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CABARET season sponsor title sponsor In tribute to Gloria & Joseph Gilbert WELCOME What good is sitting alone in your room? I’ve always wanted to direct something in this gem of a theatre that would show off how versatile it is. This stage is a wonderfully conceived space, full of secret corners and magic possibilities. When pondering what show I could direct here to really explode Supporting and celebrate the space, Cabaret was sug- gested. Immediately I realized how perfect it would be to transform this stage into an underground club in the spirit of a real enter- the arts, tainment house—a cabaret—where anything goes. Everything about this production has been imagined anew: the journey you took through the backstage area, the chance to musical was created, it looked back at a time locally. buy a drink or two, and the opportunity to when a certain country was overtaken by a experience a bar that contains echoes of the leader who put on display the hatred he felt past as well as signs of the present. Throw towards anyone different than himself. He in a gifted gang of artists who not only sing, managed to destroy millions of lives. Now, dance, and act, but can also play instru- our production of this musical looks to the ments. These multitalented performers—who present, and acts as a terrifying warning: will be up close—are all part of the celebra- yet again, without notice, evil can slip in and tion of this incredible space. take over. Is history repeating itself? Art is Cabaret is considered one of the greatest at its most powerful when it reflects back to musicals of all time, and in 2019, it takes us the world we live in—here, the result is a on a whole new life. I discovered how eerily classic musical that becomes highly relevant relevant this musical has become once once more. again, considering the powerful leaders that Our goal with this immersive experience is dominate our world today. Every song and to celebrate you, titillate you, and remind every scene emphasizes an idea that we all you of the evil hiding in the shadows — all in now know to be real: when those who take one musical bundle. Life is a Cabaret. Which power do so using incredible distractions, song, what act, are you willing to perform? all rules of decency and humanity can be challenged, restricted, and thwarted with- Each year, through various donations dennis garnhum out realizing where it will lead. When this and sponsorships, we are committed artistic director to helping our local communities. We would like to acknowledge the history of the traditional territory in which the Grand Theatre operates. We We’re proud to be the 2018/2019 season would also like to respect the longstanding relationships of the three local First Nations groups of this land and sponsor of the Grand Theatre. place in Southwestern Ontario. The three First Nations communities closest in proximity to the Grand are the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation (part of the Anishinaabe), the Oneida Nation of the Thames (part of the Haudenosaunee) and the Munsee-Delaware Nation (part of the Leni-Lunaape). 18-1626 The Grand Theatre_Ev2.indd 1 20/08/2018 12:06:49 PM spriet stage, april 9 to May 11, 2019 opening night april 11 Cabaret Book by Joe Masteroff Based on the Play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb Original Production Co-Directed and Choregraphed by Rob Marshall and Directed by Sam Mendes cast Bobby ISAAC BELL Sally Bowles TESS BENGER Emcee OLIVIA SINCLAIR-BRISBANE Cliff JAMES DALY Max PHOEBE HU MOTION PICTURE | TELEVISION | ANIMATION Ernst LAWRENCE LIBOR Herr Schultz W. JOSEPH MATHESON Fraulein Schneider CHARLOTTE MOORE bronstudios.com Fraulein Kost MARGARET THOMPSON The company also appear as the Kit Kat club boys and girls, as the musicians, and as all the denizens of this underground club. production team Director DENNIS GARNHUM Music Director WAYNE GWILLIM Choreographer CAMERON CARVER Set & Costume Designer ALEXANDRA LORD Sound Designer PAUL FUJIMOTO-PIHL Lighting Designer DANIEL BENNETT FOUNDERS Stage Manager KATERINA SOKYRKO Apprentice Stage Manager ANNA SPENCER Aaron L. Gilbert & Brenda Gilbert Cabaret is presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library Inc., 560 Lexington Ave, New York, New York, 10022. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States VANCOUVER LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TORONTO copyright law. For more information, please visit www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper. title sponsor In tribute to Gloria & Joseph Gilbert In Tribute: Grand Gala Gloria & Joseph Gilbert The Gilbert Family’s roots to London, to the Grand Theatre, and to Cabaret run deep. 2019 “Dennis was always over at our house”, noted Gloria Gilbert recently, speaking of Dennis SAVE Garnhum, the Grand’s Artistic Director. When Dennis attended CCH in London, he THE became fast and furious friends with Shira, Date one of the Gilbert’s three children and was a fixture at the Gilbert home on St. Anthony Road. The Grand Theatre first presented theatrical performances, artworks, and June 13 Cabaret twenty years ago, and the Gilberts poetry readings under unimaginably diffi- fondly remember housing one of the actors cult conditions in the Nazi camp system. from that production. 