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LYRICS BY RICHARD MALTBY, JR. • MUSIC BY DAVID SHIRECONCEIVED BY STEVEN SCOTT SMITH • Originally Produced Off-Broadway by Janet

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CLOSER THAN EVERLyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. • Music by David Shire

Conceived by Steven Scott SmithOriginally Produced Off-Broadway by Janet Brenner, Michael Gill, and Darryl Roth

Developed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

February 4–20, 2016 • MainStage

Jovanni SyCaitlin Hayes

Dawn ewenMarshall McMahen

Barbara ClaydenJeff Harrison

Bradley DanylukPatsy tomkinslorilyn ParkerCollette Brown

Carol Macdonald

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The play is approximately 120 minutes, with one 20 minute intermission.

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Ma-Anne DionisioChris D. King

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A Wicked Family Musical!

CLOSER THAN EVER “One of the finest scores of the year ...

AN EXHILARATING MUSICAL REVUE.” MICHAEL KUCHWARA, ASSOCIATED PRESSFEBRUARY 4–20, 2016 • MainStage

LYRICS BY RICHARD MALTBY, JR. • MUSIC BY DAVID SHIRECONCEIVED BY STEVEN SCOTT SMITH • Originally Produced Off-Broadway by Janet

Brenner, Michael Gill & Daryl Roth • Developed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

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I first became acquainted with Closer Than Ever as a young theatre artist. I immediately connected with the exuberant melodies and the masterful storytelling within every song. Each individual number is a

perfectly-crafted short story.Although I have loved Closer Than Ever for

more than twenty years, I don’t think I truly understood its full significance until recently. These days, my friends and I are living through what the characters in this musical experience: aging parents; empty nest syndrome; divorce, remarriage; and asking the questions “how did I get here?” and “where do I go next?”

In Crossing to Avalon, Jean Shinoda Bolen writes, “The midlife passage is, at bottom, a quest to find one’s soul, and it is not uncommon to find people at this stage of life

embarking on all sorts of physical and spiritual pilgrimages in an effort to find an ineffable something, a symbolical Holy Grail.”

This is an apt description of the themes of this play. Each character in the show is in search of something—not exactly sure what will bring fulfillment. It’s a precarious time but also one filled with hope and possibility.

So now that my enthusiasm for the show is tempered with a little wisdom, I am delighted to be directing Closer Than Ever. And I feel so honoured to be collaborating with a gifted cast, a wonderful design team, and my brilliant co-directors Caitlin Hayes and Dawn Ewen. We hope you enjoy the show.

–Jovanni Sy

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Kevin AicheleKevin is excited to be

making his debut with Gateway Theatre. Recently, he appeared in the Charlottetown Festival/Citadel Theatre co-production of the new Canadian musical, Evangeline.

Selected credits: Les Misérables (Rainbow Stage); Gunmetal Blues (Globe); Spamalot (Citadel); Mary Poppins (Theatre Calgary); Crazy For you (Drayton Ent); Sweeney Todd (Vertigo; Betty Mitchell Award, Calgary Critics’ Award—Outstanding Performance in a Musical); A Dixie Gospel (Brookstone; Dora Award nomination).

Film and TV credits include The Pinkertons; Something Beneath; Faces in The Crowd; True Crime “Concrete Evidence.”

Danny BalkwillDanny is excited to join

this team at Gateway. Most recently, Danny music directed A Christmas Story (Arts Club). He has had the honour of playing lead roles in both the first U.S. national cast of the hit

Queen musical, We Will Rock you!, and the North American premiere cast and Pre-Broadway tour of Mamma Mia!

Other theatre highlights include The Buddy Holly Story, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fiddler on the Roof, Footloose, Godspell, Songs for a new World, and Legally Blonde, to name a few!

Danny thanks Caitlin for this opportunity and his lovely wife Katie for everything!

Ma-Anne DionisioMa-Anne Dionisio is

best known for her role as “Kim” in the Toronto premiere production of Miss Saigon. Some of her other credits include “Eponine” in the International and US touring productions of Les Misérables; “Bertrande” in

London’s West End production of Martin Guerre; and “Maria” in Stratford Festival’s West Side Story. She dedicates her performances to her loves Niko, Cody and Anya.

Chris D. KingChris is so excited to be

performing again at Gateway after music directing their last three December shows.

He was last seen on stage here in Pump Boys and Dinettes (2003). Chris has been an actor, music director,

composer and educator in the Lower Mainland for the last 20 years. Most recently he played “The Baker,” into the Woods (Fighting Chance Productions) and “Corny Collins,” Hairspray (TUTS). Make sure to come back in April to see Gateway Academy’s “Musical Theatre C” class perform his original musical, Solo Sisters, on this stage.

