Donor Dress Rehearsals

Pinocchio

Dress Rehearsal
Thursday, March 12

Lead philanthropic support for Pinocchio is provided by The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund. Additional support is provided by Rosamond Ivey, Tim & Frances Price, an anonymous friend, The Volunteer Committee of The National Ballet of Canada and The Producers’ Circle. 

The Producers’ Circle (2017): Gail & Mark Appel, John & Claudine Bailey, Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns, Susanne Boyce & Brendan Mullen, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, The Thor E. and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M., Emmanuelle Gattuso, C.M. and Allan Slaight, C.M., The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Rosamond Ivey, Hal Jackman Foundation, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Judith & Robert Lawrie, Mona & Harvey Levenstein,  Jerry Lozinski, O.C. & Joan Lozinski, O.C., The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Julie Medland,  Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Lynda & Jonas Prince, Susan Scace & Arthur Scace, C.M., Q.C., Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan, Sandra Simpson and Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont.

Choreography:
Will Tuckett

Music:
Paul Englishby 

Librettist and Dramaturge:
Alasdair Middleton

Set and Costume Design:
Colin Richmond

Lighting Design:
Oliver Fenwick

Projection Design: 
Douglas O’Connell

Staged by: 
Lindsay Fischer

World Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, March 11, 2017

A co-production of The National Ballet of Canada and Texas Ballet Theatre.

Conductor
David Briskin, Music Director and Principal Conductor or Julian Pelicano, Conductor

The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra

Cast

Pinocchio
Noah Parets

Geppetto
Donald Thom

Blue Fairy
Beckanne Sisk

Cat
Jenna Savella

Fox
Isaac Wright

Ringmaster
Naoya Ebe

Puppet Master
Trygve Cumpston

Narrator, School Mistress and Barmaid
Maya Doherty*

Narrator
Trevor Patt*

Blue Fairy Shadows, Harlequin, Columbine, Pataloon, Mountie, Lumberjacks, Schoolkids, The Puppet Show, Canadian Fauna, Blue Fairy Birds, Dream Sequence, Fisherfolk, The Sea, Blue Fairy Ballet, Funlanders, Underwater Ballet
Artists of the Ballet

American Sign Language Interpreter
Marcia Adolphe

^{*Guest Artist}

All casting subject to change.

Top Photo: Jack Bertinshaw with Artists of the Ballet in Pinocchio. Photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic.