Queen for a Day: The Musical The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom: The Musical Pollyanna: The Musical If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? the Musical
Producer / Composer / Lyricist
Linda Barnett
Linda is the founder and creator of April 30th Entertainment. She works primarily as a composer/lyricist currently writing the score for Queen For A Day: The Musical.
After storytelling through musical theatre to over a million young people and their families, Linda is focusing on commercial family entertainment with new and exciting projects. Two years ago, Linda conceived the idea to develop Queen For A Day into a musical. Since then, she has been involved in the creation and collaboration of Queen For A Day: the Musical. As well, she is currently in the process of developing Pollyanna - the musical and composing the score and writing the lyrics to The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom - The Musical. Linda is also looking at acquiring stage rights for three other family entertainment shows.
In 1986, Linda founded Stage kids, a theatre company that makes musical theatre accessible to youth who could otherwise not afford the opportunity to attend performances in main stage commercial venues. Over the next 20 years, Linda created, developed and produced sixteen musicals. In 1996 Linda received a Dora nomination for The Player Principle for Best Youth Theatre Production. Two of her other shows Time To Be Me, and Come Save Today premiered at The Schubert Theatre Summer Academy in New Haven, Connecticut in 1993 and 1994, and, Time To Be Me was generously sponsored to do a twelve- week tour that visited over 50 towns in Ontario. To date, licenses for 250 productions of Linda's shows have been granted worldwide.
Producer
Natalie Bartello
Natalie approaches the development of new theatrical pieces from a comprehensive point of view, having worked in different facets of professional theatre and entertainment for over 14 years.
Natalie enjoys seeking out and securing various properties from which to adapt April 30th's next musical.
Currently she is producing, and developing Queen for a Day: the Musical, based on the hit 1950's TV show of the same name. A forerunner in reality television Queen for a Day, was a household staple on radio and television for 20 years. Natalie is also a key creative Producer in the development of; The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom: the Musical.
Natalie produced the Canadian National Tour of Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman - the longest running solo show in Broadway History. Associate producing highlights include; Cabaret U-Mano (Réalisations Inc. from Montreal), and Dora Award Winner - Evil Dead: The Musical (Diesel Playhouse, Toronto).
Natalie has worked in dozens of schools in the Greater Toronto Area, sharing with children ages 5-12 years her love of theatre and puppetry as a teacher of the Arts Express program.
Natalie holds a B.F.A Honours with Merit from York University in Acting and is an alumna of the Commercial Theatre Institute's 'Producing for the Commercial Theatre' Intensive Program (Chicago).
