Frank Loesser’s classic “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” centres around the ambitious J Pierrepont Finch, a window cleaner with a special book: the guide of “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”. With the help of this book, Finch embarks on a journey up the corporate ladder at the “World Wide Wicket Cooperation” falling in love with Rosemary Pilkington, a young secretary with dreams of settling down with a nice executive, could this be Finch?
The Revue 2007 was written and directed by Imperial student Ali Salehi-Reyhani and his team; Lee Roberts as choreographer and Rob Felstead as musical director. The story revolves around a hopeless techie who acquires a lust for fame, fuelling his star spangled rise to celebrity and quite literal fall from his pedestal. Featuring songs from Fame, Rent, Chicago, Avenue Q and Wicked, to name but a few.
Animal orgies, incest, psychotic killers (as well as cheesy music, fun and dancing)….it can only be ANOTHER BLOODY MUSICAL: BATBOY! Ripped from the headlines of The Weekly World News, BAT BOY THE MUSICAL is a classic love story with a serious bite. This delicious twist on the modern day musical comedy tells the amazing story of a strange boy with pointy ears, his struggle to find a place in a world that shuns him, and the love that can create both miracles and madness.
The Revue 2006 was directed by Hannah Bundock and her team. The story was centred on a girl leaving school to take up a career in dance but the focus moved to the people around her so that a variety of songs could be used including Baggy Trousers, songs from West Side Story, Wicked, Chicago and many more popular musicals.
At the Surf and Sand Playhouse in Cape Cod, the young and poor apprentices are performing in summer stock theatre. Led by the handsome Val, they have written a revue in order to raise money for the theatre’s kind co-owner, Bunny, to help pay off the debts she inherited from her father. However, the apprentices’ [...]
Watched over by ageing rocker Eric ‘Rubber-legs’ Devine, the club’s seen-it-all, done-it-all owner, we follow the highs and lows of teenage emotions as the events follow the pattern of many Saturday nights past and many yet to come at the Club-A-Go-Go. Written by the Heather Brothers, A Slice of Saturday Night was first produced by the Brighton Actors Theatre and the Nightingale theatre, Brighton. It swiftly made its London debut in 1989. Following which, it transferred to the West End where it enjoyed a long and successful run before touring the UK.
It’s 1951. An “all Singin’ all Dancin’” musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew is set to open in Baltimore with actor-manager Fred Graham playing opposite his former wife Lilli Vanessi in the respective roles of Petruchio and Katharine. “After all we owe it to Shakespeare, not to mention the six other fellows who’ve [...]
Chess takes place during the Cold War era of the early 1980s and follows the East versus West story on a number of different levels. On the surface we see the World Chess Championships taking place between the American and Russian Grandmasters. Things become complicated, though, when a love story unfolds between Florence (American) and Anatoly (Russian). Furthermore we learn about shady goings-on in Florence’s past involving her father, which give her cause to resent Russia and lead to some underhand diplomacy.
