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Music by TOM KITTBook & Lyrics by BRIAN YORKEY

Starring

TROY ADAMS, BRANDON ANTONIO, NATHAN CARROLL, MA-ANNE DIONISIO, LOUISE PITRE, STEPHANIE SY

Director Musical Staging Music Director

PHILIP AKIN TRACEY FLYE LILY LING

Assistant to the Music Set & Lighting Designer Sound Designer Costume Designer Director & Conductor

STEVE LUCAS MICHAEL LAIRD ALEX AMINI DAVID TERRIAULT

Production Manager Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

PATRICK LAVENDER AJ LAFLAMME KATE SANDESON

Producing Patrons Next to Normal Executive Producer

LINDA & CHRIS MONTAGUE MARQUIS ENTERTAINMENT, COLIN RIVERS

NEXT TO NORMAL is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com.

Original Broadway Production Produced by David Stone, James L Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo and Second Stage Theatre.

New York Premiere Produced by Second Stage Theatre, New York, February 2008 (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director, Ellen Richard, Executive Director).

NEXT TO NORMAL was subsequently produced by Arena Stage in November 2008.

Developed at Village Theatre, Issaquah, WA (Rob Hunt, Executive Producer, Steve Tomkins, Artistic Director).

An earlier version was presented in the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Support for the development of NEXT TO NORMAL was provided by

the Jonathan Larson Foundation.

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T H E C A S T

(in alphabetical order)

Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TROY ADAMS

Gabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRANDON ANTONIO

Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN CARROLL

Diana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MA-ANNE DIONISIO

Doctor Madden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOUISE PITRE

Natalie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHANIE SY

Voices, an Anesthesiologist, Nurses, Doctors, and others, all played by the COMPANY, and a Psychopharmacologist (Doctor Fine)

played by the performer playing DOCTOR MADDEN.

* Winner of The Musical Stage Company’s 2018-19 Syd & Shirley Banks Prize for Emerging Musical Theatre Artists

** The Musical Stage Company’s 2018-19 Featured Performer supported by Spencer Lanthier & Diana Bennett

† Dance Captain: Brandon Antonio

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NEXT TO NORMAL has a running time of approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.

THE ORCHESTRAConductor & Keyboard 1 — DAVID TERRIAULT

Keyboard 2 — ADAM SAKIYAMA

Electric/Steel/Nylon Guitar — ERIK PATTERSON

Electric/Acoustic Bass — JUSTIN GRAY

Drums & Percussion — JAMIE DRAKE



S O N G L I S T

ACT IPrelude (Light)

Just A nother Day

Ever y thing E lse

W ho’s Crazy / My Psychopharmacologist and I

Perfect For You

I Miss T he Mountains

It ’s Gonna Be Good

He’s Not Here

You Don’t Know

I A m T he One

Superboy and the Inv isible Girl

I ’m Alive

Ma ke Up Your Mind / Catch Me I ’m Fall ing

I Dreamed A Dance

T here’s A World

I ’ve Been

Didn’ t I See T his Mov ie?

A Light In T he Dark

ACT IIWish I Were Here

Song of Forget t ing

Hey #1

Seconds and Years

Bet ter T han Before

A f tershocks

Hey #2

You Don’t Know (Reprise)

How Could I Ever Forget?

It ’s Gonna Be Good (Reprise)

W hy Stay?

A Promise

I ’m Alive (Reprise)

T he Brea k

Ma ke Up Your Mind / Catch Me I ’m Fall ing (Reprise)

Maybe (Nex t to Normal)

Hey #3 / Perfect For You (Reprise)

So A ny way

I A m T he One

Finale: L ight


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Pulitzer Prize Winners in Drama, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey of Next to Normal

CONVERSATION:

Bipolar disorder and the emotional

toll mental illness takes on a

family are not standard fare for

Broadway musicals, let alone Broadway

hits. But that is the subject of Next to Normal, which has managed to draw

both commercial and critical success.

In 2010 it earned another honor: It

was named winner of the Pulitzer

Prize for Drama, at that time just the

eighth musical in history to receive

that award.

