A dance show like never before, showcasing local talent in a fun, vibrant, upbeat extravaganza! With all dance genres including ballet, hip hop and tap, there will be something for everyone at this year’s show. Showcasing our Mini to Senior Students in all 4 shows.
PLEASE NOTE THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN THE MATINEE TIMES
The Nutcracker ballet is a magical, festive, family treat about a Christmas gathering and a young girl's dream about her gift of a nutcracker transforming into a handsome young man. Her prince takes her on a journey to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they are welcomed by the Sugar Plum Fairy.
I am Lesley Bandy, the Artistic Director of Primarily Dance. I performed the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy for many years, and now I want youngsters here in Nelson/Tasman to experience the magic of Tchaikovsky's music and the spectacle of this wonderful ballet.
The new and exciting point of difference with this production is that it will be a true community and collaborative affair - involving dance students from Nelson and Top of the South onstage with professional dancers, performers from some of our diverse cultural communities adding their colour and flavour, costumes rented and fabricated in the area, and last but not least, local artists designing and fabricating the sets and props so necessary to the story and the magic of the whole ballet.
The New Zealand Army Band is hugely excited to be going on tour presenting, ‘New Zealand Army Band Live’. This follows our recent sold-out concert in the Christchurch Town Hall post lockdown. During the lockdown, the Army Band kept busy by producing many online “bubble band” recordings. These weekly recordings were watched by more than two million viewers from all around the world.
‘New Zealand Army Band Live’ will be a memorable evening of big band, classical and brass band music featuring our world-class vocal and instrumental soloists. We pride ourselves on our concerts being family friendly and like to include something for everybody. The Army Band is also delighted to support the local community by donating 50% of the profits from the concert to Nelson City Brass.
Nayland College proudly presents a showcase of performing arts featuring the very best of Music, Dance and Drama. We welcome you to sit back and enjoy our 2020 students performing as spotlight soloists and as part of our talented ensembles.
The evening will celebrate a broad spectrum of performances from Concert Band, Jazz Band, Orchestra, Broadgreen Intermediate Concert Band, our three choirs, Vast Dance, and the Drama Company.
The programme will appeal to a variety of artistic tastes with our all-encompassing talented students.
Nelson Youth Theatre Company presents the irrepressible comic strip heroine in one of the world's best-loved, award-winning musicals.
Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Annie JR. features everyone’s favourite little redhead in her very first adventure.
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930's New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan's plans for her, and finds a new home and family with billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
At only an hour long, Annie JR is the perfect show to introduce young children to the world of theatre!
Note - Very limited season, 6 performances over 3 days only.
It's 1955, and into a square little American town rides a guitar-playin' motorcycle ridin' roustabout who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swivelling, lip-curling musical comedy.
Featuring the music of Elvis Presley and a script that's packed to the seams with comic one liners, Nelson Youth Theatre Company will have you jumpin' out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as "Heartbreak Hotel", "Jailhouse Rock", "Teddy Bear", "Hound Dog", "It's Now or Never", "Devil in Disguise", "One Night With You", "Don't Be Cruel" and of course the title song "All Shook Up".
Saddle up the family and come along for a trip back in time to the very beginnings of classic Rock 'n' Roll and celebrate the magic of the music of "The King".
Note: Limited season, 6 performances at 7pm only.
Sinbad the Sailor has retired from his voyages and is now sitting around his palace feeling just a bit fed up. His knees ache and his back hurts; the result of all the wild adventures of his youth. That is, until one day, he gets a cry for help from an old friend, Betsy High Boots - the Pirate Queen. Will he be able to go adventuring again? Not without some help from his son, Sindabit.
This new family pantomime has all the traditional fun and audience interaction you’d expect; there will be singing, dancing, terrible puns, mermaids and a camel. What more could you want?
Unfortunately this year's Gangshow is cancelled due to Level 2 restrictions. Ticket holders will be refunded via eventfinda for online purchases, and through Theatre Royal for counter sales.
It’s more than just a show, it’s the Nelson Scouts Gangshow!
That’s right, our fun filled family variety show for young and old is back for another season in 2020.
Book your tickets now for an evening of well-known songs and sketches for the whole family.
The time has come to have some fun and our children need it most!
Few children’s books have stood the test of time quite like Dr Seuss’s 200 word masterpiece ‘The Cat in the Hat’.
Adapted for the stage the play tells the story consistent with the book of a brother and sister, bored at home on a rainy day...(without their Mother!!??) when they are visited by none other than ‘The Cat’ in his red and white striped Hat...(which they let in the door!!??). Their outspoken and outraged pet Fish (yip the fish talks...and is the babysitter!!) is astounded and concerned, but this cat will not be deterred. He will teach us all to make our own fun with nothing but a little imagination. "It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." Along with his friends, Thing One and Thing Two (Hey we all have those types of friend’s) they turn the house upside down leaving mess everywhere but have no fear because The Cat brings in his red ‘Picker-Up Machine’ and all is back to normal before Mum walks back in the door. The Cat in the Hat performed a SOLD OUT tour of New Zealand in 2018 and has since 2019 been touring Australia. The production features a full scale set of the house and over 70 props that the cast use to bring to life every detail of the well-known book.
NELSON! Are you ready to Drag up your Life once again?! Kelly Fornia is bringing her drag lip-sync extravaganza all around the country this 2020 and you better believe we're stepping foot in Nelson again! You took our breath away with your energy last year and we're coming at you with even more this time!
Drag up your Life features a fabulous selection of Wellington's finest Drag Queens & Kings as we bring you lip-syncs and Drag stage challenge realness honey that'll leave you GAGGED and your wigs SNATCHED. Thanks to such amazing shows as RuPaul's Drag Race, Drag has now been brought into the mainstream limelight and we're here to show that New Zealand Drag talent is not to be overlooked because we can sashay, shantay, twirl and kick as hard as the rest of the world! Oh and did we mention our show is PG! Which means you can bring the whole family along and enjoy a night full of wonderful Dragtastic performances!
Our fabulous cast consists of:
Kelly Fornia - Mx Capital Drag 2018 & TVNZ on Demand's House of Drag Season 2
Robin Yablind - Mister Burlesque Aotearoa 2018 & Supreme Grand Tease 2019
Harlie Lux - Mx Capital Drag 2017 & Miss Pinup New Zealand People's Choice 2018
Yonic K - Wellington's favourite Aunty
Selina Simone - Talk show hostess & Member of Haus of Sin
