National Youth Theatre Company Explained

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)
• (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

Artistic Patrons

• Carl Doy
• Jason Gunn

External links

• National Youth Theatre

Notes and References

1. News: Wright . Danielle . National Youth Theatre Company: Wiz kids . 16 November 2018 . NZ Herald . 31 May 2014.
2. News: Lynn . Alastair . National Youth Theatre Company celebrates 10 years . 16 November 2018 . The Press . 24 Jun 2015 . New Zealand.
3. News: Collins . Hugh . NYTC production of High School Musical hits the Civic Theatre . 16 November 2018 . The Press . 5 Jul 2016.
4. Web site: Disney's Alice in Wonderland JR . Music Theatre International (MTI) . 29 January 2012.
5. News: Cattin . Matthew . National Youth Theatre Company brings Oliver! to Auckland . 16 November 2018 . The Press . 29 May 2017 . New Zealand.
6. News: Christian . Dionne . Go girl power: Wendy flies high in new Peter Pan tale . 16 November 2018 . NZ Herald . 3 December 2017.
7. News: Master . Farida . Learning to fly . 16 November 2018 . Times . 15 November 2017 . Auckland, New Zealand.