Next Issue January - February 2006

Young Performer Magazine

FEATURE ARTICLE: Let's Hear It For The Boys!
2006 is certainly set to be the year of the young male singer, with The Choirboys, The Little Prince star Joseph McManners, and Alex Prior, aka Little Pavarotti, all seeking fame and fortune with their fantastic voices.
Three ride with Chitty Chitty
Well done to Thomas Hunter, 9, who plays Jeremy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He's at Sunderland Empire in a three month run.
Megan in Mary Poppins!
Megan Convery, 11, had a fantastic time playing the role of Jane Banks in the West End musical Mary Poppins at The Prince Edward Theatre and 35 of her fellow students came to the show to support her.
Rhys wins role in Welsh Soap
The Welsh-speaking soap-opera Pobol-y-Cwm runs five days a week. Rhys Coxley has won the role of Ricky, a four-year-old who, it turns out, is the son of one of the longest running characters.
Josef plays to Opera House audiences
Josef Pitura-Riley, 13, recently played the young Siegfried in The Royal Opera House's new production of Siegfried, the third of Wagner's Ring Cycle operas.
Brothers play author HG Wells for BBC
Henry and Robert Parritt have helped make the new BBC play HG Wells – A Life in Pictures, to be screened in the New Year.
Girls join the History Boys
Alan Bennett's play The History Boys is to be a drama on Channel Four. It's directed by Nicholas Hytner, and Frances de la Tour is one of the stars.
Gemma promotes CiTV's Toonatick
Gemma White, 10, has made several trailers to promote the ITV show Toonatick, as part of an all-summer campaign on GMTV.
Lorna stars in ITV's Golden Hour
Lorna Fitzgerald, 9, took a lead-role in the first episode of ITV's new medical drama series The Golden Hour. In the 90-minute show Lorna's screen brother is involved in a bus crash and a helicopter medical crew fly in.
Can you decipher my Scouse accent?
That was the challenge several of us put to Paul O'Grady on his TV Show. We spoke in thick regional accents and he had to guess what we said.
I meet Dani in Wizard of Oz
I love Dani Harmer when she plays Tracy Beaker. She's loud, funny, gutsy and has an answer for everything.
Three in Christmas Casualty
Lauren, Sian and Lara Edmunds helped film a Christmas episode of Casualty. They join a queue to meet Santa Claus, when suddenly a baby is abducted.
News from StageCoach USA
Students from the StageCoach New York Young Performers Company recently recorded 15 tracks for the upcoming Chris Berry CD Mine and Yours.
If Young Performer had been available when I was young I know I would have been an avid reader. I think it’s a tremendous magazine.
Dame Jacqueline Wilson
This magazine is absolutely wicked, it’s a real inspiration to any young performer out there, a really novel approach.
Dani Harmer, TV’s Tracy Beaker
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