'Oh What A Beautiful Evening'

MT4Uth's Christmas Concert

On Sunday 12th December 2010 over 100 of Music Theatre 4 Youth (Ireland) participants graced the stage of The Ulster Hall, Belfast, to take part in our Christmas Gala 'Oh What A Beautiful Evening'. This concert was not only a celebration of MT4Uth’sfive years’ work, it was a dedication to our late Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Vernon Mound, and marked the beginning of a new era for our small but high achieving charity. It was a truly magical evening enjoyed by guests from all over Ireland & UK.

                        

                                                          Chris Fountain is greeted by Jenny Cooke                        

                                                               as he arrives in Belfast c/o Easyjet

               

                                                  Niamh Perry, Young People’s Patron welcomes Compére

                                                     for the evening,Sean Rafferty, to The Ulster Hall


MT4Uth were honoured to have BBC Radio 3’s Sean Rafferty compéring the show and we were delighted to have special guest Chris Fountain (Hollyoaks, Dancing On Ice and new star in Coronation Street) opening the evening’s festivities with a beautiful rendition of Oh What A Beautiful Morning from hit musical Oklahoma. Sean was very impressed with the charity’s work ‘Even if these young people never grace the stage again they will never forget their time with MT4Uth—life changing, life affirming’

Mairead Carlin, Jeremy James Taylor OBE, Niamh Perry and

Jayne Wisener catch up during the interval

Gerry Gilpin - MT4Uth Chair, Ryan Jenkins - Choreographer, Jenny Cooke –CEO and Jeremy James Taylor OBE—Director

We were also honoured to have our alumni (who returned from London where they are now forging successful careers) performing a magnificent song Be The Change written specifically by Tim Sutton (MT4Uth Musical Director) for this event as a dedication to our late Artistic Director, Vernon Mound. Niamh Perry, MT4Uth Young People’s Patron & star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies in London’s West End, was joined by her co-star, Adam Pearce, for a stunning duet from Lloyd Webber’s Phantom Of The Opera. Jayne Wisener (star of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd) also performed a touching
performance of ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverley?’ from My Fair Lady. On top of all these
incredible performances we had over 100 of our participants from the 2010 programme performing extracts from hit shows such as Godspell, Our House, Bugsy Malone and many more.