Cinderella - Young People`s Theatre
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Cinderella - Young People`s Theatre
season partner Cinderella (a RATical retelling) BY MIKE KENNY Music Composed by Jason Jestadt NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE MAINSTAGE | NOV. 12 - DEC. 30, 2012 regan thiel , in a scene from the princess & the handmaiden (2009/10); set design by david boechler , costume design by dana osborne , lighting design by bonnie beecher ; photo by daniel alexander youngpeoplestheatre.ca | illustration by jan borkowski 1 Message from the Artistic Director There are hundreds of versions of the Cinderella story found throughout the world’s cultures. Many of them reinforce in some way the notion that if a girl is good, she will one day get a rich husband. When I first read Mike Kenny’s take on the story, I was struck by the fact that his Cinderella doesn’t wish to go to the Ball to find a husband but simply to dance the way her father and mother once taught her. It was delightful to find a Cinderella who was not pining for that someday when her Prince will come. I was also delighted by Mike’s five sweet but dim-witted rats who re-enact the tale, acting out what happened in the abode they shared with Cinderella. From their point of view, this orphan girl living with her stepmother and stepsisters has fallen to the lowest status in the house, which matches their status exactly. But life at the bottom of the pile is great in their view. They know who they are, they’re happy and they’re glad to make the kindly sits-in-theashes-girl a part of their circle. In the affection they show Cinderella, Whiskers, Tail, Ears, Teeth and Claws are keen to make her feel loved. But Cinderella isn’t a rat, even if she shares the same status. She has lost who she is all the while frantically attending like an invisible servant to every person’s needs but her own. When Cinderella wishes to go to the Ball, I think she’s wishing to return to a point in time when she knew herself and felt her worth. And it turns out that at the Ball she meets a Prince who feels similarly unseen and unknown. In our season theme of wishes, dreams, and hopes, this Cinderella wishes for one magical evening but she’s asking for something every child deserves: to be seen, to be heard, and to matter … and, as the song says at the end, to fit in. Allen MacInnis Artistic Director, YPT About Young People’s Theatre YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE is the largest Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) company in Canada and a significant institution in the Canadian professional theatre community. Over our 47-year history we have produced many of the most important works that now form the canon of plays for young audiences in this country. Learning is at the centre of everything we do and YPT is renowned as the showplace for presenting important TYA work developed elsewhere. In addition to being a producer and presenter of theatre, YPT has also been home to a year-round Drama School for youth since 1969. At the centre of YPT’s artistic policy is a desire to have a positive and lasting impact on the emotional, social, and intellectual development of young people in order for them to grow into the unique and wonderful people they were born to be. At YPT we also believe that the more challenging, the more hostile, the more ‘isolated-within-the-crowd’ our world becomes, the more we need art to help us interpret the universe, connect with each other, and imagine a better future. If adults need this, kids need it more. 2 youngpeoplestheatre.ca Young people’s theatre presents Cinderella (a RATical retelling) BY MIKE KENNY Music Composed by JASON JESTADT CAST Prince Whiskers Tail Cinderella Teeth Claws Ears Matthew G. Brown Dmitry Chepovetsky DeAnn deGruijter Steffi DiDomenicantonio Élodie Gillett Amy Lee Richard Lee creative team Director Musical Director & Piano Choreographer Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Assistant Director Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxaphone & Clarinet Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Allen MacInnis Jason Jestadt Jo Leslie Robin Fisher Lesley Wilkinson Michael Laird Christine Brubaker Harvey Kogen Kristin McCollum Dini Conte Photography and the videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. The performance will run approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the Government of Ontario YPT gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation in aiding our ongoing efforts to ‘green’ our theatre and, in part, what you will experience in the theatre at this performance is due to their generosity. Their funding is enabling us to replace some of our outdated lighting equipment with energyefficient LED stage lights, purchase a new wireless mic system for our cast and crew and, later in the season, an assisted listening system for our audiences. youngpeoplestheatre.ca media sponsor 3 Cast MATTHEW G. BROWN the prince Matthew G. Brown is thrilled to be the playing on the YPT stage again as the Prince! Matthew is a graduate of the Randolph Academy and alumni of the Canadian Film Centre Actors Conservatory. Theatre credits for YPT include Seussical - A Musical, i think i can (2006 Dora awardwinning production and 2011 NAC tour). Selected theatre credits include Hair (The Grand), Jersey Boys (Dancap), Dreamgirls (Theatre