Next to Normal chronicles the

troubled life of Diana Goodman as she

struggles to balance the necessity of

psychological treatment while dealing

with the significant side effects of

taking medication, trying to come to

terms with the impact it has on her

identity, and facing the life-threatening

risks of refusing treatment.

Next to Normal took an unusual path to

Broadway. It began almost a decade ago

as a class project at the BMI Lehman

Engel Musical Theatre Workshop where

co-creators Brian Yorkey and Tom

Kitt wrote a 10-minute musical about

electroconvulsive therapy. Eventually,

it was developed into a full-scale

musical, played off-Broadway, and

went through a significant overhaul at

Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. before

returning to New York. It won three

Tony Awards in 2009, including one for

Best Original Score, which largely takes

Authors Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt.

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the form of a rock opera mixed with

other musical genres.

Murrey Jacobson, National Affairs

Editor at PBS NewsHour, spoke with

Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt following

their Pulitzer Prize win.

MURREY JACOBSON: Brian Yorkey and

Tom Kitt are the co-creators of the

musical Next to Normal, which won

the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Brian

wrote the book and lyrics, Tom wrote

the music. What has this meant for you

and for the show?

BRIAN YORKEY: It’s a little hard to

know exactly what to say about it. It’s a

higher honor than either Tom or I ever

expected. Certainly with this show—

which has been sort of an unlikely

show for its whole life—I think that it

really does say that this show is worth

seeing, and that was worth all the great

effort that it took on the part of many,

many people to make it happen. It’s a

real honor.

TOM KITT: I agree with everything

Brian said. It’s really a dream come

true, you know, just being able to

come back to New York after Second

Stage and Arena [Stage] and watch it

on Broadway. It’s as meaningful as

anything that’s ever happened to me.

MURREY JACOBSON: Brian, I’d like

to go back to the origins of the show.

Where did you get the original idea for

this story?

BRIAN YORKEY: Well, I’m always a little

embarrassed to admit this, but Tom

and I were in the BMI Musical Theater

Writers’ Workshop here in New York

and needed something to write about

for our final project. We were looking

for something a little different, and

I saw a television news report on

electroconvulsive therapy, which is

commonly known as shock therapy,

and at the time I didn’t know that it

was still practiced. I’ve come to learn

much more about it, but at the time it

The Toronto production of Next to Normal in rehearsal. Photo by Dahlia Katz.



just sort of surprised me, and really

got me sort of thinking about the kind

of person who would have to have

that sort of treatment in their lives.

And so I called up Tom and I said,

“What about a musical about a woman

who has struggled with depression

for her whole life and has to turn to

ECT?” Tom said, “Let’s give it a try,”

and off we went.

MURREY JACOBSON: Tom, maybe

you could speak to the decision to

make this a musical. I mean, there

has obviously been a lot of art about

the impact of mental illness, but I

don’t think there have been a lot of

musicals about it. Did you feel it was

a little bit of a risk to tell this story as

a musical?

TOM KITT: I didn’t think about the

risk factor, just because I was so

moved by the subject matter when

Brian and I started working on it. It

was definitely a challenge, and as a

writer that’s the kind of piece you

want to be involved with. I think

that this is a subject matter that

affects most people. We have very

(L-R) Toronto cast members Troy Adams, Stephanie Sy, Ma-Anne Dionisio and Brandon Antonio. Photo by Dahlia Katz.


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heightened emotions about mental

illness. Music in theater is meant to

convey those heightened emotions.

The saying goes that you sing about

something in a musical when emotion

becomes so great that you have to. So

I felt that a story like this, filled with

many heightened emotions, was a

natural fit to sing. The only thing was

to make sure that I wrote appropriate

music for each dramatic moment in the

show, and not try to over think it but

just go naturally where I felt like Brian’s

writing is taking the music. And he

really led the way beautifully.

MURREY JACOBSON: Brian, help

us understand what you have been

helping people take away from the

show, particularly on this whole

question of treatment. What kind of

balance were you hoping viewers

would take away from it?

BRIAN YORKEY: I think that’s a great

question. We were hoping — and it took

us a while to find this balance — we

were hoping to portray, in as truthful

a way as we could, the difficulty

in treating something like bipolar

disorder or depression. We definitely

wanted to speak to — because we knew

from people who were close to us — the

plusses and minuses of medication.

