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During August and September every This year we are presenting the musi- year, our theatre is filled with the cal Titanic. This musical was chosen most unique and thrilling energy. for two key reasons: the subject mat- We host 75 high school students who ter is based on a historical event that have shown great passion for the the students can explore, research, performing arts in a one-of-a-kind and examine in a very tangible way. As event: the High School Project. This well, this musical is meant to be per- tradition exists to encourage, cele- formed by a large company. Glorious, brate, and showcase the talents of confident voices are needed—and we these young people who come to us certainly have that! Our 50 member from high schools in London and the cast will create soaring harmonies surrounding region. Through intense and fill our glorious theatre with a hands-on learning, these students dis- triumphant ensemble sound—exactly cover the inner workings of our the- the way it was intended. atre company in a very practical way, A special thank you to the parents and with our team of professionals acting guardians of these high school stu- as mentors to the students. What you dents. By believing in your children, see on the Spriet Stage was created you allow them to soar and follow in our shops, staged in our rehearsal their dreams. halls, and brought together on this stage in a unique collaboration. It Welcome to this very special project. is often said that this is a project for all: our staff benefit as much as the dennis garnhum students because they are surrounded artistic director every day by hope and promise for the future. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

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WesternFairDistrict @WesternFair Spriet Stage, September 17 to 28, 2019 Opening Night September 20 HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT TITANIC THE MUSICAL Story and Book by Music and Lyrics by Peter Stone Maury Yeston Orchestrations by Ian Weinberger Produced on Broadway by Dodger Theatricals, Richard S. Pechter and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Director ANDREW TRIBE Musical Director ANDREW PETRASIUNAS Choreographer JULIE TOMAINO* Set Designer BRIAN DUDKIEWICZ Lighting Designer MICHELLE RAMSAY Costume Designer LISA WRIGHT Sound Designer EMILY PORTER Stage Manager LOUISE CURRIE* Assistant Stage Manager LORE GREEN Dialect Coach JANE GOODERHAM Voice Coach KATE MILNER

*The participation of these Artists are arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance • Opera • Theatre Policy The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. We would like to acknowledge the history of the traditional territory in which the Grand Theatre operates. We would also like to respect the longstanding relationships of the three local First Nations groups of this land and place in Southwestern Ontario; the Chippewa of the Thames First Nations (part of the Anishinaabe), the Oneida Nation of the Thames (part of the Haudenosaunee) and the Munsee-Delaware Nation (part of the Leni-Lunaape). Westminster title partners College sponsor Foundation P roud to be part of this amazing projec t! ldcsb.ca DIRECTOR’S NOTES

For our team, each day at the Grand Theatre has been a dream come true. “OUR YOUNG COMPANY Best described, the High School Project is life-changing—for both our participants FEELS A PART OF THIS and audiences. It is one of those extraordi- nary experiences that will astonish you, and INCREDIBLE BUILDING as the artistic staff, we are invigorated by the talent and enthusiasm of our company. These AND BECOMES PART students inspire us with their talent, their energy, and their courage. Our production OF ITS RICH HISTORY.” team strives to creatively and effectively illuminate and enhance the characters and carried the dreams of those aboard it. But the story. Through this process, they have the ship itself was a dream realized, sym- accessed their true artistic and personal bolizing a new world and the freedom that potential. Our young company feels a part could be found across the Atlantic. The High of this incredible building and becomes School Project, too, is a dream realized, and part of its rich history. the young people symbolize our collective I know this because I remember partici- dream, our hope for tomorrow. pating in two High School Projects…both Although we know the fate of the doomed equally different and equally life-changing. ship, our company celebrates and honours I remember excitement and nervousness in the humanity of its passengers through music auditioning and receiving a spot in the com and dance. We ask audiences to celebrate the pany, and determination to learn, to grow, to gift these young people have given us, respect give, and to create a beautiful gift to an audi- history in order to learn from our mistakes, ence. And now, I’m inspired by our current and ponder how far we have come. Nothing is High School Project company who strives real in the theatre, and our illusion of history for the same glories by bringing to reality a has been transported through young people’s collective dream; a dream that will inspire contemporary eyes. It is heartening to know all of us and our audiences. that our company can build hope and expe- The RMS Titanic was christened “the ship of rience wonder in our ever-changing world. dreams,” fueled by human imagination and Our ensemble’s imagination fuels the Titanic seemingly beyond technological possibility. that our company has created for you tonight; Central to the story of the Titanic are the sailing calmly, reaching its destination, and hopes and dreams of those aboard the most living on forever. legendary ship in the world. Every person on that ship had one thing in common, whether they were the captain or a Third-class pas- andrew tribe senger—they all dreamt of a new life. Titanic Mortgage payments, everyday expenses, retirement planning and maybe even a family vacation every year, where does an education savings plan fit in? A Libro Coach can help you figure it out.

