THE incredibly talented young performers from Leighton Buzzard Youth Theatre are back on stage next week with the timeless classic Annie.
Terry Cavendar is guiding the youngsters in his 15th show as director. In recent years he is proud to have seen its members go on to further their ambitions at top arts schools including RADA and Central School for Speech and Drama in their pursuit of drama and the arts.
Their latest show, running at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, features their youngest ever lead - eight-year-old Madison Bishop - who is taking the leading role of Annie, an orphan with a heart of gold.
Spokesman Lydia Evans said: “She is supported by a brilliant and talented cast who have been working really hard. It would be great to see packed audiences.”
Annie is a sensational family musical that tells the story of a little red-headed moppet who is desperate to find the parents who abandoned her to the municipal orphanage years earlier.
Annie is both funny and poignant, and packed with great songs, including “Tomorrow”, “Maybe” and “Hard Knock Life”.
The production runs at the Lake Street theatre for two nights, May 3/4 with a matinee on the last day.
The box office is open Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday (9.30am-12:30pm and 1pm-3pm) or call 0300 300 8125.
* After a sell-out five star run at the Edinburgh Festival, Les Enfants Terribles and the Luton Hat Factory bring their award winning show, The Trench, to Leighton Buzzard Theatre on May 7.
It’s a harrowing new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One.
As the horror threatens to engulf him, he finds that not everything in the darkness is what it seems, and starts to discover a new, strange world beneath the mud and death.
Setting off an epic journey of salvation, the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur as he questions what’s real, what’s not and whether it even matters.
Blending live music from Alexander Wolfe, film, puppetry and physical performance. The Trench is the latest critically acclaimed show from “razor sharp theatre company” Les Enfants Terribles (The Telegraph).
The drama is written and co-directed by Oliver Lansley, an actor and playwright who has also worked as writer and director with ITV, Sky and the BBC, and who recently starred as Kenny Everett in BBC4’s biopic “The Best Possible Taste”.
*Barnstormers comedy is back on May 9 bringing three gagsters and a compere for a night of fun and laughter while, on May 11, the Heath Band present an evening of fantastic brass band music.
In-between, on May 8 and 10 respectively, there are a couple of movies - Les Mis and Lincoln.
The venue’s new brochure for the summer is just out and available to download or pick up at the venue and points around the town.
For information about anything on at the theatre call 0300 300 8125.