Aquarius, MTC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hair (Canadian Stage), 5 Guys Named Moe (Theatre Cambridge). Selected film and television credits include Rattan, Down, To The Teeth (CFC), The Kennedys (History Television), Nikita, Instant Star (CTV), Mayday (Discovery Channel), Rookie Blue (Global), Good Fences (Showtime), Colour of Friendship (Family Channel). Matthew will be appearing in episodes of Mr. D (CBC) and Covert Affairs (CTV, USA Network) this Fall/Winter. I dedicate this performance to Deloris Brown. Anything I learned about being a prince I learned from you. God Bless. Twitter: @Mr_M_G_B DMITRY CHEPOVETSKY whiskers Selected theatre credits for Dmitry include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage), Craigslist Cantata: Do You Want What I Have Got? (Arts Club, Jessie Nomination), This (Vancouver Playhouse, Jessie Nomination), Forests, Remnants (Tarragon), The Catering Queen (Tarragon/Fringe), Room to Panic (Loco7/LaMama ETC, NY), Creon (Theatreworks), Top Gun: The Musical! (NYMF/Factory/Dora Nomination), Danish Play (Nightwood), Zadie’s Shoes (ATP), Unidentified Human Remains (Vancouver Fringe), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well … (PTC), Orphan Muses (Touchstone) and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (MTC/NAC). 4 Selected film and television credits include Alphas, The Listener, Caprica, Psyche, Murdoch Mysteries (Gemini Nomination), The Baby Formula, and ReGenesis (Gemini Nominations). Original work: Blind Submission, FETCH! and Bloodline (Jessie Nomination/New Play). Upcoming for Dmitry is Craigslist Cantata at the Factory Studio (Acting Up Stage/Factory). DEANN deGRUIJTER tail Previous productions for YPT include Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang, The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate, One in a Million and Bunnicula. That’s an Evil Chicken, a Pirate, a Teacher, a Parent and now... a Rat. It’s good to be back! DeAnn has performed in theatres and festivals worldwide and enjoyed many years of teaching, coaching and theatre production. Thanks to the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation, she interned at YPT as Artistic Director under the mentorship of Allen MacInnis. Her voice can be heard on radio commercials, cartoons, narrating live for Kids Film Festivals and ... hollering at her fabulous sons Willem and Marcus. DeAnn has also played a Piece of Seaweed, a Crocodile and a Bear-Skin Rug. She will happily accept all gifts of cheese. STEFFI DIDOMENICANTONIO cinderella Steffi is thrilled to be wearing the glass slippers in her YPT debut! Other theatre credits include touring the US with the Broadway musical Spring Awakening in the role of Ilse. Also, Next to Normal (MTC), Angel Square (NAC), Angel Vicarious (GCTC), The Miracle Worker (OLT) and Steffi’s Picnic (Puppets Up! International Festival). Film and television credits include Stage Fright with Meatloaf (Serendipity Point Films); Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town with Gordon Pinsent (CBC); Lost Girl (Showcase) youngpeoplestheatre.ca and four seasons of Moitié Moitié (TFO). In 2006, Steffi placed in the Top 5 on Canadian Idol (CTV), where she worked and performed with Cyndi Lauper and Nelly Furtado, among others. Steffi is currently one half of the dynamic folk-pop duo Good Together. Look at me mom, I’m a princess! ÉLODIE GILLETT teeth élodie Gillett is very happy to be performing at Young People’s Theatre for the first time! She was last seen as Dinah in Trouble In Tahiti and in Ragtime (The Shaw Festival). Other theatre work includes a two-year run as Lorraine in Jersey Boys (Dancap Productions), Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Moonpath Productions), Charity in Sweet Charity (Stage West Calgary), Oklahoma! and My One and Only (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Love Among the Russians, High Society, Gypsy, Happy End, Pal Joey and Pygmalion (Shaw Festival). Élodie also appeared in The Kennedys, starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes. As always, she sends love to her family in Vancouver. AMY LEE will return to YPT to perform in Carousel Players’ production of Here to Hear and in the spring she will have the honour of being a Resident Artist Educator with YPT. RICHARD LEE ears Richard is an actor, fight director, theatre producer and Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning sound designer. In his career in theatre he’s had the joy of playing many interesting roles and has received many Dora Mavor Moore Nominations for his work. YPT credits include Ghost Train, Hongbu and Nolbu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins, Hana’s Suitcase and The Forbidden Phoenix (YPT/Citadel Theatre). Other theatre credits include The Neverending Story (Roseneath Theatre), A Fool’s Life (Ahuri Theatre in Association with Why Not Theatre), Little Dragon (K’now/Theatre Passe Muraille), and Banana Boys (fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company). Richard is also a founding member and former General Manager of fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company. Creative Team Allen MacInnis claws Amy is thrilled to be returning to YPT after playing Hana Brady in Hana’s Suitcase and all of the characters in The Invisible Girl. Amy is one half of the Dora Award-winning and Canadian Comedy Award-nominated clown duo, Morro