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libro.ca/RESP *Full details available on request. CAST & CREDITS Officers and Crew of the R.M.S. Titanic E.J. Smith, captain BRADLEY AMESSE William Murdoch, first officer MAX WEBB COMOR Charles Lightoller, second officer CONNOR BROPHY Herbert J. Pitman, third officer MATTHEW PIRONAGGI Joseph Boxhall, fourth officer OLIVIA HO Frederick Barrett, a stoker MATTHEW DEKORT Harold Bride, radioman DANIEL MCKINNON Henry Etches, First-class steward CARTER KEANE Arthur Barratt, bellboy CAITLYN PRINGLE Frederick Fleet, lookout SYDNEY THOMPSON Robert Hitchens, quartermaster SHAE SOLOMON Wallace Hartley, bandmaster TANNER HAMLIN Taylor, bandsman JULIA TELFER Bricoux, bandsman LAUREN DASILVA Robinson, stewardess EDEN RESHEF Latimer, steward GRIFFEN THUSS CONKIE Crawford, stewardess MATEJA YANCHULA Hutchinson, steward MOHANAD ALKUHLANI Beecham, stewardess CHLOE PETTEPLACE Weikman, stewardess JESSICA LADD Widgery, stewardess ALYSA BEHL Olliver, steward KASS FISHER Joughlin, steward ANDY SKINNER First-Class Passengers J. Bruce Ismay, owner LEYLA BOYACIGIL Thomas Andrews, designer SARAH DENNISON Ida Straus CLARE SCANLON Isidor Straus MARK LUXTON John J. Astor ETHAN HOWE Madeline Astor MARCY GALLANT Benjamin Guggenheim ETHAN LIM Mme. Aubert JULIA SANTARELLA John B. Thayer DONTAE BAIROS Marion Thayer ELLA HOWARD Jack Thayer EMMA CUZZOCREA George Widener KURTIS WRIGHT Eleanor Widener ISABELLA MOYER Charlotte Cardoza MADDIE DALEY Edith Corse Evans HANNAH GREAVES second-class passengers Alice Beane LAUREN GILLIS Edgar Beane JACK CRIM Charles Clark DUKE LOVEDAY Caroline Neville MIKÉLA MARCELLIN

third-Class Passengers Jim Farrell ISAAC VAN DEVEN Kate McGowan NATALIE PEPE-FRANCIS Kate Murphy EMMA EXLEY Kate Mullins COURTNEY MURRAY Eva Hart LEAH GLIDDON Benjamin Hart DAVID DEJEU Emily Esther Louisa Hart JULIA WEIR

All other roles (crew, sailors, stokers, stewards, additional First, Second, and Third-class passengers, and family left behind in Southampton) will be played by members of the company. ORCHESTRA & PRODUCTION Rehearsal Pianist production MADELINE HALL Props ERIN CUNNINGHAM LORELEI GAGIE ORCHESTRA VIOLET GOENS Keyboard JILLIAN NASH ANDREW PETRASIUNAS KRISTEN NEWBURN Percussion Scenic Art ROB LAROSE MARGARET LAVER Violin ELIZA NAFTEL SIGMAR MARTIN VERONICA VISLA Viola

