Drama and Music
The school organises a number of performances each year, and these have included Oliver!, Oklahoma!, Cabaret, Les Misérables and Into the Woods. CLFS was one of the first schools in the country to obtain rights to Cameron Mackintosh's Les Misérables. The latest addition to this list is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which was performed in December 2009 and received well by independent critics. The senior school musical for 2011 is "Evita".The school also gives the pupils a chance to learn instruments inside school, and most go on to do ABRSM exams, and some pupils have even gone on to doing the diploma, aged only fourteen.
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Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“See where my Love sits in the beds of spices,
Beset all round with camphor, myrrh, and roses,
And interlaced with curious devices
Which her apart from all the world incloses!
There doth she tune her lute for her delight,
And with sweet music makes the ground to move,
Whilst I, poor I, do sit in heavy plight,
Wailing alone my unrespected love;”
—Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602)