Photo Flash: Stars Celebrate 40 Years of National Youth Music Theatre at the Adelphi

The National Youth Music Theatre celebrated its 40th birthday in style - with ENCORE: 40 Years of NYMT, a star-studded West End gala night at the Adelphi Theatre. The glittering evening, on Sunday 30 October, featured an array of performances celebrating the last 40 years of NYMT, lots of surprise guests and items and some previews of what is to come. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below!

The NYMT represents the very best in work with young people through musical theatre enabling thousands of youngsters across the UK to develop both their creative and personal potential, leading Andrew Lloyd Webber to dub it "the best youth music theatre in the world."

Since its inception, it has produced over 50 productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, premièred 50 new Musical Theatre Works, toured several times outside the United Kingdom, and had runs in the West End and on Broadway. Among the many alumni of the NYMT who have gone on to careers in the performing arts are Jude Law (one of its patrons), Jonny Lee Miller, SheriDan Smith, Connie Fisher, Idris Elba and Matt Lucas.

NYMT's 2016 season will include a tour of John Rutter's The Piper of Hamelin; the world premiere of The Battle of Boat, a new musical by Donnelly & Maltby; Spring Awakening directed by Nikolai Foster at Curve, Leicester, and Brass, the UK Theatre Award-winning musical by Benjamin Till, to be staged at Hackney Empire.