2011 - Return to the Forbidden Planet

2011 - Guys and Dolls

Luck be a Lady! Gangsters, gambling and glamour are coming to Budleigh Salterton this Summer with MTSoc Tour’s production of Guys and Dolls. Set in prohibition-era Broadway, Nathan Detroit is running out of places to run his secret, underground, floating craps game. Only a crazy bet with a high roller like Sky Masterson will earn [...]

2011 - Charming: An Alternative Ever After

2010 – The Boy Friend

Lively characters and spectacular dance numbers combine in a comedy romp through the world of 20’s musicals. With such numbers as “Perfect Young Ladies”, “The Boy Friend”, “It’s never too late to fall in love” and “I could be happy with you” there’s a song and a dance for every situation, but will there be a good old fashioned happy ending for Madame Dubonnet’s School for Young Ladies? And will their suitors ever get that Charleston?

2010 – Imperial Collage

Imperial Collage is the brainchild of Gilead Amit, a current student of Imperial College. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos that is the Freshers’ Fair; the rivalry of student press, the mental instability of the Union Officers and the well-hidden camaraderie of scientists against anyone associated with the Arts. With a score borrowed [...]

2010 - Hair

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius! Follow the hippie tribe on their trip to freedom and happiness in NYC, 1967. The hippies are out to dodge the draft to the illegal Vietnam War, make love not war and fight for freedom and peace. It’s time to let your hair down, join the tribe and Let the Sunshine In…

2009 - Sweet Charity

Charity Hope Valentine is ‘the girl who wanted to be loved’. She is also a taxi-dancer, dancing for a dime at the Fandango Ballroom, but Charity seeks cultural refinement, new people and places. But most of all love. Maybe the claustrophobic, neurotic but affable Oscar will be the one to sweep her off her feet? Set against a backdrop of new hope in 1960s New York, Sweet Charity has all the jazz and pizzazz you could hope for.

2009 - Nicest Kids In Town

Nicest Kids in Town – Featuring songs from some of the well known musicals: Hairspray, West Side Story, Mamma Mia! and maybe introducing you to some new songs from 13 and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.

2009 - A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum

A bawdy comedy following the story of a slave, Pseudolus, and his attempts to win his freedom by trying to unite his young master with the girl he loves, a courtesan from the house next door. The show is filled with colourful characters that entertain throughout this fast-paced show rich in farcical humour – puns, mistaken identity, cross-dressing, satire, innuendo… this comedy of errors has it all.

2008 - On The Town

2008 - How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying

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?

2008 - Don't Tell Mama

It was amazing

2007 - West Side Story

2007 - The Rise and Fall of David Sullivan

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.

2007 - Bat Boy!

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.

2006 - Say It Loud

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.

2006 - Babes in Arms

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’ [...]

2006 - A Slice of Saturday Night

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.

2005 - Kiss Me, Kate

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 [...]

2005 - Chess

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.

2005 - At The End of The Day

The Revue 2005 was directed by Seb Junemann, former chair of the society and like the previous year’s Revue had a plot running through it. This time there were no central characters instead using the songs to move from scene to scene and character to character.
Selections came from Avenue Q, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera and more with enthusiastic audiences enjoying this production.

2004 - You Can't Stop The Beat

The Revue 2004 took a variety of music from different shows and was presented as a story loosely based on Christmas and Halloween.
Music came from Hairspray, Avenue Q, The Nightmare before Christmas to name a few and dBs was filled by large audiences on both nights.

2004 - Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors started life as a low-budget, cult film back in 1960, although it is far better known from the 1986 version, starring Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. The musical transferred to the stage (1982) and worked its way on to Broadway and London’s West End before too long. Little Shop combines girl-meets-boy with plant-eats-world to produce a fast moving, action packed show, which has never a dull moment.

2004 - Anything Goes

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 fiance 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 [...]

2003 - The Grand Duke

“The Grand Duke” is Gilbert & Sullivan’s final collaboration. It was first performed on 7th March 1896, and ran for only 123 performances in London’s Savoy Theatre. It is one of their least-performed operettas, but contains some of the finest music Sullivan ever wrote.

2003 - Personals

Personals is a collection of comic scenes, monologues and songs. It is a comedy and musical revue with some through-line book characters. There’s Louis who needs instruction tapes to help him approach women, of Sam whose life is empty when he is single, of Kim who regrets divorcing her husband, of Claire who has built a brick wall against society since her boyfriend left her, and of the Typesetter who needs a transvestite dwarf to bring “A Little Happiness” into his life.

2003 - All That Jazz

The Revue 2003 was performed in dBs again this year, in a format which is becoming customary, after a term of hard preparation a cast of 24
As is also becoming customary, the audiences were impressive, with 110 seeing the Revue on the Sunday, and 120 seeing it on Monday.
Monday’s performance also coincided with World AIDS Day, and a collection was held after the performance, which made £118.15 for the National AIDS Trust.

2002 - The Pirates of Penzance

2002 - Rock!

The Revue 2002 is certainly one which will go down well in the memory of MTSoc. Not only were the company superb, singing and dancing to the excellent standard which is expected of MTSoc productions, but we also had the exciting added element of being part of the first showcase performance of songs from a the new musical, “Area 51″.

2002 - Grease

2001 - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

2001 - HMS Pinafore

Comic opera in two acts; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; text by W. S. Gilbert. First produced at the Opera Comique, London, May 28, 1878. The first American performance, New York, 1878, was unauthorized; the first important American production took place November, 1897, at the Boston Museum. The success of Pinafore seems to be as [...]

2001 - A Tube of Grease Paint and a Follow Spot

2000 - The Sorceror

2000 - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty