Cats at Oakhill College (NSW)

Oakhill College – all boys in Year 7 – 10 and co-ed in Years 11 & 12, is a College with a strong reputation and history of performance work with productions of two plays per year and a musical, alternating between a major full school musical and a junior musical. 2012 saw the Performing Arts Faculty wanting to challenge and excite the student body with a different sort of production. Cats was a perfect choice!

The production is a marvellous ‘ensemble’ piece of theatre with as many as thirty principal cats. Oakhill ran with thirty leads and a company of a further sixty cats…and every cat looked different, had its own personality and its own name, chosen by the students themselves.

For the first time the College not only ran singing and dance auditions but also acrobatic auditions, allowing a whole section of students with skills in this area a chance to shine. With the upsurge of interest in dance as an art form students embraced the various styles of dance in Cats from ballet to tap to modern.

In a world where reality entertainment dominates our TV screens Cats was a wonderful escape into a magical and colourful world….. our production was  filled with ‘Cats with Attitude’.