A lone performer points upward from a raised platform beneath a tight blue spotlight and surrounding haze.

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview2025

Songs for a New World

The Production

Mountview’s Musical Theatre students performed Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle at The Backstage Theatre, Mountview, in April 2025. The intimate production explored moments of decision through Brown’s pop, jazz and gospel-inflected score.

44 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Rupert Hands
Musical Director: Connor Fogel
Choreographer: Hollie Jane Stephens
Movement Director: Hollie Jane Stephens
Lighting Design: Catja Hamilton
Set & Costume Design: Emily Nelson
Sound Design: Matthew Giles
Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

A smoky wide stage view shows performers around a grand piano, with singers at microphones and the audience close on either side.

A close singer with a shaved head holds a microphone in warm side light, with figures fading into the dark background.

A silhouetted figure stands in a glowing amber doorway while a microphone stand cuts through the dark foreground.

A central performer opens both arms wide while other performers move behind them in warm theatrical haze.

A young woman in a pale dress sings into a central microphone, framed by soft vertical beams of light.

A performer strides across the piano platform under a blue-white spotlight as hands reach up from the surrounding darkness.

A singer performs into a handheld microphone beside a glowing amber wall of haze, with the piano and audience dimly visible.

A symmetrical wide shot places a soloist at centre stage between audience banks, with haze and beams framing the title projection.

Two singers face each other at close range, microphones raised, their faces lit by warm stage light.

A performer stands on the grand piano in a bright halo as fog drifts across the stage and the pianist plays nearby.

A male singer in a dark suit holds a microphone in a cool, tightly lit close-up.

A lone performer stands in a narrow blue spotlight on a mostly dark stage, surrounded by shadowed instruments and seating.

Several performers cluster closely around a person in pale clothing in warm amber haze near the side of the stage.

A smiling singer behind the piano raises a small cup while singing into a handheld microphone.

A wide view captures a performer high above the stage with arms spread beneath crossing blue and amber spotlights.

A woman in a white dress sings at a microphone with an anxious expression and a round amber light behind her.

The pianist, music stand and a distant figure in a doorway appear as silhouettes against a deep amber glow.

A singer kneels low on the platform, gripping a microphone and singing upward in stark overhead light.

A performer crouches on the edge of the grand piano while the pianist and open sheet music fill the foreground.

A singer stands before a large partial word projection while silhouetted ensemble members gesture in warm backlight behind them.

Two performers sing face to face on the raised platform while the pianist and a silhouetted observer frame the scene.

A lone silhouette stands in a glowing amber doorway, casting a long shadow across the dark stage floor.

The stage is seen wide with singers spaced around the piano and the words A NEW WORLD projected on the back wall.

A blonde singer grips a microphone in an intense close-up against a dark amber-lit background.

An ensemble performs around the piano as one performer arches backward dramatically under amber stage lights.

A woman in white stands isolated before a circular amber glow, with another seated performer low at the edge of the light.

A performer in glasses and a suit sings into a microphone in front of large projected letters.

A wide ensemble moment shows performers and audience with raised arms under golden lights and the A NEW WORLD projection.

Seen from behind, a woman on the platform faces a singer below while blue and amber lights shape the space around the piano.

A silhouetted singer stands on a raised platform with arms open against intense amber backlights and the pianist below.

Three performers stand tightly grouped in dramatic side light, with the central singer framed by the others.

A performer leans forward from the piano platform toward an outstretched hand, with the pianist silhouetted in the foreground.

Two performers sing side by side under a soft overhead beam, one lower in the frame and one standing in black.

A singer stands high on the piano platform with one arm extended as ensemble members reach up beneath blue stage light.

An ensemble sits and kneels together on a straw- or confetti-covered stage area in warm side light.

A singer in a sleeveless top performs on the raised piano platform with the audience encircling the stage and the title behind.

A performer kneels and extends a hand toward a woman in white standing on a raised platform, surrounded by other performers.

A performer stands on the piano or platform reaching upward beneath a white spotlight, with the pianist silhouetted below.

A vocalist stands elevated above a group gathered around the piano, lit by strong blue and amber beams.

Two technical operators work at illuminated consoles and monitors in blue backstage light.

A technician smiles beside a lighting console, lit by warm stage spill and the glow of a monitor.

A person reaches up to adjust a microphone stand against a blue-lit stage background.

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