Welcome to the February edition of Ensemble.

As you all know, colleagues from our West Byfleet office and Stagecoach HQ are relocating to a brand new office development in Woking town centre from April. I’m delighted to announce that the winner of our recent competition to name the three meeting rooms in the new office is Emily O’Dell!

The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I is coming back to UK cinemas by popular demand on 4 April. Receiving both critical and audience acclaim, the film achieved the highest box office globally for a stage to screen event release of 2018.

Trafalgar Releasing brings two stunning productions to UK cinemas next month. The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-19 season continues with La Fille du Régiment, streamed live from New York to UK cinemas on 2 March.

Full of wit and invention, Donizetti’s comic opera is a delight. The famous aria “Ah, Mes Amis,” with its nine high Cs, is one of opera’s most show-stopping numbers.

Thousands of Stagecoach students have successfully set a new Guinness World Record.

As part of the 30^th anniversary celebrations last year, students from 73 schools participated in an internationally choreographed event over the summer. Stagecoach schools in the UK and abroad, including Germany and Canada, came together to stage multiple performances of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Junior.

We headed to Manchester and Sunderland last month for the official press launches of The King and I. Local media were invited to interview the cast and were treated to stunning preview performances from Jose Llana, reprising his critically acclaimed Broadway performance as The King, and Annalene Beechey, fresh from her West End success.

On 23 and 24 February, hundreds of Stagecoach students represented schools from all over Canada at the prestigious Toronto Center for the Arts for their Annual Showcase.

Following a successful US release this February, JONI 75 will be coming to UK cinemas on 21 March. Audiences will join an incredible array of singers and musicians who came together to honour one of the world’s most remarkable artists, Joni Mitchell, on her 75^th birthday.

It’s been a great 12 months for Stagecoach Germany as they welcomed three new franchisees for Berlin, Hamburg, and Darmstadt who signed at their annual conference on in Mainz.

Welcome to our monthly who’s who of Trafalgar Entertainment. This month we say hello to Ashley Smith from Trafalgar Releasing.