About Music Theatre for All

We deliver MTA in three stages: 

Stage One. We send a professional director and music director to a cluster of five nominated schools or community organisations to undertake day-long introductory music theatre workshops creating material on the chosen theme. The artistic team will work with up to 30 young people in each school and the material developed will be used to structure the final workshops and performances. 

Stage Two. Workshop participants are then invited to attend a 5-day non-residential workshop at a local venue in the school vacation.  They will work together with the director, musical director and choreographer to develop the material they produced in school to create a new and unique piece of musical theatre, which will be performed on the final day. 

Stage Three (optional). We offer a selected group from the project the opportunity to join our intensive residential summer camp on musical theatre - Summer Skills. This takes place during the summer holidays and places can be subsidised through a variety of additional funding routes. 

Benefits of the project 

The project model is extremely successful and benefits the young people in a number of ways:

1. Increases self-confidence
2. Develops music skills in singing including ensemble, harmony and solo performance
3. Enables young people to learn and work together co-operatively
4. Extends performance skills in both drama and dance
5. Encourages an open-minded outlook to different artforms
6. Introduces new and alternative musical theatre repertoire in an accessible way
7. Introduces a concept of what level of performance can be achieved from an intensive rehearsal period
8. Promotes non-judgemental attitudes and behaviour when working with others

Young people work on the Music Theatre for All programme work at NQF Level 2/SCQF Level 4  and the programme contributes to the aims and outcomes of the DCSF’s Every Child Matters by enabling young people to:

• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution

YMT was the first arts organisation to receive the DCSF’s Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge.

Participants in MTA projects often undertake YMT national Auditions and, when successful, join one of the company’s prestigious national Productions.

Costs

Providing we have found the funding from locak and national sotrces for the bulk of the costs, the residual costs to schools is usually in the region of £300 per days workshop and £25 per young person for the week long production element.

YMT’s Development Department often works with partner organisations to jointly identify and raise funds and may also have resources already provided from certain funding bodies. We also retain funds from Arts Council England and the DCSF to contribute towards course fees and other MTA costs.

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