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Fairytale ending as Rugby children hit West End stage
YOUNG theatre students from Rugby made their West End debut with a musical they wrote and created themselves.
The 18 youngsters, aged between nine and 15, from Rugby Stagecoach Theatre Arts School performed a Tim Burton style musical at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket – currently the home of the smash hit musical The Phantom of the Opera – to raise funds for the children’s charity InterAct.
The musical, which is called Fairytale Blitz, is set in London during the wartorn 1940s and tells the story of a young girl who is mistakenly left behind during a bombing raid. To calm her fears she turns to the pages of a well-loved book of fairytales.
The songs in Fairytale Blitz have been composed by young musicians Nick Morrish and Joe Pickering.
Rugby Stagecoach Principal, Sallyann Webster, an experienced actress who has performed in several West End plays and television dramas, said: "The audience very much appreciated this really original and beautiful play and the children gave a magnificent and thoroughly professional performance.
“We are all enormously proud of them.”
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