Directors Notes…

This Oscar nominated drama is the compelling true story of a dedicated East Los Angeles teacher who surmounts overwhelming odds in his quest to turn inner-city students into whiz kids. When Jaime Escalante leaves a career

in engineering to teach high school math, he is assigned to a barrio school with a reputation for gangs, drugs, and dropouts, an illfunded school that is also in danger of losing its accreditation. Still, his quirky sense of humour, antics and offbeat teaching methods mesmerize and motivate his students. A class goal is set: to take the Advanced Placement

Calculus Test, an exam so demanding that less than 2% of seniors attempt it. Pressure mounts! Escalante works his students and himself so obsessively that he suffers a heart attack a couple of days before the test, nonetheless, 18 students take the test. All 18 pass! However, the skeptical Educational Testing Service invalidates the scores because of the unusual similarity of wrong answers. Ambition and pride vanish in a single computerized keystroke. Reluctantly, the students agree to re-test. The result is an emotion-packed, inspirational, urban fairy tale.

Escalante tells his students he has a “secret weapon … Knowledge …Knowledge is Power…It’s something that can never be taken away from you…Like it or not, you’re going to be tested for the rest of your lives. And the only time you fail is when you quit. When you let them take away your spirit…Your desire…Your ganas.

This multi-racial cast from Grade 10 through Grade 12 has risen to the challenge of becoming one team and in presenting you with this inspirational production. I am proud of all of them. They worked step by step, inch by inch, to prove they each have  the “ganas” to succeed and that  they are all “top kids”.

Christine Perkins

Director

CAST

The Faculty:

Jaime Escalante – Chris Phillips

Principal Molina – Linsae Vaughan

Raquel Ortega – Dariana Hidalgo

The Students:

Javier Perales – Charles Walsh

Tito Guitano – Jesse Glendinning

Claudia Camejo – Jacqueline Macasso

Francisco “Pancho” Garcia – Kerry Horn

Lupe Escobar – Amanda Martineau

Ana Delgado – Brittany Nelson

Rafaela Fuentes – Denise Dercksen

Angel Guerra – Rylie Moore

The Community:

Chuco – Andrew Francis

Armando – Brent Basil

Hector Delgado/Student #4 – Adam Lauze

Dr. Ramirez – Kelsey Strachen

Dr. Pearson – Catie Saroka

Secretary – Denise Dercksen

Security Guards – Kerri Wazny, Christina Bosch

Police Officer/Student #3/Parent – Kyle Scarcella

Student #1 – Sholeh Khodarahmi

Student #2 – Sarah Bauer

The Maravilla Gang/Parents – Erin Lowe, Tasha Eremenko

Tough Boy/Parent – Matt Harrichhausen

Pregnant Girl/Parent – Michelle Caragata

CREW

Producer – Fred Way

Director – Christine Perkins

Technical Director – Natasha Sharpe

Stage Manager – Tom Bradshaw

Assistant Stage Managers – Naomi Brady, Melissa Dirks, Melissa Davies

Set Design – Fred Way

Lighting – Megs Fetterly

Sound – Kirk Warkotch

Graffiti Artists – Josh James, Trevor Urlacher, Mike Heath, and Sky Leischner

Publicity – Shelley Webber, Christine Perkins, Jesse Webber

Photography – Jim Elwood, Mrs. Bradshaw

Posters- Harry Tonn, Mike Minions

Props – Natasha Sharpe, Mary Smith

Costumes – Cast & Crew

Hair & Make-up – Loyal Wooldridge, Natalie Zwaagstra

Front of House Co-ordinator – Rob Eikenaar, Jasmine Lemon

Ticket Sales – Cast & Crew, and Corrine Black

T-shirts – Harry Tonn

Thank you for Stand & Deliver

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Kelowna Daily Courier

Debby Helf

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CHBC-TV – Kelli Abbott and Jim

CRC – Mike Minions

C.U.P.E.

Michael Perkins

Mount Boucherie Administration

Mount Boucherie Staff

Steve Dale & Mt. Boucherie P.A.C.

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Based on a True Story!

Stand and Deliver

“You are the true dreamers.

And dreams accomplish wonderful things.

Tomorrow you’ll prove that you’re the champs.”

Based upon the Screenplay by Ramon Menendez and Tom Musca

Adapted by Robert Bella

Produced by Special Arrangement with

THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY

Of Woodstock, Illinois