Friday 28 September 2007

FROM TOKYO TO ROCK YOU


St Mary's Youth Theatre has had members from far and wide but Yui Suzuki holds the distance record by far. She joined SMYT in May after enroling at the Leeds College of Music to study Performing Arts. Yui is from Tokyo in Japan and has come to Leeds to enhance her chances of becoming a musical star back home. She met a boy in her 2nd year at Senior High School who was a young rising star in Musical Theatre who told her how wonderful it was to appear in Musicals. He said his dream was to play Marius in Les Miserables, a dream which has now been fulfilled. Inspired by this Yui decided to study in the UK to gain experience of life abroad and to learn to be strong morally.
She said " There's nothing that I can't do if I try really hard"

Yui is appearing in SMYT's production of We Will Rock You which is being performed at the Carriageworks, Leeds at the end of November. Tickets are now on sale.

Wednesday 5 September 2007

SCHOOLS WE WILL ROCK YOU






THE CARRIAGEWORKS. WED 28 NOV - SAT 1 DEC 2008

Monday 3 September 2007

CONGATULATIONS TO NICOLA




















SMYT would like to congratulate an ex-member of the group who has just joined the company of the West End hit musical WICKED.After being awarded a Dance & Drama Award, Nicola Brazil (we knew her as Nicola Yeowart) recently graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London where she studied Musical Theatre Performance. Recent credits at Mountview include the roles of ‘Nancy’, ‘Tina’ and ‘Judith’ in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens and ‘Albina’ in Brezhnev’s Children. Other credits include ‘Medea’ in Jason & The Argonauts - showcase performance, and ‘Elizabeth’ in Whistle Down The Wind - National Youth Music Theatre. TV Credits include the role of ‘Fran’ in Children’s Ward. In the year 2000, Nicola recorded her debut album, Cross The Battleline and was subsequently awarded the HMV Rising Star Award and named Touring Artist of the Year. Nicola is delighted to be making her West End Debut in WICKED. Nicola appeared in a number of early SMYT productions including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Billy and Oliver (playing the lead role of Oliver). Steve Archdale and everyone at SMYT wish Nicola the very best of luck and if you are in London why not go down and see her and say "hello".

Sunday 26 August 2007

SUMMER SCHOOLS PROVE A HIT WITH YOUNGSTERS


Youngsters have been busy honing their theatre skills at a series of week long summer schools in Garforth.
A trio of Summer Schools have been held over recent weeks by St Mary's Youth Theatre.Each provided an opportunity for children to practice their dancing, singing and acting skills before performing in front of parents.They were held at SMYT's base at Green Lane Primary School on Ribblesdale Avenue.
Dates for the Summer Schools 2008 are
Mon 28th July- Fri 1st August
Mon 4th Aug - Fri 8th August
Mon 11th Aug - Fri 15th August

* For further details of 2008 summer schools please contact Steve Archdale at steve.archdale@btinternet.com.

Tuesday 31 July 2007

NEW LOCAL NEWS WEBSITE FOR GARFORTH

This is a link to Yorkshire Evening Post's community digital editor.
http://www.garforthtoday.co.uk/ is one of a series of free all inclusive websites run by the Yorkshire Evening Post which features all things local to Garforth. They are hoping it will prove to be a invaluable community resource. On the site you will find news and sport updates, latest local planning applications, video, audio and slideshows and a whole lot more - and updated on a DAILY basis.
St Mary's Youth Theatre hopes to make full use of the site and even has its own section! They are keen to run news stories of productions and events , previews, reviews as well as audio and pictures! Have a look and see what you think.

Friday 13 July 2007

WE WILL ROCK YOU CAST LIST

CONGRATULATIONS TO ARANN SMITH FOR WINNING BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL (HONK) AT THE AWARDS NIGHT AT THE CARRIAGEWORKS ON SATURDAY 8th SEPTEMBER 2007.



SCARAMOUCHE MARIA STRUDWICK
GALLILEO JAMIE YEO
KILLER QUEEN NATASHA BOSELEY-YEMM
KHASHOGGI RYAN BRAY
MEAT KIM LISTER
BRITNEY MARTIN LOMAS
POP MICHAEL HUNTER
TEACHER HELEN FISHER
TEEN GIRLS
YUI SUZUKI
POPPY-JO LUMLEY
OLIVIA NOLAN
SOPHIE COCKERHAM



BOHEMIANS

YUI SUZUKI MICHAEL JACKSON
POPPY-JO LUMLEYPUFF DADDY
OLIVIA NOLAN ADAM ANT
SOPHIE COCKERHAM CHARLOTTE CHURCH
LAUREN MATTHEWS TINA TURNER
KIRSTEN MOORE ALANA MORRISETTE
IMOGEN HEY CLIFF RICHARD
CHRIS BROWN BIG MACCA
DANIELLE WRIGHT MADONNA
KATIE WILKINSON JACKSON FIVE
KATIE MATTHEWS EDDIE COCHRANE
GEORGIA SEEDHOUSE JUSTIN TROUSERSNAKE
CLEM ABBOTT BOB THE BUILDER
ABIGAIL PRUDOE ELTON JOHN
HELEN FISHER ROD STEWART


KILLER QUEEN YUPPIES
HANNAH SHAW
HANNAH MIDGLEY
NATALIE CLARK
AUDREY ABBOTT

COP 1 THOMAS PINDER
COP 2 ROBERT PINDER
DOCTOR DANIEL FISHER

Thursday 17 May 2007

EMILY FOLLOWS RACHAEL ON THE ROAD TO STARDOM

Our congratulations go to Emily Cairns for gaining a place at the prestigious Sylvia Young stage school in London. She is following in the footsteps of her big sister Rachael who is an actress and singer/songwriter. Rachael is currently appearing in the soap opera Doctors. Other TV credits include the BBC version of Robin Hood, Alice, I Think, All About Me and Casualty. Both Rachael and Emily have appeared with St Mary's Youth Theatre in
numerous amateur productions at the Leeds Civic Theatre, The Carriageworks and the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.


