Welcome to the April edition of Ensemble. I hope you all had a lovely sunny Easter weekend.

We’re delighted to have moved into our new offices on Wolsey Walk in Woking town centre. Howard and I live in Surrey and have based our work here and in London for over two decades.

Following a sold out record-breaking season at the world famous London Palladium last summer, The Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I won the award for Best Costume Design at this year’s Olivier Awards thanks to the sumptuous costumes designed by Catherine Zuber.

Last week the Stagecoach Franchisees were invited to join the team from Stagecoach Head Office to enjoy an action packed outdoor residential at Condover Hall in sunny Shropshire.

Upon arrival guests were greeted with a welcome meeting where they were split into teams and given a list of challenges which they were to complete over the next 24 hours!

Acclaimed theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble, in co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall, will bring the The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stage Edinburgh Award winning, smash-hit production Education, Education, Education to Trafalgar Studios from 31 May to 29 June. The show will be presented in the West End by Trafalgar Theatre Productions and Eilene Davidson.

Last week, cinema audiences celebrated the return of Monty Python’s Life of Brian to the big screen to mark the film’s 40^th Anniversary. Presented in glorious standard definition and mono-sound, Monty Python delivered a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood’s depiction of all things biblical with their 1979 feature film Life of Brian.

Trafalgar Releasing recently announced the global acquisition of a new film from Roger Waters based on his critically acclaimed 2017/2018 world tour, US + THEM.

Waters performed a total of 156 shows to 2.3 million people throughout North America, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, Russia, Latin America and Mexico, opening in May 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri, and ending in December 2018 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Trafalgar Entertainment and Stagecoach Performing Arts will once again be sponsoring awards at The Stage Debut Awards in 2019.

The only awards programme specifically designed to encourage and sustain the stars of tomorrow, The Stage Debut Awards celebrates breakthrough theatre actors and creatives across the UK.

Colleagues from Stagecoach Performing Arts held their first training session for new school managers at the new Woking office last week and the meeting rooms – Spotlight, Light Box and Projector – were given the thumbs up!  

Mike Broad, International Franchise Manager, said: “The rooms are really good to work with, the new office environment helps create a professional feel and overall we were really pleased with how the first training session went.

Trafalgar Releasing are distributing Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock n Roll, the story of the long troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community. The film hits cinemas globally on 22 May.

Welcome to our monthly who’s who of Trafalgar Entertainment. This month we say hello to Chase Demmers!