Mercury Bay Area School students to perform 100% Kiwi musical

This exciting production has a kiwi twist which will have students performing against a backdrop of kiwi themes including gumboots, kiwi songs and a rugby obsessed Dad.

Four performances, including a matinee will be held from June 17 to June 19 in the Mercury Bay Area School hall. Tickets will be on sale in late May.

The For Today Musical

The For Today musical covers teenage topics including love, families who have to move location and drink driving. Effectively the musical is a romance story between two young people, with moments of comedy and classic kiwi music from the 80s, 90s and early 2000.

‘David is an ex-rugby star who was involved in a car accident that killed his friend Tom. After a year away, David returns to his old school and joins the choir so that he can meet Sophie - a popular student who came to the school while David was away. Sophie used to go out with Jordan, a tough guy who blames David for Tom's death and wants to get back together with Sophie. Meanwhile, Tom's sister Charlotte is hiding a secret about her brother's death that will change everyone's perspective on past events..’

Mercury Bay Area School Drama Department

Over the years, Mercury Bay Area School has staged a wide variety of high-quality musical productions, all of which have helped young people develop their love of performance or discover talents that may otherwise have gone unnoticed. The musical offers a wide variety of performance and technical opportunities for students including acting and speaking parts, dance, musical, set design, makeup  and backstage roles.

The last musical performed at the school was The Wizard of Oz in 2016. Since this time an entire generation of senior students have gone through their schooling without being involved in a production.  The Performing Arts Department team deliberately choose For Today for this year’s musical because its completely new to everyone and offers an exciting opportunity for students to really bring something to each role and scene.

– Head of Department Drama and Director Mercury Bay Area School, Jaimy Goble

Thank to you our local business sponsors

Pounamu – The Informer, Peninsula Scaffolding.

Gold – All About Whitianga, Connected Electrical, Ideal Building Coromandel, Placemakers, Peanuts Childcare, Bayleys Whitianga, Mercury Bay Optometrist, Dive Zone Whitianga, En Pointe Dance Studio, Guthrie Bowron Whitianga.

Silver – Fun Zone Whitianga, Richardsons Real Estate, Percival Construction, OP Columbia, Evolution Fitness, Nautical Holmes, HAMR Homes, The Lost Spring, Accounting by Design, Mercury Bay Medical Centre, Peninsula Test & Tag, Studio 77.

Pewter – Van de Ven Builders, Cyber Research, PC Electrical, Subway, Wild Wood Mini Golf, Chops Landscaping, Q's Plumbing, Black Jack Surf, East Coast Automotive, Willis Electrical, Elements Construction, Gathered Co, Diode Electrical Services Ltd, Peninsula Auto Electric & Marine, Coro Oyster Co, Remax, New World Whitianga, Colenso Cafe.

Bronze – Mercury Bay Pharmacy, Jenny Bloom, Mercury Bay Museum, Marguerite Muellers Counselling, Korimako Creative, Hula Cafe, The Autobarn, Reina Cottier Art, Planners Plus, Whitianga Tractors, Firefly Graphic Design, Kempaint Ltd, Mercury Bay Marine, Advanced Auto Electrical & Marine, Good Energy, Mercury Bay Club, Ohlson & Whitelaw, Evolution Tattoo Studio NZ, Love it Bakery, Dekker Construction, Stronglite Event Hire, Peninsula Business Services, GJ Gardner Thames / Coromandel, JTEC Consulting, Gold Collective, Dave Rhodes Productions. 

Special thanks to Dorothy & Duncan McDonald, Joanna Mannignton, Mark Irwin, Ace Panel and Paint, A1 Towing and Creative Mercury Bay. 

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