Members of Weymouth’s WOW Youth Musical Theatre are desperate to get back on stage in front of a live audience. This show has been a long time in the making but the wait is nearly over, as the award-winning group will present The WOW Show, Bringing You the Joy of Musicals at Weymouth Pavilion this…
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WOW has joined the Givey fundraising platform to help raise funds for its work with young people. WOW receives no public funds and, due to the pandemic, has lost its main source of income which is ticket sales for its shows. WOW had to postpone and eventually cancel Shrek, which had already incurred a lot…
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WOW has announced the cancellation of its production of Shrek, the Musical due to be staged at Weymouth Pavilion in April 2021. The show, had already had to be postponed twice due to the COVID lockdowns. The Pavilion will automatically transfer Shrek tickets to WOW’s April 2022 production of the hit musical Grease. The Box…
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WOW has announced that it has postponed its production of Shrek, the Musical until April 2021. The show, which was already postponed once due to the coronavirus lockdown, was due to be staged this November at Weymouth Pavilion Theatre. Existing tickets from April 2020 and again from November 2020 will remain valid for the new…
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WOW entertained audiences online with a 25 minute set at the Virtual Fayre in the Square on Sunday 7 June 2020. Their streamed performance was created from a recording of The WOW Show filmed at Weymouth Pavilion Theatre in November 2019. Weymouth Rotary have been running this fundraising event since 2014 to raise monies for…
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“A great cast who all lit up the stage from start to finish.” WOW’s second production of 2019 was a compilation of musical numbers from stage and screen. In her show report, NODA representative, Sylvia Coates, describes how the powerful opening section from the Greatest Showman drew audiences in to “the wonderful world of WOW.”…
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This August, a group of 14 performers from WOW gave bride and groom, Hannah and Simon Dyer, a big surprise with a flash mob rendition of ‘One Day More’ from the musical Les Misérables. The WOW soloists, Harry Lake, Alex Rogan and Harrison Burley were joined by former members, Maggie Ayles and Shannon Paige with…
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A touch of the Greek Islands came to Weymouth this summer with Mamma Mia! as the theme for this year’s musical theatre workshops. Watch the closing number from the end of week performance or read on for a link to a playlist of the whole Mamma Mia medley. Over two dozen youngsters aged 9-14 took…
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Two members of WOW are in the cast of Pirates of the Pavilion at Weymouth Pavilion theatre. Alex Rogan, in his first professional role, features as the villainous Captain Cutlass and Harry Lake returns to the summer pantomime for his second year as a principal dancer. Alex first performed for WOW at the age of…
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Nine younger members of WOW performed their first cabaret set at Fayre in the Square in front of a very appreciative audience. This annual music event over the Spring Bank Holiday is organised by Weymouth Rotary as a means to raise monies for a number of local charities. WOW has supported it since its inception…
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