Musical Productions
Since 2004, Lyneham High School has performed one musical production per year: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2004), Return to the Forbidden Planet (2005), Jesus Christ Superstar (2006), West Side Story (2007), Fame: The Musical (2008), Aida (2009), Once on This Island (2010), the schools version of Les Miserables (2011), and most recently, Footloose (2012). Each Lyneham High musical until 2011 was directed by John Batterham, whereas this year's production of Footloose was directed by Beth Way.
These productions have having won several Canberra Area Theatre (CAT) Awards over the years, including the award for Best Youth Musical twice (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar). In total, Lyneham High School's musicals have garnered more than 21 CAT Award nominations, in competition with all schools and productions in the ACT and wider area region.
In semester two, after the full scale musical production company has closed, year ten students are given a choice as an elective subject to take part in a Production Masterclass, usually based around a central theme around the years Musical. In 2009, however, the students in the class elected to write their own musical called 'El Camino'.
From 2010 onwards, former students of Lyneham High and surrounding schools will be offered places in 'Company 13', an extra curricular musical theatre program run by John Batterham as a means of continuing students' performing arts careers after leaving school.
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