Malcolm Jenkins (left) presented the donation to St. Mary drama teacher Jason Van Otterloo. (Submitted photo/Brooke Zawislak)

By paNOW Staff

We Will Rock You

Jenkins donates $75K to St. Mary theatre group

May 8, 2025 | 6:00 PM

Talk about an opening act…

The theatre group ‘Upstage Productions’ at École St. Mary High School debuted their musical ‘We Will Rock You’ at the EA Rawlinson Centre Wednesday, but the group had more to celebrate than just their return to the stage for the first time in two years.

On opening night, Prince Albert Philanthropist Malcolm Jenkins made a donation of $75,000 to the high school theatre group.

The gift from the Malcolm Jenkins Family Foundation will fully fund the replacement of the lighting system in the school lecture theatre. The school said although the system is still functional, it had become outdated and needed significant upgrades very soon.

‘While Upstage Productions had begun what was expected to have been a multiple-year fundraising journey, Malcolm Jenkin’s generosity now ensures the entire lighting system will be replaced this upcoming summer. École St. Mary is truly blessed to have the support of Malcolm Jenkins, a citizen deeply committed to community, who recognizes the positive impact that Upstage Productions has on École St. Mary students and the wider community,’ the school write in an email to paNOW.

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Jenkins is no stranger to the acting scene in Prince Albert, having supported and participated in several local theatrical groups over the years.

The last showing of St. Mary’s ‘We Will Rock You’ will take place on Saturday, May 10. In a previous interview, director and drama teacher Jason Van Otterloo said it’s a story that has a surprising amount of relevance in today’s day and age mixed in with the tunes of Queen.

“It is a futuristic sort of story that in a world where AI has taken over all of our creative input, which when this was written was so far fetched because it was written in 2003, yet here we are 2025 and AI is a fact of life for all of us now. So that’s the musical we’re doing and it uses Queen music all the way throughout the whole show as its storytelling device musically.”

Tickets are on sale now for the remaining 7:30 p.m. shows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the EA Rawlinson Centre.

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