artistic temperament, has been known to be volatile and upon occasion when his vision was not happening on stage, to be, ah, loud. In 2008, he jokingly admitted to Liz Nichols, “I have been known to express my impatience forcefully, but not in the longest time. I’ve mellowed, I guess.” “He’s demanding but not unreasonable,” says Ritco. “He’s very much a team player.”

In this decade, Baker’s Citadel moved beyond the image of the big, brooding brick playhouse on the hill. The Artistic Director has merged the Citadel’s various training offshoots into one entity – The Citadel Academy has become Canada’s most comprehensive program for creative development in professional theatre. It includes The Eldon and Anne Foote Theatre School that has been training young people for 50 years; the Young Companies program which offers advanced training for 16 to 21 year-olds and Play Development provides playwrights with the opportunity to collaborate with some of Canada’s most celebrated writers.

Don’t forget the jewel in the crown: the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, which trains emerging and established performers, is already spreading its influence across the country like waves in a pool. It has certainly elevated our theatre-going experience, as performers who have already spent five weeks honing their skills in Banff, have brought their cohesive company here for such memorable productions as Tom Wood’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, The Three Musketeers, The Penelopiad, etc. This year the company will be presenting West Side Story.

But just outside the imposing brick and glass of the theatre, Edmonton was changing. A new downtown was beginning to form. There was a new life in the air.

Baker knew if his theatre was going to continue he would have to reach out and plug into that new energy.

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About the

PLAYWRIGHT Jon Robin Baitz’s

plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist 1996), Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter, as well as a version of Hedda Gabler (Broadway 2001). He created Brothers & Sisters, the TV series which ran for five seasons, until 2011. Other television work includes PBS’ version of Three Hotels, for which he won the Humanitas Award, as well as episodes of The West Wing and Alias.

He is the author of two screenplays, the film script for The Substance of Fire (1996) and People I Know (2002). He is a founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company and is on the faculties of the MFA programs at The New School for Drama, and SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton. His play Other Desert Cities won the Outer Critics Circle Award in 2011.

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When the daughter, a writer, returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents, conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir – a book that focuses on this tragic event.

The play poses the question: Does the daughter have the right to share the family’s past with her readers, and in so doing, betray her parents and destroy their reputation? Or more simply put, does an artist have the right to choose art over life?

The brilliance of Jon Robin Baitz’s writing is that there is no answer to this question. He offers no lectures and no solutions. He leaves it up to you, the audience, to decide for yourselves—if you can.

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OTHER DESERT CITIES ACT ONE Scene 1 The Wyeth Living Room.

Christmas Eve morning, 2004.

Scene 2 The Wyeth Living Room.

Late Afternoon.

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Some hours have passed.

Scene 2 A bookstore. March, 2010.

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“There was a feeling of excitement every night we went on stage and I think that transmitted to audiences.”

By the end of the run, those audiences had grown to such an extent that Sold Out signs were posted. It was felt that the show could have run for some time after the announced closing date – but it was a co-production with Theatre Calgary and had to move on. On closing night, Ullyatt remembers thinking, “This is too good. It can’t be over.” Says Baker, “There was talk about remounting it but it’s a very expensive show to do and audiences don’t necessarily want to see the same show the next year so we had to let it go.”

Earlier last year, when thinking about plans for the 50th season, Baker mused, “I thought it would be nice to pull out the scrapbook and recognize the past – giving people the opportunity to see what we had done.” He conducted a straw poll of Citadel employees as to what shows they thought might be brought back for the theatre’s fiftieth season. The result was almost unanimous – West Side Story.

Just what is this remarkable icon of American musical theatre?

For one thing, it was the coming together of four of the greatest talents to emerge from the creative soup that was the Broadway stage in the ‘50’s – Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim.

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Robbins was a choreographer, director and producer who left his fingerprints all over On The Town, Peter Pan, Fiddler on the Roof and many other classic Broadway productions.

Bernstein was a giant – one of the great composer/conductors of the last century. Laurents wrote the book for Broadway musicals (Gypsy) and Hollywood movies (Anastasia/The Way We Were).

