Previous Shows
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1997 Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker
1998 A Night at the West End | Various
1999 Annie | Thomas Meehan
2000 Wizard of Oz | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jeremy Sams
2001 Thumbelina | Hans Christian Andersen
2001 Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman, Alan Menken
2002 Me and My Girl | Noel Gay
2002 Gold | Timothy Mason, Mel Marvin (National Theatre Connections Project)
2002 Jabberwocky | Andrew Kay, Malcolm Middleton, Peter Phillips
2003 Return to the Forbidden Planet | Bob Carlton
2003 Myths and Models (Devised by company for The National Trust)
2004 Oliver | Lionel Bart
2004 A Slice of Saturday Night | Heather Brothers
2005 Guys and Dolls | Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows
2005 The Sound of Music | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
2005 Fame! | Jose Fernandez (Edinburgh Fringe)
2006 Barnum | Mark Bramble
2006 Aladdin | Chad Beguelin, Alan Menken
2006 Back to the ’80’s | Neil Gooding (Edinburgh Fringe)
2007 Thoroughly Modern Millie | Jeanine Tesori, Dick Scanlan, Richard Morris
2007 The Wiz | William F. Brown
2007 Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman, Alan Menken (Edinburgh Fringe)
2007 Blood Brothers | Willy Russell (Edinburgh Fringe)
2007 Habeas Corpus | Alan Bennett
2008 Calamity Jane | Phil Park, Ronald Hanmer, Sammy Fain
2008 Annie | Thomas Meehan
2008 A Slice of Saturday Night | Heather Brothers (Edinburgh Festival)
2008 Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward
2008 Steel Magnolias | Robert Harling
2009 Les Miserables | Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg
2009 Gypsy | Arthur Laurents
2009 The Buddy Holly Story | Alan Janes (Edinburgh Festival)
2009 Hobson’s Choice | Harold Brighouse ★ NODA Regional Award Winner ★
2010 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast | Linda Woolverton, Alan Menken
2010 Godspell | John-Michael Tebelak
2010 Outside Edge | Richard Harris
2010 The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde ★ NODA Regional Award Winner ★
2011 West Side Story | Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein
2011 High School Musical | David Simpatico
2011 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change | Joe DiPietro (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2011 The Ark (Helen Griffin) 2011 – ★ Haverhill Drama Festival Award Winner for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Set and Best of the Festival ★
2011 Prime Time Murder | Michael Burrell
2012 Smike the Musical | Roger Holman, Simon May
2012 Fame | Jose Fernandez (New York)
2012 Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare
2012 Stepping Out | Richard Harris
2013 The Sound of Music | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (The Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral)
2013 Grease the Musical | Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
2013 Footloose the Musical | Dean Pitchford, Walter Bobbie
2013 Bouncers – The Viva Remix | John Godber ★ Haverhill Drama Festival Winner for Best Director and Adjudicators Award / Third Place at the Cambridge Drama Festival 2013 ★
2013 The Ghost Train | Arnold Ridley
2014 The Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe
2014 Les Miserables | Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg
2014 Pride and Prejudice | Simon Reade
2014 Acorn Antiques the Musical | Victoria Wood
2015 Oliver | Lionel Bart (The Shaw Theatre, London)
2015 Half a Sixpence | Beverley Cross (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2015 The Vagina Monologues | Eve Ensler
2015 Abigail’s Party | Mike Leigh ★ NODA Award for Best Play ★
2015 Avenue Q | Jeff Whitty (Touring: Soham, Ely, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ADC Theatre, Cambridge)
2015 A Christmas Carol | Shaun Sutton
2016 Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice
2016 The Little Mermaid Disney JR | Doug Wright, Alan Menken
2016 Educating Rita | Willy Russell
2016 Sweeney Todd | Patrick Quentin, Stephen Sondheim
2016 Made in Dagenham the Musical | Richard Bean
2016 The Lady in the Van | Alan Bennett
2017 Shakers | John Godber, Jane Thornton
2017 Legally Blonde the Musical | Heather Hach
2017 Dad’s Army | Croft and Perry
2017 The Dreaming | Charles Hart, Howard Goodall (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2017 The Bakewell Bakeoff | The Baking Committee (Edinburgh Festival)
2017 Departure Lounge | Dougal Irvine (Edinburgh Festival)
2017 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Junior | Linda Woolverton, Alan Menken
2017 God of Carnage | Yasmina Reza
2017 Brassed Off | Paul Allen and Mark Herman
2018 Bazaar and Rummage | Sue Townsend
2018 Hairspray | Mark O’Donnell, Thomas Meehan
2018 The Vicar of Dibley | Richard Curtis
2018 Grease: School Edition | Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey ★ NODA Award for Best Youth Production ★
2018 My Fair Lady | Lerner and Loewe
2018 Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian ★ NODA Award for Best Drama ★
2018 Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein
2019 Separate Tables | Terrance Rattigan
2019 Peter Pan JR | Morris “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne
2019 Chicago: School Edition | Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander ★ NODA Award for Best Youth Production ★
2019 Brassed Off | Paul Allen and Mark Herman (ADC Theatre, Cambridge) ★ NODA Award for Best Drama ★
2019 Hi De Hi | Croft and Perry
2019 A Slice of Saturday Night | Heather Brothers (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2019 Sister Act | Bill Steinkellner, Cherie Steinkellner (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2019 The 39 Steps | Patrick Barlow, John Buchan
2020 Shrek the Musical | David Lindsay-Abaire
2021 Frankenstein | Philip Grecian (Lockdown Digital Project)
2021 All Together Now | Various
2022 We Will Rock You | Ben Elton
2022 Sense & Sensibility | Adaptation by Kate Hamill
2022 Matilda JR the Musical | Dennis Kelly & Tim Minchin
2022 Morecambe | Tim Whitnall (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2022 Calendar Girls the Musical | Gary Barlow and Tim Firth (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2022 The Addams Family Musical | Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, and Rick Elice (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
2022 Shirley Valentine | Willy Russell
2022 Cinderella | Daniel Schumann
2023 Seussical Jr. | Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty & Eric Idle
2023 The Darling Buds of May | H.E. Bates
2023 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ian Fleming
2023 Murder on the Nile | Agatha Christie (The Viva Theatre and Thorington Open Air Theatre)
2023 Legally Blonde: The Musical | Heather Hach, Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin