Kiss Me Kate

 Posted on March 19, 2003  |  

Wednesday 19 March 2003—Saturday 22 March 2003 Considered by many to be Cole Porter’s masterpiece, “Kiss Me Kate” was first produced on Broadway in 1948, and is a classic example of “a play within a play,” leaning heavily on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. A group of strolling players, led by actor/manager Fred Graham, arrive in Baltimore to put on a production of “The Shrew”, and at the dress rehearsal it is obvious that relations are somewhat strained between Fred and his leading lady Lilli, who is also his ex-wife. [Read More]

Return to the Forbidden Planet

 Posted on October 23, 2002  |  

Wednesday 23 October 2002—Saturday 26 October 2002 We start our journey on board a spaceship, about to take-off on a routine survey flight. In charge is Captain Tempest. Shortly into the flight, the ship accidentally flies into an asteroid storm and is damaged. Annoyed that Tempest does not listen to her advice because she is female, the Science Officer escapes in the ship’s only shuttlecraft. Suddenly there is a strange noise and the ship is pulled towards a nearby planet – the planet D’Illyria, where it crash lands. [Read More]

Crazy For You

 Posted on March 20, 2002  |  

Wednesday 20 March 2002—Saturday 23 March 2002 A Banker, Bobby Child who would rather be in show-business, is sent by his mother to foreclose a mortgage on a property in Deadrock, Nevada. When Bobby arrives in Deadrock it is clear that the town had seen better days. Everett Baker is the owner of the ailing theatre and is expecting Bobby Child to arrive and foreclose on his theatre. The only woman left in this forlorn town is Everett’s daughter, the spunky Polly Baker, who vows to get even with “Bobby Child” if she ever meets him. [Read More]

Godspell

 Posted on October 24, 2001  |  

Wednesday 24 October 2001—Saturday 27 October 2001 One of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes of all time, Godspell is based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew. In the Gospel, Jesus Christ preaches through parables and storytelling. The show, which is not built on a traditional plot, utilizes clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics and vaudeville to tell the story of Christ. A pageant that moves from moment to moment. Godspell is a reflection on the life of Jesus by ten talented performers with the addition of an enthusiastic chorus. [Read More]

My Fair Lady

 Posted on March 21, 2001  |  

Wednesday 21 March 2001—Saturday 24 March 2001 Perhaps the most popular musical of the 1950s, My Fair Lady came into being only after Hungarian film producer Gabriel Pascal devoted the last two years of his life to finding writers who would adapt George Bernard Shaw’s 1914 play Pygmalion into a musical. Rejected by the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein and Noël Coward, Pascal finally turned to the younger but very talented duo of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. [Read More]

Oliver!

 Posted on October 25, 2000  |  

Wednesday 25 October 2000—Saturday 28 October 2000 Composer and songwriter Lionel Bart passed away in April of 1999. He had no formal musical training and despite reversals of fortune in his later years, he has earned comparisons with the greatest songwriters of the century and was instrumental in reviving post war English musical comedy. ‘Oliver!’ is his most enduring success, for which he wrote a book, the music and the lyrics. [Read More]

Anything Goes

 Posted on March 22, 2000  |  

The action takes place on the SS. AMERICAN, sailing from New York to England. On board are the beautiful American heiress Hope Harcourt, her English fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh and Hope’s mother. Stowing away on board is Billy Crocker, a young admirer of Hope’s who can’t believe she would really marry the silly Sir Evelyn and determines to try and stop her. Public Enemy Number Thirteen, with his moll Bonnie, is also along for the ride and he passes on to Billy the passport and ticket of a gangster friend of his who didn’t catch the boat. [Read More]

Annie

 Posted on March 24, 1999  |  

“Annie” is a musical based on the comic cartoon strip “Little Orphan Annie” which follows the fate and fortunes of a little girl and her dog in America during the 1930’s. The story begins at the New York Municipal Girl’s Orphanage as Annie sets out determined to find her long lost parents. Her journey is beset with many pitfalls despite being taken under the wing of Daddy Warbucks a wealthy industrialist in New York City, who is captivated by the warmth and friendliness of the eleven year old girl who comes to stay with him over a Christmas vacation. [Read More]

Fiddler on the Roof

 Posted on March 17, 1999  |  

Wednesday 17 March 1999—Saturday 20 March 1999 One of the world’s most popular musicals, ‘Fiddler on the roof’ tells the story of Tevye the Jewish dairyman and his trials and tribulations in the Czarist russia of 1905. Tevye, his wife Golde and their five daughters are one of the hardworking families of the Jewish community living, as there forefathers did, by following the dictates of ’tradition’. A pious man, Tevye tries to raise his five daughters according to Jewish tradition and the ways of the good book. [Read More]

Charlie Girl

 Posted on October 21, 1998  |  

Wednesday 21 October 1998—Saturday 24 October 1998 Lady Hadwell, a widow in financial difficulties, faced with the threat of losing her beloved stately home, has opened it to the general public in desperation. A visit from her old friend Mrs Connor, a wealthy American oil heiress, could not have come at a better time. If Mrs Connor’s son, Jack, were to fall in love with one of her daughters - Lady Charlotte, Lady Fiona or Lady Penelope - then Hadwell Hall would be saved. [Read More]