Enjoy, signature cocktails, delicious snacks, live music, a silent auction, and more festive activities in the Sagebrush Lobby before experiencing a star-studded concert featuring excerpts from previous WCT productions performed by some of Kamloops’ favourite performers from near and far. Afterwards, we'll clear the stage and dance the night away to some disco music. Tickets are $125, and $75 of that is eligible for a charitable tax receipt.
Early in his career, Rick Fox came from Vancouver to feature heavily at Western Canada Youth Theatre as it became Western Canada Theatre Company. He was performer and music director in multiple shows including Canterbury Tales, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Godspell, Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Peter Pan, and the 1975 production of Anne of Green Gables – The Musical, to name a few. Since then, he has been involved in over 100 theatrical productions throughout North America, from regional theatres in Canada, to Broadway, and everything in between. Rick’s abilities and experience as an arranger, dance arranger, orchestrator, composer, supervisor and conductor have come into play on many of these productions. His love of and involvement in all types of popular music, i.e. rock, jazz, R & B, etc., along with formal/classical training, have given him a unique skill set. He brings to musical theatre experience in a multitude of musical genres not always associated with the art form. While working as music director/band leader on the Broadway production of Rent, he had a weekly Thursday evening, post-show jazz quartet gig and, by day, was simultaneously continuing studies as a classical conductor. Rick was the Director of Music at the Stratford Festival for six years under Artistic Director Des McAnuff, where he was involved in many creative projects, notably composing the music for McAnuff’s production of Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Christopher Plummer and Nikki M. James. He returned to New York as music director/supervisor for the Stratford production of Jesus Christ Superstar that transferred to Broadway in 2012, and he has remained there ever since. Some other highlights have included Canadian premieres (Toronto) of Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King and The Producers, and Broadway productions of Blood Brothers, Dr. Zhivago, The Who’s Tommy, and Boop! The Musical. Learn more about Rick at rickfoxmusic.com
To many, Alan is known as a baritone having sung throughout North America and Europe, and to others, he is known as an esteemed producer and theatre/concert creator. Alan is the founding Artistic Director of Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre (originated in Kamloops as BC Living Arts) - now a Vancouver based company, it tours concert productions across Canada including the celebrated Music of the Night: The Concert Tour, and more recently Ebony Roots, and A Whole New World. As a stage director, his productions have been called “Poetry on Stage”, and have been named in 'the best of" lists including "Top 3 Opera Productions of Toronto in '24" for Angel’s Bone by operagoto.com, 'Vancouver’s Annual Best Music Events' by vanclassicalmusic.com, including “Best Opera Production in 2017” for Handel’s Acis & Galatea through Sound the Alarm, and “Vancouver’s Best Experiment of 2018” for City Opera Vancouver’s production of Nigredo Hotel in 2018, and, his Theatre for the Ears digital series of audio-dramas through STA won numerous International film festival/podcast awards. With City Opera Vancouver, Alan has also directed their production of The Lost Operas of Mozart, and created and directed their production Berlin: The Last Cabaret, presented at the 2020 PuSh Festival to sold out crowds. In 2016, his original cinematic concert Dragging Piaf was featured at Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival to rave reviews and in 2014, Alan wrote and directed his “silent play”, based on the life of Charlie Chaplin entitled Silent Chap, for Western Canada Theatre’s mainstage season. With Western Canada Theatre he played prominent roles in Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, Suessical, My Fair Lady, and more notably, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (2007). Alan won the 2012 Kamloops Mayor's Award for Innovation in the Arts for his contributions to Kamloops through BC Living Arts (now Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre - www.soundthealarm.ca).
Kirk has been watching shows at Western Canada Theatre since he was a kid, growing up in Kamloops. He left Kamloops right out of high-school to study acting in New York City and then spent most of his time living in Vancouver and working in theatres around the country. But Kamloops kept calling him back. Since first appearing at WCT as The Cat in the Hat in Seussical, he has appeared in over 20 productions here, including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Hurry Hard, Dracula: The Bloody Truth, Elf – The Musical, Boeing Boeing, Seussical, and Noises Off. He met his wife, Robyn, while doing a show here, and in 2021 they decided to relocate to Kamloops. Kirk was excited to join the team behind the scenes at WCT and is currently the Marketing & Communications Director. Recent favourite productions elsewhere include Mary Poppins (RCMT); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Baskerville, Billy Elliot (The Arts Club); The Rivals (Blackbird Theatre) – Jessie Award Nomination; Don’t Dress For Dinner (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors, Pride & Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest (Persephone Theatre). Kirk has appeared in five seasons with Project X, including playing Frank ‘n Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. He also co-produced and appeared in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me both in Kamloops and Vancouver. In 2024, Kirk and Robyn welcomed their daughter Lily, who is a second-generation WCT baby. She’s also the best.
Robyn is delighted to be invited to participate in this celebration alongside friends, family, and colleagues, having appeared in several WCT productions. Raised in Vancouver, Robyn started performing at an early age at companies like Vancouver Opera and Theatre Under the Stars. Since then, Robyn has taught musical theatre and performed across BC and Alberta. Some favourite roles have included Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain, Poppy in Noises Off, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Cosette in Les Misérables, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Penny in Hairspray, and Venus in Red Rock Diner. 5 years ago, she and her husband relocated to Kamloops, where she now teaches for SD73 and is proud to call herself a local.
Colleen is thrilled to help celebrate Western Canada Theatre's illustrious history. Her own part of that history started with Little Shop of Horrors (1990), in which she played Audrey. In the same production was her husband Russell Roberts, and they enjoyed their time in Kamloops with their infant son, Sayer (who would go grow up to play Danny in WCT's Grease). Many years later, she performed in WCTC's My Fair Lady, where she met the lovely Kaylee Harwood, starring as Eliza. Some time later, Sayer and Kaylee would perform together and the rest, as they say, is history. Mum could not be more pleased. Colleen's career has taken her from coast to coast, including the Stratford, Shaw and Charlottetown Festivals, the original Canadian company of CATS in Toronto, the original Canadian company of A Chorus Line (Vancouver Playhouse) and Showboat (Livent tour) with some directing and choreographing along the way. Most recently she played Mother Superior in Sister Act at Calgary's StageWest Theatre. Favourite credits: the scene stealing Maid in Don Pasquale (Vancouver Opera and COC); Mrs. Lovett in the site-specific Sweeney Todd (Raincity - Jessie and Ovation awards); Dotty in Noises Off, plus Kinky Boots, Calendar Girls, Mom’s The Word, Shear Madness (Arts Club); The Unnatural and Accidental Women (NAC Indigenous Theatre); Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!(RCMT); Shelley Levine in Glengarry Glen Ross (Classic Chic); Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy in Moose Jaw (sounds like a punchline, doesn’t it?) and one magical emergency performance as Mama Rose in Gypsy...but that’s another story. Selected Film/TV: Family Law, Lost in Space, Man in the High Castle, Van Helsing, Big Eyes, X-Files, and a host of Hallmark movies.
BUY TICKETS Location Sagebrush Theatre 1300 9th Ave Show Times April 24, 2026 Evening |6 to 11:30pm RUN TIME: TBD
BUY TICKETS
Sagebrush Theatre 1300 9th Ave
April 24, 2026 Evening |6 to 11:30pm
RUN TIME: TBD