GEORGINA HENDRY - Actor

Georgina first performed with CHTC in the 2004 Town Show, Happy as a Sandbag.  Playing an evacuee, she sang her first ever solo, ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’.  Georgina says "thank you David and Paul for choosing me .... after that, I pestered my mum to take me to auditions and get dance lessons, and the fun has never stopped".  She went on to play the Mock Turtle of the 2005 Childrens Theatre production of Alice, and Chris in the 2006 production of Scheherazade. 

Georgina says "I had some great times with the Children's Theatre under the direction of Lynette Gridley (who taught me loads).  I remember being the Mock turtle In Alice.  I was ill and didn't make the dress rehearsal.  Jaz Waddell was set to take my place but I did it in the end and loved every minute.  You  couldn’t see how pale I was under the green paint!"

Meanwhile, her performing talent had been spotted outside Hungerford (more of which below) and she joined the cast of a number of productions, including one in London’s West End.  However, In 2008 she was back with the Children's Theatre in the title role of Roald Dahl’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Away from CHTC, Georgina attended Stagecoach in Newbury for five years from the age of 8 and gained a RAD grade 7 Ballet award with the Allenova School of Dance.  She is currently enjoying studying for a BTEC in performing arts at Newbury College, and thinks it is a great course.   She hopes to audition for Arts Ed, Laines, and Guildford School of Acting when she is 18.

Georgina has also built up an impressive list of performance credits around the UK.  First came the musical ANNIE!

In August 2004 she played Molly in Annie at the Reading Hexagon.  In August 2005 she was at the Beck Theatre, Hayes playing the lead role in Annie.  ln·October 2005 she reprised her lead role in Annie  with the Newbury Nomads.  For this performance, The Newbury Weekly News review, under the heading “Young stars in the making” said “Georgina is a natural actress … very, very good".  “Musical theatre is about to receive a boost in Georgina Hendry ... who has decided to make it her career.  Here is a 12-year-old who has to sing the show stopper sitting on the floor of a stage with a dog who, though extremely well-behaved, must have been a distraction.  She did it without a flicker, singing straight out at the audience, holding long notes, every word clear as a bell.”  (See Photo left).

In 2005-2006  Georgina joined the UK tour of the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, playing Jemima Potts at the Sunderland Empire.  Georgina says "Jemima in Chitty has been my favourite role, because I got to fly in the car.  One night it broke down and wouldn’t fly so we got stuck in the air!  I loved the Child Catcher and it was great fun being really scared by him.  Staying away on tour was an invaluable ‘life’ experience.  We were even tutored in our hotel rooms".  (Pictured right is Georgina with her stage brother Jeremy)

The same year, Georgina played the role of Louise in the UK West End revival of Sunday in the Park with George at Wyndham’s Theatre.  (Programme Picture left)

"Sunday In The Park With George was outstanding and I got to perform on a West End stage with the most talented people I have met. The show won lots of awards and it helped me to enjoy and appreciate the work of Stephen Sondheim.  I have never seen an Amdram production of this but bet it would be hard to do!!!    Town show suggestion?! "

Georgina played Dorothy in the 2007Christmas production Of The Wizard of Oz at the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke.  The  reviewer in The Stage noted that she "took the role of Dorothy with a confidence belying her 14 years, working on an equal level to that of the other adult actors”.

More recently, in 2008-2009 Georgina performed at the Watermill theatre's ‘Matilda And Duffy’s Stupendous Space Adventures’ and reached the final of Reading's Got Talent, singing two songs from the musical Wicked with her friend Ellie Bradshaw.  (Click Thumbnail right for a larger Photo of them performing).  Following a successful audition in 2009, Georgina was, sadly, too young to perform in His dark Materials at Oxford Playhouse.  However, in August Georgina was a lead dancer and soloist for the Wyvern Theatre summer youth project, Boogie Nights. (Photo left).  Over a period of just two weeks, the youth cast rehearsed and then staged the musical in the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon.  There were standing ovations every night of the six shows.  In October 2009 Georgie was also on stage as Consuela in the Newbury Nomads production of West Side Story.

Oh Yes She Is! - Georgie joined the adult cast of the professional Newbury Pantomime for the Christmas season 2009/10 as part of the ensemble for Puss In Boots.  Having worked with them as a panto babe on previous occasions, she was very flattered to be asked.  There were 2 weeks of rehearsals in London before the show opened at the Corn Exchange to good reviews.

In February 2010, Georgie attended TV auditions for the role of Dorothy in the new Andrew Lloyd  Webber production of The Wizard of Oz.  She performed well and, despite being too young to progress further received very positive feedback.  The judges said her "acting skills through song were as strong as the trained girls and they would pay to watch her in five years time".  Later on, in mid April Georgie received the good news that she had been cast as Carmen in musical Fame.  This will be at The New Theatre Oxford for their summer youth project.

Says Georgina
"I wouldn’t have done all the things I have done if it wasn’t for The Community of Hungerford Theatre Company giving me the bug and I have made many friends in the process".

We will keep this page updated with Georgina's progress and wish her the best of luck for the future.