In 1947, Robbins approached Bernstein and Laurents with an idea for a show based on Romeo and Juliet to be re-told as the doomed relationship between a boy from a Catholic family and a Jewish girl who had survived the Holocaust. The three immediately took to the idea, and, being men of great talent and even greater egos, began a series of squabbles that threatened, time and time again, to sink the whole project. Bernstein wanted to write it as an opera. “Nope...” said the other two – it is to be a Broadway show. Laurents wrote a draft calling it East Side Story. It read as a musicalization of Broadway’s long-running hit Abbie’s Irish Rose and they decided to abandon the idea.

In fact, it was shelved for five years. In 1952, Laurents was working on another project when producer Martin Gable asked him to bring Bernstein and Robbins into it. Instead, when the three got together they decided to relaunch East Side Story. They were looking for a lyricist – their first choices, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (On The Town) had fled to Hollywood.

That year Sondheim, who was only 22 years old, was invited to a party. He arrived early and

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didn’t know anyone. He fell to talking to Laurents who told him about their need for a wordsmith. Sondheim had just written his first show, an urban musical called Saturday Night, and leapt at the chance. The kid auditioned for Bernstein who wanted to write the lyrics himself (and never gave up on the idea). Later, Bernstein would demand the producer list him as co-lyricist in the program. However, reality and common sense prevailed and the credit was dropped before opening night.

In the meantime the piece had switched geography – it was now West Side Story. The original area had been gentrified so much that delinquency and racial tension had all but disappeared. The show was now the tale of Tony, a Polish/Irish boy and Maria, a recent Puerto Rican immigrant.

Language was a problem. Originally the F-bomb and some other choice street level words made their way into the script but had to be dropped when it was pointed out that the original cast record would never be able to pass inter-state language prohibitions. So Sondheim created a new invective that was supposed to sound like real street talk. Such phrases as, “Cut the frabba jabba” and “Gee Officer Krupke, Krupp you,” were created.

Sondheim was never very happy with his lyrics, telling ABC News a few years back that his words were, “self-conscious. In ‘I Feel Pretty’ the street girl is singing ‘It’s alarming how

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charming I feel.’ I just put my head under my wing and pretend I’m not there.” Laurents complained that some of Sondheim’s words (particularly in “America” and “I Feel Pretty”) were “too witty” for the characters singing them. Despite the lyricist’s misgivings the impact of that long-ago opening and the success of the years following have demonstrated the enduring quality of Sondheim’s words.

By the fall of 1956 the money dried up. After a banker’s audition failed to raise any capital the original producer, Cheryl Crawford, decamped. Robbins announced he was pulling out of the show as choreographer. Well-known as a pain in the rump perfectionist, he returned only when the new producers came up with money for an eight-week rehearsal period.

(Robbins was fired for holding up production of the Hollywood version for the same reason – he won an Oscar anyway.) He kept making changes and not telling the others. By opening night, none of them were speaking to him.

Casting was a problem. In those years dancers danced, singers generally sang and actors acted. Finding performers who could do all three and still be taken for teen-agers was difficult.

Bernstein had to continuously fight to keep his orchestral passages and some of his songs in the show – the others felt they were too operatic. Columbia records (at first) refused to record a cast album saying the score was too depressing and difficult.

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“West Side Story touches something in the human heart. ...The lessons of West Side Story are very relevant to today.”

West Side Story opened on Broadway September 26, 1957.

Some critics didn’t get it. Most did – and realized that the Great White Way would never quite be the same again. Said Walter Kerr in the New York Herald Tribune the next morning, “The radioactive fallout from West Side Story must still be descending on Broadway this morning. (Robbins...) has put together and then blasted apart, the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we’ve ever been exposed to.”

Baker’s upcoming Citadel production of West Side Story will indeed be “new” promises the director. “The production of 11 years ago was of its time. You can’t repeat something like that. There’ll be different people – different chemistries. This time we’ll be featuring the young people from the Citadel/Banff program. Robbins’ choreography was brilliant but I didn’t want to repeat a dance form of 1957. We have the brilliant local choreographer, Laura Krewski, who has her own dance vocabulary and brings a deep history as a performer.