Wardrobe KAREN KJELDSON MACKENZIE DE SALVO DOWNE JOY DESCHUTTER Bass CHARLOTTE KELLY COLIN STEWART AINSLEY LEWKOWITZ MORGAN LITTLE Cello HARINI SATHEESKUMAR ADRIAN WRIGHT Sound Percussion — Student DYLAN MACZKO MEAGAN FOSTER MATTHEW TALLMAN Cello — Student Photography MOLLY WOLFORTH GIOVANNI BONILLA-RAMIREZ Flute — Student Stage Management PRASANNA MOHILE TESS DUPONT JHASNA RIVAS-VASQUEZ MUSICAL NUMBERS act one In Every Age Company Opening Company Godspeed Titanic Company Barrett’s Song Barrett What A Remarkable Age This Is! First-class Passengers, Serving Staff, Etches, Andrews, Ismay, Captain, Bellboy To Be A Captain Murdoch Lady’s Maid The Three Kates, Farrell, Third-class Passengers I Give You My Hand Charles, Caroline The Proposal/The Night Was Alive Barrett, Bride, Company Hymn: God Lift Me Up / Doin’ the Latest Rag Hartley, Taylor, Bricoux, First-class Passengers, Andrews, Ismay, Captain, Etches, Lightoller, Bellboy I Have Danced Alice, Edgar No Moon #1 Fleet, Farrell, McGowan, Ida, Isidor, Captain, Lightoller, Murdoch, Caroline, Charles, Company Autumn Hartley No Moon #2 Company

act two Wake Up, Wake Up! Etches, Bellboy, Passengers Dressed In Your Pyjamas In The Grand Salon Etches, Bellboy, First & Second-class Passengers, Stewards Staircase The Three Kates, Farrell, Barrett The Blame Ismay, Andrews, Captain To The Lifeboats Company We’ll Meet Tomorrow Barrett, Bride, Charles, Company To Be A Captain (Reprise) Etches Still Ida, Isidor Mr. Andrews’ Vision Andrews The Foundering Bride, Survivors Finale Company Godspeed Titanic Reprise Company A hilarious celebration of our beloved city — the “other” London.

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PHOTO CREDIT: MALLORY BROWN Clare Scanlon Matt deKort The thing that interests me about the Titanic The way I see it, the Titanic was the first is how there were so many different things thing in the 20th century to really bring that led to the tragedy. If the boat wasn’t mov- humanity’s “capacity for wonder” to life; it ing so fast, the crash could have been preven- was something that brought all aspects of ted but Mr. Ismay insisted the boat maintain humanity together with our ability to dream, a high speed. The boat also took another be it a millionaire or a coal miner. We were route instead of the route that was planned building incredible things that we wouldn’t in order to get to New York faster. Also the think could get anywhere beyond our own captain ignored the iceberg warnings at imaginations before the world broke out into first. The people in charge of the boat prior- war. Before learning to be terrified of what itized money over safety, which led to tragedy. humanity is capable of, we were in awe of it, The tragedy of the Titanic is relevant today which is a comforting thing to think about. because our world has many problems that Connor Brophy could lead to disaster that we choose The fact that if they hadn’t attempted to turn to ignore. away from the iceberg, or if they had kept Jack Crim forward speed while doing so, they might’ve I think the coolest thing I ever read about the avoided it. Everyone assumes hubris and Titanic was in the sixth grade. The anchor was arrogance regarding the invulnerability of so large they had to use 20 horses to wheel it the ship is what sunk the Titanic. But in my to the ship from the factory. That or the sheer opinion it was just a mistake in a moment amount of lightbulbs on the Titanic; it was of panic and desperation. over 10,000. Those two facts are what really Giovanni Bonilla-Ramirez help me wrap my mind around just how big What fascinates me most about the RMS it was. Titanic is the lifeboats on board the ship. Jessica Ladd There were only enough to contain about half What fascinates me about Titanic is the state the passengers aboard the ship and this over- of the people’s mindsets in the exact moment sight was a major factor in the ship’s demise. it hit the iceberg. People went on the Titanic If there were more lifeboats on the ship and to simply get to America not having a clue each one was filled to its full capacity, more what would happen. So many different peo- people would have survived the shipwreck. ple from different social classes with their Harini Satheeskumar own unique stories but a common tragedy. I Think of your hardest moments in life. Your wonder if the people on the boat had that gut greatest success. And imagine every person feeling when you know something’s not right. you have met and their respective hardest How did it feel to know that this “unsinkable” moments, greatest successes etc. Now boat might be the last thing you stand on? imagine, all of that information we keep so That idea frightens me but also makes me so guarded, all of those moments and pure sym- interested in how they would have felt. bols of who we are and what it means to be Margaret Laver human. All of that, to put it simply, life lived, I find it interesting how the class and racial lost at the bottom of the sea, along with one distinction at the time played a huge part in of humanity’s greatest technological wonders the ship’s layout, and how that subsequently of the time. led to a greater percentage of First-class passengers being rescued and far more Second and Third-class passengers losing their lives. world curious London proud

