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THE ODD COUPLE

CINDERELLA

LEND ME A TENOR

LEGOLAND & NEVER SWIM ALONE

B ECO M E A SU PPO RTER

PERMANENCE Become a permanent part of the Bailey Studio. Your name will be engraved on a brick ($100) or plaque ($250) and displayed in our foyer, or on a theatre seat ($100). These can also be used to remember loved ones or to recognize an organization.

PATRONAGE When you become a patron or renew your patronage, (Min $150), you support community theatre, are invited to our Gala Season Opening and are acknowledged in all NTG programmes during that season. Gala is a “thank you” to our wonderful patrons. Join us for the season opening and let us pamper you as a token of our gratitude.

SPONSORSHIP Be a personal supporter or promote your business through coverage in the media, posters and programmes by sponsoring a show. There are several levels of sponsorship, from the full season to all or part of any production. Monetary donations receive an income tax receipt.

Order forms online: nanaimotheatregroup.ca

Our Performance Space The Bailey Studio is intimate and comfortable with 172 seats, air-conditioning and a refreshment concession.

We offer free parking, wheelchair access and hearing assistance.

TICKE TS

Single Tickets: $20 Panto: ALL tickets $16

FLEXIPASS 8 vouchers Regular cost $152 Flexipass $135 YOU SAVE $17

FLEXIPASS VOUCHERS The most flexible way to attend the Bailey productions! Vouchers may be purchased at any time during the Bailey season and exchanged for tickets. Use as many as you want at one time. Plan a theatre party, use for client appreciation, bring friends and family.

Please Note: Vouchers must be exchanged for tickets at least 48 hours before the performance online at nanaimotheatregroup.ca or by calling 250-758-7224.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: Online: nanaimotheatregroup.ca Telephone: 250-758-7224 All productions subject to change.

NTG GIFT CERTIFICATES You specify the amount and the recipient exchanges it for one or more tickets to our productions. Available online at nanaimotheatregroup.ca or by calling 250-758-7224

PLEASE NOTE

In consideration of the actors and other patrons, children must be a minimum of age three for the family Christmas Pantomime and a minimum of age six for the other shows. A ticket for each person admitted is required. When attending our shows, please refrain from using scented products for the health and well-being of your fellow patrons.

O U R GOALTo provide first-class, varied, enjoyable, exciting and high-quality theatrical experiences for our audiences and participants, and to continue to be viewed as an asset to the community.

WH O WE ARE We have been entertaining audiences of all ages with a variety of productions from around the world for 58 years. A leader in the theatrical community, we are:

> Carefully managed and fiscally responsible > Run entirely by volunteers > Award winning > Dedicated to professional standards of excellence > Registered under the Society Act > A member of Theatre BC

Bailey Studio PO Box 796, 2373 Rosstown Road

Nanaimo, BC V9R 5M2 250-758-7246 ntg@ nanaimotheatregroup.ca

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8 PM Apr 22–25, 29, 30 May 1, 2, 6–92 PM Apr 26, May 3

ONE NIGHT - TWO ROUSING PIECES OF THEATRE!Director Sherri McLean Producer Peggy Harris

THE ODD COUPLEBy Neil SimonProduced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc., a Concord Theatricals CompanyDirector Linda Bezooyen Producer Wanda Badduke

8 PM Oct 17–19, 23-26, 30, 31, Nov 1, 22 PM Oct 20, 27

This classic comedy develops as a group of friends assemble for a weekly poker game in the apartment of divorced, Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder his wife left him. Last to arrive is Felix Unger, who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious and depressed, the neurotic hypochondriac, Felix, seems suicidal. Oscar comes to the rescue and asks Felix to move in with him, but as the action unfolds, Oscar’s devil-may-care attitude turns to thoughts of violence when the clean freak and the slob live together, hilariously, as the ultimate Odd Couple!

CINDERELLABy Ben Crocker

By permission of Ben Crocker Pantomimes Ltd

Directors Natasha Ballantyne & Nikita Towe

Producer Vera Kahan

730 PM Dec 19–21, 26–28 30, 31130 PM Dec 21, 22, 26, 28, 29

A comedic twist on a classic tale, Cinderella tells the story of a destitute young woman living with her wicked stepmother and jealous step sisters and forced to serve on them hand and foot. When a chance meeting with Prince Charming’s servant Dandini ends with an invitation to the Royal Ball, her stepmother and stepsisters stop at nothing to ruin her chance to attend. When all seems lost, Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother helps her discover her true beauty and potential. Join Cinderella, Prince Charming, and all their friends on the quest for a happily ever after.

LEND ME A TENORBy Ken Ludwig

Director Jan Leslie

Producer Sheila Coultish

8 PM Feb 19–22, 26–29, Mar 4-72 PM Feb 23, Mar 1

A sensation on Broadway and London’s West End and winner of 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, this madcap, screwball comedy is set in the golden age of 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company is primed to welcome world-famous singer Tito Merelli, known as Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as the star of the opera. Through a series of mishaps, all does not go quite to plan and with a full house waiting to hear their hero sing... well, anything could happen and it does!

LEGOLAND by Jacob Richmond,

with permission of

Talon Books

A contemporary Vaudeville routine, complete with puppets, multi-media and gangster-rap presented by Canada’s youngest drug cartel: the infamous Lamb Siblings.

WARNING: crude and offensive language.

NEVER SWIM ALONE by Daniel MacIvor,

with permission

of Playwrights

Canada Press

“If you let it, compassion will kill desire. Especially the desire to be first. And being first, my friends, is the point.” A haunting look into egotism and how trauma shapes who we are.