There are many medications which

are very powerful and very successful

in treating many of the symptoms of

bipolar and of depression. We really

live in a miraculous age in that sense.

But medications come with side

effects and they come with tradeoffs,

and Diana is not the first character,

fictional or otherwise, to question

whether the side effects that come with

medication are worth the benefits. We

didn’t want to take a stand one way or

the other. There are people who think

we have taken a stand one way or the

other. Luckily, I think they are about

an equal number of people who think

we think one thing as who think we

think another thing so hopefully that

means we’ve done a decent job of

being balanced.

TOM KITT: What I’ve noticed is that

when Brian and I started working

on this, you could feel the difficulty

in bringing a subject matter like this

to any sort of art form and there is

a certain stigma that comes with

discussing mental illness. What’s

been most gratifying I think is to

watch this subject matter be put into

a mainstream art form where people

can come and have an experience in

the theater.

This article originally appeared on

PBS NEWSHOUR’s Art Beat page and

has been edited for length to fit in our

programme. www.PBS.org/newshour

Stephanie Sy and Nathan Carroll. Photo by Dahlia Katz.

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T H E C O M P A N Y

TROY ADAMS

Dan Goodman

Selected theatre credits:

Rose, Angels in America

(Soulpepper); Polly Peel

(Toronto Fringe); Lullaby:

Inside the Halifax Explosion (EFT);

Shrek (The Grand/Neptune Theatre);

Dreamgirls (RMTC/Theatre Aquarius/

The Grand); Wanderlust (Stratford

Festival); The Adventures of a Black Girl

in Search of God (Mirvish/Harbourfront

Centre/Centaur Theatre/NAC); Othello

(Shakespeare by the Sea). Troy is a

Dalhousie Theatre graduate.

BRANDON ANTONIO

Gabe Goodman

For The Musical Stage

Company: 2018-19 Banks

Prize Recipient, RePrint

(upcoming). Brandon is a

Toronto-based performer who recently

made his professional theatre debut as

Sky in Mamma Mia! (Globe Theatre).

Other theatre credits include: Dancing

in the Coal Dust: In Concert (David

Warrack); Y(our) Story (Carlos Bulosan

Theatre); Dogfight, Floyd Collins, How to

Succeed, Sunday in the Park with George

(Theatre Sheridan). Film/TV: Web of Lies

(Discovery ID). Brandon would like to

thank his friends and family for their

incredible love and support! Follow him

@brandon_antonio to stay connected.

NATHAN CARROLL

Henry

Based in Toronto, Nathan’s

credits include: Hook Up

(Tapestry/Theatre Passe

Muraille); Vimy (Western

Canada Theatre); Buddy in The Buddy

Holly Story (1000 Islands Playhouse/

WCT); Once (The Grand/MTC); Terry Fox

in Marathon of Hope (Drayton Ent.); Once

(Mirvish); Two Gentlemen of Verona/

The Tempest (St. Lawrence Shakespeare);

Floyd Collins (TiFT/Patrick St.); Salt-Water

Moon (Common Roof); The Book of

Esther/Bordertown Café (Blyth). He has

been a member of 3 Dora Award-winning

Ensembles (Once, The Wizard of Oz,

Chasse Galerie) and is a graduate of

George Brown Theatre School.

MA-ANNE DIONISIO

Diana Goodman


Company: UnCovered:

Joni Mitchell & Carole

King. Philippine-born

Canadian actress, Ma-Anne Dionisio,

is best known for her role as Kim in the

Canadian premiere production of Miss

Saigon (Mirvish) for which Toronto’s

Princess of Wales Theatre was built. She

has since reprised the role in Sydney’s

Capitol Theatre, London’s Theatre

Royal Drury Lane, and Toronto’s Four

Seasons Centre for the Performing

Arts. The three-time Dora Mavor Moore

Award Nominee for Best Actress in

a Musical, garnered her most recent

nomination for her role as Grizabella

in Cats (Panasonic Theatre). Additional

theatre credits include: Eponine in Les

Misérables (International/US National

Tour); Little Girl/Meili cover in Flower

Drum Song (Broadway revival); Bertrande

in Martin Guerre (London’s Prince

Edward Theatre); Maria in West Side Story

(Stratford Festival).



