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June Rose |
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Artistic Director |
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Carolyn Keston |
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Choreographer, Head of Dance and Musical
Theatre at Redroofs |
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My job as a choreographer at the Novello
means that I create and stage all the musical
numbers, songs and dances, which are performed in
our musical shows, pantomimes, and variety
shows. I can turn my hand (or foot!) to pretty
well anything such as ballet, modern, song
and dance, but I just love tap dance. |
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| Novello shows |
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Loads, including Annie, Rumpeltstiltskin,
Alice in Wonderland, Once Upon a Time, Paddington
Bear, The Little Princess, at least nine pantos,
and every show with dancers in it (and some
without) since 1988! |
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| Other interests |
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Walking my golden retriever dog Alfie, teaching
dance, and making even the most unlikely actors
with two left feet and three right feet look
like brilliant dancers. |
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| Who I admire |
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Anyone who manages to make my routines
look great! |
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| Advice |
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Get the best possible dance training you
can in as many different dance styles as possible.
Practise creating dances to all sorts of music,
whenever you have the chance. It doesn't matter
if you just experiment on your Mum or your
friends, but just keep doing it. Remember you
don't have to be the greatest dancer yourself
and the nice thing is you can sit back and
relax to watch your masterpieces while all
your dancers are high kicking and sweating
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Michael Roets |
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Musical Director, Head of
Music
at Redroofs. |
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Born in South Africa and came
to the UK in 1997 after finishing his BMus
degree in Singing. Michael finished his MMus
degree in composing in 2002 and is still performing
in South Africa.
He has done a number of recordings and music videos and his popular songs have
been recorded by different artists including the new boyband EDEN. Michael composed
music for the panto's Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Babes in the wood and Aladdin,
which was staged at the Novello Theatre in Ascot. He also composed music for
Devastation, a play by Paul Prescott.
Michael has been musical director of various productions including Working, Lucky
Stiff, Into the Woods, Chorus Line, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Dear Edwina, Honk
and Cabaret.
Michael is also resident pianist for the V Graham Norton show on Channel 4. |
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David Tanqueray |
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Stage Manager |
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23 |
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University of Warwick (Masters in Mechanical
Engineering), and various theatres, venues
and festivals |
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| Career highlight |
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(Apart from meeting June Rose obviously!) stage
managing Fun Lovin' Criminals, Supergrass,
Wheatus and Afrika Bambataa |
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| Other interests |
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Piano, sax and scuba diving (qualified instructor) |
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| Actor I admire |
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Ummm...? |
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Nicola Allen |
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25 |
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| Novello shows |
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Most recently, Spot's Birthday Party. Also starred as Dandini in Cinderella,
Comedy character in Dick Whittington, Ensemble in The Lion The Witch and The
Wardrobe. |
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| Trained at |
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Yes you've guessed
it: Redroofs
College! |
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This year I ran a 10k charity
run, which is a big deal for me as I don't
do running. I also raised several hundred
pounds for Help a London Child in the process.
I generally work a lot or look for a lot of
work, when not doing that I go to the cinema,
pub or theatre. |
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| Who I admire |
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Anyone in this business who
works as it's so hard and often the rewards
are small! |
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Scott Burgess |
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33 next birthday |
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| So when's your birthday? |
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Why are you
going to send me pressies? It's May 24th.
Cards c/o the Novello. Pressies... recorded
deliveries obviously! |
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Yes you've guessed it: Redroofs
College! |
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| Novello shows |
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Mr Little in Stuart Little, Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh, Dame for two years, Tin Man in Wizard of Oz |
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I was Director of Entertainments for Best Hotels in Northern Spain for 10 years
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Lifestyle for sure, travelling the world on expenses, sunshine... |
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Javert in Les Miserables; and just to be in regular work as an actor.
You can't beat it.
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a young wannabe |
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Stick at it and
work at the things you find the hardest. And
come to my classes! (Scott is a drama teacher
at Redroofs Theatre School and also teaches
singing privately)
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Michael Crawford |
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Helen Gormally |
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| Trained at |
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Redroofs College |
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| Novello shows |
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Charlotte's
Web, Ten in a Bed, The Lion, The Witch and
The Wardrobe |
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| Other interests |
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Concert singer,
keen tennis player (and on the table), and,
for the record, I would like to play a villain!
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Vanessa Karon |
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28 (I think...) |
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| Novello shows |
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Wouldn't it be better to list
the ones i haven't been in? It's been a long
time! Right here goes... Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; Babes in the Wood; Henny Penny; The Wizard of Oz; Puss in Boots; Adventures of Paddington Bear; Gargling with Jelly; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. |
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No time. But I do enjoy the
fringe - Leave the Queen Behind at The White
Bear, and Hello I Love You are two of my favourites! |
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| Other interests |
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Reading, driving my little
MG |
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| Who
I admire |
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Julie Andrews - she was my childhood
idol! |
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Jodie Lewis |
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Redroofs of course! |
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24 |
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| Parts played |
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Prince Charming in Cinderella; Dick in Dick Whittington; Ricardo in Puss
in Boots; Cat in Pinocchio; Snowball in Stuart Little |
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| Other interests |
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Sorry - no life! |
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| Actor I admire |
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June Rose, of course! |
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| How would you recognise Jodie in a crowd? |
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Just look out for the green tunic. |
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Jay Taylor |
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35 |
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Redroofs Theatre
School, first at the Day School, then Student
College |
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| Novello shows |
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Silly Billy in
Jack and the Beanstalk; Wishy Washy in Aladdin;
Trouble in Babes in The Wood; Tumnus in LWW and loads more!
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| Been on TV |
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Yes |
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| Other
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I run
a set construction business (email me at
jbm.jay@tiscali.co.uk);
also massively into martial arts, every sport
under the sun, stunt training, fencing scuba,
parachuting, trampolining, gymnastics |
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| Actors
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De
Niro and Pacino |
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