A Short History of Clarkson Music Theatre
The year was 1945 when thirty young people of Clarkson United Church formed the “Clarkson Community Church Choir” with a performance of HMS Pinafore. This show was chosen for our fiftieth anniversary in 1994 where we had some members from the first show in 1945 on hand, both on and offstage. Our first twenty-three years were devoted to presenting Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, but this tradition was broken in 1969 with a production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow.  Since then, we have performed works by such composers as Johann Strauss and Jacques Offenbach while visiting such diverse locales as Oklahoma, Anatevka, New York and the London of Oliver Twist and Fagin. In 1973, we changed to our present name and, in 1974, we became affiliated with the City of Mississauga. Our choir has participated in numerous community celebrations and has provided concerts and shows in many seniors residences in Mississauga and Oakville. We added another dimension to our history with our first annual concert in Mississauga's Living Arts Centre in the spring of 1998. We are looking forward to our sixtieth season in 2005 which featured a Grand Gala during the Summer a perfomance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in the Fall and Blood Brothers an ACTCO award winning  best show in January 2006.

Bill Cook's Archives
Clarkson Music Theatre Archivist Bill Cook, would like you to present him with material from our past. Here is the first of Bill's web archive notes
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The list of Lifetime Members with 25 years of continuous membership now includes Libby Toogood. Libby has worked very hard over the years for CMT, in many and varied roles, she has made costumes for many shows, has been make up artist for many others as well as being a leading dancer in many productions.

Here is a complete list of lifetime members

Bill Cook
June Cook
Eleanor Crisell
Ruth McDonald
Bud Old
Jane Simser
Betty Smith
Libby Toogood

Sheila Lake
Liz Allan
Jim Allan
Mary Arnold
Edith Bradshaw
Greg Brown
Pat Brown