LOUISE PITRE

Doctor Madden


Company: UnCovered:

Michael Jackson,

UnCovered: Simon

& Garfunkel. She received a Tony

nomination for her Broadway debut in

the smash hit Mamma Mia! Her career

spans theatre, television and concert

stages across North America and Europe.

Louise recently starred in Marie (The 5th

Avenue Theatre, Seattle) and The Angel

& The Sparrow (Segal Centre). She is

known for her signature performances

as Fantine in Les Misérables (Toronto,

Montreal, and Paris); the title character in

Edith Piaf, Mama Rose in Gypsy (Chicago

Shakespeare Theatre, Gary Griffin

director) and Joanne in Company (again

with Gary Griffin). Louise is the winner of

multiple awards including 4 Dora Mavor

Moore Awards, all for Best Performance

by a Leading Actress in a Musical.

Upcoming: Piaf in Piaf-Dietrich – A

Legendary Affair for Mirvish Productions

this fall. www.louisepitre.com

STEPHANIE SY

Natalie Goodman

Stephanie is a Winnipeg

based theatre and film

actor, and is honoured

to be working with The

Musical Stage Company and Mirvish

on this powerful (dream of hers) show.

Selected credits include: Vietgone (RMTC/

fu-GEN/Hope and Hell); Chicago (Pizza

Party Productions); Prairie Nurse (PTE/

Blyth Festival); Beauty and the Beast

(Rainbow Stage); Tribes (WJT); The Little

Mermaid (Globe Theatre); Prom Queen

(Segal Centre); Little Women (Dry Cold);

A History of Breathing (Persephone);

We Will Rock You (1st National Tour);

Fracture (Netflix); Grudge (Sony Pictures

Entertainment); Breakthrough (FOX 2000

Pictures); Nikola Tesla and the End of

the World (Web). Stephanie would like to

dedicate this to the Sy family, Matt, and to

Connie–continual caretakers of her ideas

and memories.

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

TOM KITT (Music) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal. Next to Normal also received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score. He is also the composer of If/Then (Tony Nom., Outer Critics Nom.); High Fidelity (Broadway); Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway); Superhero (2nd Stage); Disney’s Freaky Friday (Stage Production and Original Disney Channel Movie Musical); Dave (Arena Stage); The

Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Cymbeline (The Public’s NYSF); From Up Here and The Madrid (MTC); Orphans (Broadway) The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons); and As You Like It (Toho Co., Japan). As a music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, credits include SpongeBob Squarepants, The Musical (Tony Nom., Outer Critics Nom, Drama Desk Nom.); Head Over Heels; Jagged Little Pill; Grease Live!; Rise (NBC); and American Idiot. His work with Green Day also includes additional arrangements for their Grammy



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BRIAN YORKEY (Book & Lyrics) Brian Yorkey received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score, for Next to Normal. Brian is currently the Executive Producer and Showrunner of 13 Reasons Whyfor Netfl ix, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. Brian was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal, and his work on the show earned him the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score. He partnered again with the Next to Normal team on If/Then(Tony Award Nominee for Best Score) starring Idina Menzel. Brian co-wrote the libretto for The Last Ship (Outer Critics Nomination, with John Logan) with a score by Sting. His musical adaptation of Freaky Friday for Disney Theatricals enjoyed a National Tour before being adapted into a Disney Channel Original Movie. Current theatrical projects in development include the original musical Jesus in My Bedroom, with composer Tim Symons, as well as stage musical

adaptation of Magic Mike. Additional theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played off -Broadway and regionally, the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and the play, Book of Jobs with Alex Glover. Brian has directed off -Broadway and regionally and for seven years was associate artistic director at Village Theatre in Washington state, one of the nation’s leading producers of new musicals. He’s a graduate of Columbia University, where he was artistic director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.

