The National Youth Theatre Formerly known as the National Youth Theatre Company is a not-for-profit organisation that runs musical theatre training workshops and musical productions in New Zealand.[1] It was established in 2005, with the aim of providing opportunities for young people to participate in performing arts training.[2] The company provides training strictly to New Zealand youth, between ages 7 and 21, and each show has multiple casts, enabling more young people to perform on stage.[2][3]
Programmes and productions
National Youth Theatre Company has put on a number of full-scale musical productions since its opening including:
- Cinderella (Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland, 2005)
- Annie (Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland, 2005)
- Seussical (Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland, 2006)
- Disney's Aladdin Jr. (Centennial Theatre, Auckland, 2006)
- Disney's High School Musical - Auckland Theatrical Premiere (Aotea Centre, Auckland, 2007)
- Disney's High School Musical ENCORE (Civic Theatre, 2007)
- Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr[4] - New Zealand Theatrical Premiere (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, 2007)
- Grease (Aotea Centre, Auckland, June 2008)
- The Wiz (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, 2008)
- Disney's High School Musical 2 (Aotea Centre, Auckland, August 2009)
- Honk! (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, November 2009)
- Peter Pan (Aotea Centre, Auckland, May 2010)
- Seussical (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, November 2010)
- The Sound of Music (Aotea Centre, Auckland, July 2011)
- Disney's Camp Rock The Musical - New Zealand Theatrical Premiere (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, December 2011)
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Aotea Centre, Auckland, July 2012)
- Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, December 2012)
- Grease (Aotea Centre, Auckland, June 2013)
- Disney's Aladdin Jr. (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, November 2013)
- The Wizard of Oz (Aotea Centre, Auckland, June 2014)
- Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr. (Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland, November 2014)
- Seussical (Aotea Centre, Auckland, July 2015)
- Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Aotea Centre, Auckland, December 2015)
- Disney's High School Musical 1 & 2 Theatrical Premiere (Civic Theatre Auckland, July 2016)[3]
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Aotea Centre, Auckland, December 2016)
- Oliver! (Aotea Centre, Auckland June 2017)[5]
- Peter Pan (Aotea Centre, Auckland, December 2017)[6][7]
- Cats (Aotea Centre, Auckland, June 2018)
- Shrek the musical (2018 November civc)
- Annie (2019 June Aotea Centre Auckland)(2019 June Aotea Centre Auckland)
- The Wizard of Oz (2019 November Aotea Centre Auckland)
- Disney's Beauty and the Beast (June 2021) at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre
- Oliver! (July 2022) at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre