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Youngsters praised for award winning performances
Street Scene, a Watford Palace Theatre musical which included students from Kings Langley, won the ‘Best Musical’ accolade at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, held at the Royal Opera House on Monday.
The musical was a co-production between The Opera Group, Watford Palace Theatre and The Young Vic.
John Fulljames’ sizzling account of the Kurt Weill/Langston Hughes’ musical Street Scene, which played at Watford Palace Theatre, The Young Vic, and on tour this summer, beat off strong competition from the blockbuster musicals Marguerite and La Cage aux Folles to take The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical.
The production seamlessly integrated a cast of fifteen professional singers, a 30-strong on-stage orchestra and in the two Watford performances twelve year 5 and year 6 pupils from Fleetville Junior School in St Albans and seven girls aged 16 to 18 from Kings Langley Secondary School.
A hundred young people and adults as chorus, dancers and extras were involved in the large-scale performance.
The pupils involved in the chorus from Kings Langley Secondary School were: Karen Brazier; Caroline Hardingham; Iona Preston (Kings Langley); Jerry Prout (Apsley); Laura-Anne Robins (Bedmond); Nivin Jacob and Elaine Tang (Abbotts Langley).
Watford Palace Theatre receives regular funding support from Watford Borough Council and Arts Council England East.
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