Leaping Lizards! The Stagecoach Theatre Arts School in Carmarthen is planning a special production this summer.
The popular musical Annie will be the featured show and will take to the stage at The Lyric Theatre in King Street, Carmarthen.
Its the schools third annual production, following on the successes of Billy Elliot and last years production of Oliver.
The annual summer production is always one of the highlights of the year here at Stagecoach, said Stagecoach Carmarthen principal Liane Davies.
Annie is a very popular choice, featuring some great songs such as Maybe, Tomorrow and Its the Hard-Knock Life.
Casting has started already and we will be starting rehearsals next term, which is April.
Pupils joining our new afternoon school will be able to take part in the production, which will see us do three performances at the Lyric (one a matinee) on Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21.
Every single person in the school gets an opportunity to perform in the show - even the four to six-year-olds get to do their own version of Annie in the studio of the Lyric.
As usual, we get a huge amount of help for the production from parents and the Stagecoach team members are very grateful to have parents of pupils who are so very supportive of the work we do here.
Stagecoach Theatre Arts Carmarthen has its base at the Model Church in Wales School.
The school opened in May 2009 and became an instant success. The school now attracts students from the three counties of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion.
Principal Liane added: Our aim is always to nurture and develop four to 18-year-olds to fulfil their potential through dance, drama and singing.
If you want to find out more about Stagecoach Carmarthen, contact Principal Liane Davies, phone: 0845 604 1422. Email - carmarthen@stagecoach.co.uk.
Website - http://www.stagecoach.co.uk/carmarthen

The event was the first of its kind to be held at the BIC, the former Technium building overlooking Cleddau Bridge.
Red Kite Law partner Betsan Powell, pictured, said: It was a major feather in our cap as we have just moved our legal firms Pembrokeshire commercial department into new offices at the state-of-the-art BIC.
Working with Finance Wales, this was the first seminar and networking event of its kind, but I am sure it wont be the last as the team here at the BIC and Red Kite Law are keen to host other events which will prove to be beneficial to the business community in Pembrokeshire.
It was also something of a coup for us as we were able to secure a top keynote speaker in Sue Davenport, regional ambassador for the IOD (Institute of Directors) Chartered Director programme in Wales.
A graduate of Havard Business School, Sue, is an experienced sales and marketing led MD with more than 25 years experience of developing and growing businesses in the food service sector.
Sue, a former Woman CEO of the year with the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), gave an inspirational address to the seminar.
The event also featured a joint presentation by Betsan Powell, who is head of company commercial with Red Kite Law, and Rhian Elston, Deputy Fund Manager with Finance Wales.
Rhian said: Finance Wales were delighted to co-host the event and particularly encouraged to see that many growing businesses and their advisers are considering equity investment as a valuable option for raising growth capital.

Construction firm Morganstone Ltd has won three separate contracts to provide new homes for Pembrokeshire Housing Association.
The projects have a combined value of 2 million.
The projects are significant news for us as we can now proudly say we work across the length and breadth of South Wales, from Chepstow in the east to the west of Pembrokeshire, said Morganstone Managing Director, Ian Morgan, pictured above.
The projects with Pembrokeshire Housing fulfil a great need for social housing in the area and we are delighted to be carrying out the work.
At Munro Court in Pembroke Dock, Morganstone is building two, semi-detached, bungalows.
At St Marys Road, the project is for four bungalows and at Stranraer Road, 16 houses and flats are being constructed.
Ian Morgan added: From our offices in Llanelli we are very conveniently located to serve both the eastern and the western regions of South Wales.
We have senior staff with decades of experience working in all sectors of development and construction and it is this combination of experience and a personal and flexible construction service that means so much to our clients, both old and new. These projects are a good opportunity for us to work with Pembrokeshire Housing and we are excited to continue our affordable housing delivery
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Morganstone
Morganstone was formed in 2008 to deliver a personal and flexible construction service to clients. Senior staff have more than 50 years combined experience of working for national companies in all sectors of development and construction; new build residential for both sales and affordable markets, estate regeneration, refurbishment and planned maintenance.
This wide ranging and in-depth experience helps clients achieve their targets and objectives by taking on the functions of design co-ordination, project value engineering, programming and delivery. The services available from Morganstone extend from initial site appraisal, through construction to handover, planned maintenance programme works and advice on tendering routes, sales and marketing.
Services include -

• Site sourcing and appraising
• Acquisition advice
• New build
• Estate Regeneration
• Conversion/Refurbishment
• Planned maintenance
• Contract management
• Design and build
• Sales and marketing
• Void Improvements

The company has an excellent reputation for delivering on its commitments to clients through its hands-on, flexible, but disciplined approach. This is backed up with all of the necessary supporting systems, demonstrated by our accreditation for Quality Assurance, Constructionline, CHAS, Considerate Constructor and Green Dragon Environmental Standard (Level 4).
Based in new, BREEAM rated, offices in Llanelli Gate, Morganstone is excellently positioned to provide a local base for clients all over South Wales, from Pembrokeshire to Chepstow.
The company address is: Morganstone House, Llys Aur, Llanelli Gate, Llanelli, SA14 8LQ. Tel No: 01554 779126. Email: mail@morganstone.co.uk
Pembrokeshire Housing
Pembrokeshire Housing is an independent, not for profit Industrial & Provident Society and is the local housing association, being based in and operating in Pembrokeshire.
Since it was established in 1981 it has achieved consistent growth and now provides more than 2,000 homes. These are distributed from St David's in the north-west to Saundersfoot in the south-east of the county.

Heard the one about the three Welsh comedians heading to Toronto to celebrate St Davids Day?
The St Davids Society of Toronto will hear all about it on Saturday night (March 3) as Phil Evans, Gary Slaymaker and Daniel Glyn jet into Canada for a night of stand-up comedy.
The three comedians will be performing their critically-acclaimed show The Dragon Has Three Tongues.
Its a showcase of the very best in Welsh comedy, said Evans.
Welsh audiences will be familiar with what the show is all about, but this is the first time we have taken it abroad.
The St Davids Day Society of Toronto is made up of Welsh exiles in Canada, so well be mixing the comedy with some hiraeth (longing) for the Land of My Fathers.
Messrs Evans, Slaymaker and Glyn are three familiar faces and voices in Wales and appear regularly on S4C (Welsh language TV) as well as BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru.
Two years ago they joined forces to create The Dragon Has Three Tongues to provide an innovative showcase for their different talents.
Its funny and entertaining, with the accent firmly on matters Welsh, said Evans, the man who puts the cwtsh into comedy in Wales.
Its the comic equivalent of buy-one-get-one-free, except, of course that you get three comedians for the price of one, laughed Evans.
We can promise Toronto a true taste of Wales, something that will give them that extra-special cwtshi feeling.

Evans sparked an internet debate earlier this year on the use of the word cwtsh.
According to Evans, the resident Hug-meister of Wales, the correct spelling of the word is cwtsh.
I am sure there will be plenty of Welsh scholars out there willing to say different, but in my book it should always end in sh rather than ch, said Evans. It should be self evident as the ch in Welsh is usually pronounced in the same way as youd say loch.

Daniel Glyn has been working in comedy since 1991. He jokes that one day he'll get it right!
As well as performing stand-up in Welsh and English, he has also written gags for Stuart Cable, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Jonathan Davies, Bryn Terfel, Lesley Phillips, Dewi Pws Morris and Rhys Ifans.

Interview with John Wynne Hopkins, chairman of Llanelli Community Heritage, recorded for the Llanelli Talking Newspaper for the Blind -

The teams from Llanelli's St John Lloyd school emerged victorious from the Llanelli-Swansea area final of the Rotary Youth Speaks public speaking competition.
The Llanelli school beat off strong competition from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe in Swansea to win both the junior and senior events in the competition staged at Llanelli Town Hall.
The St John Lloyd junior team debated 'Once a cheat, always a cheat', with Chairman Sophie Ayres and Vote of Thanks Proposer Charlotte Rees also winning individual awards.
The best individual junior Speaker award went to Branwen Cleaver, of Bryn Tawe, who took as her subject, 'Fatima Whitbread, unsung sporting hero'.
In the senior category, there was a clean sweep for St John Lloyd, with Yasmin Rai judged the best Chairman, Lloyd Haines winning the Speaker prize and Connor Charles picking up the Vote of Thanks Proposer prize. The team debated 'Sport is a unifier'.
The teams from St John Lloyd won their way through to the area final by winning the Llanelli Rotary Club Youth Speaks event at Llanelli Town Hall.
The teams will now compete in a Rotary District Final to be held at Crickhowell on March 5.
The winners were presented with certificates and gift tokens by Assistant District Governor Rotarian Clive Edwards.
Pictured left to right with Mr Edwards are -
Branwen Cleaver, Connor Charles, Lloyd Haines, Yasmin Rai, Sophie Ayres, Charlotte Rees and Sion Davies.
The judges were the Rev Eldon Phillips, Ann Brace and Catherine Evans-Williams.
The 'Questioner' role in the debates was taken by Llanelli Rotarian Alison Evans.
The MC for the evening was Llanelli past president Robert Lloyd.
Llanelli Rotary Club president Graham Williams explained that the Youth Speaks event offered an opportunity for Llanelli pupils to gain experience of speaking on a public platform.
He said: It allows young people to form ideas on significant subjects and learn high standards of expression, presentation and appearance. It also gives pupils the experience of accepting impartial assessments and constructive criticism.
Mr Williams added: "The standard was exceptionally high in the area final and, as the chairman of the judges, the Rev Eldon Phillips, remarked on the night, there were no real losers. Finding winners in both categories was an extremely difficult task for the judges."