Calendar Girls
directed by Penny Nash
Thurs.-Sat., June 2-18, 8:00 p.m.
The Davies Foundation Auditorium
52 Church St., Kingston, ON
Left to right: Michelle Freedman, Valerie Winslow, Rachel Kelleher, Renée O'Farrell, Hayley Hudson, Heather Robinson-Dooreleyers, Angie Roberts, Dylan Chenier, Naomi Greer-Ballance, Lorna Jodoin. |
Chris and Annie are middle-aged friends and members of the Women's Institute in their Yorkshire town. Though they spend lots of time at the Institute, they find it a bit stuffy.
When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia, Chris comes up with the idea of providing the local hospital with a new sofa for its visitors' room. She wants the Women's Institute to raise the money, but last year's calendar, featuring pictures of local bridges, raised less than a hundred pounds and the sofa will cost about 10 times that.
So Annie and Chris come up with an idea for a different sort of calendar—one featuring
Naomi Greer-Ballance and Bill Morrow. |
tasteful nude photographs of Women's Institute members. Needless to say, not all the members are sold on the idea.
Chris and Annie need to persuade 10 women besides themselves to pose for the calendar, and find a photographer they can all feel comfortable with. If they can do that, will the calendar sell?
Calendar Girls first appeared as a film, for which Tim Firth wrote the screenplay, in 2003. The play, adapted by Firth from the film, opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre in September 2008 and broke the all-time British box-office record during its 2008/09 tour, then continued to sell out in the West End, where it opened at the Noel Coward Theatre in April 2009. In 2010, the hit comedy embarked on a UK country-wide tour, one of the largest ever for a play. Calendar Girls is also a success across the globe.
Cast |
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| Cora | Michelle Freedman |
| Chris | Lorna Jodoin |
| Annie | Naomi Greer-Ballance |
| Jessie | Renee O'Farrell |
| Celia | Rachel Kelleher |
| Ruth | Valerie Winslow |
| Marie | Katie Flower-Smith |
| Brenda | Cori Schroder |
| John | Bill Morrow |
| Rod | Robert McMahon |
| Lady Cravenshire | Cori Schroder |
| Lawrence | Dylan Chenier |
| Elaine | Laura Garofalo |
| Liam | Martin Fobert |
| Extras | Hayley Hudson Angie Roberts Heather Robinson-Dooreleyers |
Production Crew |
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| Producers | Rachel Kelleher Martin Fobert |
| Director | Penny Nash |
| Assistant Director | Lisa Flanagan |
| Stage Manager | Marion Savage |
| Asst. Stage Manager | Carolyn Burley |
| Set Design and Dressing | Liz Schell |
| Lighting Design | David L. Smith |
| Sound Design | Sara Beck |
| Costume Design | Rachel Vandenberg Loren Smith |
| Makeup Consultant | Kyra Dye |
| Properties | Elaine Otter Diane Clark |
| Chief Carpenter | Bob Brooks |
| Lighting Operator | Alexandra Cooper |
| Sound Operators | James Leslie James Gow |
| Set Construction | Bob Brooks Grant Buckler John Corrigan Dave Oliver |
| Liz Schell Marion Savage Carolyn Burley Penny Nash |
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| Lobby Photography | Claudia Wade |
| Archival Photography | Grant Buckler |
| Poster Design | Katie Flower-Smith |
| Lobby Art Curator | Karen Peperkorn |
| Front of House Co-ordinator | Steve Powell |