Musicals
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...
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...
"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...
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 “...
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 ‘...
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...
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...
“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 (...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"...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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
"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...
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...
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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" 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...
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...
"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...
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...
“ 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...
“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...
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...
"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...
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...
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.
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...
" 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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
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.
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...