Thank you to Jenn, Dawn and Jovanni for this amazing opportunity. chris-king.com

Caitriona MurphyCaitriona’s BC credits

include: next to normal, Peter and the Starcatcher, in The Heights, Mary Poppins (Arts Club); Between the Sheets (Pi); Les Misérables (Chemainus); The Spitfire Grill (Pacific); The Full

Monty, out of A Dream (Patrick Street Productions); A Streetcar named Desire, The Miracle Worker (NorthWest); and Marry Me A Little (Speck).

Ontario credits: Elgin Theatre; CanStage; Young People’s Theatre; Tarragon Theatre; Factory Theatre; Theatre Passe Muraille; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; National Arts Centre; Grand Theatre; and Pea Green Productions.

A singer and violinist, she has played venues across Canada. Caitriona is a two-time Jessie Award Nominee. caitrionamurphy.ca

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Jovanni Sy DireCtor

Jovanni is a director, playwright, and actor. He joined Gateway Theatre as Artistic Director in May 2012. At Gateway, Jovanni previously directed Athol Fugard’s valley Song

(2015) and Ken Cameron’s Harvest (2013). Other directing credits include Clifford Cardinal’s Stitch (Native Earth Performing Arts); Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, and David Harrower’s Blackbird (Theatre du Pif in Hong Kong).

Caitlin Hayes MuSiCAl DireCtor/PiAniSt

Caitlin is thrilled to be making her Gateway debut with this amazing show, and stellar cast and creative team. Originally from Victoria, she has worked across the country

as a pianist, music director and performer—from Barkerville to Halifax, to Toronto, to Dawson City—and is happy to have made Vancouver her home. She is currently the accompanist for the Capilano University Musical Theatre Program, and also plays for the Vancouver Youth Choir and Burstin’ With Broadway. Recent music directing credits include Carrie, Grey Gardens (Fighting Chance Productions); and Gay’s The Word, Fiorello (APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert).

Dawn ewen CHoreogrAPHer

Dawn has worked as a performer, choreographer and director. Select credits: The Wizard of oz, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music (Gateway); The Wiz (Fighting Chance

Productions; CTC Award); and Anything Goes (CTC Award; Ovation Award Nominee), 42nd Street (Ovation Award), both with Metro Theatre. Trained at the Canadian School of Ballet, Dawn is a CCPA graduate. She worked with Enpoint ENT in Japan, and was a company member and soloist for Ballet West in Scotland. She brings 18 years’ experience teaching dance and musical theatre, and has been nominated for the Ethel Tibbits Award. Thank you to the cast and creative team. All my love to my family!

Marshall McMahen Set DeSigner

Marshall is happy to return to Gateway after designing sets for Crazy For you and The King and i. Other recent designs include Children of God (Urban Ink); Spamalot, Avenue Q (Arts Club); All

the Way Home (Electric Company); Chelsea Hotel (Firehall, and National Tour); five productions with Caravan Farm Theatre; and many others, with Chemainus Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre, and Pacific Opera Victoria. Marshall is the recipient of the 2014 Mayor’s Arts Award, a Jessie Award, and two Ovation Awards. He is a graduate of UBC, and a member of Associated Designers of Canada.

Barbara Clayden CoStuMe DeSigner

Barbara Clayden has been a theatre artist for over 30 years, designing costumes and sometimes sets for various theatre and dance

companies around Vancouver including Arts Club; Bard on the Beach; Blackbird Theatre; Carousel Theatre; Firehall Arts Centre; Neworld Theatre; Presentation House; Pi Theatre; Rumble Theatre; and Theatre Replacement.

Last season, she designed costumes for valley Song at Gateway. She has been nominated for numerous Jessie Awards, and has won a few along the way.

Jeff Harrison ligHting DeSigner

Jeff, a three-time Jessie Award-winning designer, has over 100 shows to his credit in Vancouver and internationally. Past credits: Floyd Collins, out of a

Dream (Patrick Street Productions); Cat in the Hat (Carousel).

He is the Technical Director of Ballet BC, and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

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Bradley Danyluk SounD DeSigner

Brad is a Vancouver sound designer who specializes in musical theatre. The question of what exactly that means is the subject of debate and mystery, but since you asked, he’s pretty

sure it’s something like “presenting everything you hear and the manner in which you hear it.” Although, he claims no knowledge of the whispers in your ear telling you to come see more Gateway shows. You’ll also hear Brad’s work at Arts Club and Patrick Street Productions shows throughout the year. In the meantime, he’s probably on his bike with some sound equipment strapped to the rack.

