{"id":4189,"date":"2018-09-20T16:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:32:48","slug":"musical-theatre-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/musical-theatre-juniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Theatre Juniors (5 to 8 years)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Course:\u00a0<\/strong>Musical Theatre Juniors<br \/>\n<strong>Age:\u00a0<\/strong>5 to 8 years<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Location:<\/strong> Portsdown &amp; East<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/category\/teachers\/\">Teachers<\/a>: <\/strong>Frances Burnell, Jo Watson<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Musical-Theatre.png\">See Full Timetable Here \u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Musical Theatre Juniors<\/strong> is a relatively new course at Centre Stage for under 8&#8217;s,\u00a0that combines\u00a0<b>Creative Drama with Singing and Dancing<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The main aim of these classes is to\u00a0<b>build confidence and develop basic musical theatre skills in a process-driven environment<\/b>. <strong>The value and importance\u00a0will be<\/strong><strong>\u00a0in the process and not the product.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unlike Popstars,\u00a0this brand new course combines movement, dance and song with\u00a0a through-line of Creative Drama and character work\u00a0which <b>we believe\u00a0forms the basis for\u00a0<i>all<\/i>\u00a0performance work.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Students will use this added element to build belief in the characters they are playing &#8211;\u00a0a fundamental skill required in\u00a0Musical Theatre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Unlike our Performance training based &#8220;On Stage&#8221; courses &#8211; <em>which are not an option until aged 8 and up<\/em> &#8211; the key aims of Musical Theatre Junior classes are to build confidence and express ourselves creatively in a safe space&#8230; learning valuable life skills in a process-driven environment, rather than focusing on presentations or performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course:\u00a0Musical Theatre Juniors Age:\u00a05 to 8 years Location: Portsdown &amp; East Teachers: Frances Burnell, Jo Watson See Full Timetable Here \u00a0 Musical Theatre Juniors&#8230; &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/musical-theatre-juniors\/\" class=\"moretag\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":7623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[180,183,108,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30355,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/30355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}