What a show! Not only performing the musical Amelie to capacity audiences, but doing so in Gordon’s School’s new theatre, complete with orchestra in the pit, and officially opened on the last night of the three-night run by generous benefactors Peter and Sarah Wynter Bee in the presence of the Mayor of Surrey Heath Councillor Louise Ashbery. The icing on the cake was learning that the play had been shortlisted for the MTI Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Provision at the National Music and Drama Education Awards and five National School Theatre Awards.

The student-led production featured them in not just the cast but involved in the lighting, sound, performing in the orchestra, co-directing, making props and painting scenery!

A romantic comedy, Amelie follows a shy, quirky only child, whose best friend is a goldfish and who is home-schooled after her father wrongly diagnoses her with a heart defect. She becomes a waitress in a Parisien cafe where her life revolves around helping others and in doing so, finds happiness and love.