Senior Production

The senior production is regarded by many of our children as one of the highest points of their time at the Prep School. There is great competition for roles in the show and a huge amount of work goes into the final production. The children are given the opportunity to be in the cast, work backstage, with the lighting crew or front of house on performance nights. All of this means that a staggering proportion of our senior children will be involved in the production in one way or another.

2006 saw Brighton College Prep School undertake its biggest project to date, the stage adaptation of the hit musical Summer Holiday....

...1963. The year ‘Beatlemania’ was born, the year Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and co. snatched £2.6m cash from the London to Glasgow mail train and Cliff Richard and the Shadows took off on a jaunt across Europe in a Routemaster bus in the film Summer Holiday.

The theatre production is a feel-good musical which follows London bus mechanics: Don, Steve, Edwin and Cyril, as they set out on a frantic bus ride of a life-time through France, Switzerland, Italy and Greece. Along the way, they pick up three young girls: Mimsie, Angie and Alma, in a clapped out Morris Minor and pop starlette Barbara who - disguised as a boy, Bobby - has run away to get away from her showbiz lifestyle. She is eagerly pursued by her mother, Stella and agent, Jerry. Barbara hitches a ride with the unknowing gang of holiday-makers; chaos ensues and romance flourishes when Barbara reveals her true identity and falls for ‘Bachelor Boy’ Don… but will it end in tears?

The year 7 and 8 cast performed superbly. Their energy and enthusiasm bought the stage alive!