A Musical World Growing Up (1980–1983) watch online HD

A musical by the children of Broadway Comprehensive School, Perry Barr, Birmingham.

One of a series of musicals performed by Midlands children and broadcast by ATV (Associated Television). Perhaps looking back at the cinema success of Bugsy Malone, ATV commissioned a series of filmed musicals to be shot on location across the Midlands featuring children in the lead roles. Growing Up, despite drawing its cast from Broadway School at Perry Barr, is concerned with life in Handsworth and in particular, the struggles faced by people living their lives under the shadow of recession; a fear the school leavers of 1980 share with the school leavers of today. Hugely ambitious of a regional production, despite sometimes tipping over into amateur dramatics territory, a second batch of A Musical World episodes followed in 1983, commissioned by Central Independent Television as part of the England Their England series.