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September/December 2019

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DAVID MIRVISH

presents

Written by DANIEL GROßE BOYMANN & THOMAS KAHRY

Adapted by ERIN SHIELDS

From the translation by SAM MADWAR

Based on a concept by DAVID WINTERBERG

LOUISE PITRE JAYNE LEWIS

LOUISE CAMILLERI RÉJEAN COURNOYER W. JOSEPH MATHESONTRACY MICHAILIDIS SEANA-LEE WOOD

Set Design Costume Design MICHAEL GIANFRANCESCO LOUISE BOURRET

Lighting Design Sound Design MICHAEL WALTON MICHAEL LAIRD

Dialect Coach Assistant Director NANCY BENJAMIN DANIEL SPRAGGE

Music Director/Arranger Contractor/Additional Orchestrations JONATHAN MONRO MARK CAMILLERI

Associate Producer Stage Manager LINDA INTASCHI KEVIN BOWERS

Directed byGORDON GREENBERG

This play was originally written in German and titled Spatz and Engel (The Angel and the Sparrow)and had its world premiere in Vienna in 2013, where it played for six seasons. Subsequently it had

productions in Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia.

The English-language production of The Angel and the Sparrow was commissioned byand premiered on April 15, 2018 at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts(Lisa Rubin, Artistic & Executive Director; Jon Rondeau, General Manager)

www.segalcentre.org

The Angel and the Sparrow is produced by special arrangement withGallissas Theaterverlag und Mediaagentur GmbH

www.gallissas-verlag.de

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T H E C A S T

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches.

in order of appearance

Marlene Dietrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JAYNE LEWIS

Casino Director, Marcel Cerdan, Lou Barrier, Jacques Pills, Burt Bacharach, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. JOSEPH MATHESON

Edith Piaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOUISE PITRE

Marguerite Monnot, Simone Berteault, Lena Horne, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOUISE CAMILLERI

Jean Cocteau, Noël Coward, Charles Dumont, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RÉJEAN COURNOYER

Understudy for Edith Piaf and Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . TRACY MICHAILIDIS

Understudy for Marlene Dietrich and Ensemble . . . . . . SEANA-LEE WOOD

THE BANDConductor/Piano — JONATHAN MONRO

Accordion — JOHN LETTIERIBass — WILL JARVIS

Violin — NATALIA ZIELINSKI CHATURVEDIDrums — NICK COULTER

Assistant Conductor/Piano — MICHAEL VIEIRA

Original Arrangements — DANIEL GROßE BOYMANNAdditional Arrangements — DAN PARDO and JONATHAN MONRO

Additional Orchestrations — MARK CAMILLERIMusic Preparation — DAN PARDO

PIAF-DIETRICH has an approximate running time of 2 hours,

including one intermission. Due to the nature of live theatre

the running time may vary from performance to performance.

Theatrical haze, strong language and mature subject matter.

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S C E N E S & M U S I C A L N U M B E R S

ACT 1When the World Was Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Instrumental

La vie en rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene/Edith

Boys in the Backroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

Lili Marlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

L’accordéoniste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edith

You’re the Cream in my Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Radio Singer

Falling in Love Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

Padam, padam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edith

Mon manège à moi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edith

Land, Sea and Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Radio Singer

Mon Dieu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edith

Maybe He Will Come Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

Hymne à l’amour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edith/Marlene

ACT 2Just a Gigolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

I Wish You Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

Milord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edith

Don’t Ask Me Why I’m Leaving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

Bravo pour le clown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edith

La vie en rose (reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edith/Marlene

Where Have All the Flowers Gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene

You’re the Cream in my Coffee (reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edith/Marlene

Non, je ne regrette rien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dumont/Edith

La vie en rose (finale) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlene/Edith

Song Credits for all the songs used in PIAF/DIETRICH can be found

online at https://www .mirvish .com/shows/piafdietrich

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“ I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears."

“ Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth.”EDITH PIAF

� ÉDITH GIOVANNA

GASSION was born

in Belleville, on the

outskirts of Paris, in 1915.

• Though legend had it

that she was born in the

streets, she was actually

born in a hospital.

• She was abandoned by

her alcoholic mother

(who was also a singer)

when she was an infant.

• She eventually came

to be cared for by her

paternal grandmother,

who was the madam of

a brothel.

• From ages 3 to 7, Piaf

was allegedly blind,

a complication from

keratitis; she claims

to have regained her

sight on a religious

pilgrimage as a result of

miraculous healing.

• At 7 years old, she

was reclaimed by her

father, an accomplished

acrobat, who took

her travelling with

his circus.

• Piaf gave birth to her

only child, a daughter

Marcelle, in 1932, when

she was 17; Marcelle

died at the age of two

from meningitis.

• Piaf sang on the streets

to make money, and was

discovered in 1935 by

Louis Leplee, a cabaret

owner, who gave her her

fi rst nightclub job.

• Leplee was the fi rst to

refer to her as “la môme

Piaf” (the little sparrow)

due to her stature (4’8”)

and nervous demeanour;

he also advised her to

wear black when she

performed, which she

would continue to do

throughout her career.

• She quickly began

performing in major

music halls, recording

albums, and writing her

own lyrics.

• After dominating the

Parisian music scene,

she eventually shot to

international stardom

and acclaim.

• She was married twice:

in 1952 to Jacques Pills

(whom she divorced

in 1957), and in 1962 to

Theo Sarapo, a Greek

hairdresser turned actor/

singer who sometimes

sang with her.

• Piaf was involved in

several near-death car

accidents that left her with

serious injuries; these

exacerbated a reliance on

morphine and alcohol.

• She died of liver failure in

1963 at the age of 47.

• Her last song L’homme de

Berlin was recorded the

year she died.

• Piaf was denied a funeral

mass due to her irreligious

lifestyle, but her funeral

procession drew tens of

thousands of people onto

the streets of Paris.

• In 2013, 50 years after

her death, the Roman

Catholic Church gave her

a memorial mass.

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Did You Know?

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Did You Know?

Written and edited by Caitlin Murphy, reprinted with permission from the Segal Centre

“ I am at heart a gentleman.”

“ Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.”MARLENE DIETRICH

� MARIE MAGDALENE

DIETRICH was born in

1901 in Schöneberg (now

part of Berlin), Germany.

• She was married

only once in 1923 to

Assistant Director

Rudolf Sieber; though

they didn’t offi cially

remain together, they

never divorced.

• Their only child, Maria

Riva, was born in 1924,

and went on to become

an actress, working

mostly in TV; she

published a famously

frank biography about

her mother in 1992.

• Dietrich came to

major attention with

her breakout role as

Lola Lola, a cabaret

performer, in Josef

von Sternberg’s fi lm

Der Blaue Engel (1930)

which was the fi rst

German feature-length

full-talkie fi lm and was

simultaneously shot

in English as The Blue

Angel (1930).

• After the fi lm’s success,

she emigrated to the

US and was brought

under contract with

Paramount Pictures.

• Though Dietrich never

won an Academy Award,

she was nominated for

Best Actress for Morocco

(1930), a fi lm in which

she memorably performs

a song in male drag

and kisses a woman

on the mouth – both

provocative acts for

the time.

• Dietrich famously had

an adventurous love life

that allegedly included

many celebrities of her

time – Frank Sinatra,

Maurice Chevalier, and

John F. Kennedy – she

was also rumored to

be bisexual.

• After her fi lm career

waned, Dietrich

continued to perform

regularly on stage.

• In 1975, at the age of

73, she collapsed on

stage and broke her leg

during an appearance

in Sydney, Australia,

essentially ending

her career.

• Dietrich’s fi nal on-camera

fi lm appearance was a

cameo in Just a Gigolo

(1979), opposite David

Bowie, in which she sang

the title song.

• She participated in a

documentary about

her life called Marlene,

directed by Maximillian

Schell (1984), in voice

only – she refused to

be fi lmed.

• After retreating to her

Paris apartment and

living as a recluse for

over a decade, Dietrich

died in 1992 at the age

of 90.

• Her funeral was attended

by 1,500 people, with

thousands more outside

the church.

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A N OT E F RO M T H E P L AY W R I G H T S

PIAF/DIETRICH IS NOT ONLY A

play about friendship; its genesis and

journey were also fueled by several

close friendships.

It all began in 2009, with us putting

together a reading of texts and letters

from and about Marlene and Edith

and their little-known friendship,

accompanied by matching songs. We

created this evening for our close friends,

the famous European actresses Sona

MacDonald and Maria Happel. They

became the two performers who first let

these icons come alive again for us.

The reading was received enthusiastically

— and another friend, David Winterberg,

suggested turning it into a play. Since

both divas and their interpretations of

songs are equally world famous, and as

very few people know these two artists

had a strong amicable, even briefly

romantic connection, we instantly saw

that this could be more than just another

jukebox musical.

During our profound research we

were fascinated by how these women’s

contrariness in a way underlined their

respective skills and characteristics. They

were like fire and water, light and dark:

Marlene and Edith for us were Yin and

Yang to one another, the opposite and yet

the same, somehow.

