Monday 16th – Friday 20th August
Age 8 – 18

“Who am I? What am I? Who is that??”
Join us on a musical adventure exploring the hidden world inside your head (and a bit more besides…). The week aims to explore individual’s conflict, family, relationships, successes and joys through the world of musical theatre. A chance to work closely with well renowned musical director Michael Lovelock and to further develop individuals understanding and knowledge of musical theatre.

Michael is returning to the Palace Theatre at Redditch this coming July as musical director for the Palace Youth Theatre’s production of Bugsy Malone.

Michael commented:

I’m delighted to be working once again with the talented members of the Palace Youth Theatre, and of course the great team at the theatre.

Auditions take place in March, whilst rehearsals start in earnest in May. Performance dates are likely to be in July, we’ll confirm nearer the time of course.

Excellent!! Thank you.  The track sounds great! Huge huge thanks.

As always the track was required to a tight deadline, and as always Michael delivered.

Infinite Vision required a song to accompany a short film to be shown at the Teaching Awards ceremony. Michael composed a bespoke song to highlight the way in which teachers help their students “reach out for the stars”.

Below is a rough cut of the final video.

This years’ show, Jack And The Beanstalk, includes Jeffrey Holland (Hi De Hi), Jake Maskall (Eastenders), Judy Buxton (On The Up) and Andy Steed (The X Factor).

Once again Michael is working with drummer and percussionist Benjamin Burton, and producing the excellent quality backing tracks that he is renowned for, to songs this year including Fame, Bad (Michael Jackson), Bonkers (Dizzee Rascal) and Find Your Grail (Spamalot) to name but a few.

Over a period of just over two months Michael taught the songs (and a little vocal technique) to the cast, many of whom had never sung before in a production. In that short period of time the cast mastered the many musical numbers of Animal Farm, and finally performed them admirably over the course of the three shows, accompanied solely by Michael.

No doubt this will not be the Palace Youth Theatre’s last foray into musical theatre, and it’s unlikely to be Michael’s last time working with the Palace Youth Theatre.

The 2009 Special Olympics will be held in Leicester, with the opening ceremony taking place at the Walkers’ Stadium on 27th July 2009. Well known carnival costume designer Clary Salandy of Mahogany Arts has been commissioned to create the performance centrepiece of the ceremony, and commissioned Michael and Geraldine to compose and record a 25 minute soundscape to tell the story of ‘Onederland’.