and Jasp, with whom she has cocreated and performed in Morro and Jasp do Puberty, GONE WILD, Go Bake Yourself (with Cahoots) and Of Mice and Morro and Jasp. Other credits include: The Godot Cycle (Yes Let’s Go), Guns & Roses (The Original Norwegian), David Mamet’s November (WJT; Canadian Premiere), and Pride and Prejudice (MTC). Amy recently completed the short film Pas de Trois, which will be featured on Bravo. Next, she director Allen has been directing for over 25 years at theatres from coast to coast across Canada, including Belfry Theatre, Victoria; Globe Theatre, Regina; Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary; Shaw Festival, Ontario; Centaur Theatre, Montreal; and Neptune Theatre, Halifax. Recent productions include A Year With Frog and Toad, Touch the Sky, The Wizard of Oz, Seussical – A Musical (2006 Dora award for Outstanding Direction), Bunnicula, Blue Planet, Hana’s Suitcase, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and The Princess & the Handmaiden, all for YPT. Other favourite productions include In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (Shaw youngpeoplestheatre.ca 5 Festival), The Stone Angel (Centaur Theatre, Montreal), A Doll’s House, Walking on Water, fareWel, Crackpot and Joni Mitchell: River (P.T.E.). Allen spent eight years as Artistic Director of Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange before becoming Artistic Director of Young People’s Theatre in 2002. JASON JESTADT composer , musical director & piano Jason is a Canadian composer and musician who has been frequently commissioned and has written works in several genres: chamber music, musical theatre, electro-acoustic music, and music for film. In recent years, his music has been performed across Canada by The Amadeus Choir, Madawaska String Quartet, Elmer Iseler Singers and Vancouver Chamber Choir. Most recently he served as music director and orchestrator for Theatre 20’s production of Bloodless, as well as working on productions of We Will Rock You, Rock of Ages, Billy Elliot and Rent. JO LESLIE She works with performers with mixed abilities too – RARE (Toronto Fringe) and Paroles dans le vent in Montreal. ROBIN FISHER set & costume designer YPT credits include Set & Costume Design for A Year With Frog and Toad and Set Design for Love You Forever and More Munsch and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Other theatre credits include Set & Costumes for The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (The Globe Theatre), Hand of Bridge/Telephone (Canadian Opera Company), Circle Mirror Transformation (GCTC), The Little Prince (The Grand Theatre), The Tempest (The Canadian Stage Company), I,Claudia (Theatre & Co./Segal Centre). Costumes - The Ends of the Earth (The Belfry Theatre) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (WCT). Robin received a Dora Mavor Moore award for her costumes for 36 Views (Actors Repertory Company). Upcoming: Robin will be designing set and costumes for Western Canada Theatre’s production of Fiddler on the Roof. LESLEY WILKINSON choreographer Jo began dancing at 5 years old. When she grew up she made dances and performed them across Canada. But something was missing - she wanted to tell stories using words as well as the body. She taught movement to actors (National Theatre School for 11 years) and became a movement director of a great many plays and new opera - Number One and Jamie (YPT), The Elephant Man (Norrlandsoperan, Sweden), Shelter (Tapestry), Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost… (NAC), Taming of the Shrew, The Odyssey (Stratford Festival) and 4 shows at Caravan Theatre, BC. Jo shares her knowledge of theatre as a dramaturge and director for contemporary dance and hip-hop - The Dietrich Group, Chimera Project, Rubberbandance, Solid State dance co., and Docudance in St John`s. 6 lighting designer Lesley’s work as a lighting designer has taken her to theatres across Canada and the United States . Lesley’s theatre lighting designs include A Year With Frog and Toad, Seussical, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Jacob Two-Two and The Hooded Fang (Young People’s Theatre), The Producers, High School Musical (Canadian premiere), Proof, Wit, Dangerous Liaisons, Tuesdays with Morrie, Blue Orange (Neptune Theatre), What Lies Before Us (Crow’s Theatre National Tour), Good News, Hit the Deck (Shaw Festival) and Enchanted April (Theatre Calgary). For the Canadian Opera Company Lesley has lit Idomoneo, Eugene Onegin, and The Marriage of Figaro and for the Pacific Opera Company her designs include La Traviata, Madama youngpeoplestheatre.ca Butterfly and the world premier of Erewhon. Lesley was Associate Lighting Designer on Napoleon, Mamma Mia, Cats (National Tour), and Durante and has lit events for Hermes, Birks, and Cartier in Toronto. Most recently Lesley lit the world premiere of The Bricklin - An Automotive Fantasy (The Fredericton Playhouse), Visiting Mr. Green and Lost in Yonkers (HGJT) in Toronto. Lesley has been nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design. MICHAEL LAIRD sound designer Based in Toronto, Michael’s work has been heard in theatre productions throughout North America. Selected Sound Design credits include: Seussical (YPT/ Citadel Theatre); A Year With Frog and Toad, The Princess and the Handmaiden, Forbidden Phoenix, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Wizard of Oz (YPT); Evil Dead: The Musical (Off Broadway, Toronto & Montréal); A Synonym for Love (Volcano Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CanStage); Hair (The Grand Theatre); Sound of Music, Little Women: The Musical (Citadel Theatre); Calendar Girls (Mirvish Productions); Stuff Happens (Studio 180 & Mirvish Productions); Our Class, The Overwhelming, Blackbird, Offensive Shadows (Studio 180); Such Creatures (Nightswimming); Through the Leaves, Festen, Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel/Luminato); A Beautiful View (da da kamera). Associate Sound Design credits include Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast (Citadel Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) and Silicone Diaries (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Christine Brubaker assistant director RBC Emerging Artist Christine is delighted to be working at YPT again. She last was seen here in Flippin’ In, The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe and Pinnochio. Other credits include The Penelopiad, The Danish Play (Nightwood); Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud); A Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage); Schoolhouse (Festival Players); The Vaudevilles of Chekov (NAC) and The Babysitter (Theatre Direct). As a director/ music director, credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Nightwood), Madhouse Variations, Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show (Eldritch Theatre); The Trials of John Demjanjuk (Theatre Asylum) and The Kiltarten Comedies (Shaw Festival - arrangement/MD). Christine teaches at Humber and Sheridan, YPT and Armstrong Acting Studios. She is a graduate of The National Theatre School (’94) and is pursing her MFA through Goddard College in Vermont. Harvey KogEn bass clarinet, tenor saxophone & clarinet Harvey has most recently performed Bloodless, Hair, Hugh Jackman in Concert, The Sound of Music, and Little House on the Prairie (Mirvish). He played Phantom of the Opera (Livent) & Cats (Marlene Smith), and toured with Sharon, Lois and Bram and Blood Sweat & Tears. He is a featured soloist in Howard Cable’s The Swing Years symphony concerts across Canada. His credits cover 20 years with such names as Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Diana Krall, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald and Natalie Cole. He was a featured jazz soloist for the Toronto appearances of Tony Bennett and has recorded for Jazz Radio Canada. He was born in NY City. KRISTIN MCCOLLUM stage manager Kristin is thrilled to return to YPT where previously she was Stage Manager for Seussical and A Year With Frog & Toad and Assistant Stage Manager on The Princess & the Handmaiden. Stage youngpeoplestheatre.ca 7 Management credits include Ben Heppner in Recital, The Brothers Grimm and Hansel and Gretel (COC), Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct Canada), Danny, King of the Basement and Head à Tête (Roseneath Theatre). ASM credits include Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel/Luminato), Miss Saigon (PCLO/Dancap), nine seasons with the COC including Il Trovatore, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, War & Peace, and Die Walküre as part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Kristin is inspired daily by her daughter, Ella. 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YPT is grateful for the outstanding and generous support provided by our government partners who collectively contribute over $1.2 million annually, representing 36% of YPT’s annual revenues. Government Partners the ontario artS council and the ontario trillium foundation are agencies of the government of ontario Also, YPT would like to recognize and thank the outstanding generosity of our major donors who contribute over $25,000 annually. Season Partner Partners in Education arts impact The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation Partners in Creative Excellence The Slaight Family Partners in Accessibility IA Clarington Investments & Industrial Alliance Strategic Initiatives Partner Tippet Foundation PHOTO (L-R): Clarence Sponagle, Amy Lee in a scene from Hana’s Suitcase (2009/10); Set & Costume Design by Teresa Przybylski, Lighting Design by Andrea Lundy | Photo by Iden Ford Photography. youngpeoplestheatre.ca 15 season partner Here to Hear BY LINDA A. CARSON AND CATHY NOSATY PRODUCED BY CAROUSEL PLAYERS IN ASSOCIATION WITH YPT RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 4 - 8 STUDIO | FEB 4 - 21, 2013 TICKETS $15-$20 (HST & SERVICE CHARGES EXTRA) “Here to Hear is sure to delight...” - the James Wegg Review Here to Hear is a joyful, interactive play about hearing the world of music through different ears. Amanda and her dad don’t really agree on what music is. She likes to collect sounds from the audience and jam with them; he wants to perform the beautiful songs he has learned over the years. Just when it looks like there won’t be a concert at all, a surprise visitor turns things upside down. Together with the audience, Amanda and her father make a song that helps their visitor find the way home. L-R: Amy Lee, William Vickers in a scene from Here to Hear; Set & Costume Design by Michael Greves, Lighting & Projections Design by Gavin Fearon Photo by Tracy Van Oosten, Illustration by Jan Borkowski 416.862.2222 | youngpeoplestheatre.ca 16 youngpeoplestheatre.ca