Bill Cook's Archives
Clarkson Music Theatre Archivist Bill Cook, would like you to present him with material from our past. Here are Bill's web archive notes.
cookw99@yahoo.com
The list of Lifetime Members
with 25 years of continuous membership
Here is a complete list of lifetime members
Sheila Lake
Liz Allan
Jim Allan
Mary Arnold
Greg Brown
Pat Brown
Michael Marando
Entertaining Mississauga Since 1945
A Short History of Clarkson Music Theatre
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
Bill Cook
Eleanor Crisell
Ruth McDonald
Bud Old
Jane Simser
Betty Smith
Libby Toogood
