2025 Lawyer Show
For over a decade, Nightwood Theatre’s annual fundraiser, the Lawyer Show, has hosted hundreds of legal professionals as they venture on stage in support of local Toronto artists. Every year up to 40 members of the legal community rehearse for three months to stage an exhilarating, entertaining production, led by a team of professional directors, designers and vocal coaches. Cast members benefit from invaluable networking opportunities, all while putting on a truly spectacular show and supporting Canada’s flagship feminist theatre company.
Since the Lawyer Show’s inception in 2010, over 300 legal professionals have appeared in 15 shows to raise more than $1,300,000 in support of Nightwood.
This season we invite you to join us for the 2025 Lawyer Show, ANNIE, one of the most beloved musicals of all time, June 5 to 7, 2025 at the Jane Mallett Theatre in The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.
Annie
Book by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Original Production Directed by Martin Charnin
Based on LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE® by permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director Andrea Donaldson*
Music Director Athena So
Choreographer Brittany Banks*
Assistant Director Lee Stone
Based on Little Orphan Annie, the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide sensation. Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the beloved show features a wonderful score written by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, including the Broadway smash hit, “Tomorrow”.
With a perfect combination of street-smarts and optimism, Annie warms the hearts of the audience as we witness her rise from next to nothing in New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who left her at the orphanage years ago. Though things don’t quite work out the way she has planned, she does manage to thwart the plans of Miss Hannigan and find a new family with billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his secretary Grace Farrell, and her lovable pooch, Sandy.
ANNIE Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com.
Support of the Lawyer Show production of ANNIE will go directly towards supporting future productions community programs at Nightwood Theatre. Click here for information on how you can help champion this project! For more information on how you can support the Lawyer Show with a donation, sponsorship or silent auction prize, please contact Ashley Elliott, Administrator – Operations & Partnerships, at ashley@nightwoodtheatre.net.
PERFORMANCE DATES:
June 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
June 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM
At the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Jane Mallett Theatre
TICKETS:
Regular Prices: $75 – $95
Tax receipts are issued for a portion of all tickets
Tickets can be purchased at the link below or through the TO Live box office at 416-366-7723 (local), 1-800-708-6754 (toll-free), or boxoffice@tolive.com (email).
Click here for accessibility information.
*The participation of this Artist (these Artists) is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance • Opera • Theatre Policy (DOT).
Meet the cast of "Annie"
ANNIE
OLIVER WARBUCKS
GRACE FARRELL
MISS HANNIGAN
ROOSTER HANNIGAN
LILY ST. REGIS
F.D. ROOSEVELT / LT. WARD
BERT HEALY
FRED MCCRACKEN
BOYLAN SISTERS
MOLLY
KATE
TESSIE
PEPPER
DUFFY
JULY
MRS. GREER
MRS. PUGH
CECILE
ANNETTE
DRAKE
ORPHAN ENSEMBLE:
HOOVERVILLE-ITE/STAFF/CABINET ENSEMBLE:
Rona Ghanbari – Stikeman Elliott
David Mills – Mills & Mills LLP
Olivia Nieuwland – Goldenberg & Co. P.C.
Kate McNeece Cruess – Goodmans LLP
Joseph Cuyegkeng – Spin Master
Courtney Evans
Richard Chan 陳駿華 – CBC / Radio-Canada
Joe McGrade – Blakes
Heather Paterson – Shibley Righton LLP
Kaja Marinic – Pro Bono Students Canada, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Tracy Pratt – Fasken
Jennifer Whincup – Altus Group
Lucie Zhang – Lifetime Developments
Heidi LeBlanc – Carters Professional Corporation
Ari Sterlin – Artist Management Inc.
Clare Mauro – Torys
Lape Adeniran – Mackenzie Investments
Stephanie Kay – Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Allison Pressé – SBA Lawyers LLP
Liz Moore – Ministry of the Attorney General
Christine Doucet – Office of the Children’s Lawyer
Paloma Alaminos – Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson LLP
Greg Miller
Brennan Caldwell – Litera
Arielle Di Iulio Elias – Mills & Mills LLP
Olivia Pomajba – CICC
Emma Romano – WeirFoulds LLP
Tracy Bardell – College of Nurses of Ontario
Chandler Buchanan – Monique Lafontaine Communications & Entertainment Law
Edina Cavalli – TD Bank Group
Allison Cormie-Bowins – Newman Barristers
Bennett Jensen – Egale Canada
Raha Khatib – Kronis Rotsztain Margles Cappel LLP
Lessa Nosko
2025 Lawyer Show Committee
Edina Cavalli, Richard Chan, Sheila Gibbs, Devin Jarcaig,
Heidi LeBlanc, Kaja Marinic, Kate McNeece Cruess