Production Archive

October 13, 1989

Sketch Comedy

The Canadian-American Friendship Show (aka Canada – A Pageant)

Conclave XIV
Plymouth Hilton
Plymouth, Michigan
Directed by Charles W. Ott

Director

Charles W. Ott

Costumes

Lisa Golladay

The Moebius Theatre Emergency Theatrical Lighting System

Gerald R. Corrigan

E. Michael Blake

The French Language

Jerry Corrigan

The English Language

Lisa Golladay

Canada, Queen of the North

Charles W. Ott

The director with a megaphone

Alan Ziebarth

Father Time

…and an intrepid last-minute cast of dozens who inexplicably volunteered to portray religion, industry, the arts, the sciences, Jupiter, the dancing children of all nations, and Manitoba, among other roles. The Queen of the North would particularly like to thank Quebec, who dropped to his knees and kissed her hand.

The closing sketch was not written by Moebius. It was taken, verbatum, from Class Room Plays from Canadian History by A. M. Stephen, a small and beautifully-bound hardcover published in 1929 by J. M. Dent & Sons LTD. Toronto. Which was, ironically, printed in Great Britain.

Thanks to Louisa Foster who was instrumental in developing the show but unable to perform.