Schedule and Program
The Conference will take place October 21-23, 2010 at both Brock University, St. Catharines and the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake.
see the conference PROGRAMME (PDF, 2.5 MB). Schedule is FINAL.
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THURSDAY October 21, 2010 |
13h30 -15h30 | REGISTRATION Sankey Chambers, Brock U. | |
15h30 - 16h00 | WELCOME Orientation POND Inlet, Brock U. coffee (host) |
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16h00 -17h00 | PLENARY Jim Betts Composer, Lyricist, Librettist Smile Company; Scriptlab, ON POND Inlet, Brock U. |
Why Canadians Can't Write Musicals (And Why Almost No One Else Can, Either) | |
17h00 - 19h00 | DINNER (nohost, suggest Guernsey market (on campus) or hotel) | ||
19h00 - 21h00 | Thursday SHOWCASE (Youth) SHAW Festival Studio Theatre Niagara-on-the-Lake followed by Wine Reception with return transfer via The Falls |
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MM Robinson High School, Burlington | Concrete Daisy | ||
Stratford Central SS and Britta Johnson, writer, director, and accompanist |
Big Box Story | ||
Sheridan College | Marathon of Hope | ||
FRIDAY October 22, 2010 |
8h30 - 9h00 | coffee (host TBC) POND Inlet, Brock U. upstairs |
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9h00 - 10h00 | KEYNOTE Stewart Wallace New York-based composer POND Inlet, Brock U. |
FATE! LUCK! CHANCE! Adventures in Opera Making | |
10h00 - 10h30 | coffee (host) POND upstairs | ||
10h30 - 12h00 PANEL 1 POND |
Discovering our stories in Lyric Theatre chair: Dr. Brian Power | ||
Denyse Lynde Memorial University, NL |
"Artistic Fraud": Kaleidography; in particular, the meticulous use of grid and music to create new stories | ||
Helen Zdriluk Brock University, ON |
Where do I go from here? Youth and Lyric Theatre in Canada | ||
Ted Baerg University of Western Ontario, ON |
Facilitating and Enhancing the Intersection of Musical Theatre and Opera In Post Secondary Performance Training | ||
10h30 - 12h00 PANEL 2 SANKEY |
Breaking the Sound Barrier chair: Dr. Gregory Betts | ||
Mel Atkey London-based author of Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre |
A Million Miles from Broadway: Musical Theatre from a Universal Persective | ||
Julie Salverson Queen's University, ON |
Opera meets clown and the Atomic Bomb . . . The development of Shelter | ||
12h00 -13h30 | LUNCH (nohost) Guernsey Market | POND: Writers and Composers Workshop for Students with guest Sarah Schlesinger | |
13h30 - 15h00 JOINT SESSION #1 POND | Capturing the Moment chair: David Vivian | ||
Kathryn Harvey University of Guelph, ON |
University of Guelph's L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives: an overview of the holdings and discussion of the challenges of archiving performance, particularly musical theatre | ||
Francesca Marini Statford Festival, ON |
An Overview of Productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival | ||
Jean Bridge and Sarah Pruyn Brock University, University of Guelph |
variable media archiving methodologies | ||
15h00 - 15h30 | coffee (nohost) | ||
15h30 - 17h00 | ROUNDTABLE |
MODERATED ROUNDTABLE: Jim Betts, Marjorie Chan, Wayne Strongman, Tracy Michailidis, David Warrack |
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17h00 - 19h00 | DINNER (nohost, suggest Guernsey market (on campus) or hotel) | ||
20h00 - 22h00 | Friday SHOWCASE SHAW Festival Studio Theatre Niagara-on-the-Lake |
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David Warrack, Elizabeth Beeler | Dancing in the Coal Dust | ||
Randall Eng and Alexis Bernier | Henry's Wife | ||
Ian McAndrew and Gordon Portman |
Cassandra (and others TBC) | ||
Leslie Arden | One Step Forward | ||
