Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s musical production, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, which will be live-streamed to audiences next month.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic hindering extra-curricular activities and rehearsals, the show must go on - and performers are delighted to showcase their talents with their version of the much-loved production.
The show will be streamed live from the Lyceum Theatre from 7.30pm on Saturday, December 5.
The Performance department has even been able to secure an extra special prop for the showcase - the dreamcoat worn by Joe Sugg when he appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018.
Performers gave up two weeks of their summer holidays back in August to start rehearsing for production, but the packed rehearsal schedule had to be ripped up due to strict Covid-19 measures.
Despite this, the team are confident of staging another show-stopping production.
Ms S Bishop, Head of Extra-Curricular Performance who directs all of the school’s acclaimed productions, said: “Staging our productions always takes an enormous amount of commitment and hard work, and this year we have been faced with the added challenge of the ongoing pandemic.
“We haven’t been able to rehearse as we usually would, but we’re not going to let that stop us! The show must go on, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, so there’s been a lot of work going on from homes to ensure we can put on another fantastic show.
“We have an amazingly talented bunch of young performers and we hope to see you all tuning in from the comfort of your homes for an evening of top entertainment.”
School musical productions are usually open to every student who wants to take part, but because of the strict restrictions on numbers this year, Ms Bishop emailed performers who appeared in the 2019 Addams Family production and worked on a ‘first come first served’ policy.
It is Ms Bishop’s third time directing Joseph at Highfields, albeit the first with social distancing measures in place.
Based on the ‘coat of many colours’ story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book, the show, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, is one of the world’s best loved musicals.
