The Theatre on the Hill at Amersham & Wycombe College opens 2010 with two major productions (From Bucks Free Press)

The Theatre on the Hill at Amersham & Wycombe College opens 2010 with two major productions

2:02pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010

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Amersham and Wycombe College’s musical theatre students will perform productions of Maggie May by Lionel Bart and Jekyll and Hyde by Leslie Bricusse and Frank Wildhorn at the Theatre on the Hill, on the Amersham Campus this month.

Maggie May is set in the Liverpool of the late 1950s and was perhaps Lionel Bart’s most daring score. The cast of College students has worked to re-interpret this text, both vocally and intellectually for a 21st Century audience. Jekyll & Hyde is evolved from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic good versus evil tale which pits man against himself when the brilliant Dr Jekyll’s medical experiment backfires, giving rise to Edward Hyde, his evil alter ego.

This year the College’s BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course has an unprecedented forty-plus students, ranging in age from 19 to 23, and is fast becoming one of the leading courses of its kind in the UK. “The course encourages students to look not only at their performance skills associated with musical theatre, but also the academic, cultural and intellectual underpinnings of the art form,” says Nicholas Scrivens, BA Musical Theatre, Course Leader.

“Since the course began two years ago, students have presented The Pajama Game, Songs For A New World and First Lady Suite, and this year have risen to the challenge again with Jekyll & Hyde and Maggie May,” says Scrivens.

Performances are open to the public and take place on: Jekyll & Hyde - Wednesday, 10th February (7.30pm) and Friday, 12th February (7.30pm). Maggie May - Thursday, 11th February (7.30pm) and Saturday, 13th February (2.30 and 7.30pm)

Tickets: Tickets are available from the box office on 01494 585286 between 12.30pm and 1.30pm, or email boxoffice@amersham.ac.uk. Tickets are priced at: Adults £7.50, Concessions £5.50, A&W College students £2.50. Amersham & Wycombe College, Stanley Hill, Amersham, Bucks HP7 9HN.

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