Many thanks Emma Walton Hamilton for her extraordinary belief and support of this project.

Thanks to Steve Sauer at Media Four for helping coordinate the complicated details to make and share this production. Steve and Nancy Gabriel of IntraMusic Theatricals gave terrific guidance and support. The cast of Simeon production, and composer/conductor and musical director Ian Fraser, were very gracious in permitting this filming. The cast is Stephen R. Buntrock, Christiane Noll, Kevin Odekirk, Anne Runolfsson, Jubilant Sykes, and musical staging was directed by Graciella Danielle.

The reader’s theater footage of Simeon’s Gift was filmed by and used with permission from the Bay Street Theatre and the First Presbyterian Old Whaler’s Church, Sag Harbor, New York production. The production featured Everett Bradley, Brynn O’Malley, Liz Pearce, Josh Walden and Max Von Essen, staged by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Music Director - David Krane.

Thanks to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Thanks, as well, to Gretta Miller and Aarick Beher for their invaluable, professional help with this production.

Of course, this entire Author Program occurred because of the kindness and generosity of Emma Walton Hamilton and Julie Andrews Edwards, and their families who graciously shared their time and enthusiasm with us.

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Photograph of Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton used with permission. Photo credit to David Rodgers. Photo of Julie Andrews Edwards used with permission. Photo credit to Andrew Eccles.

From LAST OF THE REALLY GREAT WHANGDOODLES, written by Julie Andrews. Text copyright ©1974 Julie Andrews. Published by HarperCollins. All rights reserved. Cover image used by permission.

From MANDY, written by Julie Andrews. Text copyright ©1971 Julie Andrews. Published by HarperCollins. All rights reserved. Cover image used by permission.

From SIMEON’S GIFT, written by Julie Andrews Edwards. Text copyright ©2003 Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton. Illustration copyright ©2003 Gennady Spirin. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books. All rights reserved. Cover image used by permission.

From THE GREAT AMERICAN MOUSICAL, written by Julie Andrews Edwards. Text copyright ©2007 Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton. Illustration copyright ©2007 Tony Walton. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books. All rights reserved. Cover image used by permission.