by DANIELLE HARRISON – The Burton Mail - 26th April 2007
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MUSICAL motion picture is now under way featuring talented students from Burton
and South Derbyshire - thanks to the help of the Mail.
Director and musical composer Robert Scott has cast a group of amateur actors
and singers, most of whom are students at Burton College, in Lichfield Street,
to film the musical Dolterris. The special needs teaching assistant at
Willington Primary School, in Trent Avenue, recruited the students after nine
out of 13 of them saw a story about auditions for the film in The Mail.
Mr Scott, who co-formed The Real Music Club in Willington, said: "Dolterris
is now about half-way through filming and is going really well.
"Without the support of the Burton Mail early on, this show would have
never taken off."
Filming has taken place at Tutbury Castle, York Castle Museum and parts of the
Peak District, as well as Working Carriages Museum in Matlock for a scene with a
horse and cart.
Mr Scott has written 18 songs which will appear in the production. A selection
of music and pictures of the rehearsals are available at www.dolterris.co.uk.
He has likened the music to the Phantom Of The Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar.
The musical starts in Victorian England, with Anthony and Jonathan Langsworth
attending the funeral of their beloved uncle. Anthony inherits his uncle's house
in a will, and immediately after moving in, finds all is not as expected with
the property. This is confirmed when a ghostly apparition appears to him in the
mirror and beckons him to a new world called Dolterris.