What’s exciting for me is producing it in the Maclab. It’s going to be a challenge to make a musical work on the theatre’s thrust stage. It’s not the way it’s usually done and it’s going to take a lot of creativity to make it work.”

West Side Story has maintained its popularity ever since that magic night in 1957. Like all great works of art – it speaks to succeeding generations. At its heart, it’s a story that could be torn from today’s headlines. Says Baker, “West Side Story touches something in the human heart. With the disenfranchising of the youth community and refugees all over the globe trying to assimilate – it’s surprisingly contemporary. There are echoes here of Ferguson – the police of the show are certainly racist. Young people are still trying to find and carve out their own identity. The lessons of West Side Story are very relevant to today.”

West Side Story, a production of the Citadel Theatre, begins on the Maclab stage on April 23.

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BIOS Deborah Kipp

Polly

Selected theatre credits include Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily (Globe Theatre); Retreat From Moscow (Neptune Theatre); The Unexpected Man (Tarragon Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Collected Stories (Huntington Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Moonlight (Broadway); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Dancing At Lughnasa (Cleveland Playhouse); Hamlet (Virginia Stage); Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound (Grand Theatre); After George (Centaur Theatre); Invitation From The Asylum (Citadel Theatre); Summerfolk (St. Lawrence Centre); Hedda Gabler (Magnus Theatre); Black Comedy (Theatre Calgary); A Doll’s House (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Misalliance (Shaw Festival); and Twelfth Night (Manitoba Theatre Centre).

Deborah is a graduate of The National Theatre School. She has recorded books for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind for more than 30 years.

Nicola Lipman

Silda

Born in Vancouver, raised in England and Brazil, Nicola Lipman has graced Canada’s stages for more than four decades. Most recently, Ms. Lipman starred in Acting Up Stage’s production of Grey Gardens and Company Theatre’s Domesticated (Toronto).

Other recent favourites include All the Way Home (Electric Co.); Scorched (Tarragon Theatre); Driving Miss Daisy (WCTC/ Thousand Island Playhouse); Cabaret (Mayfield Theatre); Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Belfry); Boeing, Boeing (Arts Club); Another Home Invasion (ATP/Tarragon); and December Man (Canadian Stage/Citadel). Film and television credits include Masters of Horror II, Lie With Me, Trailer Park Boys, Liocracy, Marion Bridge and Made in Canada. Ms. Lipman is the recipient of four Jessie Awards for outstanding performance and was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

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Previous theatre credits include Lucianus in Hamlet, Egeus’s Interpreter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Burgundy in King Lear (Stratford Festival); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Mario in The Game of Love and Chance (Neptune Theatre); Trout Stanley in Trout Stanley (Heart in Hand Theatre); Owen in The Melville Boys (Red Barn Theatre); Cléante in The Miser, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Mug in New Canadian Kid (Sudbury Theatre Centre). Film and television credits include Reign, Mayday, Lost Girl, Bomb Girls, Being Erica, Murdoch Mysteries, Life With Derek, and October 1970. Derek is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and Birmingham Conservatory.

Liisa Repo-MartelL

Brooke

Liisa Repo-Martell was last seen at The Citadel in her Sterling Award performance of The Syringa Tree. Theatre credits elsewhere include Creditors (Coalmine); What a Young Wife Ought to Know (2b Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear (Stratford); Seeds, I Claudia (CND tour), Eternal Hydra (Crow’s Theatre); The Test, (Company Theatre); Marat/Sade, Happy Place, Antigone, Top Girls, Uncle Vanya (Soulpepper); Chekhov Longs, Chekhov Shorts (Theatre Smith-Gilmour); and Sunday Father (CanStage). Liisa has guest starred in television series including Cracked, King, Living in Your Car, Diverted, Flashpoint (Gemini/Actra nominations), This is Wonderland (Gemini nomination) and Murdoch Mysteries. Liisa won a Gemini for the TV movie Nights Below Station Street and has appeared in several features including Lars and the Real Girl, A Touch of Pink, The English Patient and Unforgiven.

