RHCPA TENTH ANNIVERSARY GREATEST HITS C Y E R L A E S B R R E A V T I I N N G N A 1 0 H T Y N E E A T R • S S • R T A E E N Y T H 0 1 A N G N N I IV T E A R R S B A E R L Y E C • • C Y EL R EB SA RA ER T IN NIV G 1 AN 0 YEARS • TENTH 2 EROUS SUP N SEASON SPONSOR PO GE RT ® RHCPA S S GREATEST HITS H R O O C W Y S E R L A E S N B R R S E A V T O I P I N N P O G N A S 1 0 H N T Y S N E E S A E T R O I • S Education Series Sponsor S • R R R T A E E E N S Y T S H 0 1 A N G N N I IV T E A R R S B Ocial Hotel Sponsor A E R L Y E C • • C Y EL R EB SA RA ER T IN NIV G 1 AN 0 YEAR TENTH Ocial Supplier of Musical Instruments S • ANDRE LA ROSA CHARTERED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT 2019 2020 2019 2020 Table of Contents 04. Messages 25. Caissie Levy 05. Speaker Series 26. David Broza 06. Suite Thursday 27. The Magic School Bus 07. ON!Stage 28. Crash Test Dummies 08. Club RHCPA 29. The Dreamboats 09. Glass Tiger 30. Yao Yao 10. C.A.L.: Hotel California 31. Sing-A-Long Sound of Music 11. Mary Wilson of the Supremes 32. Gowan 12. Tyler Shaw 33. The Trews 13. Howie Mandel 34. Llama Llama Live 14. Hollerado 35. C.A.L.: The Wall 15. Junie B. Jones 36. The Bay City Rollers 16. Tiany 37. Kim Mitchell 17. Women Fully Clothed: Invisible 38. Pinkilicious 18. The Berenstain Bears On Stage 39. Rita Rudner 19. Burton Cummings: Up Close and Alone 40. C.A.L.: Led Zeppelin II 20. My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s 41. New Shanghai Circus Jewish and I’m Still In Therapy! 42. April Wine 21. The Elmer Iseler Singers and 43. Downchild Blues Band the Elora Singers 44. Patron information 22. The Barra MacNeils 45. Community Crooners Christmas 46. Community 23. C.A.L.: Abbey Road 47. Community 24. Lighthouse Flex Pack Book four or more Save15% 3 4 Mayor’s Message Michael’s Message The excitement of the 10th anniversary of the Richmond Hill Has it really been ten years? Thinking back to opening night Centre for the Performing Arts continues into the 2019-2020 on Saturday February 28, 2009, it does not feel like a season! decade has passed since the curtain was raised for the first time in the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. As we look ahead to many more entertaining performances The past ten years have flown by as we welcomed over a and filled seats in the future, I would like to thank you all for million patrons and guests, presented hundreds of incredible your continued support of our local theatre. artists from places from around the world, and have been When I attended the sold-out 10th anniversary celebration privileged to host thousands of rental events. in February 2019, I was struck by how much the theatre’s Every day since opening night, has felt like a celebration of programs have grown. In addition to many sold-out the arts and our community. It is this sense of celebration performances, we have also expanded to include features such that guided our programing choices for your 2019/2020 as Jazz in the Plaza, ON!Stage and Suite Thursday Cabaret. season. You will recognize familiar faces who have graced I am also very proud of the education series and how we our stage during the past ten years and you will meet artists are promoting theatre and the performing arts to the next whose performance will resonate with you well beyond the generation through the ever-popular school break next ten years. programs. This coming season is once again host to a From all of us here at the RHCPA, to you, our most valued variety of performances, including music, comedy, family patron, we invite you to spend a few moments reviewing the and musical acts. There is something for everyone to enjoy, pages in this spectacular publication. It is our wish that you from rock to country music, speaker-series, musicals will find an artist, a performance, which will entice you to including Junie B. Jones and the smash-hit show join us for that morning, afternoon or evening of celebration Sing-a-Long Sound of Music and much more. and engagement. As we look back on the past years, we Tickets can be purchased online at rhcentre.ca or by calling are humbled by your commitment to the RHCPA and your the box oce at 905-787-8811. passion for the arts. We have learned much from you which continues to be top of mind as we begin to look at the next See you at the theatre! ten years. To make future seasons better, to make them Mayor Dave Barrow stronger. To continue the celebration. I look forward to seeing you at the theatre. 