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TRACEY FLYE (Musical Staging) For The Musical Stage Company: RePrint (upcoming). Tracey is one of Canada’s busiest and most respected directors and choreographers with credits that span over 200 productions. Some credits include: a 12-year association with the legendary rock band QUEEN and its production of We Will Rock You (Toronto, South Africa, Asia and the U.S. National/Broadway Tour), an 18-year association with Ross Petty Productions’ Christmas Panto, ONCE (The Grand Theatre/RMTC), Million Dollar Quartet (Charlottetown Festival), Ghost (Drayton Entertainment), Cabaret (RMTC), West Side Story (Rainbow Stage/Vancouver Opera), Evita (Vancouver Opera), Rock Of Ages (StageWest Calgary), Buyer & Cellar, Venus in Fur (ATP), Jane Eyre, The Penelopiad, The 39 Steps (RMTC) and Hairspray (Rainbow Stage/Mayfield). Choreography and staging credits include: Billy Elliot (RMTC), Kiss Me Kate and Evita for the Stratford Festival, The Drowsy Chaperone (TC/RMTC) and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Boys in the Photograph (Mirvish). Tracey is committed to new work development and to the mentorship and development of young artists.

LILY LING (Music Director) For The Musical Stage Company: Once On This Island, Parade, The Light in the Piazza. US Credits: Hamilton (Philip Tour); John & Jen (Off-Broadway Revival); NYC workshops of Carousel (Lincoln Center); Whiskeyland, and Atlantis. International Credits: The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder (Shanghai). Lily currently serves as the Music Director/Conductor for the San Francisco/And Peggy company of Hamilton. She is a graduate of Penn State (M.F.A. Music Directing) and University of Toronto (BMus, Piano Performance). Thanks to Mitchell for his continuing support, to David for holding down the fort, to Jamie

for his love and support through the years, and to the entire band, cast, and crew of

this amazing show!

STEVE LUCAS (Set & Lighting Designer) For The Musical Stage Company: Set and Lighting Design for Passing Strange. Steve has designed award-winning sets and lighting for more than 500 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen all across Canada and the United States, the UK, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia, and Asia. Steve has designed the world premieres of hundreds of shows, many of which have gone on to further acclaim, including some of the most successful shows in Canadian history. Steve has been awarded 4 Dora Awards (31 nominations) and has been shortlisted for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.

MICHAEL LAIRD (Sound Designer) For The Musical Stage Company: Fun Home, Onegin, Once On This Island. Selected Sound Design Credits: 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, Spamalot! (Citadel Theatre); Evil Dead: The Musical, Cannibal! The Musical (Starvox); A Beautiful View (da da kamera).

ALEX AMINI (Costume Designer) For The Musical Stage Company: Costume Designer for Fun Home, Onegin, Grey Gardens (Dora Nominee), The Wild Party (Dora Nominee), Caroline, or Change, The Light in the Piazza. Additional Costume Design Credits Include: Man of La Mancha, Elizabeth Rex, 12 Angry Men, The 39 Steps (Brampton ACT Productions); Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia!, Beauty and the Beast (Port Hope Capitol Theatre). As always, thanks to Carmen for saving my life.



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DAVID TERRIAULT (Assistant to the Music Director & Conductor) For The Musical Stage Company: Assistant to the Music Director, Fun Home, Music Director, You Are Here (with Thousand Islands Playhouse). Winner of a Betty Mitchell Award, David Terriault holds a Bachelor in classical piano from McGill University. Recent credits as Music Director include: Children of God, Once, Million Dollar Quartet, I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change, Forever Plaid (Segal Centre); Phantom of the Opera (Sheridan College); Stories From The Red Dirt Road (Charlottetown Festival); Sisters: The Belles Sœurs Musical (Theatre Calgary/Segal Centre); Spring Awakening (Centaur Theatre); and as Assistant Music Director – Grease (Just For Laughs). Upcoming, David will be acting as Associate Music Director at the 2019 Charlottetown Festival. Thank you to the entire team at The Musical Stage Company for their continued trust.

