TrudeauMania is the story of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada's hippest, smartest, most glamorous Prime Minister, and the father of PM Justin Trudeau.
Pierre (played by 24-year-old ACT Actor of the Year and jazz band performer Steven Pringle) kept Canada out of the Vietnam War, created the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and persuaded Republican President Reagan, Russian leader Gorbachov and the UK's Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to pause the proliferation of nuclear weapons. But he also imposed the War Measures Act for the first time ever in peacetime, to put down a perceived insurrection by the Quebec separatist FLQ.
He had a passionate relationship with Barbra Streisand, before marrying SFU grad Margaret Sinclair (played by 18-year old SFU Theatre student Emma Stenstrom) after a secret engagement. They divorced while Pierre was still PM.
The talented young 8-member cast of singer-actor-dancers is drawn from Langara's Studio 58, Byng Arts, UCLA Musical Theatre, and Capilano U Theatre. 18 original songs including soul, rock, latin, hip-hop, jazz, blues, folk and country, with arrangements by Eliza De Castro (TUTS), Jessie award nominees Peter Abando and Kerry O'Donovan, and award-winning composer Anton Lipovetsky (Bard on the Beach), artist-in-residence at Toronto's Musical Stage Company.
