Recent Productions
Mack & Mabel
29th January - 2nd February 2008
It’s 1928, and the director Mack Sennett, king of the silent comic film, has come back to his old studio. But it’s all changed; now they’re shooting a talkie. And talkies, according to Sennett, are nothing but “some joker with a Victrola back of the screen” – just tricks and not worth “one eighth of a quarter of an inch of my Mabel”. Mabel Normand, silent film actress, is the woman Sennett loved – indeed, still loves.
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GIGI
5th - 9th June 2007
A well crafted period musical, Gigi perfectly recaptures the romance and chivalry of fin-de-siecle Paris.
Gigi is a snapshot of Parisian belle epoque life in turn-of-the-century Paris, with the sparkling Lerner & Lowe scores, the musical was awarded an outstanding 9 Oscars in 1958.
Gaston Lachaille is a bon vivant following in the footsteps of his uncle Honore. But Gaston is becoming bored with the high life; especially the women. He only truly enjoys the time he spends with one of his uncle's old friends, Madame Alvarez and her granddaughter, the precocious and care free Gigi.
Gigi is being groomed to follow in her grandmother's footsteps as a famous courtesan. It suddenly occurs to Gaston that he could become her first protector, but the situation makes him uneasy until he discovers that he's in love with Gigi and wants to marry her.
Wonderful songs in this show are 'Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well', 'It's a Bore', 'She's Not Thinking of Me' and 'Thank Heaven for Little Girls'.
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Company
The curtain rises revealing Robert alone onstage. He is in his apartment listening to his answering machine as it plays back various birthday greetings from some of his friends. After the funny, sardonic, odd messages are finished, Robert records a message of his own, announcing that it is his 35th birthday. Slowly, five couples - Joanne and Larry; Susan and Peter; Amy and Paul; Sarah and Harry; and Jenny and David - gather in Robert's apartment to give him a surprise birthday party.
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Titanic The Musical
TITANIC begins - Prologue as Thomas Andrews, the architect of the great ship, pores over the blueprints of his design - In Every Age. The curtain then rises to reveal the Ocean Dock in Southampton, England, where people are gathering to wonder at and to board the ship on sailing day: first a stoker - How Did They Build Titanic?, then additional crewmen - There She Is, officers and stevedores - Loading Inventory, the owner, the architect and the captain - The Largest Moving Object, the Third and Second Class passengers - I Must Get On That Ship, and finally the First Class passengers - The 1st Class Roster. Now fully boarded, the ship pulls out as the company sings a prayerful farewell - Godspeed Titanic.
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Guys and Dolls
After the overture, the curtain rises on a bustling street scene alive with Times Square characters: sightseeing tourists and their guide; teenaged girls in bobby socks carrying autograph books; street vendors selling apples and flowers from a tray; a heavyweight prize-fighter with his manager; assorted street hustlers and pickpockets; and policemen (Runyonland"). Three gamblers, Benny Southstreet, Nicely-Nicely Johnson and Rusty Charlie, enter, reading aloud the daily horse-race scratch sheet. They trade tips about different horses - Fugue for Tinhorns.
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The Secret Garden
1911, India, or Inja as the British would say. Mary Lennox, British as they come, dreams of nursery rhymes and Indian chants - Opening, and awakes to find her parents have died of cholera. She is found and returned to the England she has never known, not knowing if she is awake or still dreaming - There's a Girl. Note: Throughout the show, these and other songs are sung by a chorus of ghosts, referred to in the libretto as "dreamers," who serve as narrators and Greek chorus for the action.
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Camelot
A nervous King Arthur tries to cajole Merlyn, his teacher, to tell him about Guenevere the future Queen. Merlyn knows the future, as he lives from the future into the present. He grows younger instead of aging. Upon her arrival Guenevere dodges the awaiting crowds and hides as she sings - The Simple Joys of Maidenhood. Arthur and Guenevere accidentally meet in the forest and are delighted to find they are charmed with each other. The wonderfully placid Camelot, where royal decree sets the tone, becomes the set for a story of love and chivalry.
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My Fair Lady
The first encounter between Professor Henry Higgins, the brilliant, crotchety, middle-aged bachelor who is England's leading phoneticist, and Eliza Doolittle, the little cockney gutter sparrow, takes place near the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, late on a cold March night. Eliza is selling violets. Higgins is out on his endless quest for new dialects of London's speech. A handsome young aristocrat, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, takes no notice of her when she tries to sell him violets. Colonel Pickering, also a linguistic expert, comes to stay with Higgins at his flat. Eliza's squalid father, Alfred Doolittle, outlines his optimistic if somewhat unorthodox philosophy of life in the rousing With a Little Bit of Luck.
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Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie's classic tale is brought to life in this fantastic new pantomime production by your favourite amateur company. This timeless story used the full resources of the Gala Theatre - as we flew above the rooftops with Peter, Tinkerbell, and the Darling children as they went on their breathtaking adventure.
And yes.. they really did fly!
What A Swell Party!
Charting the rise of Cole Porter through the '20s, the glittering '30s and '40s, the story of his life interweaves with a dazzling array of his most famous songs, including: "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Anything Goes", "From this Moment On", "I Love Paris", "Blow Gabriel, Blow", "Begin the Beguine", "I've Got You Under MY Skin", "Night and Day", "In the Still of the Night", "Friendship", "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye", "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love", "It's Delovely", "You're the Top", "Another Op'nin, Another Show", "True Love" and many more.
"What a Swell Party" is a tribute to a musical and lyrical talent which even now remains unsurpassed. Read a ReviewMe and My Girl
Bill Snibson, a Lambeth costermonger, is revealed to be the New Earl of Hareford and his newly-discovered aristocratic relations are horrified. Bringing him to Hareford Hall, they attempt to educate Bill into the ways of the gentry and seperate him from his cockney girlfriend.
This "comical cockney comedy" features an abundance of well-known "toe -tapping" songs (including "Lambeth Walk", "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" and "Leaning On A Lamppost").
This version was rewritten by Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent and first presented at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in 1985 with Robert Lindsay and Emma Thompson.
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