StageCoach | In The News | January 10, 2006
Olivia's a natural at playacting
By Joan Mulcaster at www.icSurreyOnline.co.uk
OLIVIA Roberts is just like any other eight-year-old when a stranger tries to have a conversation with her - quite shy, but on stage the Cuddington Croft pupil transforms into a performer - enough to impress producers of Les Misérables that she was the best out of 500 little girls auditioning for the role of Cosette in the smash hit show.
Olivia's voice, tutored by staff at Sutton Stagecoach, is big enough to project throughout the Queens Theatre where the 19-year-old musical about the poverty which led to the French Revolution has tranferred from its original home, The Palace Theatre.What led the poor of Paris to the barricades to bring down the aristocracy is a bit above Olivia's head. She plays the central female lead of Cosette as a child. Then she's on her way home by 9 pm as the actress who plays her as an adult takes over.
Olivia's natural talent so impressed Stagecoach teacher Rachel Crouch during sessions at Carshalton High School for Girls she advised mum Beverley an audition experience would be fun for her. She said: "We exist to provide music, dancing and acting tuition to give children confidence with only a small proportion identified as youngsters with potential to go on the professional stage. "When audition opportunities come up we say, 'go, enjoy yourself, have fun, but don't worry about getting the part, only one can get it'."
Up to 100 children a day over five days - including many from some of the top full-time London stage schools - went for the part. "We were thrilled when Olivia got the part - one of three Cosettes." Mum Beverley said: "We went away knowing Olivia had got down to the last eight and when we got the phone call that she had got the part her reaction was, 'Does that mean my friends at school can come and see it?'." There is a good chance fellow pupils at Cuddington Croft might get tickets for a trip up to town to see their friend during one of the two performances she is allowed a week.
Both Olivia and younger sister Lauren are natural performers and Lauren, just five, is also a Stagecoach pupil. She will hit the TV screens next year in a two-part drama starring Silent Witness actress Amanda Burton. Beverley and her husband David are northerners, both from families with amateur dramatic backgrounds. They moved to Avenue Road, South Cheam, when insurance broker MD Mr Robert's job brought him south. Said Beverley: "Olivia and Lauren both love performing. Neither is precocious. They love their weekend sessions at Stagecoach and can't wait to get in the car to go there."
Stagecoach, based at Walton-onThames, was set up to coach children in the performing arts in their spare time and along with the few who have been on the stage, in films and on television, there are thousands of others whose self-esteem and confidence has been boosted by their theatrical training
From Everyone at StageCoach, Greenwich Village:
Congratulations Olivia!!
Olivia's a natural at playacting
By Joan Mulcaster at www.icSurreyOnline.co.uk
OLIVIA Roberts is just like any other eight-year-old when a stranger tries to have a conversation with her - quite shy, but on stage the Cuddington Croft pupil transforms into a performer - enough to impress producers of Les Misérables that she was the best out of 500 little girls auditioning for the role of Cosette in the smash hit show.
Olivia's voice, tutored by staff at Sutton Stagecoach, is big enough to project throughout the Queens Theatre where the 19-year-old musical about the poverty which led to the French Revolution has tranferred from its original home, The Palace Theatre.What led the poor of Paris to the barricades to bring down the aristocracy is a bit above Olivia's head. She plays the central female lead of Cosette as a child. Then she's on her way home by 9 pm as the actress who plays her as an adult takes over.
Olivia's natural talent so impressed Stagecoach teacher Rachel Crouch during sessions at Carshalton High School for Girls she advised mum Beverley an audition experience would be fun for her. She said: "We exist to provide music, dancing and acting tuition to give children confidence with only a small proportion identified as youngsters with potential to go on the professional stage. "When audition opportunities come up we say, 'go, enjoy yourself, have fun, but don't worry about getting the part, only one can get it'."
Up to 100 children a day over five days - including many from some of the top full-time London stage schools - went for the part. "We were thrilled when Olivia got the part - one of three Cosettes." Mum Beverley said: "We went away knowing Olivia had got down to the last eight and when we got the phone call that she had got the part her reaction was, 'Does that mean my friends at school can come and see it?'." There is a good chance fellow pupils at Cuddington Croft might get tickets for a trip up to town to see their friend during one of the two performances she is allowed a week.
Both Olivia and younger sister Lauren are natural performers and Lauren, just five, is also a Stagecoach pupil. She will hit the TV screens next year in a two-part drama starring Silent Witness actress Amanda Burton. Beverley and her husband David are northerners, both from families with amateur dramatic backgrounds. They moved to Avenue Road, South Cheam, when insurance broker MD Mr Robert's job brought him south. Said Beverley: "Olivia and Lauren both love performing. Neither is precocious. They love their weekend sessions at Stagecoach and can't wait to get in the car to go there."
Stagecoach, based at Walton-onThames, was set up to coach children in the performing arts in their spare time and along with the few who have been on the stage, in films and on television, there are thousands of others whose self-esteem and confidence has been boosted by their theatrical training
From Everyone at StageCoach, Greenwich Village:
Congratulations Olivia!!
posted by Helen Coleshill, Principal at Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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