<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Wow...memories.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I played pianist and musical director Jack Ayre of the Dumbells in a CBC TV movie about the troupe. Circa '76-'77.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Heath LAMBERTS played one of the Plunketts (Merton I think ), Gordon Thompson (of Dynasty fame) played a lovely Marjorie (Ross Hamilton) and Derek McGrath played, I think, Allan Murray.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It may be in the CBC Archives.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">There was a couple of stage versions around that time as well.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Scott Thompson, of Kids in the Hall fame has a little homage that you can see on YouTube with some DBells clips.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://youtu.be/IWHPMw22RIY">http://youtu.be/IWHPMw22RIY</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">And there is a more recent stage celebration, and book...see this:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/Arts+and+Entertainment/ID/2391732332/">http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/Arts+and+Entertainment/ID/2391732332/</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Daf</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div><br></div><div><br></div>David Ferry<div>Appledore Productions</div><div>416 433 5826</div><div><a href="mailto:appledor@sympatico.ca">appledor@sympatico.ca</a></div><div><a href="http://davidferry.workbooklive.com">davidferry.workbooklive.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett. Worstward ho.)</div><div><br></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Oct 24, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Lee Ramsay <<a href="mailto:lramsay@TORONTOPUBLICLIBRARY.CA">lramsay@TORONTOPUBLICLIBRARY.CA</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">The archive of the Dumbells troupe is held at the Toronto Reference Library and there are over 20 pieces of sheet music by Norman Fraser Allan in our Canadian Sheet Music collection. Here is the link
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">For more information contact the Special Collections department at
<a href="mailto:trlspc@torontopubliclibrary.ca">trlspc@torontopubliclibrary.ca</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Lee Ramsay</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">(416) 393-7172</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Canadian Theatre Research [<a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@listserv.unb.ca">CANDRAMA@listserv.unb.ca</a>] On Behalf Of Theatre Research in Canada [<a href="mailto:tric.rtac@UTORONTO.CA">tric.rtac@UTORONTO.CA</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> The Dumbells and Norman Fraser Allan<br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear colleagues,<br>
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I am writing to you on behalf of Stephanie Hall, who contacted the TRIC/RTAC office regarding an article she had read in TRIC by Patrick B. O'Neill about the Dumbells. Stephanie's grandfather, Norman Fraser Allan, was a member of the Dumbells, and Stephanie
is now searching for any information, photos, sheet music, or other material pertaining to this group or to her grandfather specifically.<br>
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If anyone has come across any information about the Dumbells or Norman Fraser Allan over the course of their research, Stephanie would be grateful to hear from you. She can be reached at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stephhall3@gmail.com">stephhall3@gmail.com</a>. Alternatively, if you'd prefer to forward information to us at the TRIC office, we'd be glad to pass it on to her.<br>
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Thank you for any assistance you can offer.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Kelsy Vivash<br>
Senior Editorial Assistant, TRIC/RTAC <br>
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