July 2012 - Dry Cold Productions

DRY COLD PRODUCTIONS
Music Theatre Done the Prairie Way
July 2012
Rob Herriot
Sweeney Todd (2011)
Director
Rob Herriot
Music Director
Cary Denby
Set Design &
Production Manager
Sheldon Johnson
Lighting Design
Bill Williams
Stage Manager
Evan Klassen
Jo March
Stephanie Sy
Professor Bhaer
Tom Soares
Amy March
Aaron Hutton
The Light in the Piazza (2010)
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Book by Allan Knee
Based on the novel
by Louisa May Alcott
September 19th - 23rd
Shaw Performing Arts
Centre
(at The Forks)
Tickets now on sale.
Emma Stefanchuk
Meg March
Dorothy Carroll
Beth March
Julie Lumsden
Marmee March
Donna Fletcher
Mr. Laurence
Frank Adamson
Laurie Laurence
Aaron Hutton
Aunt March
Mariam Bernstein
Mr. John Brooke
Tim Gledhill
A Dry Cold first:
assigned seating.
Adults $35
Students $20
In person
M.T.Y.P box office
By phone
(204) 942-8898
On-line
www.mtyp.ca
Based on Louisa May Alcott's own family experiences (and novel), Little Women the musical follows the adventures
of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March as they grow up in Civil War America. The beloved story of the March sisters is
timeless and deals with issues as relevant today as when they were written - the eternal search for balance between
career, family and love. Now, this wonderful narrative has been brought to life as an exhilarating new musical - a
witty and clever script with soaring and engaging melodies that set a new standard for modern musical theatre.
Not your grandmother’s Little Women, this modern exploration of a classic tale embodies the complete theatrical experience, guaranteeing a night filled with laughter, tears and a lifting of the spirit. This powerful score soars with the
sounds of personal discovery, heartache and hope.
kudos TO:
Donna Fletcher - inducted onto Rainbow Stage’s Wall of Fame on July 2nd, prior to a performance of
Footloose. Other Wall of Fame honourees with close ties to Dry Cold include Evelyne Anderson, Len Cariou,
Edward Evanko, Reid Harrison, Stan Lesk, Tim Magas, Celoris Miller and Robb Paterson.
Robb Paterson - winner of the audience-chosen best actor award at the 2012 NYC PictureStart Film Festival for
his role in The Boyle Effect, directed by Serge Kushnier. The film will screen at the Gimli Film Festival at the
end of July.
Kevin Aichele - recently nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award (a “Betty”) for his
portrayal of Sweeney Todd in Vertigo Theatre’s production of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,
Alix Sobler - May 2013 World Premiere of Rewritten at
the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre
Jaz Sealey - a much-too-brief 4-month Broadway run in the Stratford production of Jesus
Christ Superstar.
The fabulous cast, crew and artistic staff of
Rainbow’s Footloose including Dry Cold artists Sharon Bajer, Tim Bandfield, Scott Henderson, Peter Huck, Aaron Hutton, Evan
Klassen, Carson Nattrass, Jan Skene and
Cory Wojcik.
Alex as Mary Lennox
The Secret Garden (2003)
Jaz Sealey and Alexander
Frohlinger backstage at
Jesus Christ Superstar.
Alex on a break from the
West Side Story tour.
Jaz as Arpad Lazlo
She Loves Me (2004)
Mark your calendars.
The Dry Cold Brrrrunch Sunday, November 4th. The Inn at the Forks.
Fabulous food.
Spectacular silent auction.
Glorious performances by Dry Cold artists.
$60 with a tax receipt for a portion of the cost. Tickets available at Little Women or by phone (204-414-2680)
Help Build the Dry Cold Snowbank!
2001 - 2011
A Little Night Music
Into the Woods
Assassins
Nine
The Light in the Piazza
2012 - 2013
Little Women the Broadway musical
The Secret Garden
She Loves Me
Urinetown
Company
Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Follies
What’s in Dry Cold’s future? It was a Winnipeg winter with little snow. Build the Dry Cold financial snowbank.
Help us to continue to mount wonderful contemporary musical theatre as we enter our second decade.
The Dry Cold Snowbank categories:
Wind-Chill $15 to $49
Blizzard
Sun Dog
$100 to $149
Snow Angel
Northern Lights $200 or more
$50 to $99
$150 to $199
Send your donation to: Dry Cold Productions 39 Exbury Place Winnipeg MB R3Y 1C3
Or, if you prefer donating by credit card, visit our website - www.drycoldproductions.ca and make a donation through
CanadaHelps.org.
Dry Cold is a registered charity. Tax receipts will be issued for all donations.
F
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Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Goldman
January 30th - February 3rd, 2013
The Berney Theatre
Follies is a play about memory – whom we hoped to become and whom we have become. And of
course the two are not always the same. In a letter to Hal Prince, James Goldman wrote that “when
the past stays alive in harmful or damaging ways, it means we have unfinished business with it.”
For the main characters, Follies is about dealing with that unfinished business. Ben Brantley, in a
2007 review for The New York Times, wrote: "I have never felt the splendid sadness of 'Follies' as
acutely as I did watching the emotionally transparent concert production...At almost any moment, to
look at the faces of any of the principal performers...is to be aware of people both bewitched and
wounded by the contemplation of who they used to be. When they sing, in voices layered with ambivalence and anger and longing, it is clear that it is their past selves whom they are serenading.”
Follies also contains some of Sondheim’s most memorable songs: Broadway Baby, I’m Still Here,
Leave You ? and, of course, two that many will have heard at last year’s WSO concert, Too Many
Mornings and Losing My Mind.
Dry Cold is extremely grateful to Michael Nathanson and the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre for support
in this production. While Follies is a Dry Cold Production, WJT is contributing rehearsal and
performance space at the Berney Theatre
Director
Set Design
Reid Harrison
Brian Perchaluk
Music Director
Lighting Design
Joseph Tritt
Scott Henderson
The Cast (to date)
Ben Stone
Doug McKeag
Young Buddy
Aaron Hutton
Phyllis Stone
Brenda Gorlick
Young Phyllis
Paula Potosky
Sally Plummer
Donna Fletcher
Young Sally
Jillian Willems
Carlotta Campion Jan Skene
Solange LaFitte Mariam Bernstein
Hattie Walker
Pat Hunter
Stella Deems
Debbie Maslowsky
Heidi Schiller
Phyllis Thomson
Young Heidi
Lara Ciekiewicz
Theodore Whitman Fred Cross
Buddy Plummer, Young Ben, Emily Whitman, Dmitri Weisman and “the inevitable
Roscoe”, as well as a small ensemble are still to be cast.
Volunteers are needed by Dry Cold for ushering as
well as for some production tasks such as lightwalking (you stand on stage while lights are being
focused) and basic set painting. If you might be able
to help, contact Reid Harrison (204-414-2680)
Tom Soares Urinetown (2008)
Do you know?
Dry Cold Productions is the recipient of the first
Manitoba Arts Council Two-Year Theatre Project Grant
which has allowed us not only to expand our season,
producing both Little Women the Broadway musical and
Follies, but also to begin planning for 2013 - 2014.
Best wishes to the Dry Cold artists in Rainbow’s upcoming production of Annie:
Donna Fletcher (director), Kimberley Rampersad (choreographer), Scott Henderson (lighting design) and Evan Klassen (stage manager), as well as wonderful
performers: Kevin Aichele, Tim Gledhill, Donnalynn Grills, Rob Herriot, Aaron Hutton, Samantha Hill, Steven Ratzlaff, Tom Soares and Melanie Whyte.
Jan Skene
Nine (2007)
Many thanks to our wonderful sponsors
Cardinal Capital
Management Inc.
THE GAIL ASPER
FAMILY FOUNDATION INC.
The Free Press
We’re there for you
Inn at the Forks
Norwood Hotel
HARLEQUIN COSTUMES
Upcoming Musical Theatre and Opera
Annie - Rainbow Stage
Aug 9 - Aug 31 Rainbow Stage
Ordinary Days - Winnipeg Studio Theatre
Nov 21 - 15 Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre
Rigoletto - Manitoba Opera Association
Nov 24, 27, 30 - Centennial Concert Hall
ASSASSINS - Birdland Theatre
Jan 17 - Feb 2
Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre
Mariam Bernstein
Nine (2007)
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Board of Directors
Dorothy Carroll
Company (2009)
All Dry Cold show
photos courtesy of
Gary Barringer.
Emily Burt
Glynis Corkal
Denis Fletcher
Donna Fletcher
Reid Harrison
Masoud Moradi
James Pappas
Heather Pullan
Sharon Goszer Tritt
Brenda Gorlick
Nine (2007)
Any comments? Suggestions? Concerns?
Please let us know.
[email protected]
www.drycoldproductions.ca
Tim Gledhill
Assassins (2006)
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