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Dear Santa © Copyright 2002 Norm Foster
“This is My Christmas” © Copyright 2002 Steve Thomas and Norm Foster.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Foster, Norm, 1949-
Dear Santa / Norm Foster.
A play.
ISBN 978-0-88754-695-2
1. Santa Claus--Drama. 2. Children--Drama. I. Title.
PS8561.O7745D42 2008 |
C812’.54 |
C2008-901675-0 |
Chapbooks are published on demand.
First appearance in this format—March, 2008.
Printed and bound in Canada.
Production Editor, Michael Petrasek.
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.
Dear Santa was first produced at Theatre Orangeville, December 5 to 22, 2002 with the following cast.
John Dolan |
SANTA CLAUS |
Avery Saltzman |
ALGERNON GLADSTONE |
Douglas Chamberlain |
LOU FLAPDOODLE |
Stephen Guy-McGrath |
BOZIDAR |
Siobhan O’Brien |
KIT BISHOP |
Lezlie Wade |
OCTAVIA |
Elves |
|
Katelyn Cassin |
BALDERDASH |
Nancy Robinson |
FIDDLESTICKS |
Nicole Jedrzejko |
PIFFLE |
Dean Harris |
YEEGADS/MICHAEL BISHOP |
Ariel Little-Alcorn |
SKIFFLE |
Olivia Turley |
PHOOEY |
Cheyanne Vandervoort |
SHORT STACK |
Directed by David Nairn
Set design by Stephen Degenstein
Lighting design by Simon Day
Stage manager Laura-Lynn Reid
Original song: “This is My Christmas”, music by Steve Thomas, lyrics by Norm Foster.
Characters
SANTA CLAUS
ALGERNON GLADSTONE Santa’s Chief of Staff.
KIT BISHOP A young girl in her late teens.
BOZIDAR Santa’s foreman. He speaks with a Russian accent.
OCTAVIA Santa’s housekeeper.
LOU FLAPDOODLE Sleigh salesman.
MICHAEL BISHOP Kit’s brother.
Elves
PHOOEY
BALDERDASH
FIDDLESTICKS
PIFFLE
SKIFFLE
YEEGADS
Non-speaking parts: Mrs. Bishop, choir, assorted elves.
Note: The inhabitants of the North Pole are ageless, whether they have worked there for fifty-eight years or three hundred years.