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ROOMBy Emma Donoghue Adapted for the stage by Emma Donoghue Songs by Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph

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When I first arrived at the Grand a including an all-new Canadian cast. locally. few years ago, I was surprised and We brought the team and cast here to delighted to learn that novelist and the Grand in December for a work- playwright Emma Donoghue lived shop to investigate, rewrite, restage, here in London. At our first meeting, and redesign many elements of the I was deeply impressed and had a production. You’ll be the first to see strong sense that we should collab- the results. orate on a project together. It is an On this project we have partnered extraordinary honour to be present- with Covent Garden Productions ing the North American premiere of in the UK and Mirvish Productions. the stage version of of Room, by Emma Following our run here, the entire Donoghue with Cora Bissett and production will transfer to downtown Kathryn Joseph. Toronto. And who knows where it will The stage version of Room premiered go after that... last year in London, England and Congratulations to Emma Donoghue then transferred directly to the famed on your Grand Theatre debut. Thank Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The pro- you for granting us this opportunity Each year, through various donations duction you are seeing is the second and sponsorships, we are committed to share Room in this way. to helping our local communities. version of the play. What does that mean? Thanks to COMPASS—our Welcome. We’re proud to be the 2019/2020 season new play program—the creative team sponsor of the Grand Theatre. have returned to the project and dennis garnhum made many changes for this version, artistic director LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Grand Theatre, Covent Garden Productions, and David Mirvish present ROOM By Emma Donoghue Adapted for the stage by Emma Donoghue Songs by Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph Directed by Cora Bissett

Originally produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East, National Theatre of Scotland, and Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

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Room © Emma Donoghue Limited 2010 CAST & CREDITS Where do CAST Grandpa/Doctor STEWART ARNOTT SuperJack BRANDON MICHAEL you want ARRINGTON Jack HAYDEN BAERTSOEN Jack QUINSLEY EDISON to be in Grandma TRACEY FERENCZ Ma ALEXIS GORDON Police/Interviewer/Popcorn Seller SHANNON TAYLOR 15 years? Old Nick ASHLEY WRIGHT PRODUCTION TEAM I want retirement Director CORA BISSETT to be a reality - Movement Coach LINDA GARNEAU Set & Costume Designer LILY ARNOLD not just a dream. Projection Designer ANDRZEJ GOULDING Lighting Designer BONNIE BEECHER Sound Designer JOHN GZOWSKI Music Director GAVIN WHITWORTH Stock markets rise and fall and financial advice continues to evolve. What Associate Director CHARLOTTE GOWDY remains constant is your vision of what you’re investing for. Your dreams for the Fight & Intimacy Director SIOBHAN RICHARDSON future. That’s what drives Libro’s investment team. Stage Manager BEATRICE CAMPBELL Assistant Stage Manager SUZANNE MCARTHUR Assistant Stage Manager COLE VINCENT INVESTING WITH LIBRO IS A 3-STEP APPROACH: Apprentice Stage Manager CODY BURNS Associate Lighting Designer NICK ANDISON Rehearsal Pianist ANDREW PETRASIUNAS Child Supervisor LINDA MARTIN 1PERSONALIZED 2PROACTIVE PLANNING AND 3INVESTMENT Child Supervisor CASSANDRA DI FELICE COACHING. SAVINGS DISCIPLINE. OPTIONS TO FIT YOU. Special thanks to Kai Fujimoto-Pihl, Molly Héraud, and Michael McArthur for their drawing contributions. To achieve your financial goals, you need to be intentional about your The Grand Theatre is an active member of the Professional Association of Canadian investments. How do you do that? Sit down with a Libro Coach today to Theatres (PACT) and engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, create an investment plan for you. professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The Grand Theatre acknowledges with thanks the co-operation of Locals 105 and 828 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists, and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, and libro.ca/invest The London Musicians’ Association Local 279. 1-800-361-8222 PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTES

Back in 2009 while I was writing Room as a his alter ego have a dynamic which captures novel, I had a feeling that it could work on the lively, interrogative quality of a five- stage too. The premise is so inherently the- year-old, and reminds me of the human-and- atrical; Jack and Ma’s situation sounds like a daemon bond in Philip Pullman’s His Dark metaphor for theatre: two people in a room Materials, one of my literary touchstones. with limited space and resources, conjuring This production at the Grand and Mirvish— up a world of play, intimacy, and imagination. all thanks to the unstoppable Dennis Not that the adaptation process was easy, Garnhum—is not only the North American but it always felt as if retelling Jack and Ma’s premiere but, for me, a wonderful closing story in the language of theatre made obvious of the circle. I got the idea for the story of sense. Room while driving to Burlington on the Funnily enough, the startling success of 401. Though the novel and film are set in a Lenny Abrahamson’s low-budget Irish- non-specified American city, I always saw it PROUD Canadian film of Room (nominated for as a sort of fable which could play out any- multiple Oscars, Golden Globes, and Baftas) where. I researched it at home in London’s helped me write the stage version. I felt freed Wortley Village (where I’ve lived since 1998), to play a role from the need to be naturalistic in every and details of local parks and libraries and detail about the kidnap situation or the malls made it into the book’s second half. aftermath of escape. The film had pushed the I wrote one big scene in the lobby of the IN EVERY story as far towards naturalism as it could go. Central YMCA on Waterloo Street, having For the theatre production, by contrast, Cora stuck our kids in the childcare room on the Grand Theatre Production Bissett and I went back to what readers had pretence that I was going for a swim. (What responded to so strongly in the novel—Jack’s can I say—every mother needs a break!) buoyant, world-creating voice—and also let The first stage production of Room began ourselves use more overtly theatrical devices in the other London (UK) before touring to such as puppetry and projection. And from Scotland and Ireland, so I wrote that script the first email she sent me, out of the blue, in British English, but for this production, Cora knew that the show needed music, with the help of the actors and creative primarily as a release valve for Ma’s secrets, team, I made the idiom Canadian again. So I for everything messy and irrational that she couldn’t be happier that this universal story, can’t tell her little boy. The powerful songs by which began right here, has made its way Cora and Kathryn Joseph have turned out to home, and (with the help of such brilliant be my favourite part of the stage production. collaborators) touched so many people along the way. Another great pleasure that came out of our development process was the interplay emma donoghue between Jack and SuperJack (the child’s inner voice, played by an adult). Adding SuperJack was a pragmatic device to avoid making our very young actors deliver long monologues, but it also turned out to be a really rich way of showing what superpow- ered minds can inhabit little bodies. Jack and sportswood.on.ca

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When I first read Emma Donoghue’s extra- Our biggest hurdle was how to create the ordinary novel Room I was on a flight, and I boy Jack on stage. In a book, there are no finished it in one go, unable to put it down limitations; on film, children can be placed for a second. I felt breathless reading it, and in scenes for short takes and edited to finally shattered, elated, strung out, and perfection. But on stage, how do you include joyous all at once—such is the power of her a 5 year old child who is in every single scene storytelling and the vividness of the charac- of the show? We discussed using an adult ters she has created in Jack and Ma. actor to play the child, but the relationship between a mother and a little boy is so key, so I was reading it simply for pleasure, and fundamental, that it just didn’t feel right. So yet almost instantly I started seeing ways we landed on the idea of “SuperJack.” In this in which this could be dramatized on stage. way, we have the actual child on stage but all I could see the little boy tucked inside a the richness of his inner thoughts as well. wardrobe, and imagined an entire set to allow us to view events from his perspective. The show ran in the UK and sold out the I imagined how we could evoke this world of Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and I know it has Room with beauty, love, and imagination, so been a long mission of Sam Julyan’s to see it much so that as an audience, just as a reader, have another life. When Dennis Garnhum we think Jack is living in a perfect home. It is decided to bring it to Canada—and not just only through carefully placed details that we that, but to offer us the chance to work in peek between the layers of what is actually collaboration with Canadian actors, and going on to begin with, and the torturous hell some new Canadian creative team members, from which Ma is so heroically protecting it really was a dream. him. I came over to cast the show and was ridicu- But strangely, I could also hear songs: aching lously impressed with the acting talent here, songs of desperation and hope; songs of as well as bowled over by each actor and survival. This surprised me—anyone who creative’s love for the story. There has been has read the book will, I imagine, not see it fresh input on so many levels that this is truly as prime material for a music based drama! a new Canadian-UK collaboration. I feel hon- Celebrating Arts But the instinct was so strong that I sat in my oured to bring the production to Canada but hotel room and bashed out some sketches. even more honoured to be given the chance to work with such a fine team, and to go on In Our Community I decided to write to Emma Donoghue’s a new journey with the wonderful source agent and attach these very rough demos. MNP is proud to support the communities where we live, work and material that is Emma Donoghue’s homage to The planets aligned in my favour and Emma motherhood, resilience, and what we will do play. That’s why we’re partnering with the Grand Theatre and helping to Donoghue connected with the vision of the for the ones we love. provide opportunities for those in London and surrounding communities show I saw. We met in London UK, and a to engage with the arts. A strong arts community brings people together partnership was forged. I then approached Cora Bissett and demonstrates what we can achieve when we work together. the wonderful singer- Kathryn Joseph—whose beguiling music I was a huge Enjoy the show! fan of—to see if she would write songs with me. She couldn’t believe I’d asked. Room was her favourite novel of all time. Another serendipitous moment. 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stewart arnott brandon michael Hayden Baertsoen quinsley edison tracey ferencz alexis gordon shannon taylor ASHLEY WRIGHT arrington Stewart Arnott Grandpa/Doctor Hayden Baertsoen Jack Alexis Gordon Ma Mecca (Soulpepper); Pride and Prejudice (Nation- For The Grand Theatre: Kiss Me Kate, The For the Grand Theatre: Mary Poppins, A For the Grand Theatre: Mary Poppins, A al Arts Centre/Theatre Calgary); Little Women: Philadelphia Story. Theatre Credits (Select- Thousand Splendid Suns. Theatre Credits Christmas Carol. Theatre Credits (Select- The Musical (Citadel Theatre). ed): As actor: Hedda Noir (Theatre NorthWest); (Selected): Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor ed): Brigadoon, Rope (Shaw Festival); Hook Up Film and TV Credits: Private Eyes, MayDay, Waiting For Godot, Halaj (Modern Times); As Dreamcoat (Drayton Entertainment); The Lion (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tapestry Opera); Eloise. Other: Shannon is a Dora Award nom- director: Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine Theatre); King (WOFIPS Production). Other: The Nut- Coriolanus, The Tempest, The Fantasticks, Guys & inated actor and recipient of the Mary Savidge Seminar (Royal MTC/Mirvish Productions). cracker Ballet (Dance Steps London); Contem- Dolls, A Little Night Music, Carousel, Passion, The Award (Stratford). Graduate of the Birmingham directing Credits: Pobby and Dingan; Risky porary Voice Medal of Excellence Winner 2017 Sound of Music (Stratford Festival); Sunday in the Conservatory and Ryerson University (BFA). Phil (young people’s theatre). Film and (Conservatory Canada); Contemporary