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 [...]
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?
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.
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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.
