| GARDEN
CITY PRODUCTIONS INC became an official entity in 1956. Our objectives were to
establish, maintain, and operate a permanent Canadian repertory theatrical company.
Garden City Productions was mandated to promote interests and skills in the arts
of the theatre by means of the presentation of plays and other performances. GCP
accomplishes this task by undertaking public educational projects and by giving
instruction and demonstrating the arts of the theatre. To
date, GCP has produced 88 shows. We have had the honour of having top Canadian
and US directors, technical directors, costume designers, and set designers to
instruct and demonstrate. We can boast of numerous paid alumni in the fields of
their choice having learned from one of the best community theatres in Canada.
Garden
City Productions has produced many firsts in producing theatre for Southern Ontario.
We have staged unique premiere shows and produced unique revues specially designed
just for us: Alice Adams, Happy and Glorious, Gershwin...First Person, It's De-Lovely
It's DePorter, Never Let Go -- A Tribute to the '50s and Just a Little Musical!
2006-
2007 Season Me
and My Girl
March 8-25
Directed and Choreographed by Jim White
Music
Director Tom Inglis
Produced By Elaine Aldridge, Linda Gonschior and Sandi
Syri This
show tells the tale of Bill Snibson, a Cockney bloke who suddenly becomes heir
to an earldom. The Hareford clan, a group of insufferable aristocrats, are clinging
to their blue-blooded ways by the tips of their well-manicured fingers. The family's
precarious financial situation can only be remedied by locating a legitimate heir
to the earldom of Hareford. In due course an heir is found, but, unfortunately
for the haughty Harefords, he turns out to be the decidedly non-noble Bill Snibson,
a swaggering Cockney from Lambeth. (It seems the late 13th Earl of Hareford had
enjoyed at least one brief period of amorous slumming, secretly wedding a woman
beneath his station.) The Earl's will specifically states that the heir must be
deemed a fit and proper person by the two very fit and proper executors, Maria,
Duchess of Dene, and Sir John Tremayne. A good-hearted woman beneath all her jewelry,
the duchess is determined to make the best of the situation by transforming Snibson
into a proper gentleman. To complicate matters further, Snibson is madly in love
with a girl he refuses to leave behind, fellow Cockney Sally Smith. |
