EMMAUS College students will take full responsibility for a major Beauty and the Beast musical show for the first time in the school's history next year.
Ground work has already started on the two hour production which will be performed live on the school stage in May, 2020.
Students from years 7-12 will apply their skills in woodwork, costume making, prop making and musical performance and dancing to bring the show to life.
In previous years, teachers took full responsibility for most of the work behind the scenes.
Emmaus College musical director Matt Bergman said more than 100 students had about 25 school weeks to master a spectacular show on stage.
"There will be a huge investment of time from the kids for what will be one of the longest shows we have ever done," he said.
"The Aladdin show (in 2016) was pretty spectacular, but I think this one will top it.
"This year we have taken a further step forward and the kids will do absolutely everything. The students are taking responsibility and are learning more skills rather than just doing the show itself."
Talented Year 10 singer Keira Towers has stepped into the role of Belle while Skyla Begnell (Year 11) will apply her 12 years of experience as a dancer in her role as feather duster.
Ms Begnell said she looked forward to playing an entertaining role on stage.
"I will enjoy performing as the feather duster because It is a very sassy role that brings a lot of comedy into the show," she said.
"I can really make the audience laugh and I want them to be interested in watching the show."
Ms Towers said her ability to sing since she could talk would be an asset to the show.
"I feel so free when i sing and I love it," she said.
"I loved the Beauty and the Beast movie. I watched it when I was young, so it was a dream of mine to be cast as Belle."
Year nine student Bailey Cook is one of the students playing an instrumental role designing a curved staircase which will be featured in at least four of the show's 14 scenes.
Woodwork teacher Andrew Titmarsh said students like Bailey have learned that there is a lot of hands-on work which goes into creating a school musical.
"It has been a massive challenge trying to design (the staircase) so it will be strong enough to support someone walking on it while being stable enough to fit on a small space on the stage," Mr Titmarsh said.
"This will give students an understanding when they leave school that they will have so many pathways into different industries just by doing this stuff."
