Forth Children’s Theatre
Celebrating Jenny Hogg
Benefit tribute for Brain Tumour Research:
Edinburgh’s amateur musical companies are coming together this week, to celebrate the life of backstage star Jenny Hogg, who died of a brain tumour in March this year, aged just 33.
Les Miserables
✭✭✭✭✭ Hear the people sing
Skilful, energetic and packing a real emotional punch, Forth Children’s Theatre’s Les Misérables is as impressive a musical production as you are likely to see on the Fringe – or anywhere else.
Hairspray – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Depth and pleasure
It’s Good Morning Baltimore at the Edinburgh Academy’s theatre all this week where the young members of the Forth Children’s Theatre are getting it right with a super production of Hairspray.
FCT auditions Hairspray this Sunday
Forth Children’s Theatre has secured the rights to stage Hairspray as its 2014 Easter production, and has announced that auditions for the show will take place this Sunday, 15 December.
Review – Godspell
✭✭✭✭✩ Casts a spell:
Godspell may be a Fringe stalwart but FCT’s production at Inverleith Church Hall is particularly noteworthy. And not just because it is the the first British appearance of the new vocal and musical arrangemements from the 2012 Broadway revival.
Review – Seussical the Musical
✭✭✭✭✩ Simple and joyous
Crisp and even, Forth Children’s Theatre’s production of Seussical also finds the deeper points of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’ musical based on the works of Dr Seuss.
FCT hunt for Director & MD
Forth Children’s Theatre is looking for a director and an MD to take on the the company’s Easter show, 2013, which is scheduled to play at the Pleasance in April.
Musical review – Once on this Island
There is a gentle sensitively to the performances of the Forth Children’s Theatre company in Once On This Island, enhanced by a tingle of magical realism to the production itself.
Review – 13 The Musical
★★★☆☆:
Bursting with exuberance, big beats and hormonally-enhanced doses of angst, the Forth Children’s Theatre production of 13 The Musical, captures that particularly vicious age when you officially become a teenager.
Oot-Aboot the Fringe: Day One…
Apps, Happiness, Casablanca and The Chess Game By Thom Dibdin Start it up and lets go! Day One of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe dawned bright and clear. No monsoon, no rain, just a crisp morning with light wind and sunny skies. A perfect day for a play called Happiness, it would seem, at a sparkling […]
Connect
Connect with us on the following social media platforms.