A Wellington School pupil has been selected from over 1,000 hopeful children to take part in a prestigious theatre company’s 2016 season.
Chloe Shaw, in Year 10, beat off stiff competition to be selected for one of the four shows the National Youth Music Theatre will be performing this season.
The Company, whose patrons include Jude Law, Sheridan Smith, Idris Elba, Tom Chambers, Matt Lucas and Amy Nuttall, will be rehearsing for a national tour of The Pied Piper of Hamlin. This will be directed by the Company’s founder Jeremy James Taylor OBE.
The cast for the Pied Piper of Hamlyn will rehearse over Easter for a week and performances will take place throughout the summer, culminating in the 40th Anniversary Concert in London and a Gala Christmas Concert in St John’s Smith Square.
“I am thrilled to be included in this season and to be given the opportunity to perform alongside such a talented group” commented Chloe. “The auditions were quite nerve-wracking – we had regional audition, then the final 200 went to London for the last stage. To be one of such a small cast is a huge privilege and I am really looking forward to the rehearsals at Easter,” concluded Chloe.
The National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) is an arts organisation in the United Kingdom providing pre-professional education and musical theatre stage experience for young people. Based in London, it is constituted as a private limited company (originally named Children’s Music Theatre Limited) and as a registered charity. NYMT was founded in 1976 by director and playwright Jeremy James Taylor. Since its inception, it has produced over fifty productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, premièred thirty new musical theatre works, toured several times outside the United Kingdom, and had runs in the West End and on Broadway. Alumni have also included directors such as Jo Davies, and songwriters such as Tara Mcdonald.