Andy Hillier reports on a musical theatre project in Peterborough is giving young people without a performance background the chance to be on the stage.
Fourteen-year-old Justin Butler immediately makes his presence known on stage by springing into a cartwheel and bursting into song. Dressed in a loud 80s shirt and light-blue jeans, he looks every bit the confident stage performer. For Justin, though, this is a unique experience. Being dyslexic, he would usually struggle to read out loud in front of a class 30 teenagers, yet alone an audience of 800 people.
But here on stage at the Cresset Theatre in Peterborough you would never guess that Justin can't read or spell "the big words", as he puts it.
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