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1 A Message from the Artistic and Executive Directors

Welcome to YPT and our production of !

Whether this story is new to you… or whether this outing is a nostalgic trip down memory lane, we know you will enjoy yourselves immensely!

This season, YPT’s theme explores how young people take matters into their own hands to repair things and to create change in their lives. Here is a prime example: two children write their own advertisement for a . Because life in their home has become a little bit upside-down. Their inventive job-posting attracts the practically perfect – and just a bit tricky – Mary Poppins… who does more for them and their parents than they could ever have imagined. Thanks for joining us. We hope to see you throughout our season!

ALLEN MACINNIS NANCY J. WEBSTER Artistic Director Executive Director

YPT is situated on lands and waterways that have known human activity for more than 15,000 years. We acknowledge the ancestral lands of the Dish with One Spoon Territory, and more recently Treaty 13. This includes the Mississaugas of the Credit who are part of the Anishinaabe Nation, the Wyandot Nation, also the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Six Nations, and any other Nation, recorded or unrecorded. Miigwech, Nya-weh, Thank you for letting us gather here today. Music Director/ Orchestral Adaptation & Keyboard Programming Young People's Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Set Designer Canadian Theatres and engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Costume Designer Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Lighting Designer Sound Designer Musician/Percussion EXCITED ABOUT THE SHOW? LOVE TO USE SNAPCHAT? TAKE A SNAP OR ADD TO YOUR STORY

2 USING THE YPT PRACTICALLY PERFECT FILTER! YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE PRESENTS

The YPT Production of

A Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Film Original Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman Book by New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by and Co-Created by Directed by Thom Allison Choreographed by Kerry Gage

CAST Neleus/Northbrook/ JAK BARRADELL Robertson Ay KYLE GOLEMBA Von Hussler Bird Woman AISHA JARVIS Mrs. Banks JEWELLE BLACKMAN Michael HAILEY LEWIS Bert KYLE BLAIR Policeman JORDAN MAH Mr. Banks SHANE CARTY Mrs. Brill JADE REPETA Chairman JARRET CODY Mary Poppins VANESSA SEARS Jane JESSIE COX Miss Andrew SARAH LYNN STRANGE Mrs. Corry STARR DOMINGUE

CREATIVE TEAM Music Director/ WAYNE GWILLIM Musician/Winds MICHELE JACOT Orchestral Adaptation & Musician/Bass ERIK LARSON Keyboard Programming Assistant Director DARWIN LYONS Set Designer BRANDON KLEIMAN Stage Manager ANDREA BAGGS Costume Designer WILLIAM LAYTON Assistant Stage Manager EMILY MEWETT Lighting Designer JASON HAND Apprentice Stage Manager MICHAELA STEVEN Sound Designer WILLIAM FALLON Dialect Coach JANE GOODERHAM Musician/Percussion GEOFFREY BRUCE

Mary Poppins is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. New York, NY. Tel 212-541-4684. Fax 212-397-4684. www.MTIShows.com The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

The performance will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission. 3 Director's Note

“Anything can happen if you let it.” Mary Poppins’ inspirational words to her young charges, Jane and Michael Banks, are at the heart of this timeless story. This simple statement gives us Mary’s motto in life - that the limits of our life experience are defined by what we believe is possible ...so why not believe there are no limitations?

The magical nanny with the parrot-handled umbrella continues to fascinate us and stir children’s imaginations. Why?

Mary is the loving “auntie” who won’t let our inner child get away with anything, but always makes sure we land on our feet. She has taught multiple generations to be respectful of possessions, to not judge a book by its cover, to clean up their own messes and most importantly, that a family can be changed for the better by even the youngest among them.

Can you think of anyone you’d rather spend the holiday season with than everybody’s favourite nanny?

Right then, off we go. Spit-spot.

THOM ALLISON Director

Original and Broadway Production Credits: Produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Thomas Schumacher Co-Choreographer Lighting Design Howard Harrison Scenic and Costume Design Co-Direction and Choreography Directed by

4 Cast

JAK BARRADELL Importance (Robbie) and John & Jen (John), NELEUS/NORTHBROOK/ as well as Ross Petty’s The Wizard of Oz VON HUSSLER (Scarecrow). Kyle has spent 16 seasons between the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, Jak’s theatre credits most recently appearing at Shaw as Aslan include Joey, Bobby/us in The Magician’s Nephew. He has worked in the North American in many wonderful theatres across tour of Saturday Night and has especially fond memories of Fever (Northcore playing the title character in Billy Bishop Productions);Anne of Goes to War (Merritt Award, Best Actor). Green Gables, Mamma Kyle grew up in London, Ontario and got Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); Peter Pan in his start in the arts with the Amabile Wonderland (Ross Petty Productions); Swing! Boys Choir and the Original Kids Theatre (Gravenhurst House); Maometto II, . He begrudgingly concedes that Semele, Falstaff (Canadian Opera Company); his mom was right about the piano lessons (MTC); Mary Poppins (Arts Club/ paying off. Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Anne of Green Gables, (Theatre Calgary); Altar Boyz, White Christmas, (Arts Club). Jak SHANE CARTY would like to thank his friends and family for MR. BANKS all of their endless love and support. @jakbarradell Shane’s theatre credits include eleven seasons at the JEWELLE BLACKMAN Stratford Festival, MRS. BANKS with roles in , Jewelle is a - , Much based actor, singer- Ado About Nothing, songwriter, playwright The Duchess of Malfi, Love's Labour's Lost, and violinist. Her The Brothers Karamazov, as well as many credits include Nala and others. His other credits include: Onegin Shenzi in the original (Musical Stage/NAC); Sweeney Todd, This Canadian cast of The is How it Goes (Neptune Theatre); Beauty Lion King; We Will Rock and the Beast (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Les You; Deena in Dreamgirls; Caroline, or Change, Misérables, The Red Priest, You Can't Take Sousatzka and (directed by Tony It With You, Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Hay Award-nominee Rachel Chavkin); Acid Queen Fever (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Marry in Tommy, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Me a Little, Venus in Fur (Theatre Kingston); Living in , Cabaret, As You Like It and Pygmalion (Guild Festival);Sweeney Todd, A (Stratford Festival). Her Year With Frog and Toad (Sudbury Theatre other credits include Ti Moune in on This Centre); The Mikado, Sticks and Stones Island (Musical Stage Company) and Aldonza (NAC); Othello (St. Lawrence Shakespeare); in . Jewelle’s musical “you Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead know my name, not my story” is currently in (Touchmark); Einstein's Gift, It's A Wonderful development. Her film/TV credits includeNine Life, The Wizard of Oz, Gatsby (The Grand); Lives, Kim’s Convenience, Shadowhunters, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Rogue and Shoot the Messenger. Special Dreamcoat, Les Misérables (WCT); Treasure thanks to my family. @jewelleblackman Island (TNB); Romeo and Juliet (Resurgence); (MTC); Sunday in the Park With George (Talk Is Free). His television credits KYLE BLAIR include Anne with an E, Suits, Murdoch BERT Mysteries, Flashpoint and Reign. Shane is a graduate of Queen's University and the Kyle is thrilled to be Conservatory at the Stratford making his YPT debut! Festival. Toronto audiences may remember him from Musical Stage Company’s productions