Patsy tomkins teCHniCAl DireCtor

Patsy is ecstatic to be working on her first show at Gateway! Having moved back to her favourite city from her home of Edmonton this past fall, she’s had the opportunity to work at Arts

Club as Assistant Technical Director on their recent production of A Christmas Story, The Musical. After completing her education at Grant MacEwan University in 2014, she joined Edmonton Opera as a Production Coordinator on The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute and Lucia di Lammermoor, among others. She’s thrilled to be taking on the role of Technical Director on this production of Closer Than Ever.

lorilyn Parker StAge MAnAger

Select credits: Stage Manager, Gateway Theatre, 2007–Present; Opening and Closing Ceremonies/Victory Ceremonies for the 2010 Olympic Games; first and second national tours of Dora

the Explorer (ClearChannel Entertainment and Allen Wasser Associates); Puppetry of the Penis (Foster Entertainment); Assistant Stage Manager, Bard on the Beach, Studio Stage, 2015. Lori is a graduate of Studio 58.

Collette Brown ASSiStAnt StAge MAnAger

Collette is happy to be returning to Gateway Theatre, where her previous productions include ...didn’t see that coming, Miss Caledonia and Conversations with my Mother. She also

holds credits with Vancouver Opera (Rigoletto, Tosca, The Magic Flute, La Boheme); Rumble Theatre (indian Arm); URP (CATS, once on This island); Burnaby Lyric Opera (Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, i Pagliacci, Gianni Schicchi); Main Street Theatre (The odd Couple); Mortal Coil Society (Salmon Row); as well as with numerous other companies around Vancouver, including over four seasons with UBC Opera. Collette holds a BFA in Theatre Design and Production from UBC.

Carol Macdonald ProDuCtion ProPertieS

Carol is thrilled to be back, Closer Than Ever, to the Gateway gang for this beautiful show! A Vancouver-based, Props Buyer-Builder-Finder-Hunter-Gatherer, and occasional Stage Manager,

she previously propped-up the main stage on last season’s hit show Crazy For you. Carol works for various theatre companies around town, including Touchstone Theatre, Arts Club, Studio 58 and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, and will return this spring for her fifth season at Bard on the Beach. Carol is a proud graduate of Studio 58’s Production Program and sends love and hugs to Mom, who is ultimately responsible for her love of musicals.

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COMING SOON

Could I have done more?”A beautiful woman in

a little black dress and pearls, her hair done up in an elegant chignon, invites us into her kitchen. An obsessive to-do lister, the woman prides herself on never letting anything slip by; yet when she inexplicably overlooks an item on her list, we experience her emotional journey through the memory of subsequent events that build to a tragic end.

The List stars the remarkable France Perras, an accomplished bilingual French and English actress for stage, television and film; playwright; and multiple

Jessie Award winner (Outstanding Lead Actress, Outstanding Supporting Actress, and Best Ensemble Performance).

The Gateway presentation in March 2016 is brought to you by the creative team from the successful, critically acclaimed Ruby Slippers Theatre run in early 2015. Multi-award winning Ruby Slippers is the only company in Vancouver dedicated to producing the contemporary Quebecois canon in English.

“A stunning examination of obsession and guilt, love and family, friendship and sacrifice…a powerful performance by Perras.”– SadMag.ca

“Shelley Tepperman’s English translation…is structured like poetry yet realized with complete and heartbreaking humanity.”– Chicago Stage Review

THE LIST By Jennifer TremblayTranslated by Shelley TeppermanDirected by Jack PatersonA Ruby Slippers Theatre Production in association with the BoucheWHACKED Theatre Collective

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COMING SOON

Mistress and mayhem, served with a twist.

With his wife out of town, a foolproof alibi from his best friend, the perfect location outside of Paris, and a Cordon Bleu chef serving up a gourmet taste of passion, Bernard has it all figured out…or does he?

One missed phone call rapidly escalates a simply pleasurable evening with his mistress into a complicated night of mistaken identities, confused alibis, double adultery, and a “Suzette” as well as a “Suzanne,” the

perfect recipe for a frisson of hilarity—who wouldn’t want dinner with a dollop of hysterical hijinks?

This bawdy bedroom farce from the playwright of Boeing-Boeing will have you laughing

and crying (of laughter, of course). Gut-bustingly translated from the French by popular British comedic playwright Robin Hawdon.

“Hurtling along at the speed of light, [this] breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention.”–The Guardian

“Two of the most rib-tickling hilarious

hours i have spent in the theatre...the perfect farce.” – Chicago Style Magazine

“Pile on the comic chaos!” –variety

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