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34 Article(s) Found

Cinderella

The first night audience were full of anticipation for the opening of Cinderella at St Gabriel's Castleton, and they were...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Old Mother Hubbard

This production was dedicated to the memory of Jean McIntosh who was a founder member of MADS in 1971 who...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Grease

They were rockin in their seats before the show had even started for the schools production of Grease....

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

This was the first time I had seen this Neil Simon Comedy and together with the Curtain Theatre audience we...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Crazy for You

Many of you will be strangers to the plot of Crazy For You, but it is worth going along to...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Out of Sight... Out of Murder

This was my first ever visit to St Ann's Players at the Parish Hall in Belfield and what an entertaining...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Shake Ripple and Roll

It is always difficult to find good Musicals for young people to perform, however Whitworth Amateur Musical & Dramatic Society...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Now That's What I Call an Eighties Revival

On one of the rare balmy summer evenings this year so far, this informal celebration of 80's hit songs, even...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

Wanted One Body

Comic timing has to be one of the hardest things to master, but in 'Wanted One Body' the cast, especially...

Date Online: 11/06/2008

A Murder Is Announced

On a miserable November night in Milnrow it was very easy to forget the present day and be transported back...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Sinbad the Sailor

Milnrow Parish School Hall was bursting at the seams for the opening performance of Sinbad The Sailor. The audience was...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

In his programme notes director Billy Sheerin expresses his delight that Snow White gives an opportunity for seven children to...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Music Man

The Music man is in town and a railway carriage brings this popular Meredith Willson musical to The Gracie fields...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Up And Running

St Ann's Players' production of Up and Running by Derek Benfield is a complicated comedy of lies and harmless deceit....

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Fiddler on the Roof

In its 40th year Whitworth Amateur Musical & Dramatic Society has chosen the musical Fiddler On The Roof which was...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Midsummer Mink

Set in the sixties, the audience were taken on a memorable journey back in time when half a crown would...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Robinson Crusoe

St Gabriels School Hall was bursting at the seams for this performance of Robinson Crusoe and no one went home...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

This year's MAD panto, Goldilocks and the Three Bears played to capacity audiences each night and by general agreement was...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

The Scarlet Pimpernel

They seek him here! They seek him there! but search no further I have found him at the Gracie Fields...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Love Begins at Fifty

St Anne’s Players latest production Love Begins At Fifty proved to be a popular choice with their audience, who had...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Cash on Delivery

This Michael Cooney farce has all the ingredients for a rip-roaring, gut-busting evening and that is just what is provided...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Sweet Revenge

St Annes Players had the audience at the Parish Hall gripped on the edge of their seats for this production...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Aladdin

The Annual Pantomime at the Gracie Fields Theatre has gone from strength to strength with each passing year and this...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

It Runs in the Familty

The St Annes players production of Ray Cooney's farce "It Runs in the Family" is set in the doctors' common...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Beauty and the Beast

The friends of St Gabriels have this year presented the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast as their annual...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is arguably the best known fairy tale ever,so the audience at MADS latest production...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Lord Arthur Saviles Crime

In over thirty years of theatre going, I have never seen a production of Oscar Wilde¹s Lord Arthur Savile¹s Crime....

Date Online: 12/06/2008

The Opposite Sex

This late Summer production by MAD Theatre Company is a side-splitting adult comedy staged at Milnrow Parish School. The Opposite Sex,...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

Run For Your Wife

St Ann's Players latest production Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney was just the ticket on a cold February...

Date Online: 12/06/2008

I'll Be Back Before Midnight

St Ann’s Players latest production I’ll be back before Midnight by Peter Colley proved to be an edge of the...

Date Online: 12/06/2008