Britannia High is a new musical drama series set in a fictional performing arts school. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenagers and their mentors at a fictional London theatre school.
The story revolves around six bright young things, Claudine, Lauren, Danny, Lola, Jez and BB, who are all attempting, with ever-bubbling enthusiasm, to sing, dance and act their way to the top. A mix of Fame and High School Musical, the show contains enough jazz hands and smiles to last a lifetime.
The show starred Sapphire Elia, Georgina Hagen, Mitch Hewer, Rana Roy, Matthew James Thomas and Marcquelle Ward, as well as Adam Garcia as the dance mentor, Lorraine Pilkington as the music mentor and Mark Benton as the school principal and acting mentor. In addition to the main cast, the series featured cameo performances from Girls Aloud, Boy zone, Matt Willis and Gemma Bissix. Also, Aston Merry gold, lead singer of hit boy band JLS, auditioned for the role before his success in the boy band - butonly made it to the final 16. Pixie Lott also auditioned. The show featured an original sound track which was created by a team of pop producers and writers in the UK led by Take that member Gary Barlow.
The show has been compared to the popular musicals High School Musical and Fame. The cast, however, are of the opinion that Britannia High is, "Something new. And it's British."
But aside from the grueling process of scales and pirouettes en route to musical and theatrical stardom, the programme also, naturally, touches on closer-to-home issues of love, life and friendship. Viewers are taken on a journey from the first real-life casting process through to an eight-part scripted drama series which will conclude with a spectacular live episode.
So get ready to grove in with Britannia High, Premiering on Zee Cafe on 10th April at 9 PM.
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