'Oliver!' the musical is loosely based upon the novel 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. Young orphan Oliver Twist is sold to a Dunstable undertaker after asking for more dinner at the orphanage. Escaping to London he meets the Artful Dodger, a young…

  'Brigadoon' is an idyllic Scottish village, stumbled upon by American hunters Jeff and Tommy. They soon learn that the town only appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100…

  'Carousel' tells the story of Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker. They fall in love, but both are fired from their jobs for different reasons - Billy because he paid too much attention to Julie, and Julie because she…

  In 'South Pacific', a naive U.S. Navy nurse from Arkansas, Ensign Nellie Forbush, falls in love with middle-aged French plantation owner, Emile de Becque, and his plantation. The restless American sailors, led by the entrepreneurial Seabee Luther Billis, lament the absence of women. It's so boring that "Bloody Mary", a middle-aged…

  The 'Pirates of Penzance' tells the story of a gang of pirates who play and party on the West coast of Cornwall while Frederic (a pirate apprentice) reminds the Pirate King that his obligation to the gang is soon over. He was apprenticed to the pirates only until his twenty-first…

  'Hello Dolly!' is the story of Mrs. Dolly Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire, and send his money circulating among the people like rainwater the way her late husband, Ephraim Levi, taught her. Along the way she also succeeds in matching up the young and beautiful Widow…

  The 'King and I' is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, first staged in 1951.  Its script is based on the book 'Anna and the King of Siam' by Margaret Landon. Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to…

  In Act 1  of 'The Merry Widow' we find ourselves in the ballroom of the Pontivedrian Embassy. The Ambassador, Baron Zeta, has a problem - he must find a way to save his country from bankruptcy. One solution is to prevent the rich and beautiful heiress Hanna Glavari from marrying…

  'My Fair Lady' is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. A chance meeting between two noted British linguists, Prof. Henry Higgins and Col. Hugh Pickering, leads to a wager - Professor Higgins bets with Pickering…

  'Oklahoma!' is set in Indian territory at the turn of the century when cattlemen and farmers were fighting over fences and water rights. In the middle of that controversy are two more rivalries. One between a cowboy called Curley and a hired hand named Jud, both in love with…