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Michelle Ramsay Lighting Designer (Luminato); On the Rocks, The Way Back to Thurs- FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: The Mountaintop, day (TPM); The Arsonists, Art (Canadian Stage); The Ladies Foursome, Mary’s Wedding. Theatre Bloodless (Theatre20); Love Form Afar (COC); St Credits (Selected): Shanawdihit (Tapes- Carmen of the Main (NAC/Canadian Stage); The try Opera); Lilies (lemonTree Creations/Why Admirable Crichton (Shaw Festival). Not Theatre); Under the Stairs (Young People’s Theatre); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Louise Currie Stage Manager Play (Obsidian Theatre/Nightwood Theatre); FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Debut. Broken Tailbone (nightswimming); Obaaberi- Theatre Credits (Selected): Zaia, Zarkana, ma (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Acteon & Michael Jackson: One (Cirque de Soleil); The Lion Pygmalion (Opera Atelier/The Royal Opera of King, A Christmas Carol, Joseph and his Amazing Versailles/Harris Theatre Chicago); The Royale Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, Broadway on Broad- (Soulpepper); Ricciardo e Zoraide (Rossini Opera way, The Easter Bonnet (Broadway); Babes in Festival—Pesaro, Italy); Gertrude and Alice Toyland (Lincoln Center); Aspects of Love, Cats, (Independent Aunties); To Kill A Mockingbird Hello Dolly (National Tours).Other: Louise has (Stratford Festival); Drawer Boy (Theatre Passe worked as a Stage Manager for the past 30 years. Muraille); Ipperwash (Native Earth Performing Arts/Blyth Festival); Daughter (Quiptake/Pan- Lore Green demic Theatre); Our Town (Theatre Rusticle); Assistant Stage Manager The Magic Hour—co-design with Jennifer Tipton For the Grand Theatre: Timothy Findley’s The (Jess Dobkin). Other: Winner of 7 Dora Mavor Wars, Mamma Mia! Theatre Credits (Select- Moore Awards, a SATAward and the 2008 Pau- ed): A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, The Curi- line McGibbon Award. ous Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sense & Sensibility, Hadestown, The Silver Arrow (Citadel Emily Porter Sound Designer Theatre); Blood of Our Soil (Pyretic Productions); FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Prom Queen. Grease, The Great Gatsby (New Vintage Theatre). Theatre Credits (Selected): Cinderella, Other: Graduate of the BFA Stage Management Strike! The Musical, Beauty And The Beast, Breaking Program at the University of Alberta. Up Is Hard To Do, Mamma Mia!, Little Shop of Hor- rors, Shrek The Musical (Rainbow Stage); Beauty And The Beast (Globe Theatre); Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins, Into the Woods (Neptune Theatre); Bar Mitzvah Boy, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Jazz Singer, Kinderstransport, Sister Rosensweig (Har- old Green Jewish Theatre); Jacob Two Two (Young People’s Theatre); Obeah Opera, Apocalypsis GUEST ARTISTS