RACHAEL CAIRNS

Eleri (Robin Hood)
Emily Fenton (Doctors- series)
Amy Harkins (Casualty)
Lucy (All About Me)
Rachael (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

Tuesday 10 April 2007

Past member hits the big time.

Marc Pickering has appeared in numerous productions with Saint Mary's Youth Theatre including "Jesus Christ Superstar, " "West Side Story" and "Les Miserables." Marc has also appeared in "Bugsy Malone" at the Queens Theatre in London's West End.
I Want Candy (2007) .... Sam
"Dalziel and Pascoe" .... Sammy Hogarth (2 episodes, 2006) - Fallen Angel: Part 2 (2006) TV Episode .... Sammy Hogarth - Fallen Angel: Part 1 (2006) TV Episode .... Sammy Hogarth
Cashback (2006) .... Brian
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004) .... Dinger Bell
Secret Passage (2004) .... Andrea Zane
Calendar Girls (2003) .... Gaz
Sleepy Hollow (1999) .... Young Masbath

From The Times
April 10, 2007
The Elephant Man
Sam Marlowe at the Trafalgar Studios, SW1
Though later overshadowed by David Lynch’s celebrated film based on the same true story, Bernard Pomerance’s 1977 play was a huge hit, particularly on Broadway, where it won three Tonys. It remains involving, largely because its title character, the deformed Joseph “John” Merrick, provokes the same kind of response in a modern audience as he did among Victorians: a combination of fascinated horror and pity.
That probably says more about human nature than about Pomerance’s writing. But the playwright goes beyond the cliché of a beautiful soul trapped in a misshapen body to present further interesting dualities: like Peter Shaffer’s Equus, his play explores the doctor-patient relationship, as well as the tensions between society and the individual, morality and compassion, art and science. The results are episodic, at times schematic and dramatically often static — a problem Bruce Guthrie’s production, somewhat clumsily designed by Natalie Powell, doesn’t solve. But Marc Pickering’s riveting Merrick engages, and frequently moves, throughout.
Merrick’s deformity is represented by means of the actor’s physicality. Pickering, young, shaven-headed, with huge limpid eyes, assumes Merrick’s twisted posture, contorted mouth and slavering speech, yet also reminds us, in his surprising playfulness, that he was only 28 when he died. Rescued from a life in freakshows by Ayden Callaghan’s repressed London surgeon, Treves, he turns from object of horrified prurience to society darling, his residence at the hospital paid for by charitable donations from readers of The Times. He is emblematic both of the Great British Public’s cruelty and its philanthropy.
But has he become, as Treves says, a highly polished mirror, obliged by gratitude to subsume his self and reflect back to his benefactors what they want to see? What of this artistic man’s dreams — of sexual love and a full, rich, ordinary life? Does Treves, as his saviour, have the right to deny them — for Merrick’s own medical and moral good?
Pickering’s Merrick combines childlike innocence and emotional fragility with an entirely adult intellectual sophistication. Callaghan strikes the right note of buttoned-up frustration, and Jennifer Taylor is affecting as the famous actress who allows Merrick a moment of erotic bliss. And despite the production’s imperfections, Pickering ensures that it will be difficult to forget.
Box office: 0870 0606632

Friday 9 March 2007

A YEAR AND A DAY

A YEAR AND A DAY
by Christina Reid
SATURDAY MAY 12th
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH
A traveling Storyteller and a Girl meet in a land devastated by war and famine. The Storyteller remembers and conjures a long-long-ago land of peace and plenty – a beautiful garden inhabited by The Kritters of the land, the trees and the water. And then the humans come to the garden – Two tribes who worship different Gods. The Storyteller’s tale of the corruption and loss of the ancient garden is a love story that becomes a never-ending story of old ghosts who still haunt the earth.

Many thanks to everyone concerned (cast, crew and chaperones) for making the production a great success!




WE WILL ROCK YOU 2007


SCHOOLS WE WILL ROCK YOU
Coming soon to the Carriageworks Theatre.
The amateur production of WE WILL ROCK YOU
NOVEMBER 28th - DECEMBER 1st 2007
7.30pm
The Carriageworks
Millennium Square
LEEDS

Workshops at Green Lane Primary School have now begun. If you are interested in being in the show then get in touch for details- steve.archdale@btinternet.com

LEEDS CIVIC ARTS AWARDS 2005

At the Leeds Civic Arts Awards night held at the carriageworks theatre on Saturday 12th November 2005, SMYT were awarded the Best Visual Production along with the Best Musical Award for their production of Les Miserables. There were also nominations for Gareth Yearsley for his performance of Jean Valjean ( Best Actor ) and Steven Liddell for his performance as Enjolras ( Best Support ). Well done to everyone, Cast and Crew.