Our agent Bettina Weyers from the

Gallissas publishing company arranged a

presentational play reading of Spatz Und

Engel (the original German title) in Berlin

and soon after it was produced at one

of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious

theatres: Vienna’s Burgtheater, with

Sona MacDonald and Maria Happel

still portraying the famous duo. The

production was part of the repertoire

for six seasons! More than a dozen

other productions followed mainly in

Germany, but also in Switzerland and

Czechoslovakia (the first translation).

We felt that this play had an international

appeal, so we asked our friend Sam

Madwar to translate it into English.

Then Jonathan Monro, this production’s

Musical Director, and, again a close

friend for many years, suggested our play

to the Segal Centre in Montreal.

Lisa Rubin and Jon Rondeau saw the

potential of The Angel and the Sparrow

and wisely brought playwright Erin

Shields and director Gordon Greenberg

on board who helped shape and modify

it to match North American theatregoers’

expectations. The English-language

premiere in Montreal at the Segal Centre

in 2018 was really well received, and

now David Mirvish has opened the

doors to the CAA Theatre for a 12-week

engagement in Toronto, retitling the play

Piaf/Dietrich.

We are over the moon and so thankful to

everyone involved to see our play being

performed by such a fabulous cast and in

this venue, which, although completely

rebuilt in 2004, this year celebrates its

centenary of entertaining Torontonians.

We hope you enjoy entering the world,

lives, and music of two of Europe’s

most famous Chanteuses and their

changeful friendship!

Thomas Kahry and Daniel Große Boymann

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A N OT E F RO M T H E D I R E C TO R

PIAF–DIETRICH. JUST HEARING

those two names in juxtaposition set

off waves of excitement when I first

learned of this wonderful new play.

Two of Europe’s most popular, most

passionate — and most tortured stars

on the same stage? For ‘camp’ value

alone, it was hugely promising. And

then there was the music. Songs like

La vie en rose, Je ne regrette rien, and

Falling In Love Again have become

emblematic of a type of European

chanson that is unapologetically

emotional; that reaches into the depths

of your soul and squeezes. I knew this

would be full bodied red wine-soaked

theatre, if nothing else. What I didn’t

realize, though, was the deep humanity

contained in their unique relationship.

At a time when popular culture was still

defined by a small handful of artists,

these were two of the biggest: divas

without compromise, whose lives were

as theatrical as their performances.

However, each woman approached life

and art in a very different way.

While Piaf wore her heart – and her

heartbreak – on her sleeve, Dietrich

created a suit of armor that defined her

on stage and off. For Dietrich, discipline

(or the semblance of it) governed her

choices. For Piaf, it was all about being

true to the moment, regardless of

long-term consequences. Like other

great artists whose stock in trade was

raw emotion, she self-medicated to

avoid the dark depression that is often

the flip side of a high – and ultimately

paid the price. For Dietrich, it was the

cool sense of control that defined her

career and emboldened her to reject

Nazi Germany, emigrating to America

in a wildly unpopular move (amongst

Germans), that came with a cost.

At its core, Piaf/Dietrich is about the

complicated, dangerous and deeply

human relationship between these

two European legends; powerful

women struggling to connect in a

world that had defined them by their

relationships to men. With opposite

strengths and celebrity in common,

the two women found themselves

drawn to each other; frustrated and

delighted and craving what the other

had and they believed they did not.

Theirs was a wild ride, and while this

play, wrapped in a sexy smoke-filled

concert, traces their romance,

friendship and feud with each other,

it ultimately celebrates the poetry and

power of giving everything you have

to your art, living without regrets, and

giving your heart fully.

Gordon Greenberg

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T H E CO M PA N Y

LOUISE  PITREEdith PiafDonna in Mamma Mia!

(original Toronto, US tour

and Broadway casts); Adult

Marie in Marie, Dancing

Still – Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’

new musical (5th Ave Theatre, Seattle –

Susan Stroman dir./choreographer), Dr

Madden in Next to Normal (CAA), Snake

in The Little Prince (Theatre Calgary,

Dennis Garnhum dir.), Fantine in Les

Misérables (Original Toronto, Montreal

and Paris) Piaf in Piaf (5 productions),

Luck Be A Lady (Asolo Rep, Gordon

Greenberg dir./creator); Gypsy (Chicago

Shakespeare Theatre, Gary Griffin dir.);

Mame in Mame (Goodspeed Opera

House); Toad in A Year With Frog and

Toad (YPT Toronto, Jen Shuber/Allen

MacInnis dir.); Mayor/Ma in The Toxic

Avenger (John Rando dir.); Mrs Lovett

in Sweeney Todd (Calgary Opera, Kelly

Robinson dir.); Annie in Annie Get Your

Gun (Massey Hall, Donna Feore dir.);

Blood Brothers (Can Stage) to name

a few. Louise’s co-creation (with W.

Joseph Matheson) of The Times They Are

A’Changin’ for the Harold Green Jewish

Theatre last year will be reprised at the

Segal Centre (Montreal) this coming

March 2020. Small screen appearances:

CBC’s Over The Rainbow (Judge), Merry

Matrimony (Lead/ Hallmark), Lifetime’s A

Christmas Wedding, Recipe for a Perfect

Christmas, MVP, Flashpoint and the CBC

biopic Celine in which she played Celine

Dion’s mother, Therese. She can still be

seen as the host of Star Portraits on Bravo!

Louise has won many awards including

four Dora Mavor Moore Awards. She

appears in concert (Diane Leah, MD/

piano) all over North America. She has

released five solo CD’s and can be heard

as Fantine (Les Misérables, Paris cast),

Ulrika (Kristina) and Mary (Could You

Wait?). www.louisepitre.com

JAYNE  LEWISMarlene DietrichTwo-time Toronto Dora

Award nominee for

Falsettos and Menopause

— Out Loud! and a

Calgary Critics Award nominee for

Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein.

Other Highlights:  Molina’s mother

in Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Encore

Productions, Toronto); Miss Andrew

in Mary Poppins (Disney — Canada, U.S.

and Mexico); Sister Bertha and Mother

Abbess in The Sound of Music (Mirvish

Productions); Madame Giry in The

Phantom of the Opera (Livent — Toronto/

Canadian National Company); Kate

in Kiss Me Kate (Stratford Festival); Freaky

Friday, Elf — the Musical (Theatre

Aquarius); How To Succeed in

Business…, Harvey, Annie, The Wizard

of Oz, White Christmas (Drayton

Entertainment); Mamma Mia! (Capitol

Theatre); Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney

Todd (Welcome Wood Productions); and

Meredith in Bat Boy (Canadian Premiere).

Ms. Lewis originated the roles of Monica

in Sinners, Sheila Walsh in A Gift to

Last, “Death” in Pelagie and Val in War

Brides. Jayne has performed as a guest

soloist with major Canadian symphonies

and in Irving Berlin . . . . . Always, a tribute

show she created with husband Victor A.

Young. TV/Film: Georgetown, Degrassi,

Willa’s Wildlife (voice), Killjoys, Crossword

Mysteries lll (Hallmark).

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LOUISE  CAMILLERIMargueritte Monnot, Simone Berteault, Lena Horne, etc.Career highlights include

performing the role of

Anita in West Side Story with Drayton

Entertainment, the world premiere

production of The Lord of the Rings at

the Princess of Wales Theatre, as dance

captain for three years in Mamma Mia! at

the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and three

years in the 1993 Harold Prince revival

of Show Boat at the Gershwin Theatre

on Broadway and featured dancer in

the U.S. national tour of Sophisticated

Ladies produced by Mercedes Ellington .

Film and television highlights include

performing in the movies Superstar,

Blues Brother’s 2000, Disney’s Sharpay’s

Fabulous Adventure. Vocal highlights

include performing as a guest soloist

with The Canadian Tenors, featured

singer with Josh Groban, performing

and recording with Lorraine Segato and

the Parachute Club and lead vocalist

for Mark Camilleri and The CT Project’s

debut album.

RÉJEAN  COURNOYERJean Cocteau, Noël Coward, Charles Dumont, etc.Rejean is a maritimer!

Past credits include:

Evangeline, Alice Through the Looking

Glass, Anne of Green Gables™,

Canada Rocks!, The Founding Fathers

(Charlottetown); Peter and the Starcatcher

(WCT); A Misfortune (NSTF); The Music

of Jacques Brel, A Christmas Carol, Next

to Normal, The Sound of Music, Pride

and Prejudice, Sweeney Todd, Beauty

and the Beast (Citadel); L’Homme de la

Mancha, (Unitheatre); Les Misérables,

White Christmas (Artsclub); Tuesdays

with Morrie (6X city tour); Little Shop,

Pélagie (CanStage); A Few Good Men,

Oliver! (Neptune). Film/TV: October

1970 (CBC); Rideau Hall (Topsail); The

Event (E-Motion Pictures – Actra Award).

@reyjey.

