Expo 2020 Dubai: Kevin Oliver promises a dazzling children’s choir performance

Expo 2020 Dubai: Kevin Oliver promises a dazzling children’s choir performance

Dubai-based teacher-mentor-playwright Kevin Oliver’s repertoire is well known in UAE circles. From Starlight Express and Saturday Night Fever to Clowns and Cats among many more engaging student-led musicals over a period of almost three decades, Oliver’s theatrical productions have gained acclaim far and wide. Oliver, who is Group Cultural Co-ordinator, GEMS, was happy to share with City Times details of his latest passion project - a performance by a children’s choir at the December 12 opening of RewirEd Global Education Summit led by Dubai Cares, at Expo 2020 Dubai A song specially chosen for the event will be performed by twenty-five students personally auditioned by Oliver, from across several GEMS Education schools in the UAE. Being fans of his impressive body of work and knowing his penchant for being a perfectionist (gleaned in an insightful 2017 interview with City Times about his original pop opera The Lost), we were curious to know more about this latest production from Dubai’s own ’Andrew Lloyd Webber’. var width=document.documentElement.clientWidth;if(width>=320&&width<728){}; googletag.cmd.push(function(){try{var d=document.documentElement.clientWidth;var a;var c="/21857811890/en.zcom/";var b;if(d>=320&&d<728){a=[300,250];b=["mobile_mr_story"]}else{a=[300,250];b=["MR_Story"]}var h="MR_Story";var g=googletag.defineSlot("/21857811890/en.zcom/",a,"div-gpt-ad-MR_Story").setTargeting("type",b).addService(googletag.pubads());gptAdSlots.push(g);if(h!="MR_Story"){googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(true,true)}googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();googletag.enableServices();if((h=="PSB_Left")||(h=="mobile_psb_left")||(h=="PSB_Top")||(h=="mobile_psb_top")||(h=="PSB_Bottom")||(h=="mobile_psb_bottom")||(h=="PSB_Middle")||(h=="mobile_psb_middle")||(h=="leaderboard_home")||(h=="leaderboard_bottom_home")||(h=="mobile_leaderboard_home")||(h=="mobile_leaderboard_bottom_home")){setInterval(function(){googletag.pubads().refresh([g])},240000)}}catch(f){console.log("Error loading Ad banner "+h)}}); try{googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-MR_Story")})}catch(e){console.log("Error displaying Ad banner "+bannerName)}; Oliver revealed students from various GEMS schools “have been chosen very carefully to come together for this extremely special