Robin Ward

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His movies include The Hurricane, Morning Man, Mark of Cain, Thrillkill, and Ladies Man. He has also performed in musical theatre; credits include Irma la Douce, Twist and Shout, Oliver! and recently It’s a Wonderful Life - The Musical. Robin also worked as a broadcaster for CTV. OTHER DESERT CITIES 39

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BIOS Brenda Bazinet Director

Brenda is a director, actor and acting instructor. Directing credits include The Penelopiad (Citadel); The Ladies Foursome (Grand Theatre); Munsched!! (George Brown Theatre School); Of the Fields, Lately (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Sea (Actors Repertory Company); Little Women, The Broadway Musical (Assistant Director, Citadel Theatre); and Problem Child, Adult Entertainment, Our Town, Unity 1918, Three Sisters (Fanshawe Theatre School). Select acting credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, Equus, The Goat (Citadel); Hamlet (Resurgence Theatre); Ring Round The Moon, Wild Duck (Soulpepper); The Price (Sudbury Theatre Centre); End of Civilization (Factory Theatre); Leaving Home (Blyth Festival); and Patience (Canadian Stage Company/Grand Theatre). A Gemini Award-winning actor, Brenda has appeared in over one hundred film and television projects. She is also an acting instructor for the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

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BIOS Leslie Frankish Set & Costume Designer

Leslie began her career as a Set & Costume Designer in 1980 for the Citadel Youth Theatre. Returning to the Citadel in recent years designs include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, Private Lives, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver!, The Constant Wife, Measure for Measure, and Present Laughter. Resident designer positions include the Phoenix Theatre and Shaw Festival where her designs included Pygmalion, Misalliance and Heartbreak House. Other credits include Angels in America I & II, Singer, Into the Woods (Canadian Stage Company); Hard Times, Lilies (National Arts Centre); La Bête (Theatre Calgary); A Little Night Music, The Caretaker (Vancouver Playhouse); and The Homecoming (Stratford Festival). Leslie was also the Senior Production Designer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. For pictures of these and other productions, visit www.lesliefrankish.com.

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Stancil returns to the Citadel for his 35th production. Previous Citadel designs include Henry IV Part I, Fool for Love, Burn This, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Spamalot. He has also designed for Vancouver Playhouse, Alberta Theatre Projects, Phoenix Theatre, Northern Light, Globe Theatre, Canadian Stage, Royal Alexandra, National Arts Centre, Scotland’s Royal Lyceum, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory, Cleveland Playhouse, and Boston’s Wilbur Theatre. Among his awards are Toronto’s Dora Award (B-Movie) and Edmonton’s Sterling Award (The Wolf Within and Broadway Bound). Stancil has taught stage design at the University of North Carolina, the University of Alberta, the University of Ghana, and at American University in Cairo. He has also volunteered extensively with Habitat for Humanity International. Stancil is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

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BIOS Tracey Byrne Stage Manager

It’s been such a great honor and pleasure for Tracey to be able to Stage Manage Other Desert Cities at the Citadel this season.

Selected stage management credits include Romeo and Juliet, The God of Carnage, The Rocky Horror Show, Vimy, Cookin’ at the Cookery and Einstein’s Gift (Citadel Theatre); Armstrong’s War and The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Theatre Network); as well as The Merchant of Venice and Titus Andronicus (Freewill Players). Special thanks to the lovely and talented Ms. Bazinet, the amazing Ms. Johnson and everyone at the Citadel for their guidance and support! Last, but not least, big Love to John, my rock and best friend for his unending support.

Kerry Johnson Assistant Stage Manager

Originally from Winnipeg, Kerry has been working as a Stage Manager in Edmonton for the past ten years. This season at the Citadel, Kerry returned for her sixth year on A Christmas Carol. Some favourite SM and ASM credits include Arcadia, The Penelopiad, The Forbidden Phoenix, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz and Noises Off (Citadel Theatre); Beowulf the King (Workshop West); The Ecstatics (Northern Light Theatre); Mary Poppins (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Liberation Days (Theatre Calgary); and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Alberta Theatre Projects). Kerry is a graduate of the BFA Stage Management program at the U of A and the Theatre Arts Program at Grant MacEwan University.

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