British Youth Music Theatre has issued a call for actors aged 11 to 21 to appear in Tony Macaulay’s All Growed Up which will be staged during the company’s 21st anniversary season at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in summer 2024.
Set in Belfast in 1982, All Growed Up will be the third of Macaulay’s series of “musical memoirs” following 2022’s Breadboy and Paperboy in 2019, both of which were produced by BYMT.
Formed in 2003, BYMT specialises in creating new music theatre and works with leading theatre creatives to offer intensive training to young singers, actors, dancers and musicians under professional conditions. It also provides training for emerging artists and stage technicians.
Described as “touching, funny and nostalgic”, All Growed Up follows the 17-year-old Shankill-born author as he contemplates “an appointment with destiny [and] aims to go where few people from the upper Shankill have boldly gone before: to university”.
BYMT Chief Executive and Creative Director, Emily Gray said: “for our 2024 summer season, we are looking for creative and enthusiastic actors, singers and musicians. BYMT offers young performers the rare opportunity to gain experience in a professional environment, before further training or entering the creative industries”.
Auditions will be held in Dublin on January 27 and in Belfast on January 28.
For details on audition fees and available bursaries, see the BYMT web site.