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From the era that brought the world The Rubik's Cube, Max Headroom and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes this "totally awesome" musical in the style of movies such as Back To The Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Karate Kid and The Wedding Singer.
Join the graduating class of...
“My songs are my biography”…Peter Allen
The Boy From Oz is the most successful Australian musical ever and the first to make it to Broadway. It is a musical biography/tribute to the late great Peter Allen.
Peter Allen was born in the outback Australian town of Tenterfield in 1944...
The story of Faust is brought to life in an explosion of hit songs, high energy dance routines and glitter-ball spinning action. Get, ready to hit that floor and burn, baby, burn... in ‘Disco Inferno’
It’s the summer of 1976. Outside, the weather is as hot as the fashion and...
" As dazzling ...as the Best of Broadway" Brisbane Courier Mail.
Essgee's unique brand of Gilbert and Sullivan first stormed across Australia in 1994.
It's now being performed all over the world including productions across the UK, North America and even in Germany.
This...
The quintessential Australian story of how three clean-cut young men who looked like bank tellers, and a shy cuddly girl-next-door type, left their hometown to have a go at making the big time.
With their unique vocal arrangements and pure sound they were instantly appealing to audiences around the...
Hot Shoe Shuffle has been a smash hit musical across Australia and the West End.
It starts when the seven tap brothers receive a telegram - telling them that they will inherit millions from their late father if they reproduce the famous Hot Shoe Shuffle one month after his death. More...
Ladies in Black is a coming of age story of a young intelligent bookworm embarking on a summer job between completing her Leaving Certificate and hopefully embarking on a Literature degree at Sydney University.
Over a summer that changes her life, she befriends the colourful characters of the women...
Seven of the amateur theatre company’s cast are down with the dreaded lurgy.
So the Middling Cove Players’ director and two of the remaining actors, and whoever else Shane can co-opt, pitch in to continue the long tradition of ‘the show must go on’.
Juggling nerves, props...
In 2018 Mother and Son was voted as the *best Australian television program ever.
The 42 episode series was produced over ten series for ABC Television broadcast to more than thirty countries, dubbed into French, German, Italian, Spanish and Mandarin and remade into fresh productions in another ten...
It's boyband vs girlband in this hilarious brand new musical from the team that brought you the global hit Back to the 80's.
Packed with pop smash hits from the hyper-coloured 1990's by artists such as THE SPICE GIRLS, BACKSTREET BOYS, N*SYNC, BRITNEY SPEARS, CHRISTINA ...
Australian and New Zealand community theatres were the first in the world to be given permission to stage this iconic musical. The movie is credited with defining the 1970's, the sound track sold 25,000,000 copies and since it debuted on Broadway the musical...
A glitzy comedic and loving tribute to the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s as close to the real thing as you can get, with eleven countries competing, a multitude of anxious contestants, a gushing hostess and all the quirkiness that both delights us and makes us cringe in a single...
Since 2002 over 16 million theatregoers in 28 countries have been thrilled by this awe-inspiring production which is based on the songs of Queen with a book by Ben Elton (The Young Ones, Blackadder, Popcorn).
Elton fashioned this hilarious futurist comedy around more than 24 of Queen’s...
An adaptation of the famous Christmas tale, designed for a small touring company, but could be played by a large cast. The audience are invited to take part if they wish as human sound effects either singly or in groups which adds to the ‘experience’! The production can also be...
"Let the bells with-in the steeple. Ring with joy for all good people."
This gem married the drama of Charles Dickens with the music of Gilbert and Sullivan.
There is a smorgasbord of songs from The Yeoman of the Guard, The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, Iolanthe, Trial by Jury...
This is a full length murder mystery thriller which takes place at Elmdale, the country estate of Lord and Lady Chestle. Time is the present. There is a family gathering and their son Geoffrey is coming to visit with his wife Lydia. They are also bringing Geoffrey`s business partner Derek Fisher...
Adaptation of A.B. Facey's classic novel. The story of a parentless boy who started work at eight on the frontier of Western Australia, struggled as a rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss of his home in the Depression and tragedy in World War 2 - yet still felt he was fortunate....
A satirical comedy about a teacher who stages a reunion of his old gang and discovers that things that shaped their lives long ago have come back to haunt them
It set in a suburban interior.
A Musical Farce for your mature cast described as " a rare combination of wonderful new music, belly ache humour and farce."
Celebrity Sanctuary is a clinic that offers relaxation for A Listers. It has however, fallen on hard times. When the owner, receives a call from “...
Crime novelist and amateur detective Agatha Crusty (pronounced ‘croosty’) decides that a spell at a health spa is just what she needs to recharge her batteries and give her inspiration for her latest book.
She books into Seventh Heaven Health Spa owned by Andy Eden who started it...
Geoffrey and Caroline Robertson are having a dinner party to celebrate ten successful years of Mighty Midget Vacuum Cleaners, the company he jointly owns with Tim McArthur, and to add spice to the evening they decide to make it a murder mystery dinner.
They are joined by a variety of employees...
Agatha decides to stay on anyway and meets the other members of Giglinton Players, ready to start rehearsal. Sadly these are cut short when Emily (who plays Peter Pan) falls from her flying harness and is killed. The police believe it to be an accident as they do another...
Agatha Crusty (pronounced Croosty) is a crime novelist. She's also pretty adept at solving crimes. And when her sister-in-law Alice invites her to spend a few days with her in the village of Chortelby, it's not long before she gets caught up in a series of murders which seem directed at members of...
A delightfully unique Australian story combing the timeless tales of Alice in Wonderland, Mary had a Little Lamb, and Waltzing Matilda.
Set in the Australian bush and performed entirely by children; the story is designed to appeal to an audience of pre school and primary school age children....
Follow the adventures of Alice as she sings and dances her way through Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the terrifying Queen of Hearts.
This 2 Act lively production of ‘...
Audiences will delight at this modern-day play adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s trip to Wonderland, in which the restless birthday girl chases after a very busy bunny and ends up in a bizarre world.
Mark Landon Smith’s witty new adaptation brings Alice into the 21st century with sharp-...
A fast-paced, hilarious comedy of modern manners. What could be more unsurprising than a suburban AmDram company staging a Jane Austen adaptation?
But the ambitions and neuroses of the members of Pogchurch Valley Amateur Dramatic Society come to a perilous and uproarious climax in the white...
There is a fraction too much friction when a developer threatens the endangered Rowi (Okarito Brown) Kiwi found in the forests of Westland on the South Island of New Zealand.
Includes songs from Split Enz, Crowded House, Dave Dobbyn, Dragon, The Mutton Birds, Jenny Morris and many more...
Beautiful new musical adaptation written especially for youth theatres staged dozens of times around the world.
Sheherazade has been telling stories to her husband the King for 1000 nights.
They range from magic carpet rides to genies to Ali Baba and the 40 thieves to Sinbad the Sailor.
But her is...
Aussie Rules ~ The Musical isn’t about putting football players in tutus and having a bit of a giggle. It is a new, fun-filled comedy with clever songs, dances and hilarious situations. It also has a serious side, examining the effects of the urbanisation of Australia with country towns...
"A charming comedy...full of up to date gags and finger on the pulse problems." Sydney Morning Herald.
