Stage lights shine on young actors
This was the school's major production and like the many before, it was something for the books.
The cast of Northcliff High School’s, Me and My Girl took audiences on a journey to the 1930s.
The production centres around an unrefined cockney man named Bill, played by Lyndan Meyers, who learns he is the heir of an earl. It also follows the eventual refinement of Bill’s cockney girlfriend, Sally, played by Aaqilah Basson, who he refused to break up with for his inheritance.
Nick Jourdan, the school’s musical producer said the play was first staged at the school about 19 years ago and its cast featured now notable South African thespians such as Jonathan Roxmouth and Carmen Pretorius.
Preparation for the play was, as Jourdan described, “Long, with vocal coaching, learning harmonies and tap lessons and from what for a long time seemed to be a long dark tunnel with no light at the end, has emerged a fine production.” One that he said illustrated that the young performers at the school have it in them to pull off the impossible and triumph with aplomb.
Though the audience expected great talent to be displayed on stage they were still left gobsmacked by it. With many saying it surpassed their expectations.
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