Voice Park With George (Talk is Free Theatre); The Grav- TV Credits (Selected): The Shape of Water Medal of Excellence Winner 2018 (Conservatory itational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Factory Theatre/ Ashley Wright Old Nick (*Best Picture Oscar); Schitt’s Creek, Murdoch Canada). Obsidian Theatre); Obeah Opera (Nightwood For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Mysteries (CBC). other: Two Dora Mavor Theatre); Recurring John, Paradises Lost (Toronto Credits (Selected): Cost of Living and Sweat Moore Award nominations. Quinsley Edison Jack SummerWorks Festival); Starbright Christmas, (Arts Club/Citadel); Hamlet (Free Will Players); For The Grand Theatre: Debut. Canada Sings, Godspell (Victoria Playhouse Merry Wives of Windsor (Bard on the Beach); Brandon Michael Arrington Other: @QuinsleyEdison Petrolia); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drift- Shakespeare in Love (MTC/Citadel); Les Misérables SuperJack wood Theatre). Upcoming: Love’s Labour’s Lost, (Mirvish); Slavs, The Black Rider, The Fall, The Red For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Tracey Ferencz Grandma Paradise Lost (Bard on the Beach). Priest (Tarragon); True Love Lies (Factory); As You Theatre Credits (Selected): 42nd Street For the Grand: A Christmas Carol. Theatre Film and TV Credits (Selected): Motives Like It, Omnium Gatherum, Fernando Krapp, Of (Alhambra); High School Musical (Fireside Credits (Selected): Hana’s Suitcase (Young & Murders, The Worst Thing I Ever Did (Discov- Mice and Men (Canadian Stage); The Trials of Ezra Theatre); High School Musical 2 (North Shore); People’s Theatre); Afterplay (Afterplay Collec- ery ID). Other: Graduate of the BFA Acting Pound (Stratford Festival). Film and TV: Copper You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Lucille Lortel); tive); The Overcoat, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Tem- program at The University of Windsor. Awards: (BBC America); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Mayday Irrationals (American Theatre of Actors); Captain pest (Canadian Stage); Seeds, Filthy Rich (Blyth Amy Wallis Memorial Guthrie Award (Strat- (Cineflix); Flash of Genius (Spyglass); Princess Louie (York Theatre); Peter Pan (Big League); Festival); Becky’s New Car (Alberta Theatre ford Festival), Syd and Shirley Banks Prize for (ABC); Degrassi: The Next Generation (CTV); Miss- The Cherry Orchard, The Author’s Voice, Tartuffe Projects); Death and the Maiden, Grace (Globe Emerging Artists (Musical Stage Co). Twitter: ing (Lifetime). Other: BFA Acting (University of (Drew University); Earth Mass, Send Down the Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire, Enchanted @AlexisLGordon. Instagram: alexigords Victoria); MFA Directing (University of Alberta). Fire, Pietà (Omega Dance Company); We Are The April (Theatre Calgary); Real Estate, Goodbye Pic- Song - After The Storm (Joe’s Pub). Film and TV cadilly (Theatre Aquarius); Whispering Pines, The Shannon Taylor Credits: Vinyl (HBO); QUADS (Bible StoryZ); List (Great Canadian Theatre Company); A Penny Officer/Interviewer/Popcorn Seller How to Win at Everything (Spike!TV); Over There for the Guy, Gone with the Wind (Royal Manitoba For The Grand Theatre: Timothy Findley’s The (Marc Parees/NYU Films); The Barbie™ Diaries Theatre Company); Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Wars. Theatre Credits (selected): Mother’s (Curious?Pictures/Mattel). Perfect Pie ( Thousand Islands Playhouse). Shaw Daughter (Soulpepper/Stratford Festival); The Other: www.imdb.me/ Festival Acting Ensemble for ten seasons. Film Crucible, Twelfth Night, The School for Scandal, brandonmichaelarrington and TV Credits (Selected): The Expanse, Shakespeare in Love, The Hypochondriac, The Diary Murdoch Mysteries, Sharpay’s Excellent Adventure, of Anne Frank, Oedipus Rex (Stratford Festival); Stories We Tell. A Doll’s House (Manitoba Theatre Centre); King Charles III (Mirvish/Studio 180); The Road to GUEST ARTISTS

cora bissett linda garneau lily arnold andrezj bonnie beecher john gzowski gavin whitworth goulding

