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23/01/2023
🌟 🌟 🌟 WE NEED FANTASTIC YOUNG PERFORMERS AGED 14-25 WHO WANT THE CHANCE TO PERFORM IN A BRAND NEW MUSICAL WORKING ALONGSIDE AWARD-WINNING INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS 🌟 🌟 🌟
🎭 PRINCIPAL CAST AUDITIONS SAT 28th JAN 🎭
Book a place on the casting day by using the sign-up form (www.tinyurl.com/lyoaudit) or emailing: [email protected]. Please ask any questions in the comments section!
Principal role casting afternoon this Saturday 28th Jan for an exciting Northern Youth Musical PREMIERE!!! Are you aged 14 - 25 and a musical theatre performer? Then this is the opportunity for you!
Auditions will be taking place 2.30 - 5pm at Interplay Theatre.
We are casting for the main roles of Ernest Shackleton,
Frank Wild (second in command),
Emily Shackleton (Shackleton's wife),
Rosalind Chetwynd (Shackleton's Mistress).
We are also casting for many other roles in this amazingly challenging and exciting new musical adventure! All roles have amazing solo and ensemble singing stand out moments and you can go for any role regardless of gender.
LYO had a fantastic casting day on Saturday and now has a wonderful young ensemble cast. We now invite 14 to 25 year olds to attend our casting day for principal roles.
LYO is a premiere youth theatre led by award-winning industry professionals and this is an an awesome opportunity to star in this fantastic new musical following the incredible Shackleton and his crew as they battle the Antarctic! There are many challenging roles in this show for experienced singers and musical theatre performers, those who are wishing to enhance their performance training and those who want to gain invaluable and exciting on-stage experience.
Be part of an amazing NEW MUSICAL PRODUCTION with the multi-award winning Anita Adams Artistic Director and the fantastic TTom Mitchell Get the chance to create something visually and musically amazing and perform across Leeds as part off LEEDS 2023!
The show will be gender blind cast with amazing opportunities for all young people!
INTRODUCING LYO'S NEWEST ADVENTURE...
Leeds Youth Opera is relaunching and regrouping and we are so excited to be producing a brand new musical in July 2023 based on the life and adventures of explorer Ernest Shackleton!
We are welcoming all new performers, particularly in the 10-19 years bracket, although older singers are very welcome too.
Shackleton the Musical was premiered at the Brighton Fringe and the Watford Festival to critical acclaim and in front of Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter, who loved it. The writers are so very proud that LYO will be performing the first production of the musical in the North!
“Stranded on the ice in the middle of the Southern Ocean for over a year with no way to get a message home, Shackleton and his crew set out on their epic tale of survival against the odds. After the sinking of their ship, the Endurance, their mission becomes to find a way home before they succumb to the fate of many Antarctic explorers before them.
With supplies running low, and the ice melting around them, they have nothing but three small boats, their good spirits and Shackleton to turn their fate around. This extraordinary journey uses the power of theatre to bring you into the lives, loves and spirit of these men as they endure the ultimate test of the human spirit.”
We’re looking forward to starting the season on January 7th, 2.30 to 5pm at Interplay Theatre Armley. We cannot wait to welcome new and existing members to this wonderful community which has produced fantastic productions in Leeds for over 50 years.
03/07/2022
02/03/2021
****MASTERCLASS - DREAM ROLE****
****Sign up quick - limited places****
Anita Adams and Robert Sanders are back with more masterclasses.
Work with an award-winning professional team to refresh your talents and reconnect with musical theatre and performance.
With the wonderful Robert Sanders and Anita Adams are running a new series of masterclasses. We have a potential return date for theatres but in the meantime do you want to reboot your awesome performance skills?
We will work with you online to give you the best performance of your dream musical theatre song! And then with all crossed we may be able to get together to sing with each other and masterclass with your peers.
More information available on request, just comment below and I will forward.
Please let me know if you have questions and share with anyone who misses that stage! ###x
05/09/2020
07/05/2020
Calling all musical theatre singers.
We are very excited to launch the opportunity to take part in our first set of online musical theatre masterclasses.
Have you Always wanted to work on song in detail with a professional Director and Musical Director. Well now is your chance and you can do it from the comfort of your own home and for free!
