MHTS Adult Choir & Lytham Light Orchestra An evening of popular and light classical music at Michael Hall Theatre School, 19 Preston Old Road, Marton, Blackpool, FY3 9PR

25 – 30 October (see the press for times)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Bill Kenwright Ltd with the children of Michael Hall Theatre School at the Grand Theatre Blackpool

20 November 7.30pm

Bastien & Bastienne and The Marriage of Figaro Act 4 Mozart at MHTS

19 – 21 December 2.30 (19^th), 7.30 and 7.30

MHTS Christmas Extravaganza – Family entertainment with singing, dancing and lots of drama!

3 & 5 February 2011

The Marriage of Figaro – Mozart at MHTS

Easter 2011 (dates to be decided)

Bugsy Malone

Future Musica Lirica productions will include Puccini’s Sister Angelica in 2011.

Hannah Channon   Acting Grade 4  65% Merit

Tom McLeod   Acting Grade 5  70% Merit

Hannah Armfield  Acting Grade 4  80% Distinction

Helen Wrigley  Acting Grade 2  80%  Distinction

Charlotte Lane  Acting Grade 4  80%  Distinction

In early Spring of 2008 Kids Music Shop approached us to take part in a project to create two children’s DVDs. The wheels on the bus and Row, row, row your boat. After initial internal auditions, a cast of 12 was decided upon. Thirty songs were then rehearsed and recorded. Choreographed routines  followed before the filming which took place in the Summer Holidays at various locations throughout the NorthWest.

  Watch clips of Tony George and the children performing  favourites such as Old MacDonald, Hokey Cokey, The Sun has got his Hat On and The Grand Old Duke of York

The children had great fun during this period and are looking forward to working with Kids Music Shop again in the future.

“I am writing to congratulate everyone at CRS records on your absolutely fantastic double-DVD set (Row/Wheels). Everything about it is just perfect – the choice of songs and their matching locations, the enthusiasm and good nature of the children, the choreography, the filming and editing, the wonderfully funny Tony as host, actor and song leader. The whole thing is just incredibly professionally done for what must be a small company. The DVD has a recommended age of 3+, but we bought it for our 16 month old baby girl who loves it. She points at the DVD sleeve and goes ‘ah, ah, ah’ to let us know she wants to watch it. She knows a lot of the songs from playgroups and daddy and mummy know the others. We all sing together. We’ve already bought two sets, and will be buying more for other children’s birthdays. Please pass on this message to all involved – you have done an absolutely brilliant job.”

Paul Emmerson, West Sussex

Once again, Michael Hall Theatre School  has teamed up with Kids Music Shop and Lancashire One to create two more children’s DVD’s. Tony and the gang are also back, with a few new faces to join in the fun and frolics as they sing and dance their way through 30 new songs. The recording session took place on the 6th and 7th of March 2010 and the children are currently in rehearsal for the choreography.

Listen to clips from the new recordings.

 Knees Up Mother Brown!

  Round and Round the Garden

 Two households, both alike in dignity, or lack of it, hate each other with a passion so intense, that, for any excuse, street violence, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, breaks out.  Unfortunately, the teenage children of the heads of these two feuding families hold no such grudge. Their love, which, in the end, leads to their suicides, finally concludes the long running vendetta of the two ‘families’.

 Romeo and Juliet can be seen at the Michael Hall Theatre School, 10, Preston Old Road, Marton, Blackpool FY3 9PR on Sunday 28 Feb at 2pm and Monday 1 March at 7pm.  Tickets are available in advance or on the door £7.50, concessions £5.50. MHTS Students £3.00 (Refreshments included)  Telephone 01253 696990 for further information.

Venue: St Paul’s Church. Time and Ticket price to be confirmed.

Join us for a scratch performance of Handel’s most celebrated oratorio.

Tickets £5  £4 Cons/children