Cora Bissett Director Unearth, and Integration. PhD candidate in Crucible). Other: Andrzej works as a Set and Gavin Whitworth Music Director For The Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Dance Studies at York University. www.lind- Video Designer across all forms of live perfor- For The Grand: Debut. Theatre Credits Credits (Selected): Director: Room (Theatre agarneau.com mance. www.agoulding.com (selected): Oor Wullie, The Snow Queen Royal Stratford East, London/Abbey Theatre, (Dundee Rep); Hi, My Name Is Ben (Goodspeed); Dublin); Interference, Rites, Adam, Glasgow Girls Lily Arnold Set & Costume Designer Bonnie Beecher Lighting Designer But First This, The Witches of Eastwick (Watermill (National Theatre of Scotland/Raw Material/ For The Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre For the Grand Theatre: Mary Poppins, The Theatre, Newbury); Beauty and the Beast, Hansel Theatre Royal Stratford East); Jumpy (Royal Credits (Selected): A Doll’s House (Lyric, Penelopiad, A Christmas Carol (2018 and 2017), and Gretel (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Merrily Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); RoadKill (Tra- London); Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Art, Goodnight Desde- We Roll Along, Brigadoon, London Road (Royal verse Theatre/Barbican/Chicago Shakespeare (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pah-La (Royal mona (Good Morning Juliet), Ned Durango Comes Conservatoire of Scotland); Wasted Love, The Theatre/Théâtre de la Ville, Paris/St. Anne’s Court Theatre); The Remains Of The Day, Rules to Big Oak. Theatre Credits (Selected): Improvised Musical (Edinburgh Fringe); Glasgow Warehouse, nyc); GRIT - The Martin Bennet For Living (Royal and Derngate); Things Of Dry Over 350 productions for theatre, opera, and Girls (Scottish Tour); Some Small Love Story (Arts Story (Pachamama); Whatever Gets You Through Hours (Young Vic); Snow In Midsummer, The dance across Canada and internationally. Recent Theatre, London); Neverland (Theatre Deli, the Night (Arches Theatre Glasgow); Janis Jew Of Malta, The Rape Of Lucrece, King Lear, productions include Paradise Lost (Centaur Sheffield); White Fang (freeFall Theatre, Florida); Joplin—Full Tilt (Pachamama/Theatre Royal The Taming Of The Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Theatre); Hadrian (Canadian Opera); The Cru- Hunchback of Notre Dame (Selby Abbey). Other: Stratford East). Writer/Performer: What Girls Company); The Girl On The Train, The Fruit cible (Stratford); SEX (Shaw); ART (Soulpepper); BA (Music) from the University of York, MA are Made Of (Traverse Theatre/ Raw Material, Trilogy (Leeds Playhouse); The Solid Life Of Sugar Rigoletto (Edmonton Opera); Umschlungen (Karl- (Musical Theatre) from Royal Conservatoire of Soho Theatre London UK/Cultura Ingesias Sau Water (National Theatre/Theatre Royal Plym- sruhe Ballet, Germany); Akhnaten (Dortmund Scotland. Paulo/Melbourne Arts Festival/Spoleto Festival outh); Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Edge Opera, Germany); The Runner (Human Cargo/ Charleston, USA). Actor: Midsummer (Kennedy Of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre, London); Henry Passe Muraille). Upcoming: Maria Stewart Centre Washington/The Cultch, Vancouver/ V (Tobacco Factory); Love Lies Bleeding (The (Karlsruhe Ballet, Germany), The Devils Disciple Sydney Opera House); A Streetcar Named Desire, Coronet Theatre). www.lilyarnolddesign.com (Shaw), Swan Lake (National Ballet of Canada). Comedy of Errors, The Breathing House (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Other: Associate Director of Andrezj Goulding John Gzowski Sound Designer the National Theatre of Scotland since 2014, Projection Designer For The Grand Theatre: The Lion In Winter. bA Dramatic Studies Royal Conservatoire of For The Grand Theatre: Debut. Video Theatre Credits (Selected): The Front Page Scotland. www.corabissett.com Designs (Selected): Message In A Bottle, (Stratford); Rope, Dracula, The Hound of Basker- &Juliet (West End); Life of Pi (Sheffield Crucible/ villes (Shaw Festival); Helen Lawrence (Canstage/ Linda Garneau Movement Coach West End); People, Places and Things (National Arts Club); Its a Wonderful Life (MTC/Canstage); For The Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Theatre, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse, UK Hamlet, GlenGarry Glen Ross, A Delicate Balance, Credits (Selected): Brigadoon, The Light in Tour); Groundhog Day (Broadway, Old Vic); The La Bete, Innocence Lost (Soulpepper); The Twelfth the Piazza, Trouble in Tahiti (Shaw Festival); Jesus Remains Of The Day (UK Tour); 8 Hotels (Chich- Night (NAC/Theatre Calgary); Bed And Breakfast Christ Superstar (Charlottetown Festival); Life ester Minerva); Pressure (West End, UK Tour); (Thousand Island Playhouse/Belfry/Soulpep- After (Canadian Stage); The Curious Case of the Coriolanus (Don-mar Warehouse, NT Live); 1984 per); Orphee + (Against the Grain Opera); 1001 Dog in the Night-time (Citadel Theatre). (Northern Ballet, Sadler’s Wells); The Suicide, Nights (Luminato). Other: www.johngzowski. Other: Artistic director of Helix Dance From Morning To Midnight, The Tell-Tale Heart, com Project; works include The Waiting Room, Rain, Manor (National Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Sheffield GUEST ARTISTS

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$1000 – 2499 Dalmar Motors Ltd. • Great West Life Assurance Co. Lerners LLP • London Foods Ltd. • VanBoxmeer & Stranges Ltd. The London Proud Business Club was established to provide a way for London $2,500+ Auburn Developments Inc. • North Moore companies to show their support of the Grand and the work on our stages, back- stage, and in the community. For companies and businesses who understand the value of a thriving arts and culture scene to attract, retain and celebrate FOUnDATIONS their employees as citizens of London, the London Proud Business Club links The Paul Butler & Chris Black Foundation • Smith Family Foundation their brand to ours and provides special staff ticketing discounts throughout ENDOWMENTS & GIFTS THROUGH the LONDON COMMUNITY Foundation the season. The Barbara & John Cronyn Fund • The McNee Family Fund • The Megan Holliday Memorial The Grand values our community and corporate partnerships at all levels Fund • The Richard & Beryl Ivey Fund • The William & Katharine Kostuk Family Fund of support. As part of our community outreach in our mission to be World Wilson & Judith Rodger Fund Curious and London Proud, we are asking London-based businesses to join us as London Proud Business Club members and link your brand to ours. In Memoriam Thank you to those who gave in memory of Shirley Brown, John Judson, Doris McArthur, Fred & Mona Pitt, Dr. Tom Siess and Alice & Jack Stevens, cherished friends of the Grand who are dearly missed. The following companies have made a $2500 sponsorship pledge With our fellow Londoners and Canadians, we mourn the loss of Mr. Richard Ivey and thank those who have made gifts to the Grand in his memory. Mr. Ivey was an important and impactful and have purchased a complete subscription package. We thank member of the Grand family whose legacy lives on throughout our city and country. them for their support. PROSCENIUM SOCIETY We are deeply grateful to the compassionate individuals Membership to the Proscenium Society is available to who have made the important and thoughtful decision those who have chosen to make a planned gift in one or to make a planned gift to the Grand Theatre. We honour more of the following ways: them through their membership in the Proscenium • Bequests (donations through your will) Society. • Listed Securites Barbara Belbeck Glenda Robinson • Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation Lynn Davis Maureen Elizabeth Ryan • Charitable Remainder Trust and gifts of Cathy & James Dunlop E.J. Small Residual Interest Dr. Nicole le Riche & Judy White • Charitable Gift Annuities Dr. John Howard Michael Wojtak • Life Insurance Policies, RRSP, RRIF Mary & Roger Lillyman Susan Nickle Diane & Gary Alan Price

We remember the following members of the Grand Theatre family who have made a bequest to the theatre. Their legacy will help ensure that the Grand continues to flourish. Hazel E. Bell • Marista Ateena Brooks (Mikolaski) • Robert Crawford • Buck A. M. Cuddy • Theresa Cutler • Helen Ann Day Walter R. (Wally) Duffield • Innis Hammond • Barbara Horne • Beryl Ivey • Elizabeth Ann Jones • Myrtle McCallum J. Douglas McCullough • Mary Eleanor Miller • Maureen Elizabeth • Ryan Joseph Samuels • Donald Smith • Doris Spence For more information on this program and other benefits to your staff teams, Elizabeth Stratton please contact Suzanne Lanthier, Director of Audience Development at 519-672-9030 x 251 or [email protected] To learn more, please contact Nora MacLeod, Manager of Individual Giving at 519.672.9030 x 239 or [email protected] RESTAURANT DINING STYLE PRICE RANGE

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