Her Majesty's Theatre

At PQA (Pauline Quirk Academy), we do end of term projects; I have already done a big project such as a film premier which highlighted what we do in film and television classes. Last term we did a musical theatre project which we performed at Her Majesty's Theatre! This was great experience and a lot of fun.

The whole of the academy were involved but we did separate performances and then a finale at the end together. We also shared the night with 3 other PQA academy's from different locations.

We had prepared for our performances for over 9 weeks and I choreographed the whole finale scene which meant that I worked for the afternoon academy as well as I had to teach the afternoon academy the same routines. This was hard work but a lot of fun as I got to know a few more people from the afternoon and it was good experience to be able to teach two whole academy's my choreography.

I also got involved with the media side of the performance too as I edited the music and put it all together for our performance. I learned how to do this in a B-TEC Performing Arts lesson and I was able to do it again at home. I personally didn't find it challenging as I knew the basics and so it was fairly easy as I knew timings etc.

The performances that I was in were from Legally Blonde the musical and Rent. Only my age group were involved in these. (14-17yr olds) It was just the girls that were involved in the legally blonde song and as a group we were involved in a song from Rent.

In the legally blonde song I played the bossy girl who told everyone what to do. We did the song OMG. In the song we are all excited because we think that El is about to get engaged which means we acted very stereotypical girly Americans. This was my favourite performance to do as I got to be with my friends, wear pink and sing solo in front of loads of people in the audience, which Pauline Quirk herself was in.

The other performance was called Rent and it was the complete opposite to Legally Blonde because we were poor and scruffy and negative. It was a very powerful performance and I enjoyed performing it as we all had loads of energy and therefore the outcome was brilliant.

I had a good night performing at Her Majesty's Theatre and I won't forget it! Great experience for me and I loved every second of it.