"There is something to offend just about everyone in Jonathan Biggins's deliciously light and perfectly pitched jokefest." The Australian.
"If you want social satire and...
Barbecue is a play about many things including the Australian cultural ritual, the “barby”. It is intended to be performed in a space where audience members can feel they are an integral part of the event.
Sausages (or other inexpensive goodies) are cooked on a gas barbecue throughout...
If you’re Irish, come into the parlour... so goes the old song...
If you’ve ever encountered Murphy’s Law, if you enjoy Irish songs, Irish jokes and Irish logic, you’ll really enjoy Barney’s Fair! The story unfolds as an Irish family, aided and abetted by the befuddled...
Imagine a surf rock musical that starts like this..... “ The summer sun is cookin. The guys and chics good lookin. And school is over for another year. The surf is really poundin. And bodgies walk around in. The latest crazy way out kooky gear... So pass around the pretzels and the beer....
“One of their best shows ever.” (Australian)
Beauty and the Beast is one of the most beloved children’s stories of all time. There has been countless version of the tale of a handsome Prince who is turned into a Beast by a wicked witch, and can only be restored to his former self...
Set in 1969, when physical and mental abuse was a fact of life to many women, this play is about domestic violence inside marriage - a subject still regrettably topical.
The engagement of two university students brings together their families. Sandra is from working class Doncaster...
“Songs and storyline simple enough to appeal to a wide age group.” (Sun)
A musical set in the Australian bush with conservation as its theme. The animals’ water is being polluted by the Useless Chemical Company and Billabong Bill with the assistance of a Minor Mitchell Cockatoo (...
A comedy thriller described as Erin Brockovich meets the Castle, based on a true story.
Hapless anxiety prone lawyer Brad Pitt ( no relation ) turns up to fill in for the day for a lawyer on holiday and is thrust unprepared into a complex case where a mother is suing a chemical...
Bonking James Bond
A warm hearted comedy about Betty who, having just discovered her husband is having an affair, will do anything to save her marriage even if it means dipping into fantasy and enlisting the help of a secret agent. It's a play for 4 - two men and two women...
Boy’s Own McBeth toured Australia and the US from 1979 until 1982. It was the longest running Australian written musical ever..staged with more than 600 performances and was only eclipsed in the 1990’s by The Boy From Oz.
What the critics said....
“A combination of Welcome...
“I haven’t had so good a time at a musical this year… a classic.” (Sunday Age)
Based on the controversial book of the same name, A Bunch of Ratbags is a funny, abrasive, and confronting look at teenage delinquency during the rock ‘n’ roll 50s in Melbourne.
A...
The perfect youth musical with fries and a coke.
Set in Bondi Beach at the largest restaurant of the world wide conglomerate Hackets. "Working for the chain you've got to keep those counters clean."
Everyone loved Waldo he was a worker like...
A talk-back radio shock jock has a heart transplant and to his horror finds that the organ was from an Aboriginal woman. Now he has to become more tolerant.
This can't go on!
For the past six years, Brett has had to spend Christmas single-handedly managing his monstrously difficult mother while keeping the truth from her that her favourite son, Simon, is not a successful businessman overseas but is in jail. This Christmas, Brett plans to skip town and leave Mum with the...
Young Cinderella is badly put upon in the home of Evillia Belching-Forthe, her stepmother, and her two step-sisters, Plain and Purl.
But when Cinderella's invitation to the Palace Ball is torn up, an angry Fairy Godmother decides that enough is enough. Helped by Norris the Gnome and Wizard...
Since Snow White rode off with her Prince Charming, the seven dwarfs have been doing it tough. Explainy, Cranky, Panicky, Mimey, Rhymey, Clumsy and Boofhead are dead-broke and are struggling to pay the rent.
Enter Cinderella. Sick of being treated poorly by her stepmother (and landlady to the seven...
Prince Charming and Cinderella arrive back at the palace after their fairy-tale wedding. Cinderella is shocked to learn that the search for the missing glass slipper was instigated by Prince Charming’s mother, Queen Imelda, who has a shoe fetish.
The magic slippers are confiscated...
It’s the early 1970s and townie Emily Hetherington plans to bring a breath of fresh air to the country village she has just moved to. The action takes place inside a house has been decorated from top to bottom, the garden has been landscaped and above all she has a top of the range Hygena...
An outrageous comedy. Five school friends stage their own reunion after 25 years apart. Friendships are rekindled, secrets are revealed, a janitor is kidnapped!
Cast: 5 Female / 1 Male
Length: Two Acts (110 minutes)
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis...
Pamela Browne has organized a 25 year reunion for her...
Crazy Rock n Roll is an exciting new musical with songs in the style and spirit of the pioneers of rock n roll.
It is filled with comedy, pathos and catchy musical numbers that will leave your audience enthralled right ‘till the end.
The musical is the late 1950’s, and VINNIE RUSSO is...
Set sail for adventure on the cruise of a life-time to Bermuda aboard the beautiful Costa Lotta. But it’s not all smooth sailing. Someone is trying to poison the passengers and nobody knows who will be next.
Will they make it through the Bermuda Triangle? Will...
It's blue-rinse murder at the last chance salon!
When Ruth inherits her Aunt's antiquated hair salon, the antiquated clientele comes with it. The old girls’ weekly shampoo and sets are put on hold however when Ruth enters a prestigious hairdressing competition - her desperate attempt...
Actors take over an abandoned theatre to pay tribute to their friend and brilliant writer who died in a tragic road accident, ten years earlier. Each year on that anniversary they produce one of the writer’s plays in his honour – even though there is never an audience to see it.
As the...
Murder mystery spoof. An eccentric selection of the rich and famous meet at Brandling Hall for a 1930's country house weekend as guests of Sir Redvers and Lady Bertha.
Before anyone has had time to settle in a cabinet minister is murdered 'totally without any warning'. Fortunately the...
Every relationship fails until one doesn't. The trick is to find that special one.
The same combination of humour and heart that made I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change a regional hit will have audiences falling head-over-heels for this sketch comedy concoction.
In a series...
“Death & Taxes” is a madcap financial farce set in the very topical world of insurance and investments. It’s a crime story, ghost story and hilarious comedy. Featuring dodgy deals, a potty psychic, a fishy tax inspector, a nutty cop, murder, mayhem and a hairy yak!
This new translation of the sparkling operetta written in 1874 includes new opportunities for extra Chorus work.
Gabrielle von Eisenstein has been sentenced to five days in jail for hitting a Policeman, but is determined to go to a party. In the original the chrous do not appeart on stage until Act...
A fast-moving farce about , a senior church warden who has let the empty vicarage to a travelling theatre company for a murder mystery weekend to pay for his daughter’s extravagant wedding. Mistaken identity, other forms of misunderstanding, cross-dressing, drunkedness and general chaos...
Hilarious fast moving comedy. Richard and his wife Barbara accidently offer the same room as lodgings to a young undertaker and a young woman who has the mafia after her.
Confusion, panic, cross dressing and many misunderstandings abound.
Not helped when an Italian gentleman turns up with a...
We meet Emma, an accomplished and wealthy young woman, where after a successful attempt to bring two people together (Mr Weston & her Governess Miss Taylor), she believes herself a natural matchmaker. Emma's lesson to learn is that unlike playing with her dolls as a child, the people of...
“ A sure-fire box office hit, being revived continually around the country”
THE AUSTRALIAN April 17. 1998.
Emma - Celebrazione, is based on the story of Emma Ciccotosto, who migrates from an impoverished Italian rural village to Western Australia at the age of 13. The play opens...
"Pinafore is a 24-carat triumph" The Australian.
The final chapter of the Savoy Trilogy which stormed across Australia and New Zealand.
There is the funky female chorus known as the Singlettes - which were originally designed for three women - but are often revived...
"An unfolding caravan of delights." The Sydney Morning Herald.
"No praise could be too excessive." The Australian.
Essgee's Mikado followed the success of Pirates in 1995 and has proved so popular it was revived again professionally in 2008/2009.
Enjoy...
" all the sentiment, galvanizing character and sweeping flow of Les Miserables. Eureka is an accomplished and entertaining musical." Bryce Hallett Sydney Morning Herald.
The Eureka Rebellion remains Australia's only organized insurrection. On November 29 1854 0 12,000 people were...
In this musical comedy the real action is on the sidelines.
"A heart felt story about parenting, love and loneliness" (SMH) set in the under ten Magpie's soccer team.
A tubby passionate coach, a fitness instructor, a single parent and a musician cheer on their children and navigate life...
Set in 1960’s Manchester, Eric and Iris Dobbins have been running a friendly neighbourhood pub (The Last Drop) for many years, and regularly run an evening of ‘Free And Easy’ (now known as Karaoke), both of which have helped them to win the coveted ‘Pub Of The North...
The audience will probably be familiar with the storyline, given the panto's affinity to a certain children's film with a vaguely similar title, but it's been given the full panto treatment, and so it's packed with gags, new characters and is something totally new for your audience to enjoy - and...
The drama takes place in a sandbagged trench at Gallipoli, 1915 and puts a perspective on the Great War’s legend of heroism. The main character is Barry Moon, a country boy battling not only the enemy, but himself and the establishment.
When a new soldier, Irishman Brendan Barra, is...
Think, three amigos, hot chilli, salsa, tequila, burritos, enchiladas. Hidden treasure, bad Spanish accents, culture clashes, misunderstandings and much mirth as everyone comes together to have a good time at the Hacienda del Toro.
A few things still need to be attended to, top of the list...
A comedy with interpolated Halloween Music.
Act One is set in a costume hire shop, at Halloween.
Act Two is set in a Nightclub. The action is continuous.
Crystal, a young widow, owner of a small costume hire business, has asked her sister Abigail, who has some psychic powers, to try to...
High Hopes is a comedy set around air travel. It displays the humour and trauma of checking in, sitting next to unpleasant passengers, rude flight attendants too busy with their own love interests and a captain who jumps ship!! And on top of all that the plane becomes hijacked by a trio of...
2017 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINEE: OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL!
It is one of the world’s great romances. Himself:(James Joyce) an internationally acclaimed author whose words awakened the world. Nora: the country girl from Galway whose burning sexuality and acerbic wit...
Matt Byrne’s Hott Family bursts the Real Estate bubble, as white-shoed Red Hott, world-weary wife Smokin’ Hott, would-be model daughter Pipin’ Hott and her sleazy ambitious fiancé Terry Trott, try to find the right property for four very different couples! It’s an all...
This madcap comedy addresses an issue close to every woman's heart –how to train your husband!
Sound impossible? Not when you have a legendary Husband Trainer living right next door.
The play follows the adventures of three generations of the Smith family as they attempt to turn their men...
Hyperspace puts the Farce into the Force as you are taken on an all-singing, all- dancing, ( totally unauthorised ) parody-tribute of one of most successful film franchises of all time.
Join Duke Kneejerker, his loyal robot RU DED2, and his sister Princess Highway, as they search for the last...
"I can cook my husband's dinner. I can iron my husband's shirt. I can live alone in danger And in drought and dust and dirt. I can grow the food we live on. I can milk a cow or goat. If I'm good enough for that. I know I'm good enough to vote!"
Louisa Lawson was a woman of magnetic...
This title comes from the saying `The devil finds work for idle hands to do.’ In this family of Cliff and Pam Brooks with their daughter Rose, we have a domestic comedy where the bored housewife goes out nearly every evening to various functions whilst Cliff stays at home after a hard day`s...
Singing! Dancing! Spies! Guns! Gadgets! Giggles!
The name’s Bond. Jock, Jack, Jake, and Chesty. Bond: four brothers who are secret agents 007-Eleven. Their father was a famous British spy. Together with glamorous Russian Agent Undakova KGB they fight the evil forces of SENCHA (just...
This charming musical is dedicated to the man who came to personify American popular music during the last century. Irving Berlin came from rags to riches, rising above the tenements of the Lower East Side to become the most popular and highest-paid songwriter in the world. On the last night of his...
“Lots of laughs in this witty show” (Sun)
It Happened In Tanjablanca is a musical ‘whodunnit’ based on dramatic films of the 1940s. It features a cast of recognizable characters which include an American film star, a tweedy English eccentric and a European Countess. Echoes...
Jason Taylor, a quiet unassuming person, is one week away from marrying Lucinda, his childhood sweetheart. The overzealous bride’s mother, Stella Parsons, has turned the wedding into a personal crusade.
No expense has been spared and a year’s preparations have all come...
Set in Australia, in a small country town. Jack and his widowed mother, Dame Sadie Dreadlocks, are very poor.
Their entire neighbourhood have been severely affected by the closing down of the local factory, where Dame Dreadlocks has lost her job as a cleaner.
The Bank Manager and owner of the...
This new 2-Act Musical production is perfectly suited to primary school students with songs included for every grade and main cast performers. It features a range of song styles including modern, traditional English folk songs and even a Bollywood song and dance bridging a range of cultures and...
“Has wit, slapstick comedy, and enough catchy tunes to have audiences singing and laughing along with its cast” (Sun)
The story of Jack and the Beanstalk has been around for centuries, well since 1730 when the first printed version was published. The show in various forms became a...
Australia's Biggest Little Musical
Jack O'Hagan was Australia's most prolific song writer from the 1920's until the 1950's. His hits are part of the nation's psyche 'Our Don Bradman' ' Ginger Meggs ', 'When the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox', ' Kingsford Smith' and so forth. Melvyn Morrow and David...
Comic cowboy send up of the American Wild West.
The Silver Slipper is in financial trouble on account of the drought. Maggie May and her girls have tried to diversify, but there isn’t much to do to stimulate new business.
Little White Dove and Father O’Malley have tried their best to...
Although “Jest Call Me Cowboy” has been written as a sequel to “Jest at the West”.....
This is a separate story, which just happens to begin where “Jest a the West” ended. ...
A fun musical for a large mixed cast of young people.
Inspired by the story of Puss in Boots written during the sixteenth century by French author, Charles Perrault.
The show embraces an eclectic collection of great pop and rock...
This rock, pop and funky adaptation of the collected stories of Rudyard Kipling has been performed thousands of times across Europe.
Described by Stage Whispers magazine as "full of great tunes, superb characterisation and laughs."
For cast of seven or bolster with a large chorus. With...
