Portfolio Category: The 1990's

1995 When You’re Smiling

Performed between the 50th anniversaries of VE Day, the end of World War II in Europe on 8th May 1945, and VJ Day, this cabaret commemorated 50th years of peace. The show evoked the trials, tribulations and camaraderie of the era through, song, dance and drama, whilst giving our audiences plenty to smile about. It…
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1994 Snow White

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 become betrothed to Prince Omogene. The Queen fears…
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1994 Dick Tracy

An original script, written by one of our members, and inspired by the Dick Tracy stories, combined with songs from the film starring Warren Beatty & Madonna to create this musical, in which 1930s gangland Chicago is the sinister setting for a tale of murder, mayhem, greed and lust. Putting an end to a long-standing…
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1993 Puss in Boots

Times are hard for Moldonia's royal family, the second-sighted Queen Esmerelda and almost no-sighted King Norbert. So much so that they hope to marry their daughters Lizzie and Maggie off to some rich prince. Then there's their son, Prince Steven, who is hopelessy in love with local peasant girl Mary, and who threatens to burst…
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1993 The Pajama Game

Set in the 1950s in the Sleep Tite pajama factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the workers are racing with the clock, under the watchful eye of Time and Motions man Hines. For months they've been struggling for a seven-and-a-half cents raise, and are now threatening to strike if the issue isn't resolved by the end…
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1992 Sleeping Beauty

It's a time for rejoicing in Celestia, when a daughter, Princess Stella, is born to King Jollian and his Queen. However, not everyone, is happy, especially royal chef, Luigi Sollaris, a hot-blooded Italian. His plans to bake the largest Christening cake ever, are ruined when he leaves the scullion, Mickey Mercury, watching over the gigantic…
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1992 Little Shop Of Horrors

Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon, a street-wise, sixties-style girl group, narrate in song and escort us on a journey into an American city, where life is tough for the inhabitants of Skid Row. Mushnik's florist, whose basement is home to the nerdy, orphaned Seymour Krelborn, is on the verge of going bust. Then Seymour brings out…
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1992 The Hollow

This murder-mystery, by Agatha Christie, centres on a weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, about eighteen miles from London, one weekend in early September in 1952, when an unhappy game of follow-my-leader develops into sinister murder and intrigue. Dr John Cristow is at the centre of the trouble, for at…
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1991 Humpty Dumpty

All is not well in King Addlepate the dozenth's realm of Goldova. Twenty years ago, his son Eggbert was stolen, as a child, and the very same day a huge egg appeared on the palace wall. Ever since that day, all the king's horses and all the king's men, including dopey Privates Rank & File,…
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1991 There’s a Girl in My Soup

This hilarious comedy by Terence Frisby, set in the 1960s, tells the story of Robert Danvers, a middle-aged "Casanova" and his relationship with 19 year old Marion. Robert, a food and wine critic and a TV presenter, is exceedingly vain. When he and Marion meet, he doesn't believe for one minute that he can't "have…
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