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URINETOWN Music & Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Book & Lyrics by Greg Kotis So if you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go through me! URINETOWN music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann book & lyrics by Greg Kotis Managing Artistic Director Caleb Marshall Director ofInterim Education Director & Programming of Education Heather Alana Hibbert Burns NKPG Services Ltd. is honoured to be a sponsor of the Canadian College of Performing Arts! We look forward to watching and supporting the CCPA’s upcoming performances and programs. NKPG Specializes in Canadian and US taxes. We provide tax planning and accounting services to individuals and corporations. CONTACT US Derrold Norgaard, FCPA [email protected] Grant Kratofil, CPA [email protected] 202-4400 Chatterton Way T: 250-598-6998 Victoria, BC V8X 5J2 F: 778-265-6155 From the College Directors Since March of 2020, we have all had to forge a way forward. Our work changed overnight, and we could look back at our own naivete in the ‘before time’ with a longing nostalgia. Perhaps once in a generation there is an event that so deeply impacts the very nature of life on this planet that it becomes their defining moment. As a society we have had to forge a way forward. As educators we have had to forge a way forward, as education is essential to our future. As live performers, we are working to forge a way forward in an industry that was the first to close and will be the last to fully return; and yet ‘live performance’ is so crucial and necessary to expressing our very soul and the struggles we confront. Our season theme is not rebuilding or reshaping our world. That sounds too easy. It is also not simply “time to start over” or “the dawn of something new”, as if it’s all happening whether we choose to participate or not. No, it’s forging a way forward, because it is hard work. It’s as hard as bending metal and will put the full strength of our human endurance to the test. The choices we make now, how we choose to stay safe and yet forge ahead, will define us for decades. Our choices will determine if the next generation is prepared to lead when their time comes. They need education, art and expression, and we need stories told that both inspire and motivate, while reflecting our reality and choices back to us. This season takes us from familiar isolation and frustration to disobedience, the emergence of free-will and self-determination, and ultimately, for all our characters – and all of us.... the need to adapt. We look forward to exploring these themes with you this year. In-person or from a distance, the power of storytelling is not diminished. Caleb Marshall Managing Artistic Director From the College Directors Welcome to our productions of Urinetown. We are so pleased and proud to be sharing these productions with you as we come to the end of a truly unique school year. As a recent arrival to the college with deep roots at CCPA, I have had the unique pleasure of joining this exceptional company at the mid-point of their project to “forge a way forward.” What a privilege it is to be collaborating live and in-person in the theatre, and to witness the countless new ways our students have found of learning, working and creating in this challenging, ever-shifting environment! The capacity to adapt, to pivot in the moment towards something new, is a foundational lesson in theatre education. Thank you for your continued support and interest in the important stories that our students have invested such time, energy and passion in telling, and for adapting and pivoting in the moment right alongside us. Alana Hibbert Interim Director of Education CONGRATULATIONS TO CCPA’S TALENTED STUDENT BODY AND DEDICATED FACULTY AND STAFF FOR YOUR CONTINUING EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE Randall ad BRAVO! RANDALL ANTHONY COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS & RAC CONTENT MARKETING STRATEGY CUSTOM PUBLISHING MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCTS DIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES & VIDEOS WWW.RANDALLANTHONY.COM From the Urinetown Directors This year, choosing our year-end musical was a more complicated undertaking than ever before, to ensure we could properly complete our students’ training during a global pandemic. We always carefully consider a number of factors when choosing show content: how well suited is the age-appropriateness, demographic, and distribution of roles for our student body? As theatre has the dual purpose of both entertaining and reflecting the world back to itself, can we also choose work that has thematic resonance and is timely for the world we are living in? Following a year where everyone on the planet was concerned for our future, Urinetown offers us a much-needed release, with humour, inspiring music, and jabs at corporate power, government mismanagement, global sustainability, and of course the musical genre itself. From an educational and entertainment point of view, the variety of musical styles in the show allow the students to explore many genres; gospel, jazz, Kurt Weill, and