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Supporting Mamma Mia! is the perfect musical to this summer. It's a wonderful thing to bring us into springtime and a fitting host these fine people from Eastern the arts, finale to our season here at the Grand. Canada. What seemed like a crazy idea a few As we conclude this season, I'd like decades ago—making a musical that to thank our devoted audiences for takes a bunch of ABBA music and cre- embracing the new work, the interna- locally. ates a story to bring all the favourite tional collaborations, and the diver- hits together—doesn’t seem so crazy sity of our stories. anymore. Think of Mamma Mia! as icing on the Truly an international sensation, cake—the well-deserved treat for a Mamma Mia! is a refreshing and year of loyalty and support. welcome escape to enchanted isles, Thank you for being here with us. memorable music, and some awfully Now let's head to Greece, slip off our adorable characters. shoes, feel the sand beneath our feet, This production comes to us from and remember what it’s like to breathe the Charlottetown Festival in Prince the fresh air… Edward Island, where it was a smash Welcome. hit a couple of summers ago. After our run finishes here, this production will return to the Charlottetown Festival dennis garnhum artistic director for a victory lap, playing there again Each year, through various donations and sponsorships, we are committed 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 . 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 23 to may 18, 2019 opening night april 26 Mamma Mia! Music and Lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus And some songs with Stig Anderson Book by Catherine Johnson Originally Conceived by Judy Craymer Co-production with the Charlottetown Festival Directed by Adam Brazier cast Ensemble BRITTANY BANKS Ensemble EVAN BENYACAR Rosie/U.S. Donna NICOLA DAWN BROOK Bill Austin STEPHEN GUY-MCGRATH Sky AARON HASTELOW A brighter future. Sophie Sheridan KATIE KERR Within reach. Minister MELISSA KRAMER Ali HAILEY LEWIS From solar panels to clean water, we’re investing in our communities, and applying 3M Science Eddie CONNOR LUCAS to create innovative, sustainable solutions for everyone. Harry Bright CAMERON MACDUFFEE Pepper ANTHONY MACPHERSON Ensemble GRAY MONCZKA Ensemble/U.S. Sky TEDDY MOYNIHAM Ensemble/U.S. Sophie JAMIE MURRAY Ensemble NICOLE NORSWORTHY Donna Sheridan REBECCA POFF Ensemble EMMA RUDY Tanya JAN ALEXANDRA SMITH Sam Carmichael MICHAEL TORONTOW Lisa KIMBERLY-ANN TRUONG

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In 1999 my agent sent me a script to a new musical that used the existing music of ABBA to tell 2019 the story. I reluctantly read act one, closed the script, and told my agent “the show will close at intermission.” Twenty years later I am still blissfully eating my words. I went on to be cast as “Sky” in the original production and have now directed my SAVE second production of Mamma Mia!. To say that this show has been a blessing in my life would THE be an enormous understatement. I have witnessed the power of this show firsthand. The Date abundant joy and the brazen escape that Mamma Mia! offers has connected with audiences around world. June 13 As I learned while performing in this show for eighteen months, the power and value of escape is never to be judged or belittled. Shows like Mamma Mia! can be healing to the soul and offer reprieve from the daily grind. They remind us that there is abundant joy in the world and allow 2019 us to share in the experience together. SPRIET STAGE What brings each individual to the theatre is personal. What you’re looking for from the the- atre is personal. But there is an undeniable human experience when complete strangers sit in a large theatre, the lights dim, and somebody starts playing ABBA. Bon spectacle, I HAVE A adam brazier DREAM honouring louise pitre

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Brittany Banks Ensemble FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Debut. THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Anne of Green Gables, Jesus Christ Superstar (Charlottetown Festival); Cinderella (Torrent); Anne & Gilbert (The Guild); Sunshine Sketches, Pride & Joy (Smile); Red Rock Diner (Drayton); UnCovered (Musical Stage); You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Indian River). CHOREOGRAPHY: My Bonnie Lass (Sheridan); Stories From the Red Dirt Road (Charlottetown Brittany Banks Festival); Anne & Gilbert (NAC/The Guild); Highland Storm (COP); The Addams Family (Mainstage). OTHER: 2018/19 Young Innovator with Nightwood Theatre & recipient of Musical Stage Co’s Banks Prize. @brittanyybanks Evan Benyacar Ensemble FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Debut. THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Jersey Boys (Stage West); Anne of Green Gables, Jesus Christ Superstar, The House of Martin Guerre: In