W. JOSEPH  MATHESONCasino Director, Marcel Cerdan, Lou Barrier, Jacques Pills, Burt Bacharach, etc.Joe is thrilled to revisit

characters he created last year for

Montreal’s Segal Centre. He has worked

at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, across

Canada and much of the US, England and

Europe; original Canadian companies of

Miss Saigon, The Who’s Tommy (Mirvish)

and Jersey Boys (DanCap); the first US

National tour of Ragtime; US premiere of

From Here To Eternity (FLMTF); Canadian

and World premieres of The Little Prince

(Theatre Calgary), Luck Be A Lady (Asolo

Rep), Paulo and Daphne (Theatreworks),

Moby Dick (Stratford) as well as Could

You Wait…? (Grand Theatre), Sketching

Sunshine (TOV), and Times They Are

A’Changin’ (HGJT) – three shows he

also wrote. Other writing: four seasons

Laughing Matters (FST); co-lyricist

On The Rocks with Louise Pitre. (Je

t’aime darlin’)

TRACY  MICHAILIDISu/s Edith Piaf, u/s EnsembleTracy is proud to be

making her Mirvish debut.

Recent credits include

Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Don Jail

with Eclipse Theatre Company (Dora

nomination), and the European tour of

Theaturtle’s Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured

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Play. She has spent seasons at the

Stratford, Shaw, and Charlottetown

Festivals, and has toured in the U.S. with

both Fun Home and Disney’s Beauty

and the Beast. Toronto credits include

Dora Award for Life After (The Musical

Stage Company, CanStage, Yonge St.

Theatricals), Mr . Burns: A Post-Electric

Play (Outside the March), The Light in

the Piazza (The Musical Stage Company),

and Unity [1918] (Theatre Passe Muraille).

Tracy also runs her own teaching studio.

www.tracymichailidis.com

SEANA-LEE  WOODu/s Marlene Dietrich, u/s Ensemble2019 has been great for

singer/actor/pianist

Seana-Lee who warbles

on stage and on cruise ships. After the

Canadian premiere of Steve Martin’s

Bright Star, she rocked Rachel Lynde in

Anne of Green Gables (Thousand Islands

Playhouse). Previous Mirvish productions

include Once, and The Sound of Music.

Productions with director Hal Prince

include Show Boat and The Phantom

of the Opera. Favourite roles include

Marge in Suds, Dolly in Hello Dolly!,

and Marmee in Little Women (DuMez/

Hodgkinson). Between theatre contracts

she sails the world with her lounge-y

piano playing and original comedy show

One Piano, Two Canadians with husband

Jim Hodgkinson. Favourite TV spot:

Super Dave .

KEVIN  BOWERSStage ManagerKevin is pleased to be

stage managing for

Mirvish Productions again

with this production of

Piaf/Dietrich. His 40+ years in theatre has

taken him across Canada and the USA

more times than he cares to remember, as

well as England, Russia and Switzerland.

Previous Mirvish shows include Les

Misérables, Crazy For You, Racing Demon,

Oliver!, Once, Kinky Boots and Strictly

Ballroom . Other favourites include

Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca,

Aida, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly

and The Barber of Seville, as well as the

original Toronto production of Forever

Plaid. Most recently he stage managed

Obeah Opera at the Fleck Dance Theatre

as part of the Luminato Festival. A

native Torontonian, Mr. Bowers holds

a MA in Theatre from Essex University

in England.

KATE  DUNCANAssistant Stage ManagerSelected theatre credits

include: Kinky Boots

(Mirvish Productions);

Antigone (Young People’s

Theatre); Fool for Love, Alligator Pie, The

Crucible (Soulpepper); Million Dollar

Quartet (Drayton Entertainment); Life

After (Canadian Stage Company/Musical

Stage Company); Sarah Ballenden (Royal

Manitoba Theatre Centre); A Thousand

Splendid Suns, The 25th Annual Putnam

County Spelling Bee (The Grand Theatre);

The Magic Flute (Opera Atelier). Kate is

a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School

in Toronto.

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T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M

DANIEL  GROßE BOYMANNWriterBorn in Munich, Germany,

Daniel studied acting

and singing in Vienna,

and made the Austrian capital his new

home. He worked as an actor/singer and/

or pianist/MD in theatres all over the

German-speaking area the following 20

years. In 2004, for Carinthia’s summer

festival scherzo, he began writing and

directing musical plays. Piaf/Dietrich

is his 7th original play. He’s also the

German translator of the musicals

Spamalot, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love

And Murder, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour,

The Story Of My Life, Dogfight, and

others. Daniel is married to the opera

singer Magdalena Anna Hofmann.

The couple has a 3-year-old son.

THOMAS  KAHRYWriterThomas Kahry graduated

in Theatre, Film and

Media Studies as well

as Communication

Science at the University of Vienna. He

complemented his education by studying

acting and singing at the University of

Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Since then he has been successfully

working as a writer for theatre and film

and as director, actor, translator and

manager. His works have been performed

in Austria, Germany, Switzerland,

Italy, the Czech Republic, Great Britain

and Canada. His most recent German

translations include John Patrick

Shanley’s The Portuguese Kid and the

musical Charley by John van Eerd and

Michael Reed. Besides his works for the

stage Thomas Kahry is Artistic Director

of the Viennese theatre Theater im Salon

and author of a German monography

about speech-training in educating

actors and opera singers.

