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'The Sound of Music' tells the story of a nun living in a convent, which, for Maria, is restrictive and unfulfilling, and she constantly, and often unintentionally, breaks the strict rules. The reverend mother decides that Maria, who is not cutting it as a nun, should leave and take on a job…
'The Pajama Game' is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe…
'Anything Goes' is set on The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, which carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster (Moonface Martin), a wealthy debutante and her mother (Hope and Evangeline Harcourt), a nightclub singer (Reno Sweeney), and a wealthy New York…
'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…