glitzy show tunes. There are a number of musical theatre nods to search for as you watch. Being set in a somewhat dystopian future, Urinetown also gave us the opportunity to incorporate COVID-19 protections. Masks, barriers and a long socially-distanced lineup to the bathroom fit seamlessly into the world of the play. To reduce numbers, ensure student safety, and provide the best learning experience possible, we also made the decision to produce two separate, distinct productions of the show. Both productions are exciting, energetic, funny, and poignant, and offer their own unique flavour as the students discovered their own take on the characters. This expanded process required an expanded team, many of whom had, of course, lost the majority of their employment in the last year. The College was proud to offer the opportunity to create again in a supportive learning environment, and is immensely grateful to our design, stage management, and production teams, our live orchestra of professional musicians, and, of course, our students, who embraced the uniqueness of this journey with an open heart, enthusiasm, energy, dedication, and a deep commitment to prevail. -Urinetown Creative Team Note: The last line of the play is a shout of “Hail Malthus!”. Thomas Robert Malthus was a 19th-century political economist who believed “that the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence.” Urinetown strikes the perfect balance between being uproariously silly while at the same time being dark and profound. Creative Team Naomi Costain director (choreography & staging) Toronto-based (but Victoria-raised), Naomi has performed leads in theatres across Canada from Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Segal Centre), Janet in Drowsy Chaperone (MTC, Theatre Calgary), to Roxie in Chicago (Neptune Theatre), and 7 seasons at the Stratford Festival. Selected choreography credits include The Wedding Singer (St. Lawrence College), Sister Act (L.O.T.), The Hobbit (The Capitol Theatre), as well as premieres of For Life (STC) and Michael Doherty and Caleb Marshall’s musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol (TNB / STC). As a teacher, Naomi has been on faculty at Randolph Academy and Sheridan College. She has taught in dance studios across Southern Ontario for 20 years, and adjudicates dance competitions across Canada. Naomi holds her Advanced RAD Ballet and studied Solo Seal in the UK. She spent 3 summers in the Banff Centre ballet program and trained at Laine Theatre Arts in London, England. Michael Doherty director (music director) Michael Doherty is a Toronto-based composer, sound designer, music director and multi-instrumentalist. He is the composer and co-lyricist of two full-scale musicals: A Christmas Carol and For Life, as well as the composer and adapter for Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which has been performed many times throughout North America. He is a multiple Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Award nominee and winner. He was honoured with the musician’s achievement award at the East Coast Music Awards in 2008 and received the Playhouse Honours award from the Fredericton Playhouse in 2014. Michael has been an artist in residence at both Theatre New Brunswick and the Sudbury Theatre Centre. As a teacher, Michael has taught at St. Thomas University, the University of New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, Mt. Alison University, and St. Lawrence College. Creative Team Caleb Marshall director (design & staging) / livestream director Caleb Marshall is the Managing Artistic Director of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. He has produced over 80 theatre productions as the Artistic Executive Director of the Sudbury Theatre Centre and the Artistic Producer for Theatre New Brunswick. Internationally he served as Resident Director on a UK/European tour for Shakespeare’s Globe, and appeared in productions by The Old Vic, The Imperial War Museum and the Edinburgh Fringe. Caleb spent four seasons in the Stratford Festival’s acting company and has premiered roles for the National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, and the Blyth Festival. He has also played numerous principal roles in film and television. Caleb has maintained a life-long commitment to education and training. He holds a BFA Honours in Acting from York University, an MFA with Distinction in Theatre Directing from Middlesex University, London (UK). He has received the Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award, the Stratford Festival’s Eliot Haze Playwright Development Award, and was recognized by the New Brunswick Arts Board with an Excellence Award in the Arts. Jeff Poynter associate director (associate music director) Jeff Poynter is a multi-instrumentalist who performs frequently with the touring indie- folk band West My Friend, with a Victoria collective of jazz manouche musicians, as a freelance musician, and as a music leader at Broadview United Church. He also maintains a private studio, where he teaches children and adults piano, accordion, saxophone, clarinet, and guitar.
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