Director: Sam Hiller
Choreographer: Joey Bethell
Musical Director: Ross Gunning
Ross Gunning has, since 2015 offered West End high quality alternatives for aspiring, younger musical theatre performers in Scotland. Inviting the nice and good of the London stage from each in entrance and behind the scenes to encourage and educate this burgeoning expertise.
The fruits of the efforts of those collaborations are a yearly showcase of the perfect of younger expertise within the nation on a serious Scottish stage. This yr’s featured performers are West End stars Lizzie Bea and Alex James-Hatton and Mamma Mia!: I Have A Dream winner Stevie Doc.
The younger performers give their all delivering a various programme of acquainted and never so acquainted film and theatre tunes: songs from Pippin, Mean Girls, Beetlejuice, Anastasia, Oliver, Come From Away, Urinetown and Heathers to call a number of. In tribute to Doc’s win on Mamma Mia!: I Have A Dream, there’s a medley from the present. Lizzie Bea gives the extra highly effective, emotive moments within the present with Alex James-Hatton showcasing his voice greatest on Blue Skies from White Christmas. The spotlight of the younger solid’s programme is a wonderful rendition of the perennial favorite Season of Love from Rent.
In all these highlights, one facet that isn’t as polished as earlier years is the choreography and its supply. There are in fact points in making an attempt to drill such an unlimited solid on one stage however it’s largely uninspiring, and sometimes very messy.
That mentioned, the sheer enthusiasm and dedication of the younger solid is value celebrating and it warms the center that there’s a lot theatrical potential in our small nation. I want them each success sooner or later.
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