We're really sorry, but we've been overwhelmed by the positive response to this masterclass and all the places are now taken.
Don't worry if you've missed out. Check back soon as we hope to run more soon.
We can’t wait to virtually sing with you. Xx
07/05/2020
Calling all young theatricals, singers, actors, writers and dancers! We know this time is hard for young performers in training and for those who love taking theatrical classes and performing in shows. So we are offering a fabulous opportunity to take part in a virtual theatre challenge.
Starting next Tuesday a weekly challenge will be posted via video on this page. Challenges are suitable for all ages, all performers and can be tailored to your own level of experience. Beginners can start to explore and experienced creators can really challenge themselves. Participants can join in each week by hearing the challenge on a Tuesday and posting a video of your creation by the following Saturday. Take part in 5 challenges and you will receive a performance challenge certificate.
What makes this challenge different, is that each of you will receive detailed feedback on each of your performances from a multi-award winning professional performer and director. Anita Adams will provide ideas in the first videos and be available for questions as well as giving feedback to every participant. It will be fab for you all to see each other’s work and we will endeavour to create a virtual video featuring some of the best work.
This challenge launches Next Tuesday! Be ready and share widely to any young people who need a lockdown performance outlet!
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The Carriageworks Theatre - The last Community Theatre in Leeds
Historically, since the mid-1920s when the British Drama League took over the running of the ‘Albert Hall’ within the Mechanics Institute in Cookridge Street, Leeds City Council has long valued the objectives and work of community arts in central Leeds. The facilities made available to groups have been suitable, accessible for people who work all day, with reasonable, affordable charges. Alterations to the ‘Albert Hall’ took place in 1949, a proscenium arch and dressing rooms added and the building was officially named the Leeds Civic Theatre. It was recognised that providing these facilities would be beneficial for community use, especially young people. Many groups and Societies took advantage of these facilities and in 1950, an umbrella organisation – Leeds Civic Arts Guild – was formed to represent all the groups. Now known as Leeds Community Arts Network (Leeds CAN), this organisation supports 14 groups with 800 members, covering Music, Drama, Dance, Opera, Creative Writing, Musical Theatre and numerous Youth Groups.
The Civic Theatre was closed in 2005, but the Council reinforced its commitment when the venue was replaced by The Carriageworks Theatre complex in 2005. This was after an arduous campaign to secure the development of this new home for community arts organisations in the city. The campaign was led by The Yorkshire Evening Post and was supported by numerous national and international bodies that recognised the importance of the Leeds Civic Arts Guild. This view was supported by local politicians and high-profile celebrities, and the campaign gained huge media attention across the UK.
The Carriageworks Theatre cost £5m in taxpayer money, and was intended to be the home of Community Theatre in Leeds, hosting numerous arts groups and supporting all Community Arts. The Carriageworks also has a large workshop within it, allowing any community group to build their own sets onsite - one of the most important things to have in a home Theatre.
Now, all of this is being taken away from the Community.
Using underhand tactics, council officers are imposing measures on community arts groups intended to force their hands into withdrawing from the Theatre.
These measures include, but are not limited to:
Increasing the cost of rehearsal space by 600% - current UK inflation rate is 2.9%)
Closing the Theatre at 8.30pm - Most groups cannot start rehearsing until 7.30pm
Only making 3 rooms available for rehearsals, which are not guaranteed - Most evenings there are 4-5 groups rehearsing
Evicting all groups from the Workshop - This will result in costs quadrupling for Community Theatre groups to hire in sets
Refusing to work with any groups to come to solutions - Suggestions have been made not only to save money but to increase profits, all of which have been ignored
Giving priority to professional touring groups for bookings - Meaning that Youth groups who rely on specific dates to avoid exams and work around term times are now unable to have their regular performance dates
CARRIAGEWORKS IS COMMUNITY
This campaign exists to support members of Leeds Community Arts Network, the resident Community Arts umbrella organisation, as well as all other Community Arts groups who wish to be involved at the Carriageworks.
We hope to gain support in the Leeds community and further afield to show solidarity that we will not give up the last remaining Community Theatre in Leeds.
We will not let go without a fight, because this is our home. We are Leeds taxpayers, and this is a taxpayer funded theatre. The Carriageworks was built for the Community, and the Community refuse to be pushed out.