ERIN  SHIELDSAdaptationErin Shields is thrilled to

be making her Mirvish

debut. Her most recent

play, Paradise Lost,

premiered at The Stratford Festival in

2018 and will have three productions

across Canada this season. It was

published by Playwrights Canada Press

and won the Quebec Writers Federation

Prize for Playwriting. Erin won the 2011

Governor General's Award for her play

If We Were Birds, which premiered at

Tarragon Theatre. Other credits include:

The Lady from the Sea (Shaw Festival);

The Millennial Malcontent and Soliciting

Temptation (Tarragon Theatre); and

Instant (Geordie Productions). Erin

lives in Montreal with her husband and

two daughters.

GORDON  GREENBERGDirectorGordon Greenberg

directed the acclaimed

West End revival of Guys

and Dolls, starring Rebel

Wilson, which received six Olivier Award

nominations (Savoy Theatre, Phoenix

Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre) and

directed/co-wrote the Broadway stage

adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Holiday

Inn (Roundabout/Universal, PBS Great

Performances .) Other work includes

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the The Heart of Rock and Roll (Old

Globe, Broadway 2020), Barnum (Menier

Chocolate Factory, London), Terms of

Endearment starring Alfred Molina and

Calista Flockhart (Geffen), The Secret of

My Success (also co-writer, Universal

Stage Productions), Mystic Pizza (also

co-writer, MGM), Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big

[Your Town Here] Christmas Show (also

co-writer, Old Globe, Bucks County),

Dracula: A Comedy (also co-writer,

Maltz), Jacques Brel…(Drama Desk, Drama

League, Outer Critics nominations),

Working (Drama Desk Award), Disney’s

Tangled; Regional: Williamstown, Paper

Mill, Huntington, Signature, Dallas

Theatre Center, Chicago Shakes, NY Stage

& Film. TV Writing: Disney Channel,

Nickelodeon. Education: Stanford, NYU,

RADA.

JONATHAN  MONROMusic Director/ArrangerOriginally from Newfoundland, Jonathan

debuted at Carnegie Hall as a pianist at 16.

A musician, writer, and actor, his musical

directing credits include: Fun Home

(Vancouver Arts Club – Ovation Nom.),

Piaf/Dietrich (Segal Centre), The Light

in the Piazza (Musical Stage Company/

Theatre Calgary – Betty Nom.), Floyd

Collins (PSP/TIFT – Jessie Nom.), Alice

Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford

Festival), his own musical With a Twist

(Lunchbox Calgary – Betty Award),

and the world premiere of The Hockey

Sweater (Segal Centre/NAC), which he

co-wrote with Emil Sher. Jonathan won

BMI New York’s Harrington Award for

Outstanding Musical Theatre writing, and

was musical associate to Alan Menken,

Adam Guettel, Charles Strouse, and

Richard Maltby.

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MICHAEL  GIANFRANCESCOSet DesignMichael has designed sets and costumes

for theatre, musical theatre, opera, and

ballet productions across Canada. Recent

work includes the set for the world

premiere of Hadrian at the Canadian

Opera Company, the costumes for

Ricciardo e Zoraide at the Rossini Opera

Festival in Italy and the costumes for

the world premiere of Frame By Frame

with Robert Lepage and Guillaume

Côte for Ex Machina and The National

Ballet of Canada. Michael has designed

extensively at the Stratford Festival and

Shaw Festival. His set design for Cabaret

at the Shaw Festival was featured at the

Prague Quadrennial of Performance

Design and Space in 2015. Michael is the

recipient of a Dora Award and two META

Awards

LOUISE  BOURRETCostume DesignLouise is an artistic coordinator and

designer with over thirty years of

experience in hair, makeup, costumes,

and stage management. She has

collaborated with Cirque du Soleil,

Cirque Éloize, Festival des FrancoFolies

de Montreal, the Montreal Jazz Festival,

Legendes Fantastiques, Cavalia, Era:

Intersection of Time (Shanghai),

Daughters of Mile End, among others and

most recently designed Infinity Ball (Lune

Rouge Entertainment). She also works

on a regular basis at the Segal Centre

for Performing Arts – her credits there

include: Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock

Star Rabbi, The Dybbuk, I Love You, You’re

Perfect, Now Change, The Producers,

Tribes, My Name Is Asher Lev, Noises Off,

Million Dollar Quartet, It Shoulda Been

You, Marjorie Prime, The Angel and the

Sparrow, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Indecent,

and A Century Songbook (Costume

Designer), as well as The Hockey Sweater:

A Musical (Co-Costume Designer). She is

a META winner for Outstanding Costume

Design for Travesties.

MICHAEL  WALTONLighting DesignMichael Walton is a Canadian lighting

designer currently based in Stratford,

ON. Recent designs include: Billy Elliot,

Little Shop of Horrors, Birds of a Kind,

The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man,

The Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet,

A Chorus Line, Oedipus Rex, Othello,

Fiddler on the Roof, Henry V, Twelfth

Night, Macbeth (Stratford Festival); Così

Fan Tutte (Israeli Opera, Canadian Opera

Company); Tartuffe (Canadian Stage);

The Full Light of Day (Luminato, Electric

Company); Jenufa, Maria Stuarda (Pacific

Opera); Chimerica (RMTC & Canadian

Stage); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,

Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse).

MICHAEL  LAIRDSound DesignSelected Sound Design credits: Next to

Normal, Fun Home, Onegin, Once On

This Island (Musical Stage Company);

John (The Company Theatre); Seussical,

Annie, Cinderella, A Year with Frog and

Toad (YPT); Joni Mitchell: River (The

Grand Theatre); West Side Story, Avenue

Q, Romeo & Juliet, Spamalot! (Citadel

Theatre); Great Expectations, Barber

of Seville (Soulpepper); Evil Dead: The

Musical, Cannibal! The Musical (Starvox);

A Beautiful View (da da kamera).

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MARK  CAMILLERIContractor/Additional OrchestrationsA music director, pianist, arranger,

orchestrator, engineer, producer and

conductor, Mark Camilleri’s career

has taken him around the world with

the likes of Il Divo, Celine Dion, Sting,

Eric Clapton, Seth MacFarland, Andrea

Bocelli, Paul Anka, Sheryl Crow, Sarah

McLachlan, David Foster, Annie Lennox,

Audra McDonald, The Canadian Tenors,

Herbie Hancock, The Priests, Johnny Reid

and Jim Cuddy. In the theatre, Mark has

worked on numerous shows with Mirvish

Productions and Dancap Productions.

When home in Toronto, you’ll likely

find Mark playing/conducting theatre,

Music Directing concerts, recording in

his studio “IMAGINE Sound Studios” or

playing Legos with his family.

NANCY  BENJAMINDialect CoachNancy is an associate voice, text and

dialect coach for the Stratford Festival

of Canada since 2000. In addition, she

was co-head of voice and dialects for

the American Conservatory Theater, San

Francisco, 2009-2017, and a resident

voice/text/dialects director for the

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1993-1999.

Nancy has taught master classes and

workshops and coached productions

for the NAC, the Globe Theatre and the

Globe Theatre Conservatory (Regina),

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (California),

the California Shakespeare Festival,

the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis),

Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), and

the National Academy of Theatre and

Zakeum Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia.

DANIEL  SPRAGGEAssistant DirectorDaniel is an early career writer and

director. He holds a Bachelor’s degree

in Music Theatre Performance from

Sheridan College, has studied dramaturgy

with Guillermo Verdecchia at Soulpepper,

and direction with Richard Rose at

Tarragon. This past March his play

Clinic (Collective of 7) premiered at the

Tarragon Workspace. He has been the

assistant director to Richard Rose on

Peer Gynt (Randolph College), Steven

Gallagher on Stars of Mars (Canadian

Music Theatre Project), and Philip

Akin on Art (Soulpepper). Daniel is

a member of the Dramatists Guild.

danielspragge.com

DAVID  MIRVISHProducerDavid Mirvish is a Toronto based

theatrical producer. Mr Mirvish operates

four theatres in Toronto: the Royal

Alexandra, the Princess of Wales, the Ed

Mirvish and the CAA. In 1983 Mr Mirvish

and his father, Ed Mirvish, purchased The

Old Vic Theatre in London which they

restored and operated until 1998. Mirvish

Productions, founded by David Mirvish

in 1986, is Canada’s leading commercial

theatre producer and has produced plays

and musicals for these and other venues

throughout Canada, on Broadway and

in London’s West End. Co-production

and presentation credits include such

hits as Crazy for You, Les Misérables, The

Lion King, The Sound of Music, the North

American premieres of Priscilla Queen of

the Desert and Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock

You, the national tour of Wicked, Billy

Elliot, the National Theatre’s War Horse,

Kinky Boots, Matilda the Musical, Come

From Away, Dear Evan Hansen and Girl

from the North Country .