2019 Gloria is quick to point out that from very SPRIET STAGE Joe and Gloria moved to London in 1972 and early ages, they exposed their children, Zvi, since then have left their mark on various Shira and Aaron to the arts — music, opera, programs services supporting the Jewish and the theatre. As parents with professional community including work with the National backgrounds based in science and medicine, Council of Jewish Women, London Jewish Joe and Gloria speak proudly of their three Foundation and London Community Hebrew of their children who have all have pursued Day School. They were honoured in 2007 for careers focussed in various aspects of the their community work by the Jewish National creative arts industry. Fund. When Cabaret was announced as part of I HAVE A Joseph, is a retired neuropathologist and the 2018–19 Season, Dennis reached out to former Vice-President, Research at Victoria youngest son, Aaron, one of the co-founders Hospital. He continues as Chair of the of BRON Studios and asked if he would con- Health Sciences Research Ethics Board sider honouring his parents, their passion for at Western University, a position he has London, for the theatre and for their ongoing held for the past eleven years. Gloria is a support of the Jewish community in London celebrated physiotherapist and continues to by sponsoring Cabaret in their honour. There DREAM was no hesitation. work in Independent Practice as an educator honouring louise pitre and consultant. She opened the first pri- In semi-retirement, Gloria and Joe remain vately owned practice in London called The active with combined passions for family, Downtown Clinic, Physiotherapy & Health travel, learning and education. Joe teaches Counselling. in support of on a variety of topics, including the relation- Make a Difference Youth Programs and the High School Project Joe and Gloria speak passionately about a ship between music and Judaism, as well trip to the site of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, as Russian history. The cast and staff at the Tickets Tables in the Czech Republic, that fueled their Grand were given the extraordinary oppor- desire to learn more and educate others tunity to hear their valued perspectives on ea. $250 $2500 about that piece of history. Specifically, the complex and often misunderstood his- the thousands of Jewish professional and torical context of the story from Cabaret. We To book your tickets or to enquire about PRESENTED BY amateur artists that passed through the thank the Gilbert family for their combined Sponsorship Opportunities please contact: ghetto and the development of musical works, gifts to London and to the Grand Theatre. [email protected] COUNTERPROTESTERS DURING THE UNITE THE RIGHT 2 RALLY NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF A WHITE NATIONALIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA (AUGUST 12, 2018.) Fascism—the term refers broadly to author- the first, opened in 1933, and imprisoned itarian right-wing rule. But there’s another political dissidents, German Jews, Roma, important feature to fascist regimes: homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Us and Them state-sanctioned exclusion of those identified those deemed to display “anti-social” as “other,” typically part of an ultranation- behaviour. Before the war had even begun, “Tomorrow will come when the world is mine; alist agenda which promotes the interests of Germany started imprisoning Austrian one group of people above all others. We’ve Jews from annexed lands, and during 1938’s tomorrow belongs to me” seen this ideology in action on numerous Kristallnacht—or, the “night of the broken In 2017, Richard Spencer—an outspoken Germanic nationalist anthems, it was written occasions: in Germany’s Third Reich, for glass,” where Nazi soldiers vandalized and American white nationalist—took to Twitter specifically for the musical, to critique the example. Overtaken by a zealous leader, destroyed Jewish businesses and homes in an attempt to claim Cabaret’s “Tomorrow dangerous influence of Nazism. Moreover, Adolf Hitler, the country’s Nationalist in Berlin—the Nazis arrested and jailed Belongs to Me” as promoting his neo-Nazi as Kander points out, the song’s composer Socialist Party made quick work of contain- German Jews en-masse. ing and eventually eliminating those groups values.