Theatre 2024
Theatre 2024
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CAST (in order of appearance)
Willa Johnson Prillie/ Freshette
Miki Browne School Girl/Diana Barry
Katisha O’May Annetta/Sophomore
Gabby Cousins School Girl/Freshette
Grace Gregson School Girl/Sophomore
Andromeda Smith School Girl/Lucilla the Shop Keeper/Sophomore
Caroline Senkbeil School Girl/Paul/Chancellors servant/Maid
Holly Jury Josie Pye
Will Norris Gilbert Blythe
Astrid Tiefholz Mrs Lynde
Grace Burdick Mrs Pye/Phillipa Gregory
Raymond Dunstan Jake Sloane/Minister/University Chancellor/Head Waiter
Meophy Smith-Williams Anne Shirley
Anne Blythe-Cooper Marilla Cuthbert
Aleks Folvig Moody Spurgeon MacPherson
River Davies School boy/Freshman
Liam Tope School boy/Fred/Freshman
Jonty Hilton Mr Phillips/Royal Gardner
Hamish Chilcott Anthony Pye/Alec the freshman
Elise Bagorski Benji Sloane/Alonzo the freshman
BAND
Gabrielle Cayoun Piano
Rock Liu Violin
Elijah Harper Cello
Aleks Folvig Banjo
Company: Hobart Repertory Theatre Society
Season: 17 - 27 April 2024
Venue: Playhouse Theatre, Hobart
Book and Lyrics by Jeff Hochhauser
Music and Lyrics by Bob Johnston and Nancy White
From the Novel by L.M.Montgomery
Director Anne Blythe Cooper
Production Manager Ingrid Ganley
Stage Manager Rogan Brown
PRODUCTION TEAM
Vocal Director Anne Blythe-Cooper
Musical Director & Accompanist Gabrielle Cayoun
Choreography Anne Blythe-Cooper, Grace Gregson (Freshette Dance)
Set Designer Rogan Brown
Graphic Design Carolyn Whamond
Lighting Design Hayden Green
Lighting and Sound Operation David Szoka
Stage Crew Lucy Allen, Jessica Ashworth, Scarlett Higgs, Willow Lockett
Costumes Janet Smith
Costume Assistant Ange McKenzie
Costume Advisors Deborah Dean, William Dowd
Sewing Team Anne Blythe-Cooper, DeborahDean, William Dowd, Annie Harvey, Vicky McDonald, Ange McKenzie, Janet Smith, Suzie Torak, Julie Wills
Hats Kerri Smith
Hair and Wigs Jenifa Dwyer, Annie Harvey
Properties Lucy Allen, Rogan Brown, Anne Blythe-Cooper
Set Construction Rogan Brown,, Andrew Cooper,
Marketing & Publicity Ben Armitage, Elise Bagorski, Grace Burdick
Photography Bob Linacre, Wayne Wagg
Program Editor Moya Deigan
PLAY SETTING
The play is set in the village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island and at Redmond College in Halifax.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
This production of Anne and Gilbert was postulated on the final night of Anne of Green Gables. Children in the auditorium were still howling over the death of Matthew Cuthbert. Having caused so much trauma (and also made some people very happy) it has been a delight to gather most of the original cast (including a resurrected Matthew) and provide a happy ending for Anne.
Anne and Gilbert compresses the second and third books of L.M. Montgomery’s series about the redhaired orphan, Anne Shirley. Act 1 sees Anne take over the Avonlea school where she was previously a student. Her nemesis, Josie Pye, is not the only one to make life as a teacher difficult for Anne. In Act 2, Anne is finally enrolled at Redmond College where she meets many new and sophisticated folk, including millionaire, Royal Gardner. As dreams and reality coalesce, idealism and experience collide. Anne must reassess what is most important to her. It is no surprise that family, Green Gables and the boy next door are where Anne’s heart finds a home.
This 2005 musical retains the romance and folk feel of Anne of Green Gables with a modern score for piano and strings. Prince Edward Island is a wonderful place to inhabit. The cast of 2023 (with a few ring-ins) are delighted to be back on the Island in 2024, where Mrs Lynde knows all the gossip, a Sloane will always cheat a Pye and “Gilbert loves Anne of Green Gables”.
Anne Blythe-Cooper
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