Concert, Kronborg–The Hamlet Rock Musical: In Concert (Charlottetown Festival); Soundtrack, Life, Chandelier (Celebrity Evan Benyacar Cruise Entertainment); Aladdin: In Dubai, Fame: In Dubai (Creativiva); American Idiot, RENT (Lower Ossington Theatre); Next to Normal (Theatre Aurora). FILM AND TV CREDITS (SELECTED): Gift Giver (Dresser Drawer Productions); If I Go (Asteria Productions). OTHER: Graduate from Randolph College of the Performing Arts. @evantaylorbenyacar Nicola-Dawn Brook Rosie/U.S. Donna FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Debut. THEATRE CREDITS: Kinky Boots (Mirvish); Sisters: Les Belles Soeurs Musical (Segal Centre/Theatre Nicola-Dawn Brook Calgary); Mamma Mia!, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival); Mamma Mia! (Theatre Aquarius); Copacabana (Prince of Wales Proud to support the Theatre, UK); Fame (Victoria Theatre, UK); Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales Theatre, UK); Taboo (The Venue Theatre, UK); The Sound of Music (Saddlers Wells, UK); Leader of the Pack, Happy End (Theatre Clwyd, Accessing the Arts program. UK); A Funny Thing…, Dames at Sea, Hard Times (Queens Theatre, We’re working together with the Grand Theatre UK); Chess (UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (Paladium, UK). FILM & TV CREDITS: Sweeney Todd, De-lovely. Other: Saltimbanco and Joyà to help create a future we can all look forward to. (Cirque du Soleil). www.nicoladawn.com @nicoldawn

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Grand_ad_2018_FA_02.indd 1 2018-10-23 4:32 PM Craig Fair Musical Director Cory Sincennes Set and Costume Designer For the Grand Theatre: Legends. Theatre Credits For The Grand Theatre: Debut. THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): (Selected): Kronborg: The Hamlet Rock Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Matilda: The Musical (Citadel Theatre/RMTC/Artsclub); Anne of Green Anne of Green Gables, Million Dollar Quartet, Mamma Mia!, Ring of Gables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); Fire, Canada Rocks (The Charlottetown Festival); Joseph and The Mary Poppins, Crazy for You (Theatre Calgary/Citadel Theatre); Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, It’s a Wonderful Life, Legally Blonde Shakespeare in Love, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Rocky Horror Show (Theatre Aquarius); Footloose, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, Legends (Citadel); Secret Garden (Theatre Calgary); The Huron Bride (Vertigo); craig fair of Harmony, Legends, Forever Plaid (Drayton Entertainment); White cory sincennes Bigshot (Surreal SoReal/Ghost River); Let The Light Of Day Through, Christmas, (Neptune Theatre). Other: Co-Composer Little One, Woman in Black (Theatre Network). FILM AND TV CREDITS and Lyricist for Kronborg–The Hamlet Rock Musical. Craig is a graduate (SELECTED): Ross Petty’s A Christmas Carol (CBC). OTHER: www.cory- of Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance Program and is sincennes.com currently the Head of Music for The Charlottetown Festival. Renee Brode Lighting Designer Lisa Stevens Choreographer For the Grand Theatre: Colours in the Storm, The Wizard of Oz, For The Grand Theatre: The High School Project, Prom Queen: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, A Christmas Story, Shrek, Elf, Ring of Fire, The Musical. THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Hobbit, Dreamgirls, Beauty and the Beast, and many others since The Musical (Savoy Theatre, West End); Disney’s High School Musical 2004. Theatre Credits (Selected): The River Bride, Trailer Park: lisa stevens (US, UK and Australia Tour); Disney’s High School Musical 2 (UK renee brode The Musical, I & You, The Whipping Man (Stages Repertory, Houston); Tour); Bombay Dreams (US Tour); Broadway Bares 2018 Game Night, Shrek, The Little Mermaid (Globe Theatre); Prince of Players (Houston Parcheesi (Hammerstein Ballroom, NY); 9 to 5 The Musical (US and UK Grand Opera — World Premiere, Florentine Opera); A Moon For the Tour); West Side Story (Drayton Entertainment) The Witches of Eastwick Misbegotten, Dial ‘M’ for Murder (Watermark Theatre); Beetlejuice (Lab) (Ogunquit Playhouse, Maine); The Little Prince and Mary Poppins (B’Spoke Productions, NYC). She has designed in theatre and opera (Theatre Calgary). Director/Choreographer: Executive Decision in Canada and internationally. She was Associate Lighting Designer (Hudson Guild Theater, NY); Grease! (Toronto Elgin Winter Garden); for Farinelli and the King at Broadway’s Belasco Theater. Other: The Fabulous Lipitones, Mamma Mia! (The New Theatre, Kansas City). Houston Press Best Lighting Design (2014). Member of Associated AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS: Recognition from the Broadway World Designers of Canada. Awards for excellence in Original Choreography for West Side Story, peter mcboyle The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins and Mamma Mia! Betty Mitchell Peter McBoyle Sound Designer Award for Best Choreography for Anne of Green Gables. FILM AND TV For the Grand Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life, Annie. Theatre CREDITS (SELECTED): Dreaming of A Jewish Christmas (Emmy nomi- Credits (Selected): Most of the major Canadian theatres and in US nated and winner CSA). OTHER: Instagram: @lisa_l_stevens cities such as New York, Boston, Las Vegas, LA, Dallas and Atlanta. Selected credits include 24 seasons at The Stratford Festival, Come Fly Away (Broadway, National Tour); Barrymore (Broadway/Toronto); Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can, West Side Story, Legally Blonde (National Tours); Life Reflected (NAC); Mary and Max, The Little Prince (Theatre Calgary); Life After (Musical Stage/CanStage). Other: Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music (McGill University), faculty member at Humber College. Matthew MacInnis Stage Manager For the Grand Theatre: Could You Wait? Theatre Credits (Selected): PSM for the Charlottetown festival 9th season including: Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia!, Alice Through The Looking-Glass, Anne of Green Gables. Evangeline, Bittergirl (Citadel Theatre); Sousatzka (Elgin Theatre); Grease (Winter Garden); Jukebox Hero (); Legally Blonde, Elf, La Cage Aux Folles (Neptune Theatre). matthew Other: Proud Sheridan College Alum. @mattymacin83 macinnis Al Gadowsky Assistant Stage Manager FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Debut. THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): The Humans (Citadel/Canadian Stage); Crazy For You (Citadel/ Theatre Calgary); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Silver Arrow, West Side Story, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Avenue Q (Citadel Theatre); Anne of Green Gables, Jesus Christ Superstar, On The Road With Dutch Mason, Million Dollar Quartet, Mamma Mia!, Glenda’s Kitchen (Charlottetown Festival); La Traviata, Les Feluettes, Turandot, The al gadowsky Merry Widow (Edmonton Opera). OTHER: Al would like to thank his family and friends for their continuing love and support. Chantal Hayman Assistant Stage Manager For the Grand Theatre: The Lion in Winter. 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We honour more of the following ways: Scott Killian Gail McNeil Kathleen & Tania & Steven Goodine Douglas Richards them through their membership in the Proscenium Society. • Bequests (donations through your will) Jill & Don King Marilynne McNeil Margaret & Bruce Gordon M.E. Kirk Doris & Frank Robak Barbara Belbeck Diane & Gary Alan Price • Listed Securites Michael Grace Michelle McNeill & Lynn Davis Glenda Robinson • Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation Jennifer Kirkham Sean Noguera Nancy & Jonathan Romsa Toula Grace Steve Kleiman Trudy Roth Walker & Cathy & James Dunlop E.J. Small • Charitable Remainder Trust and gifts of The McNichol Family Residual Interest Jo-Ann Pearce Gramlich Rose & William Klein Lloyd Walker Dr. Nicole le Riche & Judy White & Tom Gramlich Teresa & Ron McRae Dr. John Howard • Charitable Gift Annuities Jean & William Knowles Gwen Rowse & Michael Wojtak Cheryl Granka Noreen & Tony Morais Mary & Roger Lillyman • Life Insurance Policies, RRSP, RRIF Patricia Knowles Howard McTaggart Sheila Greason Jonas Rubinoff Susan Nickle Shelia & Stan Kogon William Meaden Kendra & Adam Green Dianne & Rick Rumney Helen & Albert Koop Jennifer Meister Heather Greenfield Lynda & Howard Rundle Steve Kopp Susan & Harold Merskey We remember the following members of the Grand Theatre family who have made a bequest to the theatre. Jutta Lily & Heinz Gregor Rita & Charles Rupar Susan & John Koval Marion Miller & Their legacy will help ensure that the Grand continues to flourish. Cathy & Greg Grondin Inge & Paul Russell Antje & David Laidler Doug Bale Hazel E. Bell Theresa Cutler Beryl Ivey Donald Smith Roland Haines Louise Milligan Cindi Ryde & Josie & Chris Lane Chris Arenburg Marista Ateena Brooks Helen Ann Day Elizabeth Ann Jones Doris Spence Gail Hakala Molly & Alan Mills (Mikolaski) Sandra Langman Joe Saddy Walter R. (Wally) Duffield Myrtle McCallum Elizabeth Stratton Nell Haldane John Mitchell Robert Crawford Buck Donna & Ben Lansink Julia Salton Innis Hammond J. Douglas McCullough Marina Hamilton Liam Mitchell A. M. Cuddy Jennifer & Judith Saunders Barbara Horne Mary Eleanor Miller Stephanie Hanna Wayne Lawrence Sandra Mogensen Janet & Rob Saunders Joseph Samuels Penny Hanson & Shirley & William Brett Morritt Peter Baldwin D. & A. Schaffelburg Lawrence Dorothy & To learn more, please contact Suzanne Lanthier, Director of Development at Ceri & David Harris Lois Leatham & Dennis Mulligan 519.672.9030 x 251 or [email protected] Najet & Hanny Hassan Dr. T.R. Balakrishnan PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS

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