An undiscovered tribe's reaction to the arrival of three people from the outside world.
When the plane lands on the island beach, out of fuel and hopelessly lost, the two rock stars and their press agent can think only of returning to civilisation. The island has a severe man shortage and the...
"...one of the most entertaining and slickly written shows - comedy or
otherwise - seen in Melbourne for a long time... dazzlingly funny"
Raymond Gill, Arts Editor, The Age
"This is a beautiful set of numbers"
Paul Keating
The musical Australia had to have is now available for...
Students at an Australian holiday camp discover that the local Mayor plans to close the camp and redevelop the site.
With local residents they use social media combined with the old fashioned bush telegraph to contact past generations of campers to help them thwart the Mayor’s plans and save...
Faithful English translation of one of the greatest romantic operas ever written. All singing is in the original keys. But this adaptation has modest edits to simplify the plot and keep the focus on the four lovers.
Orchestration has been reduced to a more affordible size.
The children's chorus and...
Medieval maidens, men in tights, a saucy serving wench with amorous designs on the young master. Lady Godiva has her hands full with a daughter expelled from boarding school, a son who just can’t make up his mind and a husband who delights in taxing the peasants unmercifully!
The Friar from...
The Almost Totally Fictitious Musical History of Legs Diamond follows the travails of its title character, a Depression-era mobster who wants to break into show business.
The musical opened on Broadway on December 26, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 64 performances and 72...
The riotous tale of mistaken identities and unexpected romance explodes in this brand new musical comedy based on the Tony award nominated play. It’s 1934 and Opera virtuoso Tito Merelli is about to revive Otello for the ten-year anniversary of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. When Tito...
Life’s a Bitch is a comedy about sibling rivalry, love and dogs. It is a contemporary play, set in a small country town.
Kevin does not particularly like dogs, but he has been asked to look after his niece’s dog – Deena for a few weeks, while she prepares for her wedding. ...
Lola Montez was the Madonna of the 19th century.
A popular singer and performer who outraged the establishment by taking off some of her clothes on stage in her famous spider dance.
"They storm my web and beg a night of bliss. Then die in rapture at my poisonous kiss. Beware. Beware"
When...
After twenty-one years of marriage, James Beale walks out on his wife, Molly. She is devastated and after four months of being alone, she has reached rock bottom. Her best friend, Fiona, persuades her to try the “six-step miracle cure” for abandoned wives. The idea being, on completion...
On Christmas Eve, Sue and Tom Millard have invited Sue’s dad, Brian, round to spend the happy festive season with them. However,all is not as idyllic as it might at first appear.
After twenty-five years of marriage the couple are going through a bad patch. Unbeknown to Brian, who is a...
What happens when a family is robbed and try to claim the insurance payment? Not a subject for a farcical comedy? Don’t you believe it!
Derek and Pauline Felton have been married for twenty-seven years. Their only child, Amy, is a nineteen-year-old petite girl,whose main interests are...
The comedy takes place in a back room of the local Corn Exchange in the south of England where the local choral society hold their rehearsals.
Edith Codsmore is a self centred, obnoxious snob who has always taken the lead role in the choir. However, when a young newcomer joins the choir, she...
Frank and Rose Saunders have been married for fifty-two years, and are now living in a small retirement complex along with five other residents. On the day a young female care assistant starts working at the apartments, a spate of robberies ensue.
Frank Saunders takes it upon himself to prove...
Anita and Clive Debanks have been married for 28 years and have led an uneventful life. But all that is about to change. Although in a loveless marriage, Clive has never been unfaithful. However, as preparations for his fiftieth birthday are underway, Clive feels that life is passing him by and has...
Tom Millard’s world has been shattered by the unexpected death of his wife. Having now realized that life is short and precious, Tom makes a bucket list and starts working his way through it.
His first aim is to take early retirement and live by the sea. His two married daughters are unhappy...
Follow the adventures of our hero Rock Hard as he battles against the villainy of Whiley J Whiplash who will do anything to get his hands on the
bar Lazy J Saloon.
Can Penelope Pureheart find her true love?
Will Sean O’Reilly ever find a new wife to replace his long lost Martha?
Will Belle...
Nana is losing control – of her mind and her life. Forced to live with her daughter Janice and her feckless family, Nana is frustrated with how they live.
When her winning numbers come up on the Lotto, the family are ecstatic – until it becomes clear that Nana won’t disclose...
Mad Sisters is an uplifting and joyful comic romp that reminds us just how wonderful and truly mad our sisters can be.
Daphne adores her sister Anne. To Daphne, Anne is beautiful, successful and smart - all the things Daphne longs to be. Anne on the other hand wants nothing to do with her sister...
They say behind every successful man is a supportive woman, and Julie Hardisty is certainly that. Her husband, Brian, is a pillar of society and well respected in the local community. For her part, Julie enjoys the status their lifestyle brings.
However, all is not as it seems in this idyllic...
Set in 1972, Manly Mates features the most famously controversial state premier of them all, Sir Robert Askin. He and his Police Commissioner took regular bribes from crime bosses. He sold knighthoods. He took regular cutbacks from developers. In Manly Mates he holds court to a team of his more...
Fanny Price is the poor relation of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. From the age of 10 Fanny has lived with the Bertram family at Mansfield Park. The shy and retiring Fanny is an intelligent observer of the flirtations and foibles of her four cousins and the sophisticated brother and sister,...
Margaret Fulton was Australia's first cooking superstar. She sold 1.5 million cookbooks and changed the way Australian's ate.
This joyous musical traces her life from working in a factory during WWII, to living in the rocks as a single mother, succeeding in a man's world, falling in...
A gorgeous musical adventure based on a children's classic.
In a wondrous world of riddles and hidden treasure, bumbling Jack Hare is on a race against time to deliver a message of love from the Moon to the Sun. Far, far away in a world just like ours, a mother cheers her son Joe with the tale of...
A young mother, with a will of iron and voice of gold, sails from the cane fields of Queensland with an unshakable dream of becoming a world class soprano. Arriving in Europe Nellie Armstrong is soon accepted into one of the most prestigious vocal academies in Paris… L’cole...
It has been ten years since the last reunion of the Crazy Ladies. Menopause has arrived and the ladies are crazier than ever. The mission is to convince Kay, the gun totting tom-boy, to marry Shaun (the guy she once kidnapped and held accountable for the sins of all men). Hilarious......
When a department store Santa claims he’s the real Kris Kringle, his case gets taken all the way to the Supreme Court and a little girl’s belief makes the difference in the ‘miracle.’ With live Foley effects and a score of holiday carols, Miracle on 34th...
Let Miss Abigail take you back to a simpler time, before booty calls and speed-dating, back when the divorce rate wasn’t 50% and when ‘fidelity’ was more than an investment firm!
It’s Loveline meets Dr. Ruth as Miss Abigail shares her vast knowledge of every piece of...
"Heart warming laugh out loud funny," Broadway World.
"An entertaining night of chuckles and tears." Variety.
"If you are a mother or have a mother this show is a hoot. Arts Hub.
"Insightful tongue in cheek lyrics and foot tapping rhythms." Stage Whispers.
Having...
The Wharf Revue sold out season after season for the Sydney Theatre Company and now forty timeless sketches are available for performance for first time.
Over 20 years Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott have plundered all forms of theatrical entertainment from...
The action unfolds in the Drawing Room of wealthy factory owner Titus Platt’s rather stately home somewhere in 1930’s England.
Titus is murdered and Inspector Bullock of the Yard is sent for. When he starts to investigate there are many suspects: the son, Malcolm; his sister Penny; her...
A murder mystery set in Maple Lodge, a retirement home for actors, where gossip and old rivalries sustain the residents as much as the dry sherry and shepherd’s pie. A fall of snow means the home is cut off from the outside world. No-one can leave, including Gareth, the young...
Sophia has been conned into buying a derelict theatre. Now with crushing bank loan payments to make and no money, the jobless Sophia decides to defy the odds and dig her way out of her financial mess by reopening the theatre as a cafe. Her already dire situation worsens when she soon discovers that...
Covering the years 1896-1902, this revealing three-hander - by turn comic and searing - examines the traumatic marriage of Henry and Bertha Lawson, as well as confronting those two enduring icons of the Australian imagination, Lawson and 'Banjo' Paterson.
Middle-aged Bertha Lawson...
Barbara's husband is missing on the family farm. When Jack finally returns he is a nervous wreck and will not leave the house.
He is suffering from Agri-phobia (the fear of agriculture)... and is convinced that he is Hiroo Onoda - a Japanese soldier holding
out on an island after world war Two....
Annie discovers her in-laws are outlaws... and her mother in-law has hired a mad group of assassins to kill her!
How will Annie, a mild mannered Librarian, outwit the best of the Italian, Russian and Irish contract killers?
This is outrageous, laugh out loud, comedy at its best.
Cast:...
"My Way was more than we had hoped for. You haven't got a show...you have a license to print money. ” Allan Kollar Venice Little Theatre
An award winning music revue featuring more than 50 songs recorded by ‘Old Blue Eyes’. This is not about impersonating Frank Sinatra...
NED explores the extraordinary highs and devastating lows of Ned Kelly’s journey from local hero to felon to legend. Audiences will see themselves in the struggle of a poor family trying to make it through in a system that was stacked against them.
Adam Lyon (King Kong) has written a...
"Gonna Rob a Bank, Gonna Be A Rich Man One Day, Gonna Rob A Bank. Living it the Easy Way"
The life and times of Australia's most infamous Bushranger and his Gang set to a rollicking score, a mixture of rock, broadway and vaudeville.This has both GREAT humour and GREAT tragedy....
A comic play with music based on the life of Kate Kelly. She toured Victoria with a show exhibiting her older brother Ned's 'real horse' and 'real armour'.
When one of her actor's leaves she recruits an Irishman from the audience, with more in common with Ned than she suspects. First staged at the...
More than 200 titles to choose from the NODA catalogue.
Aladdin. Ali Baba. Alice in Wonderland. Babes in the Wood. Beauty and the Beast. Christmas Carol. Cinderella. Dick Whittington. Father Christmas. Frankenstein. Goldilocks. Goody Two Shoes. Hansel and Gretel. Humpty DUmpty. Hunchbak. Jack and...
“On Air ! On Air !” takes you on a lightning paced, funny and at times, sad journey behind the glitter of advertising, exposing a world of high pressure, memorable characters and ethics which change conveniently in their desire to succeed.
In the hectic copy writing...
Choose from 33 new One Act Plays from the Plays and Musicals Catalogue.
Choose from in the genre of Comedy, Absurd, Thriller/Myster and Drama.
Read them on line here.
http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/plays/oneact/index.htm
All bookings for productions in Australia and New Zealand are through DSP.
This lively laugh-machine is dedicated to the proposition that "buying and selling property in Sydney is a total farce". The property being auctioned is a 1970s semi, "delivering a quality lifestyle with harbour glimpses", according to its glossy adverts. We visit on three 'open...
The play, a comedy in two acts, is set in a charity run opportunity shop.
Upstairs, over the shop, (Off stage) live two younger women, Madge and Carol. These ladies are exotic dancers at the Pink Pussy by night, and by day they run a very successful phone sex business, which the opp...
New translation of this classic written in 1858 with the option of extra Chorus.
Eurydice is bitten by a snake and is abducted by Pluto to the underworld. Her husband Orpheus is delighted, but public opinion forces him to rescue her. She is ungrateful preferring Bacchus, God of wine.
With...
The play is set in a Public Hall of a small outback town. The hilarious efforts of the hall committee, and some of the local characters, as they set about overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles, to achieve their objective, demonstrates the tenacity and ingenuity of outback folk...
It’s mid 1942 and Australia is at war.
As our able bodied men fight overseas a sleepy seaside Aussie town is about to experience an invasion by the Americans.
The arrival of the yanks brings much needed excitement for the ladies, but for the local lads there are three big problems with the...
Cinderella. Dick Whittington and his Cat. Jack and the Beanstalk. The Snow Queen. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Mother Goose. Aladdin. Peter Pan. Sinbad the Sailor. Robin Hood and the Babes in the Woods. Beauty and the Beast. The Sleeping Beauty. New A Christmas Carol.
Peter Denyer is incredibly...
This epic musical first recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra has delighted audiences in many countries.
"Irresistible - engaging and exciting the audience throughout - and leaving heaving chests and racing hearts as it draws to its tragic conclusion." Aussie Theatre.com 2008.
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Persuasion is the bittersweet story of love that might have been. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse an offer of marriage from a young naval officer. Their paths cross again eight years later, but now Anne is a faded spinster and her fatheris badly in debt, while Captain...
" Sheer Magic in every sense of the word"
Peter Pan is the legendary tale of the boy who never grows old. This adaptation is recognised in England as the best available of J.M.Barrie's masterpiece. First produced professionally in 1993 is has been revived dozens of times
A play with...
A Traditional Music Hall.... With a difference!
A Phantom who doesn’t like pantomime is residing in the old White Chapel Theatre.
The cast are rehearsing Cinderella. The efforts of the various characters in trying to convince the ghost that Cinderella is a Melodrama and not a...
A wonderful version of this well-known children’s story. Geppetto, the wood carver, longs for a son, but the Star Fairy will only grant his wish on the condition that his puppet Pinocchio proves to be worthy and good.
Old Nick is determined that this should not happen. Adventures...
This is the story of Pinocchio the little wooden puppet who came to life because of a wish made by his maker, Geppetto.
Follow Pinocchio as he travels through Italy meeting many interesting characters including the Blue Fairy, the cunning Fox and Cat, the evil puppet master Fire Eater, the naughty...
The world's first post Covid-19 musical, set in a suburban supermarket the year after the pandemic.
A colourful cast of quirky characters fight to keep the independent business afloat against a major chain store.
They all do their best to make meaningful connections in a world full of differences...
This musical adaptation of the world's favourite romantic comedy has been staged with great success around the world.
It has gorgeous music and 11 fantastic roles for woman (most with solos). From the dim Mrs Bennet, her five daughters, the formidable Lady Catherine and the bitchy Caroline Bingley...
Fitzwilliam Darcy is determined not to succumb to the charms of Elizabeth Bennet because he considers her family connections to be inferior. She is determined not to like him because of his pride. Can their differences ever be reconciled?