AJ LAFLAMME (Stage Manager) For The Musical Stage Company: Onegin, You Are Here (with Thousand Islands Playhouse). Selected Stage Management Credits: The Overcoat, Declarations, Liv Stein, Chimerica, Julie, London Road, The Arsonists, Red, Another Africa (Canadian Stage); The Boy in the Moon, A&R Angels (Crow’s Theatre); Musik für das Ende (Soundstreams); The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Maggie & Pierre, Into the Woods, Pirates of Penzance (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera); All Shook Up (Globe Theatre); The Unplugging, Bingo! (Factory Theatre); Waiting Room (Tarragon Theatre); A Beautiful View, The Africa Trilogy (Volcano Theatre); It’s A Wonderful Life, Kim’s Convenience, Spoon River, La Ronde, True West (Soulpepper); Tosca, La Traviata, Die Zauberflöte, La Tragédie de Carmen (Highlands Opera Studio).

KATE SANDESON (Assistant Stage Manager) For The Musical Stage Company: Dr. Silver: A Celebration of Life (with Outside the March). Additional Stage Management credits: The Message, The Summoned (Tarragon); Lessons in Temperament, TomorrowLove™, Mr. Burns (Outside the March); Beauty and The Beast, Hana’s Suitcase, To Kill A Mockingbird (YPT); The Aliens (Coal Mine); A Line in the Sand (Factory); Assistant Stage Manager – Anna Bolena (COC); Billy Bishop Goes to War, for colored girls…, Happy Place (Soulpepper); Sousatzka (Teatro Proscenium). Training: National Theatre School of Canada.

PATRICK LAVENDER (Production Manager) For The Musical Stage Company: Fun Home, Grey Gardens, The Wild Party, Do You Want What I've Got? A Craigslist Cantata, Elegies. Patrick is a production manager and designer for multiple performing arts disciplines, creating work in Canada and touring internationally. He is the recipient of 2 Dora Awards for Lighting Design and Set Design in Independent Theatre, and he was a nominee for the 2017 Pauline MacGibbon Award in Design. His recent and upcoming design work includes, The Book of Life (Volcano Theatre); Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play with Music (Theaturtle); Frankenstein (Kidoons and WYRD Productions); Café Sarajevo (Bluemouth Inc.); Speculation (Leslie Ting); The Nether (Coal Mine Theatre | Studio 180); The Harlequin Salon (Tafelmusik); Elemental (Harbourfront Centre); Poison (Coal Mine Theatre); Brave New World (Litmus Theatre); The Circle (Tarragon Theatre); Extremophiles (Summerworks); Killer Joe (Coal Mine Theatre); Late Company (Why Not Theatre); Crawlspace (Videofag); It Comes in Waves (Necessary Angel/Bluemouth Inc.).



IN AUGUST 2012 DAVID MIRVISH SAW

a wonderful production of an Irish

play called Terminus at the annual

SummerWorks Theatre Festival. The

production was playing for only a few

performances in a venue that held

no more than 30 people. He thought

it was a shame that more people

could not have a chance to see it, so

he did something quite unusual and

extraordinary. He found a way to

make the stage of the Royal Alexandra

Theatre a black-box theatre seating

200 people with the playing area

located in front of the empty historic

auditorium of 1,500 seats.

As well, for many years David was

searching for a way to showcase

the wealth and breadth of Toronto’s

theatre community and to bring

its work to a larger audience. He

also wanted to bring acclaimed

and important international shows

that share a commitment to artistic

excellence, and an exploration of

language, action and ideas that

are challenging, innovative and

provocative. These shows often would

not be appropriate to play 1,500 or

2,000 seats; but at 700 seats, the CAA

Theatre (formerly the Panasonic) is an

ideal size for this kind of work.

This is how the Off-Mirvish

season began.

T H E O F F - M I R V I S H S E R I E S

The inaugural season in 2012-13 included

Terminus from Outside the March

company, Anthony Rapp in Without You,

Studio 180’s production of the Pulitzer

Prize-winning Clybourne Park and Mary

Walsh in Dancing With Rage.

