Vale students shine on stage

A scene from The Vale Academy's colourful production of Oliver.

Published on 01/03/2013 10:11

Brigg’s Vale Academy’s production of Oliver showed all that is best in a school show.

The musical involved 80 students from Years 7 to 11 and the school’s Showband performed the well-known songs with skill and dexterity; Worlaby Academy and Brigg Primary School, joined the cast to sing ‘Food Glorious Food’.

All the main characters performed with energy and star quality. Joe Callis-Gash played Fagin in a manner that caught the imagination of the audience with his skill and style. Maddie Jackson gave a ‘gritty’ but beautiful characterisation of Nancy. The Year 7 ‘Oliver’, Remi Barker, was expressive but with a hauntingly vulnerable quality.

The comedy created by Mr Bumble (Julian Plunkett) and Widow Corney (Sophie Harsley) created light hearted relief to the menace and ‘evil’ of Bill Sykes performed by Tom Sprakes.

The Vale Academy Showband performed the show’s well-known songs with skill and dexterity, giving exuberance and energy to numbers like ‘Oom pah pah’ and sensitivity to ‘Where is Love’ and ‘When He Needs Me’.

Congratulations to The Vale Academy, who were able to create such a professional show.

Taking lead parts were: Oliver - Remi Barker; Fagan - Joe Callis-Gash; Nancy - Maddie Jackson; Bill Sykes - Tom Sprakes; Mr Bumble - Julian Plunkett; Widow Corney - Sophie Harsley; Mr Sowerberry - Cameron May; Mrs Sowerberry - Melissa Shaw; Noah Claypole - Alex Nightingale; Charlotte - Heather Peers; Victoria - Macey Day; Mr Brownlow - Connor Petch; Mrs Bedwin - Lauren Morris; Dr. Grimwig - Myles Brumby; Old Sally - Jade Rogers.

Fagan’s Gang: Artful Dodger - Oliver Lee; Sneaky Sam - Harry Steggles; Eddie - Cameron May; Nimble Nick - Myles Brumby; Devious Dan - Jacob Rash; Looting Luke - Alex Raithby; Freddie - Kurt Robinson; Burt - Jack Needham; George - Josh Gitsham;

John - Daniel Harsley.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Vale students shine on stage

Top stories

News