The
Production:
A
VLT/Chater/Nesbitt Production
Produced
by Special Arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
featuring
Chip
Thompson - Elizabeth Clarke*
- Barbara Sadegur* - Mike
Harrison
*Appearing
by permission of Canadian Actor's Equity
Artistic
Director - Barry Nesbitt
Kay
Jeffrey - Choreographer
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Biographies:
Chip
Thompson - Elizabeth Clarke*
- Barbara Sadegur* - Mike
Harrison
*Appearing
by permission of Canadian Actor's Equity
Artistic
Director - Barry Nesbitt
Kay
Jeffrey - Choreographer
Chip
Thompson
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Over
the past twenty-five years, Chip has performed with
such local community theatre groups as the Scarborough
Choral Society, Broadway North, Ariel, The Alumnae,
The Village Players and The York Minstrels. Favourite
roles include Daddy Warbucks in Annie,
Jimmy Zoole in P.S. Your Cat is Dead,
Harold Hill in The Music Man and
Amos Hart in Chicago. A composer
as well, Chip has provided the music for the original
musicals Bombs Away!, The
Left Bank and The Great Atomic
Bomb Song and Dance Roadshow. When not
involved in theatrical pursuits, Chip teaches English,
Drama and Media at Riverdale Collegiate. |
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Elizabeth
Clarke (by permission of The Actors’
Equity Association)
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Elizabeth
started singing and acting in England when she was
seven years old: a big voice was trying to get out
of a little girl. She had major roles in Hello
Dolly, Guys and Dolls,
and Call Me Madam among others.
She also had a busy life in the famous clubs of
Northern England, where she was involved in cabaret.
Engagements took her to Ireland and the Channel
Islands. Coming to Toronto, she was invited to join
the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and has also appeared
in My Fair Lady, The King
and I, Bells Are Ringing
and many more. She has been involved in the dinner
theatre, film, television, and industrial shows.
She loves to work through her characters and have
them talk to the audience, believing that the creative
magic of entertainment is a very necessary part
of the world we live in. |
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Barbara
Sadegur (by permission of The Actors’
Equity Association)
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You
may have been fortunate enough to see Barbara is
any one of a number of operas, oratorios or concerts.
She has appeared with Opera in Concert in Carmen,
La Traviata, and Martha
among others. You may have seen her on CHCH-TV in
Opera Hamilton’s productions of Aida
where she played the High Priestess or in Mascagni’s
Cavalleria Rusticana as Lola. Her
work with the Toronto Operetta Theatre has included
performances in Gilbert and Sullivan, while concert
performances have varied from Gala Benefits to the
Chin Picnic. Oratorio work has included Handel,
Beethoven, Bruckner and Brahmns. Her role in Pinchpenny
marks a return to musical theatre. |
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Mike
Harrison
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Mike
comes to us via Second City and the New School of
Drama. He has been steadily building a solid resume
of work in commercials, film, television and video.
In the theatre, he has appeared with the Upper Canada
Playhouse and Broadway North in The Odd
Couple and Annie respectively.
You may also have seen him in Ritual Abuse,
Odyssey, Night Heat,
Switching Channels, Echoes
in the Darkness, Smoke,
Short Circuit! and Shoot
Me. |
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Barry
Nesbitt (Artistic Director)
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Barry
began his dramatic career with a scholarship to
the Banff School of Fine Arts from which he segued
into the world of radio. Beginning in the mid-forties
he appeared on CKEY, CFRB, CHUM and CBC. Working
his way up the CKFM ladder he became the Vice President
for Corporate Affairs and ultimately the Manager
of Public relations of the Telemondi Corporation’s
publications TV Guide and Canadian
Living. Along the way his voice was to
be heard in a multitude of radio commercials and
as a popular MC. In addition to radio, he found
time to act and sing major roles in productions
of Company, Anne of Green
Gables, Spring Thaw.and
many others. He has made hit recordings, appeared
on TV and he is very proud of his very successful
one man nostalgia show Nes-bits & Pieces.
In case you think he has slowed down any, for the
last four years he has been our Artistic Director
and in 1999 alone he had parts in three films, Superstar,
Happy Face Murders and Travesty.
He is a major supporter of The Variety Club. |
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Kay
Jeffrey (Choreographer)
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Kay
comes to the Deer Park Very Little Theatre with
a rich and varied background. She is a retired teacher
who served as a Toronto Board of Education Resource
Teacher, and consultant to the gifted/talented;
taught classes in dance and drama. She has performed
professionally as a singer/dancer choreographing,
producing and directing over 50 plays, musicals
and fashion shows for both children and adults.
She is a gifted musician and has also worked as
a stunt girl and extra in motion pictures. Presently,
Kay operates her own small Brite Lites Talent booking
agency. Mother of three sons, two of whom attended
the Etobicoke School of Arts and perform professionally,
Kay was the choreogrpaher for our production of
The Cratchit's Christmas, and we
are happy to have her back for Pinchpenny. |
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Dates
& Times:
Saturday January
10 - 7:30 pm
Sunday
January 11 - 4:00 pm
Saturday January
17 - 7:30 pm
Sunday
January 18 - 4:00 pm
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Location:
Deer
Park United Church Auditorium
129
St Clair Ave West (Foxbar Entrance)
(South
Side of St Clair - one block East of Avenue Road)
Parking
available behind Imperial Oil Building
Entrance
from St Clair
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Tickets:
$15.00
for Adults
$10.00
for Children under 12
VISA
Accepted
Available
at the Church Office (Foxbar Entrance)
Phone:
416-962-3381
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