This adaptation of Austen’s much loved novel...
Sue and Arch have written lively attractive musicals for large cast with backing tapes.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
This is the Dyer's favourite youth musical. It's strength is that there are wonderful roles to play, a delightful lolly dance and the plot is sophisticated enought to...
Based on the beloved children's books Princess K.I.M. and The Lie That Grew and Princess Kim and Too Much Truth Written & Illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Princess K.I.M. The Musical is a touching, upbeat and humorous play about a little girl named Kim, who along with...
"An absolute hoot." ( The Guardian)
"Pure exultant bubblegum fun." ( The Scotsman)
"The makings of a Rocky Horror runaway hit." ( Midweek Theatre)
"There is in short a riot going on in Cell Block H, and...
An Australian angle on the timeless classic of Charles Perrault.
The brothers Dick and Harry Miller, are forced out of their home by their greedy brother Tom. Dick sets off to make his fortune and Harry is left to look after the cat, Puss.
Puss assures Harry that she can make them both rich, if he...
Before there was Schoolies, there was Pyjamas in Paradise!
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, pyjama parties attracted thousands of young people from all around Australia to the small resort town of Surfers Paradise. Their popularity put Surfers on the map.
This musical is a bit like...
It's the real housewives as you have never seen them before. Localise the title for your community then grab a glass of pinot and watch the girls lie, cheat and sing their way up the social ladder.
Hiding behind skin care lines and charities these women have it all or do they?
Find out what the...
A traditional pantomime set in the Tyrolean mountains where Maria (who wears a red riding hood) meets her Prince, is bewitched by a Witch, attacked by a Wolf, but finally saved by Fairy Twinkle.
Interspersed throughout all of her adventures are the attempts by the dastardly Colonel Von...
An old Australian soldier has been taken off an airplane returning to Australia. Now, on the eleventh of November, he is in a hospital with a second and possibly fatal attack of dengue fever. Cranky and acerbic, he remembers his experiences in East Timor. He fought there against the Japanese during...
“ By far the best rock n roll musical I have ever read. The music is brilliant.” Robert Murray - Director.
Steve Diamond ( producer of the Rocky Horror Show) “ Absolutely brilliant”
Rock Apocalypse is rock n roll party show which is a parody and tongue in cheek tribute...
Rockin Robin and his merry band of men star in this fantasy story featuring Rock Music from the fifties, sixties and seventies.
A drama group (or school) is rehearsing a number for the Rock Eisteddfod when an electrical fault in the special effects department causes two of the cast, Maddie...
With divorce proceedings pending, Helen and Simon Simpson instruct estate agent, Simon Allcock to find a buyer for their house. Instead, the unscrupulous Simon decides to use their empty property for romantic assignation with his secretary, Felicity. His carefully laid plans are dashed though, by...
“Everybody had a good time.” (The Age)
When Rumpelstiltskin premiered at the Alexander Theatre, Melbourne, the critics went overboard with their praise; “full of original and listenable, clappable words and music,” “… clever, well-done and delightful,” and...
A tall tale of a Tall Ship,somewhere between farce and pantomime.
A rollicking romp of improbable proportions, set on the high seas, on the way to Australia. The Honourable Judge Eustace McDonald is horrified to find...
Melvyn Morrow has written six pantomimes for the series Christmas at the Sydney Opera House. His favourite is Santa meets the Bushrangers, which was revived for the third time in a professional season at the North Sydney Independent Theatre .
The characters are Mother Kelly, Molly Moonlight,...
They sing! They dance! They die! On the night before the opening of Vera Miles High School Drama Department’s production of Scary Musical, a brutal double murder takes place. We soon learn that a mental patient has escaped and all musical hell is about to break loose. Combining a slasher...
An isolated house in the Cotswolds is the scene where the lady owner, Sandra Maitland, takes in paying guests. She has organised a Writers’ Seminar for aspiring crime writers for which four ladies have applied.
DJ Burrows, an established writer, is the tutor and all is set for a...
Lose your heart and come to your senses as you follow the fortunes of Elinor, the sensible sister and Marianne, the sister who is ruled by her feelings. The reserve of one sister and the lack of reserve of the other can equally lead to their undoing as they struggle to come to terms with the...
"Eddie Perfect's oh-so-clever-song book with songs ranging from soul and rock to Bollywood and R & B is.. incredible." The Age. ( 4 Stars)
"Full of witty lyrics and great melodies." Stage Whispers.
"Entertainingly depicts the King of Spin with admiration and wry...
Not just an outrageous comedy. This is an event as a Greek Grandmother comes back to haunt her grandson NICK Kakamanospillipapadimiopoulis,at the worst possible time.
"I am a Greek. I am a dead Greek. I am a dead Grandmother who is a Greek. Today is my favourite grandson’s wedding...
Seamus Shenanigan has recently died, the most likely cause being liver failure. It was his wish that "his mates from the boozer" should send him on his way in a manner that befitted his life.
This wake is a most suitable send off. His "boozer mates" unfortunately are the...
From the creators of the West End hit musical adaptation Lend Me A Tenor: The Musical comes a laugh-out-loud immersive musical theater experience.
When Buckingham Palace is robbed, it is up to the renowned Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and YOU the audience to solve the crime and return the...
Not just an outrageous comedy. This is an event, as an Italian Grandmother Madonna Paola Giuseppina Maria Donatella comes back to haunt her grandson Leo at the worst possible time on his wedding day.
From the 1980's style bucks and hens nights, through the wedding and reception the audience are...
The hit production of the 2009 Melbourne Comedy Festival.
“A delicious look at aging. A warm, poignant and very amusing blend of songs and pithy dialogue performed by a talented cast. I highly recommend the show for all age groups!” Alan Fletcher, ‘Neighbours’ actor...
Delightful new musical adaptation of the classic with bright tunes, lots of laughs and an Australian sensibility.
Available with superb backing CD or piano vocal.
First staged in 2013.
This pantomime follows closely the story of the famous fable but in a special twist replaces dwarfs with garden gnomes.
It means your company can cast regular sized people.
All of the traditional adventures are in the hilarious script.
There is of course a wicked Queen, the Magic Mirror on the wall...
Combines the classic and beautiful music of Beethoven with a new comic look at this Fairytale.
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie premiered at the Adelaide festival of the Arts in 1992, accompanied by a 22 piece orchestra in front of 23,000 people. The musical has also been performed professionally in Melbourne and Brisbane and released on CD featuring the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, a 120 voice...
This breezy comedy takes a humorous look at how friendship can defy the odds. Five women are all that remain of what was once a successful book group. All have been in the group since it started and know each other very well, or so they think. Lynn is hosting the evening and has her...
" A Blissful marriage of witty dialogue with some of the most enduringly popular music and lyrics ever written" Melbourne Herald Sun.
A Song to Sing O is a musical play about the original Gilbert and Sullivan patter man George Grossmith first performed by Anthony Warlow and has since...
Set in the famous Spyglass Club frequented by a hot bed of Russian, American and British businessmen, spies and gypsies with names such as Artie Choke, and Mona Littlemore.
The audience are patrons of the club and are given a special assignment to laugh themselves silly at the mayhem...
