 this is a show you'll never forget come and join the party it's just Peggy Superb call the ticket hotline on 02871 26445 or visit milleniumforum.co.uk Jean-Claire's private collection and you're very welcome back and as promised in the studio tonight I've got Andrea Teney, Jonah Mitchell and Ruby Curran no relation yours are very welcome no nepotism certainly not and uh Andrea you have just formed the north west musical theatre company it's a new company along with Andrea Emmett uh so tell us a bit about that yeah well um Andrea and I kind of got talking she's just finished her uh degree from Mountview over in London so she came or her master's I should say rather and she came back and we had talked about a couple of ideas and things that we would do and we both really love working with young people and developing young people so that's sort of where this grew from uh and we held a couple of auditions February time just to sort of see if the interest was there and then it was there so we've that's basically as natural as that and of course yourself and Andrea you've had the hands-on experience you've you've both treaded the boards as I say and you've both academic qualifications yourself give her masters as well so you're coming well armed to set up this company I hope so uh what we can always live in in hope but yeah I mean I suppose the background's there it gives us a little bit of uh an edge to work off perhaps but uh yeah it's nice to develop young people I think the the passion and the the drive we have behind it so being armed with the academic thing kind of sort of helps with that a lot and setting up a company I'm sure it must bring its challenges putting on a show brings us challenges and its headaches but I would say actually setting up a company as well has uh different challenges for you yeah there's just the the legal side of things as well I suppose that you have to consider but um it's just all part of the job and you you sort of have to just knuckle down and get on with it we had as the two will remember a lovely little sort of uh issue with our scripts at one point that the scripts had to be recalled and then sent back because there was just a something as trivial as a spelling mistake with your uh with your rights can be a little bit of an issue but we got there in the end and it was fine uh live and learn as they say and I was reading the little vlog that you sent me uh about the aim of it it's really to encourage and develop talent here in the northwest of off the county yeah I mean that's our aim is to work with all the young people uh personally I was I was 18 before I sort of properly treaded the boards um aside from having maybe one or two gigs that were within uh school as you might remember um but yeah I was I was a bit older before I kind of got the opportunity to act so I want to give you know children that are younger and teenagers that are younger than 18 just that that opportunity that maybe wasn't there when I was their age uh and that's that depresses me jean that I say now when I was their age and when I was your age that that's taken at another another level and uh your first show is the high school musical now I I know nothing about the high school musical I suppose I'm being very presumptuous hopefully in thinking that's a musical and it's based in a high school uh yes that's it no nutshell actually um well to to sort of condense it into its smallest form its uh Romeo and Juliet uh through if disney did Romeo and Juliet I suppose is the thing so you've got Troy and you've got Gabriella who are basically on opposite ends of the school and uh fall for each other one uh fateful New Year's Eve and uh have to deal with the whole social pressures then of sticking to the status quo there you go there's a quote from the play uh and should they be together should they not be together should they follow their dreams or should they uh sort of just stick with who they are so that's that's it in a nutshell and yourself and Andrea I'm sure are hands on it but uh you're telling me that musical director is Zara Montgomery so that's another uh great asset to the show yeah this is my first time working with Zara as she's fantastically talented um she can play every instrument that I've named her so that's that's just an incredible thing um and I work in musician as well um so it's been great having her on board and getting her to develop uh that end of things uh as well so that's been great fantastic and Troy you're 17 and Ruby you're 17 as well and you play the role of Troy so tell us a bit about your character well Troy is kind of like your average American jock everybody loves me kind of guy so he's really like upbeat you know he's fast-paced he's moving about a lot you know he plays a lot of sports basketball is the main one and a lot of the play is actually based around that element of basketball and yeah he's really entertaining guy a jock yeah the popular kid at school yeah and how did you get involved in theater uh has it been for a number of years or is this sort of relatively new to you it is pretty new to me actually uh the first time that I got into theater was actually with Andrew here a while ago in the royal empire we had a play called calamity jane and they came in one day and they did auditions for it and I was listening to a couple of the songs from calamity jane and a character called bill hickok I liked a lot of the songs that he would sing in the musical so I auditioned for him ended up getting the part and it was a really good experience and I just wanted to do more so here I am so you've been working with Andrew before so he knew all about you and you knew all about him before and he wasn't scared off isn't that fantastic fantastic and yourself uh ruby uh you play gabriell so the two of you are a love item how do you get on with Troy um well I get on with Jonah great um gabriella and Troy have kind of a very um it's a rocky relationship but it's they get on well when they're alone but then you know the social pressures and you know the categories and like clicks and school like poses a lot of challenges for their relationship just like real life school yeah and how long have you been doing to get her and uh involved in musicals and things like that um well this is my first time doing a musical um but I have been involved in like theater and drama since I was about six I was in dynamic waves on core and green and so I've like I'm quite used to being on stage and acting but the the singing and the musical part of it is quite new to me but it's a exciting challenge you wouldn't think it when you hear so there you go that's well thanks well actually just even even listening to your your tonality I can just see a lovely voice or I think I can imagine a lovely voice behind that don't give them a big head at this stage do you know so you're two of the main characters but Andrew you're telling me there's quite a big cast yes uh well would you keep work 33 roughly yeah 33 yeah yeah uh in the in the cast in total um and there is quite a lot of uh supposed supporting leads that are sort of your friends that uh are influencing Troy and Gabriela one way or the other and they play quite a large part in that as well and we we do have a great cast of uh singers actors and dancers that are that are pulling together a great show so yeah it's great to see it and it sounds quite a vibrant show uh when we're talking about the songs before we went on air and there's one or two really well known songs uh in the in the score yes um would you like me to sing one now uh no only break and free which was uh it was actually in the charts as far as I can remember this is back in 2006 2007 was when it was first released but isn't it but the songs were very popular and I think break and free went to actually number one in the charts or into the top 10 of the charts at least so it was it's quite popular and or two lovely leads give a lovely rendition of it and uh you've got um status quo another great song that everyone loves and knows and uh we're all in this together yeah it's not the one fantastic and so it's on in the green on for two nights is that am I right in saying this at this weekend two nights this weekend uh Friday and Saturday the 7th and 8th of July um and tickets are available please come along support these wonderful young people um that are taken to the stage some of them actually taken to the stage for the first time which is which is always a great thing to see them take to it so fantastic and uh this is the first show that your the northwest musical theater company has done and I'm sure your plan's nearly for the next one as well Andrew well yes well we'll get this one done first so I'll take it from there but yeah I know the ambition is to to have this sort of as an annual thing that it'll keep going and hopefully build momentum and just keep I suppose young people engaged in the arts as as much as possible and the green unbox office for memory is 912 0777 I think and you can book online as well you can book online as well you could be right with the phone number I can't say I've ever right it's all online with our generation certainly well the best of luck with it and it sounds wonderful and uh it's every success with the company and every success with the show and many thanks Jonah and Ruby and yourself Andrew for taking time out to come in here tonight thank you very much thank you very much