Muskets, Music and Mayhem: The Shaw Festival and more! JUNE 26 – 28, 2012

	Your Executive Worldwide Travel Tour Itinerary
	“I am so inspired by the range of talent we’ve assembled to make up our 2012 Ensemble. This extraordinary group of artists will bring to life the vivid contemporary ideas of each and every playwright whose work we are proudly presenting.” Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell We will enjoy three of the Shaw Festival productions, as well as a Niagara Historical Society theatrical performance on the War of 1812. Lunches at the Carriage House and Ravine Winery. Accommodations at the elegant Prince of Wales Hotel.

	Tuesday, June 26 – Early morning departure for Burlington from the National Gallery of Canada. Lunch at the upscale, contemporary Carriage House in Burlington, proud recipient of the AAA, CAA Four Diamond Award for 2009, 2010 and 2011. After lunch, continue to historic Niagara-on-the-Lake and the Prince of Wales Hotel, an oasis of Victorian elegance filled with 21st century comforts. Following dinner on you own, transfer to the Royal George Theatre for the evening performance of Terence Rattigan’s “French Without Tears.” at the Royal George Theatre. “Is she learning French too? No, she just stops us from learning it.” “L’amour en français! In a villa on the west coast of France, young men – some aspiring to be diplomats, some just doing it to please their parents – come to work on their French language skills. But in between lessons, their main occupation is with girls, one girl in particular, Diana Lake, who has a lot of joie de vivre and can’t seem to help making all the men fall for her. ” L

	Performance pictures and descriptions courtesy of The Shaw Festival.	Wednesday, June 27 – Breakfast at the hotel, followed by a morning tour of Willowbank, a National Historic Site that is home to the School of Restoration Arts dedicated to the teaching of all arts and skills related to the conservation and restoration of historic properties. The Willowbank estate, with its complex layers of history and design, is both a teaching venue and a working laboratory for conservation activity. Following lunch on your own, transfer to the Royal George Theatre for a matinee performance of Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance. “Oh home! parents! family! duty! How I loathe them! How I’d like to see them all blown to bits!” “Hypatia is a bored heiress to an underwear fortune, trapped in an unhappy engagement. But then a plane crashes into the conservatory, bringing a handsome man, a female daredevil and all kinds of new ideas to shake up the quiet weekend in the country.” After dinner on your own, transfer to Festival Theatre for the evening performance of Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow. “It was the music of something beginning, an era exploding, a century spinning …” “In this powerful musical portrait, an era of innovation and unrest is set to the rhythms of ragtime. A sweeping saga of turn-of-the-century America, seen through the eyes of three very different families. A heady tale of love lost and won, lives lost and saved and a country struggling to define itself.” Transfer back to the hotel following the performance. B

Thursday, June 28 – Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Transfer to the Niagara Historical Society & Museum to visit the Museum and enjoy "Petticoats, Boots and Muskets," a theatrical performance that will explore the social history of the War of 1812. Lunch at Ravine Winery, located in the Village of St. Davids on a rolling hillside farm owned by the descendants of David Jackson Lowrey, who originally planted the farm in 1869. Historic buildings, like the William Woodruff House (circa 1802) and the authentically recreated 1920s Lowrey Farm fruit packing shed, are home to the winery’s hospitality centre, tasting rooms, on-site deli/bakery and gourmet food store. After lunch depart for Ottawa. BL

For more details on this tour or to request a brochure, please feel free to contact us at 613-236-5555 or email Jean Sheikh at jsheikh@executive-trvl.com.

	Coordinators: Catherine Lane Frank Anglin Travel Agency: Executive Worldwide Travel Agent: Jean Sheikh, C.T.C. (613) 236-5555 Or 1-800-267-5552 Registration No.: 1892605
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