Lisa Wright Costume Designer FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Head of Wardrobe 2008 – present. High School Projects: Prom Queen, Evita, Les Misérables School Edition, Hello, Dolly!, The Addams Family: A New Musical, Legally Blonde, My Fair Lady, Foot- loose, Anything Goes, and Grease. Other: Art, The Mountaintop, Fly Me to the Moon, Hair. Assistant Head of Wardrobe for 7 seasons; came to the Grand Theatre as a tailor in 1989. Theatre Credits (Selected): The Stratford Festival, Livent, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Banff Theatre Centre. lisa wright SHEER HUMANITY ALONE WILL PREVAIL 107 years later, the Titanic still holds space Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes in our minds: what it must have been like? Amid the confusion around loading the life- What really happened? What might we have boats, the Countess Noël Leslie—a British done if we had been there? The Titanic cap- philanthropist—spotted a very young, newly tivates us in part because it shows us as we married couple from Spain who appeared are—the countless stories that have been told frightened and unsure of what to do. As and retold about the tragedy highlight the Leslie spoke French, she approached the depths of our capacity for indifference and couple and took the young wife, María Josefa neglect. However, there is always light amid Peñasco y Castellana, into her care, helping the darkness—here, you’ll find stories of her into the lifeboat, and comforting her remarkable courage and kindness in the face once safely aboard. of disaster. Once boarded, the Countess’ work contin- Fifth Officer Harold Lowe ued. The boat’s crew member, Able Seaman After assisting in the loading of other life- Tom Jones, assigned her to the tiller, and boats, Lowe boarded lifeboat 14 as the officer she took charge of the boat’s steering for the in charge. When the Titanic finally sank, it entire night, first leading them away from the was Lowe who decided that his lifeboat need- wreck and later rowing the boat towards the ed to return to the site of the wreck to rescue Carpathia. Jones was said to be so impressed any survivors who might be in the water. His by her that after they’d reached safety, he was the only lifeboat to return on a rescue removed the “8” from their lifeboat and had mission—while other boats discussed this it framed and sent to Leslie as a token of option, they all decided to remain where they gratitude. Once on board the Carpathia, were for fear that they would be overrun by the Countess committed herself to assisting desperate people attempting to climb aboard. the women and children from steerage. Lowe’s decision saved the lives of three men Chief Baker Charles Joughlin that they were able to bring into the lifeboat; When it became clear that the Titanic was another man that they rescued from the in trouble, Joughlin, the ship’s chief baker, water died shortly afterwards. Lowe’s boat ordered 13 members of his staff to gather all was also able to reach the survivors in col- bread and supplies from the pantry and to lapsible lifeboat A, which was unstable and bring provisions to the lifeboats. As the crew taking on water, and brought them to safety. SHEER HUMANITY ALONE WILL PREVAIL all photos: alamy. opposite: The RMS Titanic leaving Bairds Works, Belfast, 1912. This page: Survivors of the RMS Titanic in one of her collapsible lifeboats, just before being picked up by the Carpathia. The newsboys announcing the sinking of the ship Titanic, London, 1912

began loading the lifeboats, Joughlin went rescue any survivors in the water. However, to assist, in some cases forcibly throwing Quartermaster Hitchens—who was in charge reluctant women and children into the boats of the boat—disagreed, claiming that they in order to save their lives. would be swamped by desperate survivors. Despite her continuing protests, the boat He was assigned as captain of lifeboat 10, never went back. but seeing that it was well-staffed with crew already, he instead proceeded down to the Once they arrived safely on the RMS A Deck promenade, where he threw 50 deck Carpathia, Brown worked with other First- chairs into the water—an improvised floa- class survivors to establish a survivors’ tation device that would become useful for relief committee, which successfully raised swimmers escaping the wreck. When the $10,000 to compensate the crew mem- ship sank, Joughlin swam and treaded water bers for their work and bravery during the for approximately two hours before he was emergency. Brown recognized the neces- approached by the upturned Collapsible B sity of relief for mental stress and trauma, lifeboat. Seeing that it was unstable already, especially for Second-class and steerage he opted to remain treading water next to passengers. Every day, Brown and her fellow the boat, later claiming that it was “no trick committee members would be stationed in at all.” Another lifeboat soon approached, the dining room for five hours, ready to speak which he was finally able to board. with anyone who needed to talk about what had happened. She reported a huge response Margaret Brown to this effort, describing survivors who Known posthumously as “the Unsinkable “poured out their grief and story of distress... Molly Brown”, Margaret Brown was an unburdened their sorrows that lay like a American socialite and philanthropist weight upon their breasts.” who helped load the lifeboats, organized the women in the lifeboat to row, two to Source: Walter Lord, A Night to Remember. an oar, and advocated for her lifeboat to return to the site of the sinking and

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In Memoriam Thank you to those who gave in memory of Shirley Brown, John Judson, John Keith McMartin, Andrew McNaughton Hibbert and Alice & Jack Stevens, cherished friends of the Grand who are dearly missed.

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