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C R E D I T S & AC K N OW L E D G M E N T S

FOR PIAF/DIETRICH

Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KEVIN BOWERS

Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATE DUNCAN

Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL SPRAGGE

Dialect Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NANCY BENJAMIN

Apprentice Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KARLI FELDMAN

Props Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LISA NIGHSWANDER

Wardrobe Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CAITLIN LUXFORD

Scene Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRATTON SCENERY

Lighting Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTIE LITES

Audio Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SOUND ASSOCIATES

Wigs by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JACQUELINE ROBERTSON CULL

Additional Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RABBIT'S CHOICE

FOR MIRVISH PRODUCTIONS

Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MIRVISH

Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN SEWELL

Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MUCCI

Director of Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMILLO CASCIATO

Director of Sales & Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN KARASTAMATIS

Director of Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SCOT WHITHAM

Director of Labour Relations &

Business Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK LAVAWAY

Directors of Development . .KELLY ROBINSON, HANNAH MIRVISH

U.K. Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL ELLIOTT

Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA INTASCHI

Associate General Manager/Company Manager . . .CHARLES CHU

Assistant Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH SISKO

Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS PRIDEAUX

Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN GILES

Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRIANNE GWARTZ

Production Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DESIRÉE PROVEAU

Associate Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANIKA NATER

Assistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEN COOPER

Communications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUE TOTH

Press & Public Relations Manager . . . . . . . . . .J. RANDY ALLDREAD

Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANTONIO TAN

Graphic Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OTTO PIERRE

Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FRANCA LONGOBARDI

Web Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JENKINS

Videographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRISTAN GOUGH

Program Director, CRM,

Data Insights & Ecommerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUBREY STORK

Data Intelligence Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA MAGINNIS

CRM & Reporting Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIANNE WU

Labour Relations & HR Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . EMILY KNIGHT

Senior IT Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSIE DI LUZIO

System Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES BARTHMANN,

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Analyst/Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REG DUNCAN

Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JASON YIP

Show Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACQUEL FROST

Accounting Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE LOGAN, KIM SITU

Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILIAN SIU

Assistant to David Mirvish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREL PURVIS

Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HELDER BRUM

FOR ED MIRVISH ENTERPRISES

General Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL LAZAR

FOR TICKETKING

General Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JAMES ALDRIDGE

Phone Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ALAN FORSYTH

Phone Operations Asst. Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUSIE MARCON

Phone Operations Supervisors . . . . . . . . . JANET KOMPARE-FRITZ,

SCOTT RICHARDSON

Administrative Services Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAGGIE BUSKI

Ticketing Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KARYN KING

Administrative and Ticketing

Software Co-ordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVE PELLEY

Ticketing Software Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SARA RIVARD

Database Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APARNA ALIMINETI

FOR MIRVISH GROUP SALES & SUBSCRIPTIONS

Sales Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS DORSCHT

Group Sales Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NATASHA SPRINGETT

Associate Manager, Subscription Operations . . . BLAIR LEIGHTON

Associate Manager, Subscription Services. . . . . .DANIEL McLARTY

Subscriber Relations Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARIKA UMME GUL

Subscriber Relations Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAULYN RAMAN

Student Outreach & Education Co-ordinator . . . DENISE ANDERSON

Group Sales Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NELIA BAIRD

Corporate Group Sales & Event Co-ordinator . . . .TIFFANY TOBIAS

Group Sales Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRANDON BARNSWELL

Subscriber Administration

Representatives . . . . DANIELLA FRUSTAGLIO, MUNIRA SARUAT

Subscription Service Representatives . . . . . . . . . . . MARY ASKWITH,

ERNEST CAYEMEN, MATTHEW KENNEDY, CLARA KIM,

ALEXANDRA LEAN, RICHARD McDONALD,

RYAN REEVE, MIKE RICHARDSON

FOR THE CAA THEATRE

General Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RON JACOBSON

Front of House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIE HOLOWATY

Assistant House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .COREY PALMER

FOH Supervisor/Operations Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . HALEY WATSON

Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERARD RAJU

Assistant Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DENNIS WONG

Maintenance Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KEVIN MCCARTHY

House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON BROWNING

Assistant House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . . . G. STUART BAULCH

Head of Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CAITLIN LUXFORD

Head of Wigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK BENNETT

FOR MIRVISH PROGRAMMEPublisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MIRVISH

Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J. RANDY ALLDREAD

Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OTTO PIERRE

Advertising Sales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRANDS AMPLIFIED INC.

Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUNVIEW PRESS LIMITED

For Mirvish Programme and Mirvish Partnership

Opportunities, please contact:

The Exclusive Sponsorship Agency of Mirvish Productions

[email protected]

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Backstage employees are represented by the

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage

Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

Mirvish Productions is a member of the

Professional Association of Canadian Theatres

(PACT) and engages, under the terms of the

Canadian Theatre Agreement, actors and stage

managers who are members of the Canadian

Actors’ Equity Association.

The musicians employed in this production

are members of the Toronto Musicians’

Association, The American Federation

of Musicians.

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