Subsequent seasons included the Tony

Award-winning comedy God of Carnage,

The Two Worlds of Charlie F., George

F. Walker’s Dead Metaphor, Buyer &

Cellar, Rick Miller’s Boom, the Tony

Award-winning Vanya & Sonia & Masha

& Spike, Seminar starring Tom McCamus,

the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama

Disgraced, the Factory Theatre classic,

Salt-Water Moon, Studio 180 Theatre’s

King Charles III and The Musical Stage

Company’s production of the Tony

Award-winning and Toronto Theatre

Critics' Award-winning Best Musical,

Fun Home.

This season’s lineup began with the

multi-award-winning drama Oslo,

from Studio 180 Theatre; the Canadian

premiere production of the provocative

A Doll’s House, Part 2; and this new

production from The Musical Stage

Company of the Tony- and Pulitzer

Prize-winning musical Next to Normal.

Off-Mirvish was always intended to

start a conversation, that’s why after

each Off-Mirvish performance there

is a talkback session between the

audience and members of the cast and

creative team.



A B O U T T H E M U S I C A L S T A G E C O M P A N Y

INTERACT WITH US:

www.musicalstagecompany.com | [email protected]

@musicalstageco @musicalstageco @musicalstageco

We recognize the importance of continuing the conversation about mental health and encourage audiences to participate in post-show chats with members of the cast following each performance and connecting with us online using #Next2NormalTO

SALUTES OUR NEXT TO NORMAL PRODUCING PATRONS

LINDA & CHRIS MONTAGUE

THE MUSICAL STAGE COMPANY

is Canada's leading

charitable musical

theatre company.

Established in 2004, we strive to make

Canada a leader in musical theatre

by telling our most important stories

with music.

We believe it’s better with music.

We are inspired by music’s unique

ability to viscerally affect people and are

committed to cultivating experiences –

onstage and off – that transform lives,

build empathy and create community

through musical theatre.

We incubate new Canadian musicals

from development to production,

investing in Canadian musical theatre

writers and building national and

international partnerships. Our musical

productions – including award-winning

contemporary musicals, world premieres

and concerts – are seen live by 30,000

people over the 80+ nights that we

are onstage annually in venues both

traditional and surprising. To date, our

work has been recognized with 82 Dora

Award nominations, 18 Dora Awards and

16 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards.

Our robust education programs

develop the artists and audiences of

tomorrow, offering musical theatre

training that boosts self-confidence

and self-expression for over 200 young

people each year without cost to the

participants. We also curate innovative

musical programs in partnership with

diverse organizations, maximizing the

resonance of our work across disciplines

and communities.

UP NEXT AT THE MUSICAL STAGE

COMPANY: RePrint, a triptych of

one-act Canadian musicals created in

the LAUNCH PAD musical development

program. Debuting August 2019 at The

Globe and Mail Centre. For details visit

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C R E D I T S & A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

FOR THE MUSICAL STAGE COMPANYThe Roger & Kevin GarlandArtistic & Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MITCHELL MARCUSExecutive Director, Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . ERIN SCHACHTERGeneral Manager & Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL BEAUCHAMPDirector of Marketing & Engagement . . . . . . . . .VICTORIA BARBERAssociate Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON WILLISProduction Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBYN HOJAMarketing & Development Coordinator . . ALETHEA BAKOGEORGEArtistic Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KEVIN WONGArtistic Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT McQUEENThe Fine Furneaux Director of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REZA JACOBSExecutive Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID DANIELSAccountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FIONA CRICHTONGraphic Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SHERPA CREATIVE

STAFF FOR NEXT TO NORMAL2018-19 RBC Apprentice Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SABRYN ROCK2018-19 RBC Apprentice Production Manager . . . . . . JEN COOPERRehearsal Doctor Madden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RIELLE BRAIDAssociate Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDREI MAZURUCVocal Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILY LINGOrchestral Reduction & Programming . . . . . . . . DAVID TERRIAULTAdditional Programming & Consultation . . . . . . WAYNE GWILLIMHead of Props . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MONICA LEEAssociate Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS MALKOWSKIAssistant Set Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WILLIAM CORCORANSet Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEEL & OAK DESIGNSCommunity Consultant . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL ROSENBLUTH, MD, CHIEF, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL

SPECIAL THANKS FROM THE MUSICAL STAGE COMPANY & NEXT TO NORMAL TEAMCarmen Amini, Wade Gilpin, Wayne Gwillim, Aaron Jan, Mark Kachuck, John & Patti Loach, Miguel Malaco, Joyce Padua, Nicola Pantin, Andrea Pestana, Scarborough Music Theatre, Nikki Shaffeeullah & The AMY Project, Stage Centre Production, Max Telzerow, Kevin Wong, Fred Yurichuk

FOR MIRVISH PRODUCTIONSProducer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MIRVISHExecutive Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN SEWELLManaging Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MUCCIDirector of Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMILLO CASCIATODirector of Sales & Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN KARASTAMATISU .K . Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL ELLIOTTDirector of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SCOT WHITHAMDirector of Labour Relations & Business Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK LAVAWAYDirectors of Development . KELLY ROBINSON, HANNAH MIRVISHAssociate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA INTASCHIAssociate General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHARLES CHUAssistant Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANIKA NATERProduction Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS PRIDEAUXProduction Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN GILESAssistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRIANNE GWARTZProduction Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DESIRÉE PROVEAUCommunications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUE TOTHPress & Public Relations Manager . . . . . . . . . .J . RANDY ALLDREADMarketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANTONIO TANGraphic Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OTTO PIERREMarketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FRANCA LONGOBARDIWeb Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JENKINSVideographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRISTAN GOUGHProgram Director, CRM, Data Insights & Ecommerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUBREY STORKData Intelligence Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA MAGINNISCRM & Reporting Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIANNE WUAssistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROSIE DRISCOLLLabour Relations & HR Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EMILY KNIGHTSenior IT Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSIE DI LUZIOSystem Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES BARTHMANN, PHILLIP DREW, KATHARINE POSAVADAnalyst/Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REG DUNCANController . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JASON YIPAccountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TINA MARSHALLShow Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACQUEL FROSTAccounting Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE LOGAN, KIM SITUPayroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILIAN SIUAssistant to David Mirvish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREL PURVISOffice Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HELDER BRUM

FOR ED MIRVISH ENTERPRISESGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL LAZAR

FOR TICKETKINGGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JAMES ALDRIDGEPhone Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ALAN FORSYTHPhone Operations Asst . Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUSIE MARCONPhone Operations Supervisors . . . . . . . . . JANET KOMPARE-FRITZ, SCOTT RICHARDSON Administrative Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAGGIE BUSKITicketing Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KARYN KINGAdministrative and Ticketing Software Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVE PELLEYTicketing Software Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SARA RIVARDTicketing Software Co-ordinator . . . . . . FRANCO MARCANTONIODatabase Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APARNA ALIMINETI

FOR MIRVISH GROUP SALES & SUBSCRIPTIONSSales Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS DORSCHTGroup Sales Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NATASHA SPRINGETTAssociate Manager, Subscription Operations . . . . BLAIR LEIGHTONAssociate Manager, Subscription Services . . . . . .DANIEL McLARTYSubscriber Relations Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARIKA UMME GULSubscriber Relations Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAULYN RAMANStudent Outreach & Education Co-ordinator . . . . DENISE ANDERSONGroup Sales Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NELIA BAIRDCorporate Group Sales & Event Co-ordinator . . . .TIFFANY TOBIASGroup Sales Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRANDON BARNSWELLSubscriber Administration Representatives . . . . DANIELLA FRUSTAGLIO, MUNIRA SARUATSubscription Service Representatives . . . . . . . . . . . MARY ASKWITH, ERNEST CAYEMEN, MATTHEW KENNEDY, CLARA KIM, ALEXANDRA LEAN, RICHARD McDONALD, RYAN REEVE, MIKE RICHARDSON

FOR THE CAA THEATREGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RON JACOBSONFront of House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIE HOLOWATYAssistant House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .COREY PALMERFOH Supervisor/Operations Assistant . . . . . . . . . . HALEY WATSONBox Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERARD RAJUAssistant Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DENNIS WONGMaintenance Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN McCARTHYHouse Head Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON BROWNINGAssistant House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . . . G . STUART BAULCHHead of Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ELENA RAKITSKAYA

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Backstage employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I .A .T .S .E .) .

Mirvish Productions and The Musical Stage Company engage, under the terms of the Independent 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 .

Mirvish Productions and The Musical Stage Company are members of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts .

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