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Weekend Academy!
The Academy will provide musical theatre training in singing, acting and dancing. The classes will be led by a team of professionals who have worked in London’s West End!
The Academy will begin on Saturday 5th November 2011 and run for 10 weeks (7 weeks before Christmas and 3 after starting on 7th January).
The venue is Urban Soul, 23 May Street, Belfast BT1 4NA.
Schedule
Group 1 (6-10) 10.00am - 11.30am 90 mins
Group 2 (11-13) 11.45 am - 1.15pm 90 mins
Group 3 (14-16) 1.45pm - 3.15pm 90 mins
Group 4 (17-24) 3.30pm - 5pm 90 mins
Price
£120 for 10 weeks. There are a number of free places available sponsored by the George Best Belfast City Aiport for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds – further details attached.
For any further information or to sign up please contact Laura on 02890331096 or admin@mt4uth.com
Belfast Business Awards
We are proud to announce that MT4Uth was awarded Highly Commended under the Best Creative Business category at the Belfast Business Awards 2011! What a great achievement for us!
To view the rest of the winners please click here
MT4Uth Fundraising!
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Please come along and support them on the day!
BagPack
We have organised a fundraising bag pack in Antrim Asda on Monday 30th May between 11am and 6pm. We need as many people as possible to help out, if you are available, even for an hour please get in touch with Laura at admin@mt4uth.com.
Ryan Jenkins - So you think you can dance
Congratulations to our choreographer Ryan Jenkins who has got through tro the next round of 'So you think you can dance'! He is now through to Choreography Camp! If you missed his performance watch it by clicking below -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =bzMelOae938
MT4Uth 2011/2012 Sponsors
We would like to thank all our sponsors for their support - The Foyle Foundation, Arts Council NI, Lloyds TSB, Belfast Harbour Commissioners, Trust House, Translink, Belfast City Council, ARUP, Tughan Trust.
Please see Our Supporters page for further details and links.
MT4Uth Move to May Street
MT4Uth 2011 Auditions
Please contact admin@mt4uth.com now to book your audition!
Patron
"I am delighted to have been asked to be Patron of MT4Uth, and it is wonderful to be able to support the talented young people of Ireland who represent different backgrounds and religions, united in a common vision to achieve excellence in singing, dance and drama."
Chris de Burgh
GSA Musical Theatre Singing Examinations and Diplomas
In 2011 MT4Uth will begin to work in conjunction with Guilford School of Acting as they launch their new Musical Theatre Singing Examinations. This will provide accredited exams for MT4Uth students who have been selected by the company for training.
Accreditations will range from Grades 1-8 through to Diploma and Fellowship levels.
With an international reputation as a centre of excellence, GSA graduates appear in every West End Musical, UK and International Tour.
GSA’s reputation for Musical Theatre training is highly respected worldwide. These examinations will test ability at all levels and encourage students to prepare and engage in the development of their craft to the highest specialised standards. GSA are the only Board of Musical Theatre Singing Exams who provide specialist singing examiners offering comments on technique as well as performance.
There is no other Graded Singing Examination Syllabus which:
• is devoted exclusively to the Musical Theatre repertoire
• guarantees to provide examiners who are specialist in Musical Theatre
• gives musical theatre performers the opportunity to demonstrate integration of their other skills with their singing
• has an impression mark for overall performance
• is provided by an institution with close links to the Musical Theatre profession at the highest level
Ross Campbell, Head of Singing & Music at GSA, as well as Chief Examiner for these new exams looks forward to working with MT4Uth on an ongoing basis, and welcoming as many of you as possible to this new Board of Exams.
Raffle Ticket Winners - Well done everyone!
1st Prize - Manchester United Hospitality Tickets - Emma Philips
2nd Prize - Grand Opera House Panto Box Tickets - Mike Miller
3rd Prize - £250 Una Rodden Couture Voucher - J.Fleck
4th Prize - 2 Tickets for Wicked at London's Apollo Theatre - Danny Kinahan
5th Prize - 2 Tickets for Love Never Dies at Adelphi Theatre London - Bobi Monson
6th Prize - Winnie Magee Linen Rain Collection Jacket - Shireen Lewis
7th Prize - The Rejuvenation Works Voucher - Mia Kinahan
8th Prize - Paul Meekin Cut and Blow Dry - Stan Russell
9th Prize - Liz Boston make over voucher - Karen Neal
10th Prize - £50 Sharon Elkin (Personal Stylist) Voucher (For a Male) - Colum Smyth
11th Prize - Nicks Warehouse cookbook x 2 - Sam Lytte and Shireen Lewis
12th Prize - Gloria Hunniford signed books x 2 - David Irwin and A.Andrews
Tribute to Vernon Mound in The Stage:
Vernon Mound, who died from cancer on his 56th birthday, led two unique institutions: Music Theatre 4 Youth, Ireland’s only cross-border performing arts education charity, and the musical theatre department at Gothenburg University in Sweden, the only such course in Scandinavia.
Born on August 27, 1954, he studied at the University of London and began his career as a stage manager, subsequently becoming a staff director, in which capacity he was an associate director of Carmen Jones in the West End, and revived Turandot for the Royal Opera Company
in 1992.
He combined careers in opera and theatre in the
professional, educational and amateur sectors in the UK, Europe and the United States.
His first directing credit was for The King and I in
Australia. His opera career began with Opera North, a springboard that led to productions for Opera Nova, Opera Viva, Holland Park and New Sadler’s Wells Opera and South Yorkshire Opera, often designing his own sets. In all, he directed almost 200 productions.
For a time, he led the education departments of Opera North and Scottish Ballet, was head of acting for the Royal College of Music and Stella Mann College in London,
and associate director of the National Youth Music Theatre and Youth Music Theatre UK, for whom he commissioned and directed new musical theatre. He was a regular guest director at the Arts Educational Schools, London.
In recent years, much of his work was focused on Northern Ireland and Scandinavia, where he directed West Side Story and Showboat for Innsbruck Opera, Martin Guerre for Odense Opera, Sweeney Todd in Karlstad, the Swedish tours of Miss Saigon and Les Miserables, and productions for Norwegian National Opera.
Recent productions for Gothenburg University included A Little Night Music, Carousel, Titanic, and Guys and Dolls. It was during rehearsals for Sunset Boulevard with Gothenburg Opera that he fell ill, and died on August 27. Artistic director Lise-Lotte Axelsson described him as
“an extremely passionate, enthusiastic visionary”.
Michael Quinn (23rd September 2010)
Fundraising Abseil
Two of MT4Uth’s cast members recently abseiled down the Europa Hotel to raise funds for MT4Uth. Adam Thompson and Chris McDonald abseiled the 130ft building on Sunday 19th September to support projects costs.
To donate to MT4Uth please click the following link: http://charitygiving.co.uk/mt4uth
Adam Thompson Chris McDonald
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