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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
returns to Blackpool Grand Theatre the week commencing Monday 25th to Saturday 30th October 2010. Come along and join the Michael Hall Theatre School in any subject (singing, dancing, drama or instrument tuition) to have the opportunity to be onstage throughout the entire professional production of Joseph at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre.This is the 6th year of the MHTS collaboration with Bill Kenwright Ltd and our fourth appearance this season Joseph at Preston and Evita, Witness for the Prosecution at Blackpool (see below).
Filming of Wheels on the Bus and Row, Row, Row your Boat produced by Kids Music Shop July 2008
Michael Hall Theatre School students spent the weekend of the 6th and 7th of March 2010 in the studio recording tracks for the new children’s DVD produced by Kids Music Shop. Filming took place during the Easter Holidays. See our blog with the children on location singing and dancing their way through favourites such as Supercalifragilisticexpealidocius and Knees Up Mother Brown
Our theatre school offers a full theatre experience for all ages. Working in a professional training centre for the performing arts, we have the advantage of an in-house theatre (the auditorium can seat up to 200 people) which allows students to gain practical stage expertise through regular performances in every discipline we offer.
Oliver! Performed at our venue with full orchestra
In our own theatre space we have performed the full length musicals: Bugsy Malone, Oliver! and Calamity Jane. As well as frequent drama evenings, past full length plays have included Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, The Diary of Anne-Frank and Hard to Swallow by Mark Wheeler, a study of anorexia nervosa. The drama and dance department performed Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in February 2010.
Outside our venue, the school staged the musical Mack and Mabel at Lowther Pavillion Lytham St Annes and has regularly taken part in the Hits at the Opera House in Blackpool.
In this picture, Rebecca Reynolds currently performing in Bill Kenwright’s European tour of Evita. Laura Wilson played Jan in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre, West End and Dominic Rainford who appeared at the London Coliseum in the English National Opera’s production of Dr Atomic and as Shaggy in the touring production of Scooby Doo
Hits Blackpool Opera House: Rocky Horror
Michael Hall Theatre School has also produced cabaret evenings, concerts and recitals utilizing our full size Bechstein concert grand piano.
Sunday Afternoon Music Recital
Our highly motivated and professional team is therefore able to encourage a natural progression from the smaller venue to the professional stage. 
Michael Hall Theatre School provides the children and adult extras for all the Bill Kenwright productions in Blackpool’s Grand Theatre and Preston’s Charter Theatre.
Dr Dolittle with Tommy Steele. Grand Theatre Blackpool. Bill Kenwright Ltd.
Evita. Grand Theatre Blackpool. Bill Kenwright Ltd.
Jesus Christ Superstar Grand Theatre Blackpool. Bill Kenwright Ltd
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Grand Theatre Blackpool. Bill Kenwright Ltd.
To date, almost four hundred children have had the privilege of appearing on the professional stage in this production.
Our relationship with Joseph doesn’t end there! In 2009 the children performed alongside Craig Chalmers as Joseph in the Blackpool Tourism and Leisure Awards.
Not only are the aims of our school to give the student the skills required to forge a career in the performing arts, but also to broaden their cultural horizons, in an enjoyable way, in order to give them a wider perspective on life.
