CMS Shows

Wednesday 19 March 1986—Saturday 22 March 1986 Finian’s Rainbow, by Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg, first opened on Broadway in 1947 when it ran for 725 performances. It could be described as a musical fantasy with political overtones as the storyline involves, among other things, a leprechaun, a crock of gold and a racist Southern senator. Finian, a whimsically naive Irish immigrant living in Rainbow Valley, Missitucky, somewhere near Fort Knox, beleives that America’s riches have blossomed because of the country’s burried gold, underground at Fort Knox. [Read More]

Wednesday 27 March 1985—Saturday 30 March 1985 One of the legendary figures of the Old West, Calamity Jane lives in Deadwood and rides shotgun on the stage-coach between Deadwood and Chicago. She dresses as a man, drinks like a man and can shoot better than most men. Although there is an element of truth in her adventures, the number of Indians shot and brave soldiers saved by her have led the townspeople to feel that she is “careless with the truth”! [Read More]

Thursday 29 March 1984—Saturday 31 March 1984 New York, the city that never sleeps. And within it, all human life. From the news seller to the chorus girl, from the gambler to the missionary - all of them caught up in the teeming vitality of the city streets. Sergeant Sarah Brown, of the Save a Soul Mission, vainly trying to spread the Word, and make a difference to the sin and depravity of the streets, full of tipsters, gamblers and con men. [Read More]