Sunbury and Macedon Ranges specialist school has received a letter from John Farnham about its latest hit production.
The Australian singer wrote to the local school to congratulate it on he show, called the Time Travelling Trio, where students focused on Mr Farnham throughout the years.
School principal Joanne Nolan said the cohort of students performed four sold out shows at the Mount View Theatre, with opening night on March 28.
“It was a show that took some students travelling back in time,” Ms Nolan said.
“[I think we’re] creating a new generation of John Farnham fans.”
Ms Nolan said they worked on the production for about six months and 58 students were involved in the show.
“[The production] provided an opportunity for kids to learn about the different facets of the film industry,” she said.
Ms Nolan said they had students helping with different parts of the production and they had almost perfect attendance at the practises.
“The school has always done a production but because of COVID we haven’t done one since 2019,” she said.
“We wanted to run one because students and families really look forward to it … It gives a lot of people a lot of joy and that’s what we really wanted to achieve.”
Ms Nolan said the school strives to provide the students with opportunities they would get in mainstream schools and the hard work and dedication from the staff made the event possible.
“The staff [gave] so much time throughout production… we have the most amazing staff… who always put the students first.”
She also wanted to acknowledge the directors Lori Nichols and Darcy Nolan.
Zoe Moffatt
