Presented November 23-December 3, 1995 at Centrepointe Theatre, Nepean, Ontario, Canada

THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES

Book by Peter Stone - Music by Cy Coleman - Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green

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"This winner of six 1991 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score is one of the most dazzling, endearing, and heartwarming musicals of all time. The charismatic Will Rogers returns from the hereafter to guide the audience through the story of his career. THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES is a breezy, stylish, utterly heavenly musical biography of one of America’s most beloved folk heroes. The legendary Rogers was a vaudeville performer, radio personality, newspaper columnist, and a movie star before his untimely death in an airplane crash in 1935. He was even an unofficial candidate for U.S. president. But, more than anything else, Will Rogers was an unparalleled American phenomenon and the first international multimedia superstar. His upbeat manner and homespun humor endeared him to audiences worldwide, and his contemporary references and witticisms are as applicable today as they were 70 years ago. This show boasts sumptuous production numbers, exquisite chorus girls, phosphorescent rope tricks in black light, a dog act, songs you actually want to hum, and, of course, the laconic cowboy-philosopher from Oklahoma. The show also won a 1992 Grammy for Best Musical Show Album."

(Source: North Carolina Wesleyan College: The Dunn Center for the Performing Arts webpage at http://www.ncwc.edu/arts/dunncenter/will.htm)

PRODUCTION TEAM

THE CAST

THE ORCHESTRA

VIOLINTara Davis Kathleen Edwards
FLUTEJulie Hacquard, Catherine Ward, Melanie Desmarais
CLARINETRuth Mendell
CLARINET/ALTO SAX/TENOR SAXBen Greenberg, Charles Legault
BARITONE SAX/BASSOONCharlene Manduca
BASSOON/ACCORDIONDoug Cumming
FRENCH HORNStewart Winter
TRUMPETStewart Smith, Tom Pratt, Kazimier Samujlo
TROMBONEDon Bright, Mike Moore, Walter Cherry
GUITARNeil Bateman
ELECTRIC/STRING BASSStuart Watkins
MALLET PERCUSSIONPierre Huneault
PERCUSSION/DRUM SETPat Ciavaglia, Pierre Huneault
PIANOMelanie Boyd
PIANO/SYNTHESIZERGlen Gower