These characters are flowers growing through an autumnal understory. Warm horizontal beams of late seasons reminding us of love from summers' past. Maybe... grown with the kiss of autumn's return. This design offer came across my desk prior some great heart ache; it blossomed from the heart wood through the heart ache. The design is a love song to the virtuosity of the instrument and the life left in the wood long removed from the forest. An ode to my mother who cannot be here, where life sprouts where our deepest breath is held. 
 

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Once - Thousand Islands Playhouse

Book by Edna Walksh

Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova

Based on the Motion Picture by John Carney

 

Performers

Tyler Check, Melissa Mackenzie, Juno Wong-Clayton, Kevin Forster, Alexa MacDougall, Sandy Crawley, Seana-Lee Wood, Alex Panneton, Em Siobhan McCourt, Daniel Williston, Haneuls Yi, Jon-Alex MacFarlane, Vera Deodato, Brea Oatway

 

Directed and Choreographed by Julie Tomaino

Musical Directed by Christ Barillaro

Stage Managed by Dustyn Wales and Rebecca Eamon Campbell

Assistant Stage Managed by Cristina Hernandez

Associate Directed and Choreographed by Lyndsey Britten

Apprentice Stage Managed by Delaney Small

Czech Translated by Martin Galba

Child Supervisor - Grace Irwin

Dialect Coach - Alison Mathews

 

Costume Design by Ming Wong

Set Design by Jo Pagnan

Lighting Design by Michelle Ramsay

Sound Design by Brian Kenney

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