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Shock Treatment

24/10/1990

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By Richard O'Brien
Directed by Doug Clarke
Musical Directors: Bin Williams & Jo Cherry
Choreographer: Justine Walker

Season: 24 October - 4 November 1990

Continuing from The Rocky Horror Show, Brad and Janet Majors are now married. The action takes place in the town of Denton, USA, which has been taken over by fast food magnate Farley Flavors.  The town of Denton is entirely encased within a television studio for the DTV (Denton Television) network.  Residents are either stars and regulars on a show, cast and crew, or audience members.  Brad and Janet, seated in the audience, are chosen to participate in the game show Marriage Maze by the kooky, supposedly blind host Bert Schnick.  As a "prize", Brad is imprisoned on Dentonvale, a soap opera that centres upon the local mental hospital run by brother and sister Cosmo and Nation McKinley.

Janet is given a taste of showbiz as Farley moulds her into a singing diva superstar in an attempt to take her away from Brad.  Her compliance is assured through the use of drugs supplied by the McKinleys.  Betty Hapschatt and Judge Oliver Wright investigate Farley and other people involved in DTV and eventually discover that Cosmo and Nation are not doctors, but merely deranged character actors, and Farley Flavors is Brad's jealous, long-lost twin brother, seeking to destroy Brad and take Janet for himself. The pair rescue Brad from Dentonvale and have him confront his twin on his show Faith Factory.  Farley imprisons the three and Janet, but they manage to escape in a car along with a local band while the remainder of Denton's citizens follow Farley and commit themselves to Dentonvale.
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Cast:
Janet Majors - Sonya Williams
Brad Majors - Paul Burns
Neely Pritt - Adrienne Hurley
Emily Weiss - Justine Whitaker
Harry Weiss - John Bennett
Vince Parker - Tony Holyoake
Cheerleader Frankie - Jillian Matchett
Cheerleader Carole - Jan Samuels
Ralph Hapschatt - Paul Letham
Macy Struthers - Jo Barker
Betty Hapschatt - Trudi White
Judge Oliver Wright - Marcus Rabb
Kirk Kapers - Darren Wright
Bert Schnicks - Fenton Dalziel
Farley Flavours - Daniel Towse
Rest Home Ricky - Tam Webster
Cosmo McKinley - John Boyce
Nation McKinley - Sandi Wilson
Nurse Ansalong - Rachel Price
Raymond Lapsley - Chris Gourlie 

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Cabaret

29/5/1984

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By Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb
Director: Barry Grant
Musical Director: Sue Eason & John Jeffries
Choreography:Debbie Davids

Season: 29 May - 16 June 1984

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee's bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin's natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally's boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.

Cast:
Emcee - Murray Scott
Clifford Bradshaw - John Jeffries
Fraulein Schneider - Moreen Eason
Fraulein Kost - Juliet Wilkinson
Herr Shultz - Russell Holmes
Sally Bowles - Karyn Baxter
Ernst Ludwig - Tony Whitehouse
Kit Kat Girls - Joanne Boswell, Frances Celmins,
  Tracy Scott, Caroline Stacey, Carolyn Sylvester
  Petrina Thin 
German Boy - Matthew Hume or Nerida Leishman
Company - David Thomas, RobynLudemann, 
  Stuart Frost, Peter Lord, Nathan Gill,
  Mandy Drummond, Graham Anderson,
  John Howden, John Riddell
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Lock up Your Daughters

12/11/1977

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Book by Bernard Miles
Music by Laurie Johnson
Lyrics by Lionel Bart

Directed by Gladys Thin
Musical Direction by Ranald McDonald
Choreography by Jean Jones

Season: 12 - 19 November 1977

In London, 1735, naive young Hilaret leaves the over-protective walls of her father's house resolved to elope with her beloved Captain Constant. She charges Ramble with rape, and her maid Cloris charges Constant with rape. The cases are tried by the corrupt justice, Mr. Squeezum.

Cast:
Stapp, a Constable - Terry O'Cain
A Gentleman - Denis Allen
Watchmen - Warwick Franklin, Grant Waghorn
Squeezum, a corrupt Justice - Maurice Barnes
Quill, Squeezum's Clerk - Brett Collings
Mrs Squeezum - Helen White
Sotmore - Norman Cox
Ramble - Cliff Lather
Brazencourt, an Innkeeper - Chris Donovan
Wenches - Carol Holloman, Karilyn Pettigrew, Jean Jones
Politic, a coffee house politician - Craig Dixon
Hilaret, Politic's daughter - Diana Verey
Cloris, Hilaret's maid - Jilaine Johnson
Dabble, Politic's friend - Ray Stock
Faithful, Politic's servant - Margaret Eddington
Worthy, an honest Justice - Steven Betts
Captain Constant, a military gallant - Roger Rynd
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The Fantasticks

24/9/1975

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By Tom Jones and Harvey L Schmidt
Directed by Brian Deavoll
Musical Direction by Eric Cornwall
Choreography by Berryl MacLeod

Season: 24 September - 11 October 1975

The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realising the truth in El Gallo's words that, "without a hurt, the heart is hollow."

Cast:
The Mute - Lindsay Simpson
The Narrator - Robert Naysmith
The Girl - Helen Powell
The Boy - Martyn Duffy
The Girl's Father - Arthur Chapman
The Boy's Father - Peter Brown
The Old Actor - Byron Jones
The Man Who Dies - Peter Hart
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Around the World in 80 Days

24/1/1974

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By Eve Hughs
Directed by ​Hunter Bell
Musical Direction by Derek Goodman

Season: 24 January - 2 February 1974 - ​Commonwealth Games season at Jellie Park
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Just for Fun (a revue)

18/11/1958

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Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: ​18 - 20 November 1958
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