Official Poster Design Reveal

Congratulations goes to Darrell Chiu (Year 9) who's stunning digital design has been selected as the official poster for Holy Cross College's 2015 Production of 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. This poster will start to be displayed around the College and community from next term!

What's Happening in Narnia: Behind the Scenes of Week 8

Behind the Scenes in Week 8! As we near the end of Term 1, we have reached the end of blocking and choreographing Act 1. After an intensive rehearsal on Saturday, the cast now have scripts down and are really focusing on character building. The end of Act 1 sees the disappearance of Edmund as the four Pevensie childen go with Mr and Mrs Beaver to meet Aslan. The Beaver/Animal chorus number 'Cair Paravel' is a beautiful end to the first act and Nathan, Laura and the Animal Chorus have been working particularly hard on this number under the guidance of Miss Reynolds. Miss Kendrick has also been busy with her dance numbers, also working on 'Cair Paravel' whilst polishing Turkish Delight. The students are beginning to bring much more expression into their characters now and we can now begin to see how these characters will interact on stage which is exciting!

Costumes have also made a big leap forward this week with the costume for nearly every character sourced and ready for dress rehearsals next term! Our new D&T workshop is also being turned into a Narnia 'prop shop' with Mrs Wilson working tirelessly with her Senior students creating some awesome set pieces. We also have Ryan from Getting Technical coming in on Friday to work with Mr McRae on creating the look and feel of Narnia with staging and lighting planning. Narnia is starting to take shape!!

Production Team

Guess Who Is Coming To Holy Cross

A very special guest from the world of Music Theatre will be coming to visit our production cast and crew in May. Who could it be?? All will be revealed in the coming weeks!

What's Happening In Narnia: Behind the Scenes of Week 7

This week has seen a lot of work in the areas of Choreography and Singing in particular. We have reached the end of Act 1 and will be running the act as a whole at our first weekend rehearsal this Saturday. The White Witch and Beavers have been a big focus this week with the 'Turkish Delight' and 'Cair Paravel' numbers being rehearsed consistently. Jack, Zoe, Jamie and Angela have also been working solidly on the tricky 'Teasing Song' and in their words 'nailed it' on both Monday and Wednesday. We are looking in good shape as we approach the end of our first term of rehearsals!

In terms of marketing and promotion, we have secured several sponsors and our official production poster is in it's final stages ready to be released! We have also secured a very special guest from the Music Theatre world who will be coming to Holy Cross in May to give our cast some words of wisdom. She is a seasoned performer and we are very excited to have her visit our College...but more on that later on! Keep your eyes on this blog as it will be updated with photos, videos and interviews every week!

The Narnia Production Team

Band parts starting to be put together....

About the Writer/Composer

What's Happening in Narnia: Behind the Scenes of Week 6

Welcome to the first of our behind the scenes updates for this year's Holy Cross College Production of 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'. We have been particularly busy this week, rehearsing Pevensie, Tumnus, White Witch, Animal and Rabble scenes from Act 1 as well as choreographing and rehearsing singing parts for the funky 'Turkish Delight'. Our junior cast has also been working hard on their singing and dancing for 'Please Come to Tea'. Check out our video blog below created by Alex Smilovitis and Tegan Morling (Year 8) which features rehearsal footage and an interview with Year 11 cast member Max Hughes (Mr Tumnus).

Mr Chris McRae- Production Director