Portfolio Category: The 2000's

2004 – Run For Your Wife

2004 – Run For Your Wife
John Smith is a London Cab Driver who lives a very ordinary life with the exception of having two wives, Mary in Wimbledon and Barbara in Streatham. One night John stops an old woman from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with…
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2003 Babes in the Wood

2003 Babes in the Wood
Tis the 12th century in olde England and King Richard the Lionheart is away on the crusades. Back home, the Sheriff of Nottingham has plenty of troubles - his spending is exceeding the income he derives from the horrendous taxes he imposes on the inhabitants of Nottingham, and the rich are being terrorised by the…
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2003 Love and Heartache

2003 Love and Heartache
Far from being just another collection of mushy, slushy ballads, this all-singing, all-dancing cabaret of songs old and new reflected the diverse ways in which various styles of music have addressed these eternal themes over the years. Some of the dance numbers gave a refreshing twist to the subject matter by juxtaposing different dance and…
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2002 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

2002 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Young princess Snow White was exiled by her jealous stepmother, Queen Esmerelda, because she reminded the King too much of her deceased mother, his first wife. Since the King died, the Queen has ruled the land alone. However, now come of age, Snow White returns home to marry Prince Omogene to whom she was betrothed…
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2002 Solid Goild

2002 Solid Goild
This all-singing, all-dancing cabaret show, inspired by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee, took a look back at the popular songs that have provided the soundtrack to her reign over the last fifty years Act 1 The 50s Get Happy Rock Around The Clock One Fine Day Tell Him Young Girl Why Do Fools…
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2001 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

2001 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Set in Baghdad in the heart of ancient Arabia, this story is based on one of many featured in "1001 Arabian Nights". It followed the fortunes of a poor merchant Ali Baba and his family and friends. When Ali gets lost in a sandstorm, he finds himself outside the magic cave of Al Rascal, the…
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2001 Hooray for Hollywood

2001 Hooray for Hollywood
This all-singing, all-dancing cabaret was comprised of three acts. The first act, "Black and White", covered the advent of the "talkies" in the 1920s up to the 1940s. The second act "The Magic of Disney" covered the wonderful world of animation, and the third act, "Technicolor" covered the movies from the 1950s to the early…
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2000 Mother Goose

2000 Mother Goose
Life is hard for kindly, bird-loving, widow Mother Goose and her two children, Jack and Jill, with bills to pay, and no money coming in to pay them with. Things look as if they couldn't get much worse - especially when Jack buys yet another goose at market. So, it's not long before their landlord,…
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2000 Me and My Girl

2000 Me and My Girl
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a Cockney invasion of aristocratic ranks. When the 13th Earl of Hareford dies the family solicitor reveals that, in his youth, he secretly married a working class woman. Sadly she died shortly after giving birth, and the child, a son (Bill), was raised by her family.…
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2000 Songs for Life

2000 Songs for Life
On this evening, British Airways held the "Race For Life" in the parkland a Waterside to raise money for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. So, we went along to help entertain the runners and their supporters. We performed two short sets, after the race itself, on the small stage that had been erected in the…
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