A Week in the west end

London Summer Intensive

19th-23rd August 2023

We are bringing the absolute best in the business to Pineapple this Summer… you won’t want to miss this!

Meet the creatives

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  • Olivier-nominated star of Half a Sixpence, Mary Poppins and Crazy For You; Charlie Stemp has been teaching Front & Centre students for 4 years. Charlie was born in London and after graduating from Laine Theatre Arts, he made his professional debut in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre), before playing Eddie in Mamma Mia! (International Tour).

    Charlie is currently appearing as Bill Calhoun / Lucentio in Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican.

    In 2016, he was cast by Cameron Mackintosh to play Arthur Kipps in his new production of Half A Sixpence at Chichester Festival Theatre. A West End transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre immediately followed, with Charlie's breakout starring performance garnering unprecedented critical acclaim. For his performance, Charlie was nominated for the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Actor In A Musical; the 2017 Carl Alan Performer's Award; the 2016 UK Theatre Award for Best Performance In A Musical; and won the 2017 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor In A Musical. The production was recently broadcast on Sky Arts as Kipps - The New Half A Sixpence Musical.

    Charlie made his Broadway debut as Barnaby Tucker in Hello, Dolly! (Shubert Theater, New York) opposite Bette Midler and Bernadette Peters. For his performance, Charlie was awarded the 2018 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut.

    Other credits: - Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends - A Celebration (Sondheim Theatre); Simon Green in Lloyd George Knew My Father (Theatre Royal, Windsor); Dvornichek in Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing (National Tour).For three consecutive Christmas seasons, Charlie starred at the London Palladium - as Dick in the Olivier Award-winning Dick Whittington; returning a year on as Prince in Snow White; then in Pantoland at the Palladium.

  • Grace is currently appearing in the Original West End Cast of Mean Girls the musical playing the role of Karen.

    Training: Guildford School of Acting.

    Grace is an actress and singer best known for being part of the original cast of Six The Musical, and alternate Juliet in & Juliet.

    Further stage credits include: Betty in White Christmas (Sheffield Crucible); Ella in Cinderella (The Hope Mill Theatre); Izzy in The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre - West End) Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); & Juliet (Manchester Opera House/Shaftesbury Theatre); Six The Musical (Arts Theatre/UK Tour); Be More Chill (Shaftesbury); The Secret Garden (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Hair (Turbine/Palladium); Millennials (MT Fest at the Turbine Theatre); Closer than Ever (Charing Cross Theatre, Broadway HD); Spring Awakening (Curve, Leicester).

  • Award-winning actor and solo artist Lucie Jones first came to prominence when she reached the finals of ITV’s The X Factor in 2009. Following the TV show, Lucie embarked on the 56-date sell out national arena tour with her fellow contestants. Lucie is a lead vocalist on the number-one single ‘You Are Not Alone’, recorded by the 2009 The X Factor finalists. Since then, Lucie has performed all over the world as a solo artist and in many musical theatre productions to great success.

    In 2023, Lucie originated the role of Jenna Rink in 13 Going on 30 the Musical, at the Battersea Arts Centre, for director Andy Fickman. Lucie recently reprising her performance in the role of Fantine in Les Miserables at Sondheim Theatre, London, following a successful run in the role in the staged concert of Les Miserables, 2021. Some of Lucie’s other theatre roles include Katie in Superyou (Lyric Theatre, London), Elphaba in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre London- What's on stage award winner for best take over, Westend Wilma award winner for Best Takeover), Jenna in Waitress (London Adelphi Theatre & No1 UK tour- Westend Wilma award winner for Best Actress), Heidi in Title Of Show (Coliseum, London), Maureen in RENT (The Other Palace and UK Tour), Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (Leicester Curve, UK Tour, and South Korea Opera House: Winner of the Daegu International Music Festival’s Best Actress in a Musical Award), Cosette in Les Misérables, (Queen’s Theatre London and 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 Arena), Victoria in American Psycho (Almeida), Molly in Ghost (International Tour), Emily in A Christmas Carol (Lyceum) Ghost of Christmas Past in Christmas Carol (Dominion) and Lou in Girlfriends (Bishopsgate Institute – all for LMTO), Meatloaf in We Will Rock You (World Arena Tour) and Holly in The Wedding Singer (UK Tour). Lucie has also acted on screen, and her catalogue of TV work includes roles in Midsomer Murders and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

    In 2017, Lucie was approached by a panel of record label executives and BBC producers to take part in the UK live televised final of Eurovision: You Decide, for a chance to represent the United Kingdom at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. Lucie was delighted to win the public vote and subsequently released her first solo single and music video for her song ‘Never give up on you’. Lucie performed at the live final to a worldwide audience of over 300 million viewers. The final result was the best the UK had received in eight years.

