Act One Beginners

05/10/2026

💛 Here we have it …….. our junior show for 2027!

❤️ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG JR! ❤️

💙 We are so excited to bring this Sherman Brothers classic to life!!

🌟 Workshops for auditions start towards the end end of January!! Open to school year 1 -7 (year 7 students MUST pick either or senior or junior show - they can’t be involved in both)

💜🥰 Open to Act One students only - you must be attending Act One classes to eligible to audition for our Junior show - our Senior shows are open to existing and non students of act one

🤪🙌🏻 So excited for 2027!!!!!! 🎉💫🌟

04/10/2026

🤪 Greg has been on a road trip this weekend to pick up something super special ………

🤪 Alec has checked it over but we’ve blurred out the item we collected ……..

🫶🏻 I feel our Junior show public announcement is needed VERY SOON ……..

03/10/2026

💜 Only photos from a daftly busy 6 group classes, 32 solo lessons evening down at Act One!! 🤪

🌟 This is our Friday Senior group! Doing musical theatre with the fabulous Rees!! 🌟

🫶🏻 We are super lucky to have Rees in to take our Friday Senior and Advanced Musical Theatre classes through to their showcase performance!

01/10/2026

Phew!!! WHAT A MONTH SEPTEMBER WAS!! 💜🤩🌟 we welcomed a record number of new students through the doors, we’ve almost reached conducting 100 solo lessons a week!!!!

All but 3 classes are now completely full!!

Showcase theme is out there and prep underway for our big ONSTAGE showcase that is just an incredible experience for our students!! Saturday 28th November!

As well as a number of our tutors rehearsing for this incredible charity concert “Curtain Up For A Cause” in aid of Pendleside Hospice! A Musical Concert extravaganza- with a truly incredible and super talented cast!’

So, when someone asks why socials have been a little quieter …… 🤣🤣🤣 busy, busy, busy!!

Thank you to all our families for your constant support!!! 💜🤩🌟🎶

OCTOBER …… Let’s have you 🎃🕷️🕸️🧙‍♀️💀👻

17/09/2026

💜Absolutely loving our new adult classes on a Thursday evening!!

💫 warm ups, technique, movement and harmonies all in an hours work!

🫶🏻 You guys are awesome!! 🤩

15/09/2026

Amazing to see so many of our Act One students taking part in the Unity College show this year!!

💜 Can’t wait till they announce the cast list …. It’s pretty impressive for Act One 🥰

Enjoy the process guys!! We can’t wait to watch xx

Meet the Cast of Legally Blonde!

We are so excited to announce the cast of our upcoming production of Legally Blonde!

A huge congratulations to everyone who auditioned. We were incredibly impressed by the talent, confidence and enthusiasm shown throughout the auditions.

Now it’s time for the hard work to begin! We can’t wait to see this brilliant cast bring the world of Legally Blonde to life on stage!

But this is just the beginning… Character cast announcements are coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

14/09/2026

This years charity concert is set to be another incredible show!! Tickets are selling fast 🥰😍🎤💫 featuring some of our fabulous tutors - it is NOT to be missed! We raised so much money for the stroke association charity last year - let’s do it again this year for Pendleside Hospice! See you all there! Xx

13/09/2026

🥰 When you’re doing admin and Harper dog just has to snuggle in behind you 🤣

💜 After an astonishingly busy week, we’ve almost got 100 solo singing lessons PER WEEK!!😱😱😱😱

💫 Annndddddd ….. almost every class is nearly FULL!!

🤩 Our new adult classes are both FULL!!! 😍

🌟Now on with Showcase prep and getting all our Little Shop of Horrors first workshops and audition prep underway!!! 💚🪴🩸

🎤 Also, the booking information for our brand new POP ACADEMY PARTIES has gone out to all our parents tonight too …. So we can share that with you all, hopefully later this week!!

🥳🪩THE PARTY DIARY IS OFFICIAL OPEN!💖

💜 NOW THAT’S HOW TO START A NEW TERM!

12/09/2026

🤩 What can we say about this young lady?? 🤩

💜 We are so lucky that we have Miss Summer for another year as she continues her Musical Theatre studies at Burnley College Uni this year!

🌟 Miss Summer has taken on some more responsibilities at Act One including teaching some of our younger students solo singing lessons!

💜 Over her years with us she has grown into an outstanding performer who has completed her LAMDA exams after gaining a whopping 94/100 in her grade 8 (the final grade) exam back in June!

Summer has been our leading lady for EVERY show Act One has produced with Seniors since we started putting on our own musicals!!

💫 Ariel in the The Little Mermaid
💫 Anna in Frozen
💫 Princess Fiona in Shrek
💫 and just 2 months ago gave a breath taking performance as Fantine in our production of Les Miserables!

🙌🏻 HOW LUCKY ARE WE!! 🙌🏻

💜 So, if you have a younger child (in primary school) who is wanting to begin their singing lesson journey …… get in touch!! As we have some slots on a Friday evening for introductory solo lessons with this beautiful talented young lady!!! 🥰💜😍

11/09/2026

🚨Another NEW TUTOR ALERT! 🚨

🤩 Meet Lisa! We are super excited to have Lisa on board leading our Drama on a Friday evening!

💜 Lisa is teaching our Friday evening Senior & Advanced Drama groups and is super excited to be a part of the Act One Team!!

🌟 We are really excited to see what magic she brings to our classes and for her to bring her wealth of drama experience to our classes!

💫Lisa-Marie was born and educated in Burnley; an actor and educator. She began her theatrical journey at Unity College in Burnley, excelling as Maria in West Side Story. This led to her continuing her actor training with The National Youth Theatreculminating in a starring role in its 50th Anniversary Gala at The Shaftesbury Theatre, her West End debut.

She was also chosen to perform a one woman show at The Royal Court Theatre – Roman Candle by Tom Fowler. This met with critical acclaim and later toured to London, Manchester and Burnley culminating in a successful run at The Edinburgh Fringe. North West End described her performance as: "….captivating from the beginning. I couldn't take my eyes off the stage."

She completed her acting training at the prestigious East 15 Acting School in London
Lisa Marie continues to act professionally in a range of genre.

She is represented by Shane Collins Associates and has starred in a short film – as Kelly in Liquid Gold, Directed by Rob Luke. She has starred in Music videos for Hiding Magpies and Big Image.

In Theatre, she played the role of Masha in Chekhov's Three Sisters at The St Alban's Theatre in London at The Canal Café Theatre.
As an educator Lisa-Marie works for Burnley Football Club in the Community as a Premier League Inspires Mentor.