The Great Barrier Reef Festival’s main stage will light up this Friday night as the Seagrass Theatre Group performs a special set of musical numbers from 6pm.
Formed in 2021, the student-led company began after Proserpine State High School’s Performing Arts Centre was built and a production of We Will Rock You sparked students’ passion for musical theatre.
“I thought it would be a really clever idea for students learning and capacity building to set up a student-led theatre company so that the students experience all the different roles within the theatre,” said Jenny Napier, Head of Department ‘The Arts’ at Proserpine State High School.
“Whether it be on stage, technical, set construction, design, costuming, they do everything from promotion, producing, and directing.”
Since then, the group has delivered one-act plays and major musicals, including last year’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, which was described as “truly up to the standard of professional music.”
Group president Hayden Hudak said Friday’s performance includes five songs from a vast majority of musicals to help promote their upcoming event, Musical Theatre Night, on Friday, August 15.
The group also asked to perform at the Great Barrier Reef Festival and to open the Mayor’s Ball on Saturday night.
“They’re just amazing and very self-motivated,” said Ms Napier.
Seagrass continues to foster creativity, collaboration and career pathways, with many of the students involved in Seagrass pursuing a career in the field.
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