Bram Gielen, Tracy Michailidis | Biggish Kids | ||
SATURDAY October 23, 2010 |
8h30 - 9h30 | information table OPEN POND Inlet, Brock U. upstairs |
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9h30 - 10h30 | PLENARY Sarah Schlesinger Chair of Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, Tisch School of Arts (NYU) POND Inlet, Brock U. |
Nurturing and training the next generation of writers and composers in lyric theatre. | |
10h30 - 11h00 | coffee (host) POND Inlet, Brock U. upstairs |
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11h00 - 12h30 PANEL 3 POND | Celebrating the Singer: Strategies in Song chair: Deborah Linton | ||
David Playfair and Gordon Portman, Brandon University, MB |
Structured Training for the Singing Actor | ||
Helen Pridmore, Mount Allison University, NB |
The Singer Alone: Music for Solo Voice, a Lecture Recital | ||
Susan Blyth-Schofield, |
From Page to Stage in Opera: Decoding the Score for Performance(A How-to survival Guide for the Singer-Actor) |
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11h00 - 12h30 PANEL 4 SANKEY | Kissing Qwerty: New Horizons chair: Dr. Derek Knight | ||
Meryn Cadell, University of British Columbia, BC |
Writing for DIVA: Digitized Voice Actors | ||
Sheldon Rosen Ryerson University, ON, and Darren Russo McGill University, QC |
Hansel & Gretel: Typographic Play | ||
12h30 -13h30 | LUNCH (host) POND upstairs TBC | ||
13h30 -15h00 PANEL 5 SANKEY |
Getting it up and Putting it on: Producing Challenges chair: Dr. Carol Merriam |
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Sandy Thorburn Lakehead University (Orillia, ON); University of Waterloo, ON; Resident Musical Director, Thousand Islands Playhouse, ON |
Challenging the Familiar: New Directions for Musicals in Canadian Summer Theatres | ||
Ian McAndrew, composer, and Gordon Portman, librettist, Brandon University, MB |
Non-subsidized creation in lyric theatre: the way to go? | ||
SG Lee playwright, director, librettist, teacher and arts administrator; Imperial Theatre, Saint John, NB |
Size Matters: A Consideration of the Canadian "Shoebox Musical" | ||
13h30 - 15h00 PANEL 6 POND | The Elephant in the Lyric Castle chair: Dr. David Fancy | ||
Ruth Howard Jumblies Theatre, Toronto |
Wanna Hear My Door Squeak? | ||
Graham Wolfe Brock University, ON |
Catalyst Theatre's 'Frankenstein': Lyric Theatre as Catalyst | ||
Gretchen Helbig www.sayyestoopera.com with Trish O'Reilly, Ellen Vesterdahl, Genevieve Proulx |
"Say Yes to opera!" guerilla opera animating urban spaces | ||
15h00 - 15h30 | coffee (nohost TBC) | ||
15h30 - 17h00 JOINT SESSION #2 POND | Familiar Histories in Foreign Lands: The Future of Lyric Theatre in Canada? chair: Dr. Natalie Alvarez | ||
Robert Walsh, composer | From the Ashes: The development of lyrics in The Forbidden Phoenix | ||
Wayne Strongman Tapestry New Opera, Toronto |
Opera for Now: Excerpts from Tapestry B-roll footage of Iron Road, Elijah's Kite, Sanctuary Song, The Shadow, Dark Star Requiem | ||
17h00 - 19h30 | CLOSING DINNER (host, begins at 18h00) |
Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club | |
20h00 - 22h00 | Saturday SHOWCASE SHAW Festival Studio Theatre Niagara-on-the-Lake |
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Virginia Reh, Kristin Mueller-Heaslip |
Fallen Voices : Time will Erase |
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Cathy Elliott | Gothic | ||
Sheldon Rosen and Darren Russo |
Hansel & Gretel: Typographic Play | ||
Tapestry New Opera Marjorie Chan |
Tapestry’s Creative Process: Marjorie Chan, Writer in Residence as hostess; A writer/composer team from the most recent LIBLAB; 2 Opera Briefs | ||
Paul Sportelli, Jay Turvey, and Shaw Company |
Maria Severa |