of A Man of No 5 JARRET CODY (Mirvish); Charlaine in Ain’t Misbehavin’ CHAIRMAN (Canadian Stage); and Young Alberta in Cookin’ at the Cookery (Citadel, Alabama Jarret is thrilled to be Shakespeare Festival). A child at heart, making his YPT debut she is so excited to share the stage with in Mary Poppins this wonderful company comprised of so and hopes everyone many talented artists. Wishing everyone thoroughly enjoys the a supercalifragilistic holiday season full show. His previous of hope, love and laughter... Now, enjoy theatre credits include the show! Shrek (TUTS); Crazy for You (Gateway); Twist and Shout, Footloose (CTF); Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia! (Arts KYLE GOLEMBA Club); and Beauty and the Beast (Capitol ROBERTSON AY Theatre). He would like to say a huge thank you to the creative, production and Kyle is thrilled to be administrative teams here at YPT; everyone making his YPT debut! at DaCosta Talent; his friends and family; and He first appeared on his parents, Bruce and Tracy, for their never- stage at age seven as ending love and support. a bean in Jack and the Beanstalk. He found the experience truly JESSIE COX magical. Since then, JANE theatre has taken him from Nanaimo, BC to Summerside, PEI, including seasons at the Jessie is thrilled to Stratford, Shaw and Charlottetown festivals. be returning to YPT His favourite credits include Jack in five years after her A Christmas Carol (Ross Petty Productions); professional debut Dickon in The Secret Garden (Podium in . Her credits Concert Productions); Antipholus of Ephesus include The Sunny Side in The of Errors (Canadian Stage); of the Street, Anne of Eddie in (Segal Centre). Kyle’s Green Gables, Home for other credits include Andy in , the Holidays (Smile Theatre); We Will Rock You Gremio in Kiss Me, Kate, A-Rab in West Side (Magnus Theatre); Anne of Green Gables, Alice Story (Stratford Festival); Bobby in Cabaret, Through the Looking Glass (Charlottetown Mobilizer in Juno and the Paycock (Shaw Festival); (Theatre by the Bay); Festival); Mike in White Christmas, Robert Fiddler on the Roof (Stage West Calgary). Martin in (Drayton Jessie is a graduate of Sheridan College's Entertainment); as well as his all-Canadian Music Theatre Performance program. Thank revue, Making Love in a Canoe (with co- you to Stephanie, Thom, Kerry, Wayne and creator Adam White; album available on the YPT team for bringing me back. All my iTunes). Kyle hopes you find the theatre as love to my fiancé Iain. magical today as he did when he was just a little bean! STARR DOMINGUE MRS. CORRY AISHA JARVIS BIRD WOMAN After performing all over the , Aisha is thrilled to be Europe and Canada, making her YPT debut. and most recently at Her select theatre the Shaw Festival, Starr credits include Jan is excited to be back in in (Irregular Toronto doling out her Entertainment); very own spoonful of Key Change (Globe sugar to YPT's production of Mary Poppins. Theatre); Bree in Fancy Her favourite credits include Binti in Binti's Nancy (Côte Saint-Luc Dramatic Society); Journey (Theatre Direct at YPT); Vonzia Dom in The Law of Gravity (Youtheatre); in Oil and Water (NAC); Lorrell in Dream Prissy in Anne of Green Gables, Lisa in Girls (Arts Club); Dynamite in Hairspray Mamma Mia (Charlottetown Festival); Sally 6 in Hogtown (Hogtown Collective); Wilhemina thank Bruce and everyone at the Talent House, in The Postman (Appledore Productions/ his family, friends and mentors for all of their Panamania); Snow White in Snow White (Solar incredible support. “Life is a whirlwind, so Stage); Annette in Brantwood, Vanessa in In the spread those wings and fly!” Heights, Hello Dolly!, Sonia/Aisha in Godspell (Theatre Sheridan). Her select film/TV credits include ET Canada (CTV) and Private Eyes JADE REPETA (Global TV). Aisha is also a graduate of Sheridan MRS. BRILL College’s Bachelor of Music Theatre program. Thank you to my family, friends, and EJ for all of This is Jade’s YPT the love and support. debut. Her selected theatre credits include Shrek (Globe HAILEY LEWIS Theatre); Rock of Ages, MICHAEL Beauty and the Beast, Footloose, All Shook Hailey is excited to Up, Marathon of Hope, be making her YPT Mamma Mia!, Anne of Green Gables, The debut as Michael Sound of Music (Drayton Entertainment); in Mary Poppins. A Beauty and the Beast, Prom Queen workshop graduate of Sheridan (Theatre Aquarius); Billy Elliot, Cabaret (Royal College’s Music Theatre Centre); The Little Mermaid, Theatre Performance Mary Poppins, Footloose (); program and two-time Mary Poppins (Neptune Theatre); Triple Threat Award recipient, Hailey's credits (Theatre Sheridan). Jade’s selected film/TV include Ugly Duckling in Shrek The Musical credits include ‘Madison’ on HBO Canada's (The Globe Theatre); Little Inez in Hairspray Less Than Kind. I am so honoured to once (Drayton Entertainment); Jan in Grease The again be part of the musical that made me Musical (Winter Garden Theatre); Zombie fall in love with tap dancing. Thank you to my Dancer in the Disney movie musical Zombies; loving family, friends, the TH gang, and Trev! Sousatzka (Elgin Theatre); Tiff in Prom Queen: The Musical (Segal Centre Stage); ensemble We Are Canadian VANESSA SEARS performer in with the MARY POPPINS Confederation Centre Young Company (Charlottetown Festival); as well as ensemble and supporting lead roles in productions such Vanessa is returning as , and Sweet to YPT after Charity (Theatre Sheridan). Hailey would like playing Dorothy to thank her family, friends and The Talent in The Wizard of House, for continuously encouraging her to Oz (Dora Award reach for the stars! for Outstanding Ensemble) and she’s thrilled to be back in Toronto for the holidays. For the past two JORDAN MAH years Vanessa has performed at The Shaw POLICEMAN Festival, most recently starring as Polly in The Magician’s Nephew and Flaemmchen in Jordan is thrilled to be . The season previous, she played making his YPT debut the titular role in An Octoroon and appeared in Mary Poppins! His in . Her other selected credits selected credits include include Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing , HMS Technicolor Dreamcoat (Theatre Aquarius); Pinafore, (Obsidian Theatre Company/ and The Hypochondriac The Musical Stage Company, Toronto Theatre (Stratford Festival); Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress); , Anne of Green Gables Million Dollar Quartet (Citadel); Lorraine (Charlottetown Festival); in All Shook Up (Drayton Entertainment); (Citadel Theatre); Clara’s Dream and Shumka and Nicola in the Canadian premiere of at 50! China tour (Shumka/SPI Productions). (Mirvish, BroadwayWorld Jordan trained in Theatre Arts at Grant Best Female in a Featured Role). Vanessa MacEwan University. You can find him on graduated with high honours from Sheridan

Instagram @Djmah5. Jordan would like to College where she got to help create the 7 world of Brantwood (Dora Audience Choice KERRY GAGE Award) as well as play Nina in In the Heights, CHOREOGRAPHER Minnie McKnight in (Theatre Sheridan) and Moll in Moll (Canadian Music Theatre Kerry currently resides Project). Vanessa’s film/TV credits includeWe in Toronto and has Could Be Friends, Suits, The Beaverton, and spent seasons CANAdooDAday. She would like to thank her at the Stratford family and friends for their support; Thom, Kerry Festival. She recently and Wayne for this incredible opportunity, and choreographed HMS Rachel at NCA for believing in her from the start. Pinafore for the 2017 Stratford season. Other SARAH LYNN productions she has worked on includeCrazy STRANGE for You, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, MISS ANDREW Camelot and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. You might have seen her on the CBC reality Sarah is excited to be TV show Triple Sensation (seasons 1 and 2) making her YPT debut! as a dance judge and choreographer. She Her previous credits has spent 13 seasons at the Charlottetown include Out of Order, Festival as part of the creative team and as Singin’ in the Rain, Director/Choreographer of the Confederation Snow White: The Panto Centre Young Company. Her choreographic (Drayton Entertainment); credits include Beauty and the Beast, Mamma , Beauty and the Beast (Capitol Mia!, Shrek The Musical, Elf The Musical, Theatre); , Shrek (Rainbow Stage); Rocky Horror, Cinderella, Joseph and the Luisa in Nine (C.M.T.P.); Belle in My Favorite Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Wizard Year; Sarah in Company. Her film/TV credits of Oz, Anne of Green Gables, Forever Plaid, include Dilys Price in Fireman Sam (US). Sarah is Annie, the Canadian premiere of Batboy – The a proud graduate of Sheridan College’s Musical Musical, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Theatre Performance program. All my love to Hello Dolly, and Songs for a New World. Noodle & Dana, Dad & Carol. This one is for Kerry is co-owner and Creative Director of Deb, Skye & Leigh. Thank you to Bruce and The Hoopla Entertainment. She has taught at Talent House team for their support! many theatre institutions such as Sheridan College, Randolph Academy, St. Clair College, St. Lawrence College, Etobicoke School of the Creative Team Arts and George Brown College.

THOM ALLISON WAYNE GWILLIM DIRECTOR MUSIC DIRECTOR/ ORCHESTRAL ADAPTATION & Thom's theatre credits KEYBOARD PROGRAMMING include Seussical, The Wizard of Oz (YPT); Wayne works Priscilla, Queen of the as a conductor, Desert (Broadway), keyboardist, original Canadian programmer, copyist companies of Miss and arranger. Saigon, The Who’s His select credits Tommy and (Toronto), Romeo and Juliet, include Les Misérables, Kinky Boots, Strictly , (Stratford Ballroom ();Sousatzka Festival);, (Shaw (Teatro Proscenium); several seasons with the Festival). Other credits includeThe Drowsy Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, and Musical Chaperone ( Playhouse/National Stage Company; The House of Arts Centre/Citadel Theatre); Outrageous, Take in concert (Charlottetown Festival). Wayne is Me Out (Canadian Stage); Cabaret (Theatre a graduate of University of Toronto’s Faculty Calgary); My Fair Lady (Manitoba Theatre of Music. Centre); (Manitoba Theatre Centre/ Theatre Calgary). Thom can be seen as ‘Pree’ in the hit series, Killjoys, on Space/Syfy Networks. Thom would like to dedicate this production to the memory of his brother, Brad Allison. www.thomallison.com8 Twitter: @thomallison BRANDON KLEIMAN JASON HAND SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER

Brandon is a set and Jason’s YPT credits costume designer include Beauty and based in Toronto, the Beast, Seussical, with work appearing Jacob Two-Two Meets on stages across the Hooded Fang, Canada. His recent James and the Giant favourites include Peach and Blue Planet. Life After(Canadian His other theatre Stage/Musical Stage Company/Yonge Street credits include Dear Johnny Deere (Theatre Theatricals - Dora nomination, Outstanding Calgary); This, The Arsonists (Canadian Stage); Set Design); Undercover (Tarragon/Citadel/ Hamlet, The Summoned, Sequence, Abyss, Vertigo, directed by Rebecca Northan); An Enemy of the People (Tarragon Theatre (Buddies in Bad Times/Theatre Company); The Barber of Seville (Soulpepper Rusticle);The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom (Sudbury Theatre); Arms and the Man (Shaw Festival); Theatre Centre). Brandon was nominated The Trespassers (Stratford Festival);Carmen for the 2017 Pauline McGibbon Award, the (Canadian Opera Company and Vancouver 2018 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Opera); Macbeth (Minnesota Opera); Tales Costume Design, and is a recipient of an OAC of Hoffmann (Edmonton Opera); A Little Chalmers Development Grant. For more Too Cozy, #UncleJohn, Death & Desire, information and a portfolio please visit www. Figaro’s Wedding, The Turn of the Screw (as brandonkleimandesign.com. resident lighting designer for Against the Grain Theatre); M’Dea Undone, Oksana G. (Tapestry Opera), as well as productions WILLIAM LAYTON for The Royal Conservatory of Music, COSTUME DESIGNER Drayton Entertainment, Grand Theatre and Charlottetown Festival. Upcoming credits William’s set and include Kopernikus (Against the Grain); costume design credits Fences (Grand Theatre); and The Merry Wives include Shrek, Other of Windsor (Stratford Festival). Jason has Desert Cities, Elf, Dance received five Dora Award nominations and is Legends, The Great a Protégé recipient of the 2012 Siminovitch Gatsby, The Hobbit, Prize in Theatre. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Dreamgirls, The Wizard of Oz, Twist and WILLIAM FALLON Shout: The British Invasion, The Phoenix SOUND DESIGNER Lottery(The Grand Theatre). Other selected theatre credits include Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Dora Award, Best Set Design); William’s select King Lear, Socrates (Jean Cocteau Repertory sound design credits in ); Rigoletto (Theatre Passe include Crazy for Muraille); Pal Joey (Theatre Calgary); The You, Trap Door Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon (The (Theatre Sheridan); Citadel Theatre); A Moon for the Misbegotten, Once (The Grand/ The Glass Menagerie (Watermark Theatre RMTC); You Are Here PEI). William’s film/TV production design (Thousand Islands/ credits include the hit Family Channel series Musical Stage Co); Into The Woods (Thousand The Next Step; Fall (Canadian Screen Award Islands); The Immigrant (Harold Green); nomination for production design);Heaven IMPRINTS (Theatre Gargantua); As You Like It and Earth - Art Director (written and directed (Repercussion Theatre). Associate/assistant by Deepa Mehta). sound design credits include Orphée+ (Against The Grain/Opera Columbus); Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, A Chorus Line, A Little Night Music, The Sound of Music, , Crazy for You, Man of La Mancha (Stratford);Life Reflected (National Arts Centre Orchestra); Peter Pan, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid and Snow White (Ross Petty Productions);Nìagara – A Pan-American 9 Story (Panamania); Alice Through the ERIK LARSON Looking-Glass (Charlottetown Festival); MUSICIAN/BASS (Disney); and HAIR (The Grand). Erik began performing at the GEOFFREY BRUCE age of 8, becoming MUSICIAN/PERCUSSION part of productions by the Stratford Geoffrey’s select Festival and Drayton credits include Evita, Entertainment Spring Awakening, within his first few RENT, American Idiot years. As a recent graduate of Humber as conductor/drummer College’s Music Program, Erik was featured (Lower Osssington on countless recordings and performances Theatre); Any Dream playing upright, electric, fretless, and synth Will Do (Angelwalk bass, and was a member of the school’s Theatre). Geoffrey is studying Early Childhood flagship Humber Studio Jazz Ensemble for Education part-time at George Brown College two years. As a player, Erik and studied Contemporary Music at Humber has recently been a part of Hart House College. Geoffrey is a big band drummer, Theatre’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, currently with Chelsea McBride’s Socialist Drayton’s 25th anniversary production of Night School. He performed at a young age , and Playhouse with the bandleader of the Tonight Show Petrolia's Rocky Mountain High. Starring Johnny Carson, Doc Severinsen, singer/actress Jackie Richardson, and legendary vibraphonist Peter Appleyard. DARWIN LYONS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

MICHELE JACOT Darwin is an actor, MUSICIAN/WINDS director, , producer and Michele is a musician educator. Her with an active schedule of favourite directing performing, conducting, credits include adjudicating, teaching Paradise Comics and concert production. (Filament Incubator); Besides being in demand Well Born (SoCo and Truth’n’Lies Theatre); for her skills as a Desperately Seeking Something (Toronto clarinetist, she is equally Fringe); Something Unspoken (Inaugural at home as a flutist and saxophonist. She Playwright Project). Her favourite acting roles has played with symphony orchestras and include ‘Butcher’ in Dead Roads (The RISER opera companies across Ontario, as well as Project at The Theatre Centre, October Oasis in theatre pit orchestras including Mirvish at The National Arts Centre and company Productions and the Shaw Festival. Michele in residence at Factory Theatre); ‘Juliet’ in was extremely honoured to be the Associate Romeo and Juliet (Hart House Theatre); ‘Tina’ Conductor for Canadian musical icon Howard in Tough! (Factory Theatre at the Magnetic Cable, and appeared with him as guest North Festival). She associate produced and conductor of several Canadian orchestras. starred in the film99.7%, which showed at Michele is also the Artistic Director of AGLIFF. Darwin was the Artistic Producer of Toronto’s Wychwood Clarinet Choirs. She is the Paprika Festival. She has been a facilitator proud to be a Yamaha Canada Spotlight Artist for Expect Theatre, Centauri Arts, Blueprints and an Artist at Vandoren, Paris (France). for Life and Heydon Park Secondary School. Born and raised in Toronto, Michele holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music in Performance from Northwestern University in Chicago. For more information about Michele, please visit www.michelejacot.com.

