Dracula Spectacula!
02 Jul 2009
Solihull School pupils are raising the stakes when it comes to honing their acting and singing skills by staging the spoof horror Dracula Spectacula.
It will be the seventh play or musical to be produced by the school this year, completing the busiest six-month drama programme in its history.
Fifty boys and girls aged from 12-14 from the independent co-educational school will be taking part in the popular musical in the school’s Bushell Hall from June 15-16.
The cast of 12-14 year olds from the Lower School includes Sally Farrant as Nadia Naïve, the teacher who leads a school trip to Transylvania, and Jordan Salmon who plays Dracula, the unwelcome guest that appears at their hotel and causes mayhem.
The production will include a live band, and Sixth Form theatre studies have been working on the make-up, costumes and set design.
Gap-year student Adam Carver, who played Max in The Sound of Music and the title role in The Scarlet Pimpernel when he was at Solihull School, is the director.
Solihull’s Junior, Lower, Middle and Senior schools have already staged Witches, Journey’s End, Tom Jones, The Wind in the Willows, My Fair Lady and Roger Ravenbeard Scourge of the Ocean since the turn of the year.
Sixth-Form theatre studies students have also produced Beauty and the Beast, a workshop-performance of A Question of Dignity, and a specially devised play Eight Characters in a Search of a Wedding.
Jean Wilde, Director of Drama, said: “There is no greater team game than putting on a musical and so naturally everyone involved with Dracula Spectacula is looking forward to demonstrating the results of their tremendous hard work next week.”
She added: “There is an ever-increasing enthusiasm for the performing arts among pupils, helped by the excellent support of staff and the school’s superb performance facilities.”
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