    In 2020, Lucie performed a live solo concert to a sell-out audience at London’s Adelphi Theatre. Accompanied by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, the concert was recorded for a live album- “Lucie Jones- Live at The Adelphi”. The album has been a great success and is available to stream everywhere now.

    In 2021, Lucie performed a sell out concert at Her Majesty's Theatre London and another at St Davids Hall Cardiff with her live band- Lucie Jones at Christmas.

    In 2022, Lucie performed an extremely successful run as Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. During her run, Lucie won multiple awards for her performance including the prestigious public voted Whats On Stage award for best take over in a role.

    In 2023, Lucie performed a sell out UK tour with The Full Tone Orchestra. Lucie also performed a headline outdoor festival with The Welsh Film Orchestra, duetted with Ronan Keating at the London Palladium for Magic at Christmas and duetted on ITV's Britains got Talent- The Final with Susan Boyle amongst many other press and television engagements. Lucie is thrilled to be going in to 2024 having opened the Lucie Jones Academy, a workshop based educational programme to help support the next generation of theatre professionals.

  • Training: London School of Musical Theatre

    Theatre: Goldilocks in Goldilocks & The Three Bears (London Palladium), Annette Hargrove in Cruel Intentions (Edinburgh Festival), Heather McNamara in Heathers the Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket London/The Other Palace), Cinderella in Cinderella (New Victoria Theatre Woking) Janet in Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), Frenchy in Grease (Leicester Curve), Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre), Sandra Beaumont in Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), Fairy Willow Web in Robin Hood (Cambridge Theatre) Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray (Kuala Lampur & Singapore) Margot in Legally Blonde The Musical, Beauty in Sleeping Beauty (Richmond theatre), Joanne in Godspell (Union theatre) Toffee in Zombie Prom (Landor theatre)

    Other: Adele in Cinderella Workshop (Really Useful Group) MT Fest (The Other Palace) Heather McNamara Heathers Workshop, Ellie in Waterbabies Workshop and Miss Atomic Bomb Worksop, Kinky Boots Children in Need 2016 BBC, Kinky Boots Tonight at the London Palladium 2016 ITV, Made in Dagenham Children in Need 2015 BBC, Made in Dagenham, Sunday Night At the London Palladium 2016, Molly Montgomery in Hollyoaks, Daisy in Little Fergie, Heathers the Musical Original London Cast Recording Kinky Boots Original Cast Recording Made in Dagenham Original Cast Recording.

  • Becca trained at The Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

    Theatre credits include: Ensemble in EVITA (Leicester Curve); Ensemble, cover Meat and Scaramouche in WE WILL ROCK YOU (London Coliseum); Katherine Howard in SIX (UK tour and South Korea); MILLENNIALS (The Other Palace Studio); Veronica Sawyer in HEATHERS (UK Tour); Lead Vocalist for DIRTY DANCING IN CONCERT (UK Tour); Katherine Howard in SIX THE MUSICAL (NCL) and Scaramouche in WE WILL ROCK YOU (Royal Caribbean Productions).

    Workshops credits include: Natalie in HALLS THE MUSICAL (A new musical by Jennifer Harrison & George Stroud).

    TV credits include: BIG NIGHT OF MUSICALS BY THE NATIONAL LOTTERY 2023 (BBC) and BRITAINS GOT TALENT (ITV).

  • Dan has recently been the Musical Supervisor for CAKE - The Marie-Antoinette Playlist and Associate Musical Supervisor for La Bamba! A Musical (working alongside Alfonso Casado Trigo). He was also part of the music team for Operation Mincemeat, which won the Olivier award for Best Musical.