So funny it will split your stitches. A 'behind the scenes' look into the world of the maternity ward. Join sex-mad nurse Lindsay Walker, and the four ladies on C Ward.
The...
Suspenders, death by misadventure and unorthodox embalming techniques feature in this zany, quickfire comedy.
"Judging from the reaction of the sold-out opening night crowd, who laughed from the first line to the last, Phillips has nothing to fear." New Zealand Herald.
"...Farce in...
An outrageous, mind-blowing dash through the “Me Decade,” complete with (shh!) a real life streaker! Featuring over 40 hit songs, Streakin’ Through the 70s is filled with enough music and comedy sketches to make your bell bottoms burst.
“The most fun-filled show to hit...
Set in Australia, in a tourist resort. Bavarian buffoonery as bikers invade a local festival. Heidi the milkmaid and Schultz , the lovable gardener enter into the spirit of the festival with some slap dancing and a sausage stuffing competition, with the help of some audience...
If dogs can understand ‘sit’ and walkies’ it’s not too much of an extension of that to believe that they could perhaps understand more complex human conversations. Add to that the rather more absurd concept that a dog could be so annoyed by those conversations as well as...
“A first class piece of entertainment.” (Variety)
Sweet Fanny Adams is set in the 1930s around the infamous red-light district of Palmer Street, Sydney. The show is built around two madams, who are constantly at war with each other, their clientele and their loves. It is loosely based...
Golf: a game so annoying it was invented by God to punish people who retire early.
Ralph, Archie and George have been golf buddies for donkeys’ years and now they’re retired and spending more time than ever on the course and in the 19th hole. Their handicaps are higher...
Business is slow in this Victorian ‘House of Comfort’ where Edna, Clarry and Mary face a dismal Christmas. They are behind with their rent, have no coal for the fire, no food, and they have run out of gin. To add to their problems, Edna has invited Sadie, a damsel in...
Middle aged Harvey and Marj have been to see a fortune teller, and Harvey is mistakenly under the impression that he is likely to meet an early demise... Once the situation has been resolved, and he realizes that he is in no immediate danger, Harvey becomes interested in the actual expenses...
A delightful new musical based on the fable by the Brother’s Grimm.
Twelve princesses, each more beautiful than the last, sleep in twelve beds in the same room. Every night, their doors are securely locked. But in the morning, their dancing shoes are found to be worn through as if they had...
After surviving a nasty near-death experience, a group of close friends wipe the slate clean and embrace a tree-change, living a sustainable life in the country. But nature isn’t always so welcoming, and when the friends are faced with the pressing task of killing a young cow, a chain...
There is nothing MP Gerald Caunfield enjoys more than a quiet weekend with his wife Debbie at his country retreat. Fine wine and good food being high on the agenda. Debbie has thrown herself into village life with gusto, a little more than Gerald could ever imagine, and the results of the village...
“One of the best children’s stories in a contemporary soft-rock glitter style.”
Han Christian Anderson’s fairytale, about an Emperor who is tricked by a couple of con men into believing in invisible clothes, is updated with a brilliant soft-rock score and a host of...
A comedy thriller about money, art, and friendship.
Suzanne Faith, a glamorous former model, partied in the 1970s with Mick Jagger. She established a London gallery with her late husband.
Her impressive private collection includes a portrait of herself by Francis Bacon which is worth...
Hilarious jukebox musical featuring songs by AC/DC, Midnight Oil, Skyhooks, Dragon, Choir Boys, Daddy Cool, J.O.K. Sherbet, Ted Mulray Gang, Jet, Billy Thorpe, Rick Springfield, Divinyls, The Screaming Jets and more!
Troy and Darren Wilson, the most popular of all the shearers in town, get hitched...
The lives of a well-to-do lawyer and his love-starved wife are turned upside down when a lively young Greek couple move in next door and immediately want to replace the dividing fence with a massive brick wall.
The conflict escalates when the dispute ends up in court and each woman leaves her...
Enter the familiar world of “Once Upon a Time,” as a chipper minstrel takes you (and a small, curious boy) on a journey of epic proportions. In a magical forest we find the characters from the Grimms' tales: Hansel & Gretel, Snow White, Cinderella, and The Frog Prince all working...
Welcome to 1936 and the Hardcase Hotel; the last resort luxury hotel for the wild, weird and wacky rich who have been banned from the five-star hotels of Europe. Under the management of the flamboyant and indomitable Juan Carlos no guest is too difficult, and no situation is impossible. Until today...
Welcome back to The Hardcase Hotel - the hotel for the rich and famous whose bad behaviour has seen them banned from the great five-star hotels of Europe. Three months have passed since the scandal of Walter Buckley’s murder with a fish fork.
The months have not been kind to the...
The Incredible Here and Now is a play about cars and boys and having to grow up too soon.
Charcoal chicken, a white Pontiac Trans Am, the Council pool, Michael is living in the shadow of his older brother Dom. The biggest guy in the school. Best car in the West. The guy who just can’t help but grab...
Shattering dimwitted Officer Dwayne’s tranquil evening at the Birchwood County police station is interrupted by the arrests of three unlikely women; the mayor’s wife in a state of complete alcoholic breakdown, the local mad cat-lady looking for somewhere to stay out of the rain, and a...
Mowgli’s search for home takes the spotlight in this new imagining of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale. In this living storybook, Mowgli struggles to fit in with the wolves, the monkeys, and even the humans on his journey to discover where he belongs. Along the way, he must contend with...
This new stage adaptation by Derek Webb is based on the original book, but aficionados of the classic 1938 Hitchcock film will find this play version just as gripping, with a good dose of humour. By going back to the original novel, the play tries as much as possible to capture the 1930s feel...
The village drama group has lost all their men. The future looks bleak until a bright, young director, Francesca Delmarco, agrees to help them out.
She is professionally trained and she has a plan which will give the group a new lease of life. She persuades them to enter the 'Dame Agnes Wragg...
The comedy, is set in the foyer of a retirement village complex.
he residents are all active middle aged people who enjoy a busy social life. They are planning a concert to raise funds for a week away on a bus trip for some sightseeing and a little gambling at the Casino.
Vanessa...
You know one version, the popular version, of Washington Irving’s tale of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow— but wouldn’t you like to know what really happened on that fateful night that Ichabod encountered the Horseman? This play reveals all from the point-of-view of the...
“Tin Soldier shines as a musical.” (The Age)
Han Christian Anderson’s tale of The Little Tin Soldier and the Ballerina, has never been more enchantingly portrayed as in this wonderful soft-rock version.
Set in Toyland, a tin soldier is tossed out of a window by a wicked Goblin. He...
A third farcical comedy by the author of LOVE BEGINS AT FIFTY. Set in a seaside guest house where misfortune follows misfortune – but ‘all’s well that ends well’. Or is it? David and Janet Thompson were deeply in love when they married thirty-two...
The Magic Pudding, written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, was published in 1918 and quickly became one of Australia’s most loved children’s books. It was created by Lindsay in order to win a bet that children are more interested in food and fighting, than fairies. English...
Based on the classic by Hans Christian Andersen and set to music by Mozart arranged and orchestrated by Bernard J. Taylor.
It borrows many of Mozart's sweetest tunes from his most well-loved and most beautiful music and puts it all together in a stirring tale of hardships overcome, evil...
