Thursday, June 12th

Musical Theatre - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B

Adjudicator: Ian Simpson

Musical Theatre - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B

Ian has been a professional musical theatre performer for over 35 years and is currently the Canadian regional rep for Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance. He is a graduate of Queen's University (Bachelor of Music in voice) and Sheridan College (Diploma in Music-Theatre Performance). He has been on faculty in the Music Theatre - Performance department at St Lawrence College since 2014 and has been a voice teacher at Sheridan College in the Music Theatre Performance program.

Over the years, Ian has performed vocal styles from Operetta to Pop/Rock. His vocal pedagogy studies include NATS Conference (Chicago), Penn State Vocal Pedagogy (Mary Saunders-Barton, Bel Canto, Can Belto), Somatic Voicework TM (Levels I, II, III with Jeanie LoVetri), Soul Ingredients TM (Dr. Triniece Robinson- Martin, Princeton University), Boston Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy (Kevin Wilson, Jared Trudeau), and Rock the Audition Teacher Training (Sheri Sanders). He continues his studies of contemporary commercial voice with such courses on Belting, Training Transgender Voices, What is Mix?, Voice Acoustics, and Vocal Health and Pathologies.

As an actor/singer Ian has worked at such theatres as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, Charlottetown Festival, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and played Harry Bright in US National Tour of Mamma Mia! where he toured to over 144 cities across Canada, the US, and Mexico. He has worked with Tony nominated directors Frank Galati, Susan H. Schulman, Gary Griffin, Brian Macdonald, and Brian Bedford; Olivier nominated director Phyllida Lloyd; and esteemed Canadian directors Donna Feore, Robert McQueen, Jackie Maxwell, Christopher Newton, and Richard Monette. He has sung internationally with The Orchestra Japan across Japan and Taiwan. You can also see him in guest starring roles on CBC's Diggstown and Murdoch Mysteries.

Location

St. Mathew's Lutheran Church - Sanctuary
54 Benton St.
Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2

Musical Theatre - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B - Morning

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:9:00 AMName:Erica MotaTitles:
Vanilla Ice Cream, She Loves Me by Jerry Bock
Someone To Watch Over Me, Crazy For You by George Gershwin
Home Festival:London
Time:9:15 AMName:Evan DePassTitles:
What if, The Adams Family by Andrew Lippa
Consider Yourself, Oliver! by Lionel Bart
Home Festival:Chatham
Time:9:30 AMName:Ruby WijnkerTitles:
Simple Joys of Maidenhood, Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner
I Love Play Rehearsal, Be More Chill by Stephanie Hsu
Home Festival:Woodstock
Time:9:45 AMName:Dylan StephenTitles:
Middle Of A Moment, James and the Giant Peach by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Grow For Me, Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken
Home Festival:Barrie
Time:10:00 AMName:Scarlett HodgeTitles:
The Girl I Mean to Be, The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon
Getting to Know You, The King and I by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Home Festival:Windsor-Essex
Time:10:15 AMName:Alice ByrnesTitles:
Show Me, My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe
Home, Phantom by Maury Yeston
Home Festival:South Simcoe
Time:10:30 AMName:Eva-Odile BeausoleilTitles:
Morning Person, Shrek, The Musical by Jeanine Tesori
I Love Play Rehearsal, Be More Chill by Joe Iconsis
Home Festival:Niagara
Time:10:45 AMName:Mya Mikelsons-SanghaTitles:
I Dreamed A Dream, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Think Of Me, Phantom Of The Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Home Festival:Newmarket
Time:11:00 AMName:Nicholas SzpakowskiTitles:
I am Aldolpho, The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
What do I Need With Love, Thoroughly Modern Millie by Gavin Creel
Home Festival:Hamilton
Time:11:15 AMName:Noah CalendinoTitles:
Proud of Your Boy, Aladdin by Alan Menken
I'm Not That Smart, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis
Time:11:30 AMName:Alyssa SmithTitles:
Stupid With Love, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond
Home, Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn
Home Festival:Kingston

11:45 AM - Lunch Break

Musical Theatre - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B - Afternoon

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:1:00 PMName:Dryden TrainorTitles:
My Grand Plan, The Lightening Thief by Rob Rokicki
Come out of the Dumpster, The Wedding Singer by Matthew Sklar
Home Festival:Oakville
Time:1:15 PMName:Maya GreenoughTitles:
The Lamest Place in the World, 13 The Musical by Jason Robert Brown
My Grand Plan, The Lightning Thief by Rob Rokicki
Home Festival:Peel
Time:1:30 PMName:Isabella XiangTitles:
I Know Things Now, Into the woods by Stephen Sondheim
When I Group Up, Matilda by Tim Minchin
Home Festival:North York Virtual
Time:1:45 PMName:Caitlyn EdelmanTitles:
Promise Me This, The Theory of Relativity by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill
Nothing Short of Wonderful, Dogfight by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Home Festival:Pickering GTA
Time:2:00 PMName:Emma PapageorgeTitles:
In My Dreams, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty
When He Sees Me, Waitress by Sara Bareilles
Home Festival:Peterborough
Time:2:15 PMName:Sofia SzetoTitles:
Show Me, My Fair Lady by Friedrich Löwe
How Could I Ever Know, The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon
Home Festival:Toronto
Time:2:30 PMName:Scarlett Sze-Wan LauTitles:
Pulled, The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa
Burn, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Home Festival:Take the Stage
Time:2:45 PMName:Jocelyn ChauTitles:
Requiem, Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
I'd Rather Be Me, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond
Home Festival:Unionville

3:15 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners - MANDATORY

Workshop will be held from approximately 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm.

Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.

5:00 PM - PLAYOFFS - Musical Theatre - Junior Level - Ages 13-14

The top two competitors from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church/Centre - Sanctuary
54 Benton St., Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2