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Dateline: 2nd September, 2005
The National Youth Music Theatre will present a Royal Charity Gala on Sunday 9th October at the Piccadilly Theatre. In the presence of its president, HRH The Earl of Wessex CVO, over 100 past and present NYMT members and supporters including Matt Lucas, Amy Nuttall, Jonny Lee Miller and Richard Stilgoe will take part, with more to be announced soon. There will be extracts from the NYMT’s productions including Pendragon, The Ragged Child, The Dreaming, The Kissing Dance, Richard Taylor’s Whistle Down The Wind and two new pieces commissioned especially for the Gala. There will also be extracts from Oklahoma, Guys And Dolls, Chicago and Les Misérables. There will be a thirty piece Gala orchestra and an auction with major prizes. The NYMT started life in August 1976 in a tent pitched outside St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh where Jeremy James Taylor's production of a new ballad opera about Elizabethan child actors, written for a cast of 11-14 year olds, was appearing as part of the Festival Fringe. The Ballad of Salomon Pavey was an instant success, acclaimed not just as a 'children's show' but as a show about young people with wide audience appeal. It won a Fringe First Award, played at The Young Vic as part of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Celebrations the following year and was subsequently published and televised. In 1987 HRH The Earl of Wessex became the company's president and from 1993 - 1999 Andrew Lloyd Webber was its principal supporter. The NYMT is currently looking for new sponsorship because Andrew Lloyd Webber withdrew his sponsorship in 1999 and since then the company has struggled to continue to exist. A new group, Youth Music Theatre: UK (YMT:UK), was set up in 2003 by former employees of NYMT and this year produced the musical Goblin Market at the Edinburgh Fringe. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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