“One irresistible musical! An utter charm bomb!” - The New York Times.
This smash off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! As we learn...
The Merry Widow is unchallenged the most popular Operetta of the 20th Century . Now the soaring pulsy sexy music has been lifted by a magnificent, hilarious new libretto.
This new work is so good it has been endorsed by the estate of Franz Lehar.
FRANK HATHERLEY, writer and BBC TV producer, has...
The Old People Are Revolting! is a mad cap comedy about seniors seeking revenge! The residents of the Sunshine Retirement Village have had enough: they're revolting!
Fed up with being ignored, and relegated to the sidelines of life they've decided to prove to the world just how dangerous seniors...
Hamish, the Scottish Pirate King, has returned to the Caribbean Island after twenty five years absence, to dig up his buried treasure and retire. Imagine his horror when he discovers a building has been erected on the exact spot where the treasure is buried. His plan is to either buy...
Queen Margareter and King Marmaduke are worried that their son, Prince Alexander is lonely. They decide to hold a Royal Ball, inviting all of the eligible Princesses from the surrounding Kingdoms in the hope that Alexander will find himself a wife.
To ensure that he makes the correct decision and...
This small-scale musical was first presented by the National Theatre Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sydney, in 1977.
Set in 1889, the Sharpe Family Players are touring their famous Sharpe’s Short Shakespeares in a fit-up tent. Their latest — a ludicrously brief Richard III...
“A brilliant children’s musical.”
“Plenty of catchy tunes, a nice clear storyline, loads of color, and several engaging characters,” was how Sally White in The Age described the original production of The Shoemaker and the Elves.
Over-the-top production values and...
From the composers of Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang comes a new musical release based on the legend of Cinderella.
The Slipper and the Rose - composed by Robert and Richard Sherman has beautiful music, charm and lots of laughs.
First released in 1976 as a movie which was nominated for...
Be spirited away by this new musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fantastical coming-of-age adventure that inspired the hit Disney movie Frozen.
Join Gerda on a dangerous and whimsical quest to save her best friend Kai before he is trapped forever in the Snow Queen...
As if the daily skirmishes with farcical customers and the dim-witted men in their lives, wasn't enough, the women who operate the checkouts at the Discount Co supermarket are now facing a new boss and the prospect of losing their jobs to newly installed automated checkout aisles.
If the...
H.G. Wells’ classic tale about a Victorian inventor who builds a time machine and visits the far future is beautifully adapted into a ninety minute play.
The inventor soon discovers that progress doesn’t lead to a perfect world. Instead, he finds the future populated by two races. Above...
A fresh take on an old classic sees Wendy, John, and Michael Darling return from their glorious adventures in Neverland to find their world terribly changed.
Caught on a brutal treadmill they feel hope slipping away … they need a little magic!
Peter Pan comes to the rescue, having fun...
Poor Emma Watson. Raised in luxury by a wealthy aunt and destined to be an heiress, but she comes down to earth with a bump when forced to return, penniless, to her impoverished birth family. And what a family!
Chauvinistic brother Robert and his appalling social-climbing wife, Jane; garrulous...
A medley of music, monologues, skits and short scenes loosely set at the time of the local Agricultural exhibition and Rodeo or Show in any large city of Australia. You may like to set your review at the local golf club, or race meet. Anyplace where salesmen, jockeys, rodeo riders,...
Think your family is complicated? Meet the most dysfunctional family you can imagine as they try to navigate Christmas.
Peace on earth and good will to all men? Not likely!
Ever since her husband died, Mary’s horrible adult children have been ruining Christmas.
...
Uked! is the hilarious and poignant story of Karla, who is dumped on her 50th birthday by her violin-playing boyfriend, Brian. Desperate to belong and prove her musical worth, Karla buys a ukulele and joins a dating site - learning that love and the ukulele have a lot in common.
Writer/...
“The play is set in a church hall where the Fortieth Wedding Anniversary of Harold and Maude Connolly is about to be celebrated. Their two married daughters, Claire and Lorna are setting the table as Harold arrives with the news that their mother, Maude has just been seen leaving town, with...
Mike, Dave and Julian spend a weekend in a garden shed determined to break an age-old mystery.
Armed with a case of beer, a box of girlie magazines and a holy book they are going to "understand women".
What they discover is not quite what they expected. Understanding Women is a comedy...
A colourful cast of characters collaborate and connive in this hilarious tale of misplaced unisex Viagra pills resulting in mishap and mayhem of “afflicted” residents in Serenity Gardens Retirement Village, Cemetery Road.
So, take a new-age, three time divorcee and bride-to-be gran, her...
Warp Drive: boldly going where no musical has gone before!
Join Captain James T. Jerk, his offsider Mr Phock, and the crew of the Starship Enterthise as they roam the galaxy searching for signs of intelligent life (having found none on Earth). During their rounds they intercept a signal offering...
After a string of brutal murders, Watson and Holmes travel to New York on the trail of the killer. The mysterious Harry Houdini seems to know more than he’s telling, but is he friend or foe? Nothing is as it seems in this sequel to the award-winning Watson: The Last Great Tale of the...
Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes tells the story of a good man trapped in the shadow of a great man. Funny, moving, and theatrically inventive, this high-energy play balances witty comedy and dramatic mystery to recount the last great tale of the legendary Sherlock...
WE WILL ROCK YOU Young@Part® is the authorized 60 minute edition of the West End musical for primary and middle year High schools, and youth theatres. Inspired by and featuring the songs of Queen, this new version of the show is perfect for kids to perform! Through a series of workshops...
"The Wedding of the Century is Devon Williamson at his funniest. Laughs come thick and fast, be warned your sides will ache." Bay of Plenty Times.
Sister Dorothy, a 99-year-old nun, is visited in her nursing home by a 'Goth Girl' school student. She tells the cheeky student that not only...
A comedy with eight strong roles for women and two for men. The Countdown Club appears to have become more of a social club than a slimming club.
Wilma, the class clown and her pals Kath and Susan have little success on the slimming front but are determined to have some fun during classes...
Where there is a will there are relations – goes the saying. In this riotous comedy dry eyed mourners turn up to for Edie Puddiphat’s funeral with a will saying they are the sole heir to her millions – but the old lady has outwitted the vultures.
Based on the classic by Kenneth Grahame. When the Mole becomes tired of spring cleaning he ventures out to the river where he meets the Water Rat. Together they embark on an adventure through the wild wood.
Delightful music and drama.
An adult fairy tale, of Arabian nights, with just a touch of spice.
A Riotous romp through the old Bazaar in Cairo.
The Pharaoh’s daughter Fatima’s betrothed Prince has been kidnapped by a band of feral gypsies. She must now marry the evil old court physician, Tut...
This has the drama, the love story and magnificent arias
The haunting image of Heathcliffe searching the moors for his beloved Cathy us one of the most enduringly passionate scenes in English literature.
Taylor's adaptation has been recognised by the Bronte Society as marking the first time that...
First released as an album in 1964.the best sketches and songs from You Don't Have To Be Jewish and follow up recordings are now available for the first time as published play scripts.
Fifty quick-fire sketches including the classic 'The Reading of the Will', "The Diamond' and 'The Ballad of...
