History

The list of Lifetime Members with 25 years of continuous membership now includes Libby Toogood. Libby has worked very hard over the years for CMT, in many and varied roles, she has made costumes for many shows, has been make up artist for many others as well as being a leading dancer in many productions.
Here is a complete list of lifetime members

A Short History of Clarkson Music Theatre

The year was 1945 when thirty young people of Clarkson United Church formed the “Clarkson Community Church Choir” with a performance of HMS Pinafore.This show was chosen for our fiftieth anniversary in 1994 where we had some members from the first show (from 1945) in the audience.
The first twenty-three years were devoted to presenting Gilbert and Sullivan savoy operas, but this tradition was broken in 1969 with a production of Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow. Since then, we have performed works by such composers as Johann Strauss and Jacques Offenbach while visiting such diverse locales as Oklahoma, Anatevka, New York and the London of Oliver Twist and Fagin.
In 1973, we changed to our present name and, in 1974, we became affiliated with the City of Mississauga. The Clarkson Music Theatre choir has participated in numerous community celebrations and has provided concerts and shows in many seniors residences in Mississauga and Oakville. We added another dimension to our history with our first annual concert in Mississauga’s Living Arts Centre in the spring of 1998.
Our sixtieth season in 2005 featured a Grand Gala during the Summer and a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado in the Fall followed by Blood Brothers an ACTCO award winning best show in January 2006. We added Wonderful Town in 2007 and Sweeney Todd in 2008 to our list of successful “Encore Series” shows at the Meadowvale Theatre. This, along with our Living Arts Centre and comunity concerts, ensures that we proudly continue to entertain Mississauga, as we have done for more than sixty years