10 ANDREA BAGGS MICHAELA STEVEN STAGE MANAGER APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER

Andrea is thrilled to This is Michaela's be making her YPT debut at YPT. She debut. Selected stage is a stage manager, manager credits for arts administrator, Andrea include The front-of-house Last Party (Fringe manager, and writer. Festival);2 Pianos Recent theatre 4 Hands (Thousand credits include; A&R Islands Playhouse); The Drawer Boy (Theatre Angels (Crow's Theatre), Onegin (Musical Passe Muraille); Rumpsringa Break! (Next Stage Company/NAC), Leading Ladies, You Stage Theatre Festival);Freedom Singer Are Here, Rose's Clothes (Thousand Islands (National Tour); Weekend Comedy (Orillia Playhouse), Little Pretty and the Exceptional Opera House); Charlotte(International (Factory Theatre), Miracle on 34th Street Tour: Luminato, World Stage Design (Upper Canada Playhouse), New&Used (Cellar Festival);Banana Boys (Factory Theatre); Door Project). She graduated from Queen's The Sound of Music (Opera on the Avalon). University, and her play Beer Buddies was Her assistant stage manager credits include recently developed and performed at Sisters (Soulpepper Theatre Company); Ottawa's Fresh Meat Festival. Constellations, Hamlet/All’s Well That End’s Well, Botticelli in the Fire/Sunday in Sodom, Domesticated, Tragedy of Caesar/Comedy of JANE GOODERHAM Errors (Canadian Stage Company); 2 Pianos 4 DIALECT COACH Hands (Marquis Entertainment). Jane's selected theatre credits EMILY MEWETT include 16 seasons ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER at the Stratford Festival; Shaw Emily’s previous YPT Festival; The Curious credits include The Incident of the Secret Garden, James Dog in the Night- and the Giant Peach time (National Theatre/Toronto);Invisible and Emily’s Piano. Her Hand (Theatre Aquarius); Matilda(Royal other selected credits Shakespeare Company); London Road, The include Orlando, A Syringa Tree, Rock 'n' Roll (Canadian Stage); Christmas Carol, The War Horse (National Theatre/Mirvish); Heidi Chronicles, The Just, Parfumerie, Yours Romeo and Juliet (NAC); Oroonoko, Chair Forever Marie-Lou, Eurydice, The Dining Room, (TFANA, New York); Cloud Nine, The Lord of A Tender Thing, Angels in America (Soulpepper the Rings, (Mirvish). Teaching: Theatre Company); Alice Munro Stories (The Head of Voice, National Theatre School Belfry Theatre); Hastings the Musical, Aleck of Canada (2009-16); Stratford Festival, Bell, Salt Water Moon, Godspell (Tweed & Co. Birmingham Conservatory, Centre Theatre); Belleville (The Company Theatre); for Indigenous Theatre. 6 Essential Questions (Factory Theatre); The Producers, Breakin' Up is Hard to Do (Stage West Mississauga); Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Oliver (Stirling Festival Theatre). Emily attended Ryerson University for Theatre Production.

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11 CAMERON MACINTOSH spans almost 50 years and includes two CO-CREATOR Academy Awards Best Score and Best Song for Mary Poppins. The work of the brothers For over 50 years Cameron Mackintosh has Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman is been producing more musicals than anyone enjoying a fresh chapter of success in musical else in history, including the three longest- theatre with sensational stage revivals of running musicals of all time:Les Misérables, and Mary Poppins now The Phantom of the Opera and CATS. Joining playing across the UK. Chitty originally opened this list of legendary titles, his co-production in the West End in 2002 going on to become with Disney of Mary Poppins continues the longest-running musical ever at the to break records and disperse her magic , before playing Broadway globally. Following its huge recent success and beyond, garnering huge international in the West End, his new production of Miss success. The stage production of Mary Saigon is now playing a National Tour of the Poppins, co-produced by Disney and Cameron UK and will tour in later this Mackintosh, opened to critical acclaim in year whilst the much loved Kinky Boots, co- London in 2004, winning two Olivier Awards, produced by Cameron in the West End and with the Broadway production running for six in , continues to kick up its heels. years. The Jungle Book, another Shermans/ Cameron also enjoys producing new versions Disney favourite, has also recently made the of classics including Oliver!, My Fair Lady, the screen-to-stage transition, premiering at the longest running production ever of Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The Sherman and recently reinventingHalf a Sixpence in Brothers gained recognition in popular music the West End to great acclaim. Other original with several top-ten hits - among them You're musicals he has produced include Little Shop Sixteen, Let's Get Together and Tall Paul. 1960 of Horrors, Side By Side By Sondheim, Martin marked the start of a phenomenal 10 year Guerre, , and The Witches of association with Walt Disney, during which Eastwick. Cameron, with Working Title and time they composed over 150 songs for his Universal, produced the award-winning film films, TV shows, Disneyland and other theme version of Les Misérables. A film of the 25th parks. Their Disney credits include the films Anniversary performance of the new stage The Jungle Book, The Parent Trap, Bedknobs production of Miss Saigon was screened in and Broomsticks, The Sword and the Stone, cinemas worldwide in 2016. He owns eight , , West End theatres: Prince of Wales, Gielgud, the Winnie the Pooh series, and of course Queen's, Wyndham's, Noël Coward, Novello Mary Poppins. They also wrote the most and Prince Edward, all of which have been translated and performed song on earth, "It's spectacularly refurbished, and the recently a Small World (After All)". They went on to acquired Victoria Palace which, following a compose song scores for Snoppy Come Home, major rebuild and restoration, reopened at Charlotte's Web, the Broadway hit musical the end of last year with the award winning Over Here! and the ‘fantasmagorical’ Chitty American musical, . He is also the Chitty Bang Bang - with its Oscar nominated co-owner of Music Theatre International, title song. The created the world's largest library of secondary screenplays and song scores for Tom Sawyer rights of many of the greatest musicals ever (their music won First Prize at the Moscow written. Cameron was knighted in the 1996 Film Festival),Huckleberry Finn, the 1976 New Year's Honours for his services to the Royal Film Performance The Slipper and the British Theatre and has recently been the Rose (with co-author Bryan Forbes), and The first British producer elected to Broadway's Magic of Lassie which also earned them their Theater Hall of Fame. In 1990, Cameron 9th Academy Award nomination for Best inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Song. More recent credits include the book Theatre at St Catherine's College in Oxford Walt's Time - a wonderful autobiographical University, currently held by Sir Tom and pictorial journey through their song- Stoppard. writing years; the Disney hit animated feature , the stage musical starring in the United RICHARD M. SHERMAN & States and Beverly Hills Cop 3. In addition to ROBERT B. SHERMAN their Oscars, other honours awarded to the ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS Sherman Brothers include 3 Grammys, 24 Gold and Platinum Albums, as well as a star on The The Sherman Brothers’ career as leading Hollywood Walk of Fame. Robert Sherman composer/lyricists in family entertainment died peacefully in London in March 2012. 12 JULIAN FELLOWES as a composer, George’s credits include the BOOK musicals Moll Flanders; The Three Musketeers; Tom Jones and the scores for ’ Educated at Ampleforth and Magdalene stage productions of and Uncle College, Cambridge, Julian Fellowes is a Vanya ( / BAM NYC). multi-award-winning actor, writer, director Other projects include: song contributions and producer. As creator, sole writer and for Dame Edna Everage’s Look At Me When executive producer of the hit television I’m Talking to You; The Shakespeare Revue series , Fellowes has won (RSC) as well as a variety of material for TV three Emmy awards and a Golden Globe. and radio. Awards include the Laurence Fellowes received the Academy Award for Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Honk!, Best Original Screenplay for three of the top prizes at the Musical of the (2002). His work was also honoured by the Year Awards for Peter Pan and The Three Writer’s Guild of America, the New York Film Musketeers, the TMA Best Musical Award Critics’ Circle and the National Society of (Moll Flanders), The Straits Times Award for Film Critics for Best Screenplay. Other writing Best Musical (A Twist of Fate) and the first credits for film includePiccadilly Jim (2004), ever Vivian Ellis Prize (Just So). Mary Poppins Vanity Fair (2004), Young Victoria (2009), The has won 45 major theatre awards around the Tourist (2010), Romeo & Juliet (2013), and globe including Tony, Olivier, Helpmann and the three-part drama Doctor Thorne for ITV. London Evening Standard Awards. Laurence Fellowes also wrote and directed the award- Olivier nominations includeMary Poppins and winning films and From Time to Betty Blue Eyes. Stiles and Drewe’s Time. Fellowes wrote the books for the Tony- for new musical theatre writing is recognised nominated stage production ofMary Poppins via the annual Stiles and Drewe Prize for Best and for : The Musical which New Song, and their new Mentorship Award opened on Broadway in December 2015, and supported by Music Theatre International was written and produced by Andrew Lloyd (Europe). They are also founding board Webber. Fellowes has authored two novels: members of Mercury Musical Developments the international bestsellers Snobs (2005) (MMD), Associate Artists at The Watermill and Past Imperfect (2008). Julian Fellowes Theatre and patrons of the London Musical became a life peer in 2011. He lives in Dorset Theatre Orchestra and The Musical Theatre and London with his wife, Emma. Academy (MTA).

GEORGE STILES & ANTHONY DREWE NEW SONGS & ADDITIONAL MUSIC & LYRICS MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) Music Theatre International (MTI) is one George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (Stiles of the world's leading theatrical licensing and Drewe) are a multi award-winning agencies, granting theatres from around musical theatre writing partnership. Writing the world the rights to perform the greatest credits include Honk! (National / UK Tour selection of musicals from Broadway and / Worldwide); Mary Poppins (West End / beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Broadway / Worldwide); The Wind in the Frank Loesser, and orchestrator Don Walker, Willows MTI is a driving force in advancing musical (UK Tour and West End); Cameron theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. Mackintosh’s new version of MTI works directly with the composers, (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); lyricists and book of these musicals to Travels With My Aunt (Minerva Theatre, provide official scripts, musical materials and Chichester); Betty Blue Eyes (West End / UK dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 Tour); Just So (Tricycle / Chichester Festival professional, community and school theatres Theatre / Worldwide); Peter Pan – A Musical in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. Adventure (West Yorkshire Playhouse / MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections Birmingham Rep / Royal Festival Hall / to meet the needs of various types of Worldwide); ( performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway / in concert at the Queen’s Theatre); The Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute Three Little Pigs (West End / UK Tour and musicals for performance by elementary and International Tour);Goldilocks and the middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s Three Bearsand The Three Billy Goats Gruff School Editions are musicals annotated for (Singapore Rep). Future projects include performance by high school students. MTI a stage version of Robert Harling’s film maintains its global headquarters in New York Soapdish City with additional offices in London (MTI , and a new musical with director/ Europe) and (MTI Australasia). choreographer Jerry Mitchell. Independently 13 DID YOU KNOW… In addition to the professional productions and the educational programs we offer, YPT also reaches into the community in many other ways.

Learning is at the centre of everything we do, and over the last year, YPT has:

• Provided engaging programs for New Canadians including work with grandparents and grandchildren at Early Learning Centres

• Worked with young people in care at SickKids Hospital

• Developed programs for women and children in shelters around the city

• Delivered 757 arts education workshops to over 9,000 young people in the community

• Provided teachers with professional development on using the arts effectively in the curriculum

Most importantly, last season YPT was able to offer almost 43,000 free or subsidized tickets to kids who don’t have the financial means to attend theatre.

We are very proud of our 52 years of history and we appreciate the many people who support this work. If you believe, like we do, that making theatre for young people and creating access to arts education really matters, please join us by making a donation today.

CALL OUR DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AT 416.363.5131 x248 OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO MAKE YOUR TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT. THANK YOU. 14 15 YPT Staff

Allen MacInnis Nancy J. Webster Craig Morash Nick Tracey artistic director executive director senior director of senior director of finance administration

ADMINISTRATION & ARTISTIC Edgar Chua Stephen Colella Odelia Lee Katherine Sanders director of operations associate artistic accounting assistant (on leave) director & dramaturg a s s o c i at e p r o d u c e r

EDUCATION & PARTICIPATION Karen Gilodo Norah O’Donnell co-op students: associate artistic community volunteer manager Adriana Catalina Solis Lozano director, education Helner Costa Tiago Liz Pounsett Victoria Vourkoutiotis Jill Ward drama school director education & participation resident artist educators: administrative director Odunayo Olalere e&p communications assistant Kevin Chiao Aimee Bouchard Ramona Gilmour-Darling community programs manager Breanne Ritchie Andrea Houssin drama school coordinator Brittany Kay Marjie Chud Darwin Lyons e&p curriculum associate Jin Shin drama school assistant Kate Martin Molly Gardner Andy Massingham education manager Isabelle Siciliano Setareh Masoumbeiki education & participation intern Erica May Lindy Kinoshameg Leslie McCue community engagement facilitator Samantha Megarry Viv Moore Marcel Stewart Tanisha Taitt FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT Allan Penning Kirsten Hering Kristina Majnarich director of development development officer development coordinator Elizabeth Sheffield Gillian Armstrong associate director of development development officer

