Portfolio Category: The 1980's

1989 Robin Hood

1989 Robin Hood
Good King Richard (the Lionheart) is away from mediaeval England on the crusades, so his brother, the evil King John, rules the land and terrorises it's inhabitants with demands for ever higher taxes. People's champion and outlaw Robin Hood lives in Sherwood Forest with his band of Merry Men, who right King John's wrongs by…
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1989 Grease

1989 Grease
Before the 1977 film version made international household names of it's stars, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, this 1950s rock and roll musical was wowing audiences in the theatres. It's a case of love at first sight when Danny Zuko, meets new-girl-in-town Sandy during the Summer vacation. However, when she turns up as a…
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1988 50’s Fantasy

1988 50’s Fantasy
This cabaret took a nostalgic look at the hit songs, and musicals of the 1950s. Act One: The Changing Years [a look at how popular music evolved into rock and roll] Look For A Silver Lining; Hot Toddy; Twenty Tiny Fingers; Unforgettable; Three Coins In A Fountain; Love Letters In The Sand; Mister Sandman; Singing…
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1986 Anything Goes

1986 Anything Goes
No, this wasn't the sea-faring Cole Porter musical of the same name, although it did open with Porter's classic song. This was a musical variety show, which featured a combination of comedy sketches and song and dance numbers. The show was performed cabaret style, enabling the audience to relax at a table and enjoy a…
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1985 Diplomatic Baggage

1985 Diplomatic Baggage
The first act is set in the drawing room of Barry and Pamela Layton, in their home which they share with Pamela's elderly uncle Luke. Department of Trade employee, Barry, has faked the flu in order to have the afternoon off to spend with Pamela as it's her birthday. Unfortunately, as he left the office,…
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1984 Who Killed Santa Claus

1984 Who Killed Santa Claus
The action takes place in the late 1970s in the home of television "aunty" Barbara Love in Chelsea on Christmas Eve. Barbara arrives home from work to prepare for the Christmas Eve party she traditionally throws for her colleagues to find some unexpected and rather unpleasant surprises. Looking through the post she finds letters from…
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1984 Half a Sixpence

1984 Half a Sixpence
This is the tale of Arthur Kipps, a part made famous by Tommy Steele in the film version, a twenty year old orphan and an apprentice shopman, at Mr Shalford's Drapery Emporium and Fancy Goods Bazaar. The shop is the biggest and most fashionable of it's kind in Victorian Folkestone, in 1900, and Arthur and…
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