Extract from BBC News, 9 October 2015
Abbey Davies is 23 and has always wanted to follow her family’s tradition of performing in the West End. However when she was 22-months-old she contracted meningitis that left her brain-damaged and with learning disabilities.
Thanks to the efforts of David Stanley, who founded the Essex-based Music Man Project, Abbey joined 200 adults, children and special-school pupils on the stage of the London Palladium in what is believed to be the first performance of its kind in a West End theatre…
Source and full article at http://www.bbc.com/news/disability-34473687