    Dan has worked extensively around the UK as a Musical Director: most recently on the UK No.1 Tour of Beautiful - The Carole King Musical (nominated for Best Musical Supervision/Musical Direction in WhatsOnStage), as MD and Arranger on the Charity Single It Means Beautiful by SAME Voices (nominated for an Asian Creative Media Award), as MD on Just So and Kiss Me, Kate at the Watermill Theatre, Our Blue Heaven at the New Wolsey Theatre, Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Devonshire Park Theatre, and as MD and Arranger on Justin Fletcher’s new show – Justin’s Band

    Dan was also involved in the WestEnd Unplugged sessions, performing acoustic sets of West End numbers with such artists as Alice Fearn, Sandra Marvin, Tim Howar, Aisha Jawando, David Bedella, Cedric Neal, Ben Goddard and Hannah Waddingham.

    Other work includes the UK No.1 tour of the hit musical, Jackie – The Musical,

    Assistant Musical Director for the critically acclaimed production of Made In Dagenham at the Queen’s Theatre/New Wolsey Theatre,

    MD and Arranger for Beauty and the Beast and Red Riding Hood at the City Varieties, Leeds and Aladdin, at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, (voted one of the Top Ten Shows of 2015 in London Theatre 1)

    Vocal Coach: Dan has been a vocal coach for over 15 years, working at various institutions including The National Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, Mountview, Rose Bruford, East 15, Guildford School of Acting, The Academy of Contemporary Music and Performers College.

    Dan was also part of CCI (Collective Creative Initiative) delivering online seminars and workshops.

    Performer: Dan has performed in the West End as well as extensively around the UK and also the US with credits such as Kiss Me Kate! (Watermill); Return to the Forbidden Planet (Devonshire Park); Made In Dagenham, Sweet Charity, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington, Mods and Rox (New Wolsey); Lemon - The Musical (Arts Theatre); The Man Who Stole The Circus (Isis Theatre); Run For Your Wife, They're Playing Our Song (Queen's Theatre); Cinderella, Aladdin (City Varieties); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Castle); Buddy Vs The Killer (Raffles, Singapore); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood (Theatre Clwyd); My Fair Lady, West Side Story (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Dawlish Road (Soho Theatre); The Far Pavilions, Time's Up (Shaftesbury Theatre); FAME (Palladium).

5 Days

Creating full ensemble numbers

Spend 5 days in a rehearsal like environment to create full ensemble Musical Theatre numbers. You will work with different West End pro’s each day along with a West End Musical Director to piece together these show numbers.

5 Creatives

Spend each day with a different West End Pro

We have a lineup of FIVE incredible West End pro’s all with very different experience, backgrounds and training. Each tutor will direct and choreograph a different number for the students on their day with us. Every tutor will bring something new to the table as they will impart their knowledge and skills onto the students.

1 West End MD

Our West End MD will work with the students all week

Our West End MD will be with us for all five days teaching the music and harmonies for each number. Students will be taught the material and treated like pro’s throughout the intensive in a true rehearsal style environment. They will be supported in a safe and reassuring space and encouraged to take on solo lines within the numbers.

The Intensive

  • How the 5 days will run

    Students will spend each day with a different guest creative alongside our brilliant MD learning choreography, staging, vocals, harmonies and everything in between. Th is means the students will learn whole musical number each day which parents can come and watch (it will also be filmed at the end of the session).

  • Working with Professionals

    There’s nobody better to gain industry knowledge from than industry professionals. There are only a handful of people who get to work professionally in Musical Theatre and the ones who make it got there through their sheer determination and work ethic. By working with these professionals in a rehearsal style environment, you are also acquiring industry knowledge from real working professionals.

  • Act, Sing & Dance

    A key benefit of our Intensives is that all three of these disciplines are incorporated into every single day. Each ensemble number they learn will be very different from the last. This not only helps students improve their abilities across a range of styles but also, it lets them explore different shows and their own creativity.

  • Build confidence

    Confidence is key. And confidence can be nurtured and improved upon when the environment is right. Each student will be encouraged to be bold and to perform to the best of their abilities every day.

  • Who Can book?

    Our Summer Intensive is designed for young aspiring performers between the ages 9-19 who have a great passion for Musical Theatre. Students get the chance to learn from some of the biggest names in the West End for a full week!!

  • Make new friends

    The joy of an intensive like this is that you get people travelling from all around the UK to attend. This means students get the opportunity to meet new people who share the same passion they do for Musical Theatre. It’s a fresh new space for them to bond with other students outside of their usual friendship groups at their weekly classes. This helps children build their social skills and confidence in a fresh, new environment.