Cover: Jasper Station by Norm Foster and Steve Thomas

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Jasper Station © Copyright 2001 Norm Foster
Book and Lyrics © Norm Foster Music and Lyrics © Steve Thomas
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Foster, Norm, 1949-

Jasper Station/ Norm Foster; lyrics by Norm Foster and Steve Thomas.

Lyrics from the mosical.

ISBN 0-88754-667-6

1. Musical--Librettos. I. Thomas Steve (Steve J.) II. Title

ML50.F756J38 2003

782.1’40268

V2003-902517-4

Chapbooks are published on demand.

First appearance in this format – July 2003

Printed and bound in Canada.

Production Editor: Mirka Zivanovic

Norm Foster

Norm Foster was born in Newmarket, Ontario in 1949. He attended West Hill Collegiate High School in Toronto. He studied Radio and Television Arts at Centennial College in Toronto, and at Confederation College in Thunder Bay. Norm wrote two plays for Malcolm Black, then Artistic Director of Theatre New Brunswick. Those two plays, Sinners and The Melville Boys were enormously successful for Theatre New Brunswick. The Melville Boys has made Foster one of Canada's most produced playwrights. The Affections of May, Sinners and The Melville Boys have been translated into French.

Jasper Station was first produced at Theatre On The Grand, Fergus, Ontario, from September to October 2001, with the following cast and crew:

Brian McKay

Bert Calivetti/ Mr. Logan/ Uncle Shimkus/

 

Roy White/ Henry Keegan Sr.

Melodee Finlay

Emeline White

Shannon McCaig

Rebecca Townshend

Craig Mason

Sterling Mimms

WJ Joe Matheson

Henry Keegan

Colleen O’Brien

Nikki Dunn

Directed by Christopher McHarge

Musical Direction by Steve Thomas

Stage Managed by Barbara McLean-Wright

Lighting Design by Karen Bayer

Set Design by Jonathan Porter

CHARACTERS

Bert Calivetti

In his fifties or sixties. Manages the train station.

Rebecca Townshend

In her twenties. Eager newspaper reporter.

Henry Keegan

Thirty-one. Hockey player who is on his way to the NHL.

Sterling Mimms

Late thirties, early forties. Accountant/country songwriter.

Nikki Dunn

Around thirty. Tough young woman.

Emeline White

In her forties. Has just left her husband.

The actor playing Bert Calivetti plays all additional characters,

Mr. Logan, Henry Keegan Sr., Uncle Shimkus, and Roy
White
.

TIME

The present.

PLACE

A train station in Jasper, Alberta.