Pre-Professional Musical Theatre & Performing Arts (Show One)

Welcome from the Artistic Director

There are many ways to tell a story on stage, and tonight our Musical Theatre and Performing Arts students move between them.

Our second-year Musical Theatre artists open the door to their rehearsal room with a studio workshop presentation of Company, sharing the process of building character, connection and ensemble. Our first-year Musical Theatre students bring their voices to the stage through cabaret performance, while our second and third year Performing Arts students step forward with self-devised solos shaped by their own ideas and choreographic instincts.

We are also delighted to welcome the voice of a Transit graduate back into the studio, with Isabelle Grozdanovski creating a new ensemble work for our first-year Performing Arts students.

Across very different forms, tonight is ultimately about the same thing: artists learning how to communicate. Whether through movement, music, character or choreography, each work asks our students to make choices and commit to them.

Thank you for joining us as they continue to discover what kind of performers, and artists, they want to become.

Act One:

PERFORMING ARTS SECOND YEARS

Choreography: Self Devised Solos

MUSICAL THEATRE FIRST YEARS

Director: Andrew Hallsworth

Musical Director: Jack Hollander, Jack Barnard

Accompanist: Jack Hollander

  1. First Year Musical Theatre (Group Work) La La Land Mash Up

  2. Chloe Payne - Into You (PA Second Year)

  3. Amelia Lea - The Life Of The Party (PA Second Year)

  4. Ellen Moore - Young and Beautiful (MT First Year)

  5. Lucy Gustin - Put The Gun Down (PA Second Year)

  6. Remi Alderuccio - Somebody That I Used To Know (PA Second Year)

  7. Catherine Smith and Ruby Hall - End Of The Line (MT First Year)

  8. Kati Marshall - Jealous Type (PA Third Year)

  9. Sarah Collins - Hard Times (PA Second Year)

  10. Charlotte Laidmen and Nikolas Paraskevopoulos - First Date/Last Night (MT First Year)

  11. Evelyn Antonopoulos - I Will Overcome (PA Second Year)

  12. Emma Martin - Black Car (PA Second Year)

  13. Izzy Farrah + Musical Theatre First Years - Purple Rain

  14. First Year Performing Arts (Group Work) Title: Neon Confessions

    Choreographer: Isabelle Grozdanovski

    Description: This high-energy 10-minute performance reimagines the bold spirit of the 80s through a fresh, contemporary lens. Bursting with attitude, confidence, and nostalgia, the piece celebrates the vibrant culture and individuality that defined the decade. Driven by Bronski Beat’s electrifying music,  dynamic footwork, powerful formations, and theatrical performance, combine to create vibrant performance that honours the past while bringing it to life for today’s audience.

    Music: Bronski Beat

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Act Two:

  1. COMPANY (MT Second Years)
    Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by George Furth

    Director: Nick Simpson-Deeks

    Musical Director: Jack Hollander

    Choreography:  Andrew Hallsworth, Ruby Young, Mienna Brookman

    Assistant Director: Kiara Huynh

    Dramaturg: Psy Broom

    Accompanist: Jack Hollander

    Description: Set in New York City, Company follows Bobbi, a single woman surrounded by her married friends, as she navigates questions of love, commitment, independence and what it means to share a life with someone.

    Rather than unfolding as a traditional linear story, the musical moves through a series of encounters, conversations and relationships that offer Bobbi, and the audience, different perspectives on marriage and companionship. Company explores the tension between wanting connection and fearing what we might have to give up to find it.

    Our Musical Theatre students present an abridged rehearsal-room version of the work, stripping the musical back to its characters, music and storytelling

    COMPANY CAST

    Bobbi – Aria Takle-Lee

    Joanne – Ainsley Thomson

    Paula – Niquita Gallicchio

    April – Emily Doig

    Amy – Ava Bridges

    Marty – Mak Russell

    Susan – Emily Stokes

    Sarah – Aishlee Cooper

    Pam – Phoebe Wilson

    Jenny – Tayah James

    Kathy – Brooke Marsland

    David – Diego Deller

    Larry – Dimetrie Liakatos

    Harry – Nikolas Paraskevopoulos