2019 2020 Michael Grit, Theatre Manager 2019 2020 RHCPA Sponsored by ANDRE LA ROSA SPEAKER SERIES CHARTERED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT Presented in partnership with Connecting the Community Immerse yourself in knowledge during the Speaker Series in an intimate atmosphere. rb e ck y Fa r Lo e M o n cr rinc e s r a ie o i e n L n e n r m l h e a e o B J H J Thursday, September 12, Thursday, September 26, 2019 Thursday, October 3, 2019 Thursday, October 10, 2019 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at 11 a.m. at 11 a.m. at 11 a.m. A Canadian Genocide: Wrongful Convictions The Fruitful City The Ward Canada’s Historical in Canada Treatment of its Indigenous People ra H arris l B u n yn rris re l a u o B r A a d . All seven shows for r e C T D $120 Thursday, October 17, 2019 Thursday, October 24, 2019 Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 11 a.m. at 11 a.m. at 11 a.m. Russia, the West, Iran and Royal Parenting from The Great Escape Israel: Assessing the New Medieval to Modern Times Middle East Chessboard 5 6 Our Suite Thursday Cabaret Series takes a more intimate approach to live theatre. Found in our Plaza Suite, a variety of artists entertain a small audience of approximately 100 people. $20 etz ands ik a 12, 20 L y 6, 2020 17, 2019 a T ber 19 a y ar a d r t 7 m t ru t r be :3 e 7 b 7: o 0 n c :3 d e 3 a t p e 0 F 0 c e n , T . D p p O m y . v , . e m , . y m a y b d . a . a e s d r d t o s W u s r r S h u R u T h h T T Canadian-born, Toronto-native Vintage pop, swing, and jazz singer Steven Juno Award nominee Wendy Lands Rob Tardik a multi-award winning Taetz focuses on the American Songbook combines cool jazz, intimate theatre guitarist and contemporary pop/ and jazz standards, writing and recording and freewheeling pop, to expertly craft jazz/world/fusion instrumental traditional-pop, and swing originals. original tunes that breathe smoky new music artist. air into the jazz genre. f a Redh o 2020 at e 26, 7: a s h 30 e rc p d r a .m e u M . , d t y a n d C s r e u Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 8 p.m. o h v T f d f Since 2012, the Suite Thursday Cabaret Series has welcomed extraordinary e A e artists from across the performing arts genres. Join us as we welcome some s h of our greatest cabaret hits including, Marion Drexler, Luke McMaster, o p Anne Marie Sche£er and a few surprises. $20 G i r l On the This new, standalone story Mainstage continues the saga of the “Redheaded Co¥eeshop Girl”, 2019bringing2020 yet more ca¥einated fun – this time with chimps! 2019 2020 ON! STAGE Series invites the audience to sit on our mainstage and be immersed in the world of live performance. This seven-part series features an eclectic collection of performers from across the performing arts world designed to push the boundaries and stretch the imagination. $20 a w eet! l W lke G r a h a the T e r m in Ke t a m s y e h u o e l g c n f i a w C o M T C r S e e Ages 0 - 5 Sunday, October 6, 2019 Monday, October 7, 2019 Monday, November 4, 2019 Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. at 7:30 p.m. at 7:30 p.m. at 7:30 p.m. A contemporary circus A singer and songwriter from Calum Graham is an A retrospective cabaret performance experience for Toronto, Michael Walker spent the extraordinarily talented featuring songs by the our youngest audience, the early 2000’s with Turn o¥ the Stars, Canadian fingerstyle multi-talented living legend piece follows two birds from an Indy band that toured Canada guitarist and the first of Canadian theatre and sunrise to sunset in a world extensively with artists including teenager to ever win the music Tomson Highway.