Congratulations to GAPA’s ‘Luca’ who made his professional theatre debut last night – performing alongside TV and West End theatre star John Partridge in John’s ‘Dancing Man’ show at the Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead. A group of GAPA pupils and parents came out in force to support Luca and John and a fabulous night was had by all. Photo of Luca with John and GAPA Principal Suzanne Gielgud.
West End leading man Joh Partridge visited GAPA today on our first day of term and caught the grade 5 girls having their debut moment on pointe as they began their very first pointe class. Exciting times!
Congratulations to Miss Laura, who after 13 years of hard work alongside Mrs G at GAPA, is now taking up the position of Deputy Principal. Hugely deserved!
Enormous congratulations to our former head boy, Gielgudian, Bailey Johnson who has been cast in the 2024 UK/International tour of Cats. This is his first job since graduating from Bird College in July. We’re so proud!
Huge congrats to our former Head Boy Billy Byers, who stars as ‘Neville’ tonight in ‘Changing Ends’ on ITV at 9.30pm alongside Alan Carr.
Good luck to Gielgudian Isaac Edwards who has been cast in Starlight Express, London. Isaac has already been in the cast of Starlight, but in Bochum, Germany, so we’re thrilled for him to returning to the show on home turf. Well done Isaac!
Excellent results for our ISTD modern exams. No fails or straight forward pass marks, all were either high merits or distinctions. Well done all!
Two performances at the Hub for our end of year show attended by Celebrity VIP John Partridge who handed out medals at our prize-giving ceremony. Congrats to all who performed. The most exciting moment was when John picked out 10 year old Luca and asked him to appear in his forthcoming show ‘Dancing Man’. More news on that to follow…
Huge congrats to Ella and Ellie who took their Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Intermediate ballet exam today. Both passed with flying colours – a distinction for Ella and a High Merit for Ellie.
An exciting trip organised by our RAD Ballet teacher Mr Simpkins, for our Intermediate girls and Gielgudians, to see the Sarasota Ballet at the Linbury, Royal Opera House, to see a new programme of Frederick Ashton works.