Newsies
This year's Musical Theatre Summer School is inspired by the musical Newsies, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman.
Take a step back in time to revive this fun and exciting play based on the real-life Newsboys' Strike of 1899 in New York City.
A Summer Workshop like no other
The Bridge Theatre Summer Workshop is unlike anything else available in Brussels.
Our team of theatre professionals will enable you to dive into building a character, put you through your paces in dance, and get you to reach new heights in your singing.
Not just Musical Theatre
The Bridge Theatre Summer Workshop does not just give you fantastic tuition in acting, singing and dance.
We have also organised two special masterclasses for you: Stepping – a fun and rhythmic dance form; and Stage Combat!
Scholarships Available!
We appreciate that the cost of the Summer Workshop may put the workshop out of reach for some people.
For this reason we are again offering a limited number of reduced-price places for participants who would not otherwise be able to join us.
If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact us directly with a short explanation of your circumstances.
Example Timetable
Our Creative Team
Abbie Moore - Acting
Abbie is an actor, director and international drama workshop facilitator from the UK. After graduating with the highest Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts, she formed the company Hello Drama, and has facilitated theatre workshops to thousands of students from all over the world.
Highlights of her career so far include: Designing and facilitating drama workshops across the UK for the world’s largest youth drama festival (Shakespeare Schools Festival), organising theatre exchange projects with students from Belgium, Luxembourg and Great Britain, and designing and facilitating brand new drama curricula for students in Beijing.
Last year, she directed our summer production, two abridged interpretations of Macbeth and filmed the Cheerio Darling project for Talbot House in Poperinge. Since August 2021, she has run workshops with over 1000 young people from Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Israel, Germany and Luxembourg. She is very much looking forward to this year's summer production.
Heidi Chadjideris - Dance
Born and raised in Canada, Heidi has been teaching piano and dance since the age of sixteen. Years of extensive study in both music and dance, brought Heidi to train and perform in many genres - ballet, jazz, musical theatre, modern, Spanish dance, Latin American and Ballroom, folkloric and tango Argentino.
Throughout the years, she has appeared in countless performances, musicals and stage productions in Canada, the US and Europe. She has choreographed many numbers for shows and bands, including annual showcases of her own dance school in Greece. While in Greece, her creative talents in theatre, dance and music, brought her to design and teach English “Music and Movement” programs for the young, along with creating and choreographing musicals based on children’s stories.
In dance, Heidi has been fortunate to have trained with renowned artists such as, Gus Giordano, Frank Hatchett, George C. Randolph (Alvin Ailey and Les BJM), Juan Antonio (Louis Falco Company,) Stelio Calagias and legendary tango masters, Fabian Salas and Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli.
Apart from being a dance teacher and performer, Heidi holds a university degree in languages and is a graduate of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music, where she also taught piano. She competed in and won numerous piano and dance competitions, including the The Canadian Music Competition, and received coaching from internationally renowned concert pianists, Arthur Ozolins and the late Raymond Vacchino.
Most recently, in Brussels, she choreographed the musical “Shrek” for Green Parrot Productions, (March 2019), collaborated with The Bruocsella Symphony Orchestra’s Children’s concerts-musical shows and choreographed The Bridge Theatre's production of All Together Now! at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Rosie Lewis - Singing
Rosie has always been passionate about music and theatre. As a classically trained soprano, she has sung with amateur and semi-professional choirs in the UK, France, Italy and now Belgium, with the Brussels Chamber Choir and Choeur de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
Her love of the stage has led her to play leading female roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas, as well as Enid Hoopes in 'Legally Blonde: the Musical' with the Brussels Light Opera Company. Rosie has also sung in professional choirs for 'La Sonnambula' by Bellini at the Royal Opera House in Liège and 'Cosi Fan Tutte' by Mozart with Amadeus&Co. She is super excited to join our team as singing instructor, combining her love of music and working with young people to bring this show to life!
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