Highfields has today announced its latest musical production - the school’s first ever socially distanced version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Talented young performers from Year 9 through to Sixth Form will take to the stage in the showcase, which will be live streamed to audiences from the Lyceum Theatre.
Rehearsals will kick off with a two-week summer school from August 3rd-14th, featuring 15 students.
Ms S Bishop, Head of Highfields’ Head of Extra Curricular Performance, who will be leading the summer school and directing the show, said she was looking forward to rehearsals kicking off, albeit with strict guidelines in place.
It will be her third time directing the much-loved musical at Highfields since she started teaching at the school in 1999.
She said: “We are delighted to announce our latest musical.
“The show must go on, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and so we are all looking forward to rehearsals getting under way during our summer school.
“This will be my third time directing the show at Highfields, albeit the first with strict social distancing measures in place. It will be a challenge, but we have an amazingly talented bunch of young performers and I am sure we will put together another amazing production.”
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. Although summer school places are limited to 15 students, it is hoped more performers will be involved in the final production.
After months of rehearsals, the show will be live streamed from the Lyceum around Christmas.
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.