MARKETING & SALES Marilyn Hamilton Clare Hill Susan Waycik director of marketing digital content coordinator sales coordinator/ box office supervisor Shawn McCarthy Mariya Morosovska associate director of marketing graphic designer/webmaster sales associates: Josée Duranleau, Ali Sultani Gaby Grice Duranleau Communications marketing & promotions assistant Brianna Gorsline media relations Matt Pilipiak Ksenia Sabouloua Elizabeth Staples ticketing administrator Sarah Thorpe PATRON SERVICES Nora Hassaan ushers: Karen Rivera Beatriz Eitelwein front of house manager Gillian Arnold Quinton Samuel Urbano Eitelwein Daniel Bell Jordan Scott Fernanda Gazoto Becky Loi Amelia Blaine Julie Thompson Maria Huerta assistant front of house Emma Corber Lesley Wilkinson Donna Hymers manager Farid Dastmalchi Eleanor Jang Camille Wilson Tarah Hamilton guest services support Don Kendal assistant front of house Andy Hayward Nora Allman Roberts Gavin Kim manager Lindsay Ivan Ana Arteaga Naomi Luker Kiara Kim Beatriz Barbosa Isabella Romano Ester Ayala Guy Legault Jonathan Blumenthal Mia Romano part-time custodian Peter Mundell Janet Chen Yahya Syed Lourdes Mendoza Ivy Odziemkowski Chris Conrad Alex Osborne Nia Dimitrv custodian16 YPT Production Staff

Joshua Hind Ilana Harendorf Kaz Maxine director of production head of wardrobe Milliner Shanna Miller Nida Haroon Daniela Mazic technical director production & operations assistant scenic artist Philip Atfield Geoff Hughes Mike Mills* Head Cutter Cutter Audio Assistant (A2) Jay Blencowe* Mattea Kennedy Aiden Nagle* head stage carpenter head scenic artist head of audio Eric Daniliunas Josh Koffman Bradford Nowak scenic carpenter Electronics Assistant Stitcher Laura Delchiaro Eva Kuo Janet Pym Stitcher Props Builder Stitcher/Dresser Karen Donaldson Matt Leckie Sharon Ryman Stitcher Props Builder Wigs

Dan Fletcher* Taylor Lindsay* Chloe Tekavcic head electrician studio technician Stitcher Ellie Furtney Lokki Ma Ryan Wilson Stitcher head of props head scenic carpenter

*Stage Employees of YPT are represented by Local 58 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

SPECIAL THANKS: Sound Associates, Design Partners of Canada, Humber College (Tanya Greve, Kayla Chaterji, Karis Jones-Pard, Oleh Gula, Aaron Millward, Mel Couture, Eden Anderson, and Luca Giannetta), Tarragon Theatre (John Thompson) Board of Directors

Chris Pitts, chair David Scandiffio, past chair

Colin Bohm Les Mallins Roger Cattell Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon Carol Chiu Alayne Metrick Holly Coll-Black Seanna Millar Councillor Gary Crawford Peter Olive Rod Davies Julie Soloway Shauna Emerson-O’Neill Carl Spitzer Anshu Grover Will Stewart Jenine Krause Bob Tam Shannan Levere Rebecca Tascona Neil Macdonald Cassandra White About Young People’s Theatre

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE is the oldest professional theatre company in Toronto and is a national producer and presenter of theatre for young audiences – the first and largest of its kind in Canada. Over the past 52 years YPT has staged many of the most important plays that form the canon of work for youth in our country. The enriched learning experiences of YPT’s Education & Participation Department also provide young people with opportunities to develop their whole being. At Young People’s Theatre we strive for a positive and lasting impact on the emotional, social and intellectual development of young people – giving them the chance to grow into the unique and wonderful people they were born to be.

Young People’s Theatre is embarking upon Room for Imagination – a $42 million comprehensive campaign to build a new home. YPT has been operating for the last four decades in a re-purposed Heritage building owned by the City of Toronto. Today, the Company is bursting at the seams. It is time to create a child-friendly, state of the art facility to ensure long-term sustainability for an already financially- successful children’s charity. 17 JOIN THE TEAM! YPT HAS THE BEST VOLUNTEERS

Do you have a passion for theatre? Do you enjoy working with children and meeting new people? Then join our team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. You can gain experience and develop new skills.

YPT welcomes you!

For information on how you can join our Community Volunteer Team Norah O'Donnell, Community Volunteer Manager 416.363.5131 x241 | [email protected]

18 CHECK OUT OUR CALENDAR TO REMAIN UP-TO-DATE ON ALL YPT EVENTS: WHAT’S HAPPENING AT YOUNGPEOPLESTHEATRE.CA/EVENTS JOIN THE TEAM! THE ADA SLAIGHT EDUCATION CENTRE AT YPT

• New Classes in the Drama School: Tell Me That Story Again: The Indigenous Tradition of Oral Storytelling, Directors’ Lab, and in our Scarborough location,Gr. 7-8 Drama. • New this Winter, the Drama School is excited to be piloting aPick-Up and Drop-Off service for our After-School drama classes. Beginning in January, we will be offering a walking escort between three schools in the neighbourhood and the theatre. • Winter and Spring terms in all four locations (Downtown, Etobicoke, North York and Scarborough) are open for registration online! • Auditions for the Gr. 7-8 Junior Ensemble and Gr. 9-12 Senior Company are held in the first week of December. Find out more online. • YPT is running a Play in a Day program on all PA Days in the TDSB/TCDSB for children in Grades 1-3 and 4-6. Don’t miss out on the next PA Days on November 16, December 7 and January 18. • YPT is offeringRelaxed Performances of Mary Poppins on December 9th and 11th, and Audio Described performances on December 16 and 18. • Explore At the Centre, YPT’s arts education blog – a resource for artists, teachers, artist educators and theatre practitioners: youngpeoplestheatre.ca/at-the-centre

TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBSITE OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE: 416.862.2222 x2 | YOUNGPEOPLESTHEATRE.CA/TASEC/

19 Our Generous Supporters

We asked children in our Summer Drama School Camps to use their imaginations to help us rename our donor giving levels. YPT is pleased to use some of their creative ideas here, as we thank and recognize our generous supporters.

Ada Slaight Education Centre at YPT $1,000,000+ The Slaight Family Foundation

Unicorns: $50,000+ Anonymous RBC Foundation BMO Susan & David Scandiffio* The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation Scotiabank Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation TD Bank Group

Giants: $10,000+ Anonymous Ernst & Young LLP Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Loyalty One Boat Rocker Media Allen MacInnis** & Arin Murray Sheila Brown*** & Doug Guzman, Davis & Julia Alayne Metrick* The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation Morneau Sheppel CIBC Asset Management National Bank Financial CIBC Children's Foundation TD Securities Great West Life, London Life and Canada Life Tippet Foundation Holly Coll-Black*, Rupert Duchesne & Family Nancy J. Webster** The Dalglish Family Foundation Darryl & Cassandra White* Enercare Home & Commercial Services LP

Wizards: $5,000+ Autism Ontario Craig Morash** BIMM Navigator Bothwell-Accurate Penwest Revenue Corp. Roger Cattell* Chris Pitts* & Patricia Tavares Dream Asset Mgmt Corporation Samsung Canada Edwards Charitable Foundation Streetcar Developments Inc. David Futterer*** Telus Joan & Clifford Hatch Foundation Torys LLP McCarthy Tétrault Foundation Traction on Demand

Dragons: $2,500+ AGF Management Limited The Grover* Family Amana Christopher Jones*** & Christine Williams Anco Contracting Inc J. Hans Kluge*** Anonymous Jenine Krause* Bill and Wendy Volk Foundation Shannan Levere* BMO Wealth Management Lexus on the Park Burgundy Asset Management Neil Macdonald* Carol Chiu* The McLean Foundation David Dal Bello*** & Dr. Michele Farrugia Seanna Millar* Rod Davies* The Muttart Foundation Barbara Dick***, Malcolm Burrows & Family The Norman & Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation Shauna Emerson-O'Neill* Peter Olive*

20 Payworks Inc. Julie Soloway* Polar Asset Management Bob Tam * RBC Financial Group Nick Tracey** RBC Investor & Treasury Services Alex Yeo

Mermaids: $1,000+ Anonymous Mitchell Demolition Inc Appway Nexus PM INC. Assante Wealth Management Robert Nicholson Colin Bohm* Aine O'Flynn*** & Steve Braun Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Alex Carter Onyx Mechanical Limited Royce G. Charles-Dunne Edita & Graeme Page CIBC Capital Markets Pilkington-Henniger Charitable Trust CIBC Mellon Security Recovery Group CI Institutional Asset Management Servocraft Limited Corus Entertainment Barbara Shum & Manos Vourkoutiotis Deloitte Shum Vourkoutiotis Fund at Toronto Foundation Deluxe Carl Spitzer* Elderwood Foundation Susan & Will Stewart* Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario ETFO Strategic Insight Equifax Sutton Special Risk Ewing Morris Investment Partners Symtech Innovations Ltd. Google Rebecca Tascona* David & Renee Heisz Unifor Social Justice Fund Invesco Henrik Vasila Investment and Technological Management Corp. Venture Metal Works Inc. Investor Economics The Visentin Family Chris & Julietta Lynch, for our children Gabriel & Mikayla John & Joan Warren*** Family Mackenzie Investments Lois Wilson Sam Marinucci Susan Witteveen*** and Daniel McClure

Genies: $500+ Anonymous Allan Penning** & Ian Mitchell Edgar Chua** Brian Quirt Sue & Don Comish*** Chanrouti Ramnarine First Asset Redden Media Services Mathew Harrison*** Ami Sohn The Henry and Berenice Kaufmann Foundation Thomas*** & Deborah Spencer Susan Langley*** Truthplane Inc. A. Rebecca Mallin David Williams*** Kathryn & Tom McMarthy York Catholic Teachers Diane Osak & Steve Hurowitz

Elves: $250+ Anonymous Kate Hand*** Trevor & Lynly Bailie Colin & Ellen Johnson David Brady The Marshall Family Cassandra Brown Pamela Mordecai Stephen Colella** & Rebecca Harrison Proteus Tatiana Dacosta Penny J. Richards Karen Gilodo** Brian Robertson Roger & Ida Gilodo Scheffler's Delicatessen & Cheese Robert Gontier & Ned Loach Jill Ward**

21 Sprites: $100+ Anonymous (4) Randall Hofley Alexandra Semeniuk, in memory of Robert Barnard Frances Hogg Eugenia Fee Aimee Bouchard** Elizabeth Howson Rupal Shah George Brady Cherry Karpyshin, in memory of Sherrie Shaw Cynthia Chan William P. MacInnis Gregory Silverman Dr. Susan Cumings, in memory of Linda Keyworth Ivor & Renee Simmons Joan C. Francis Paul Ledoux Liz Sheffield** Jeff Cummings Amy Lee Kent Staines Angie Docking Frederick Lee Larry Swartz Liesha Earle Odelia Lee ** & Jim Yau Siu Ta John Elder*** Robert Martin Mazin Alan Tong Gisella & Anthony Gallucci Shawn McCarthy** Douglas Weir Ruth Ellen Greenwood Malcolm & Myrna Morash Lyn Harrison The Paul Butler and Chris Black Kathryn Heller-McRoberts Foundation at the Toronto Foundation

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The above donations were made from September 1, 2017 to October 18, 2018. If we have incorrectly recognized you, please contact Kristina in the Development Office at 416.363.5131 x248 or email [email protected].

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For Discussion After the Show

• What responsibility do members of a family have to one another?

• What do each of the characters learn about each other and themselves by the end of the play?

• What do Mr. and Mrs. Banks learn from Michael and Jane?

• Why does Jane say that she and Michael do not need Mary anymore?

Visit our website to see the Study Guide for this production: youngpeoplestheatre.ca/schools/study-guides/mary-poppins-study-guide/

22 YPT IS GRATEFUL FOR THE OUTSTANDING AND GENEROUS SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

THE ADA SLAIGHT EDUCATION CENTRE AT YPT THE SLAIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

SEASON PRESENTING PARTNER

SEATS FOR EVERY KID EMERGING ARTISTS

CREATIVE STRATEGIES INCUBATOR

ACCESSIBILITY PARTNERS

TIPPET FOUNDATION

ARTS IMPACT

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