The Net Gen Live! is the brain child of Odie Stratmore-Ching, the Artistic Managing Director for Nelson Youth Theatre. Her passion is to see our young artists succeed with their chosen art forms. The event is a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talent and will include: bands, musicians, dancers, singers (groups and soloists) actors, stage challenge, physical theatre and work from visual artists. It’s all about our digital natives – the Net Gen and live performance!
The event’s purpose is to support and nurture the creative spirit of “I CAN” with proceeds funding youth arts programmes, tuition and travel assistance.
One of the world's most treasured musicals, SOUTH PACIFIC, will make a 24-venue tour of New Zealand in September and October.
Brought to you by the producer of Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, Oklahoma! and The Pirates of Penzance, this beautiful musical will start its own epic journey in Kerikeri in the Far North and work its way to Invercargill in the Far South, transporting audiences to a Rodgers and Hammerstein war-time romance.
The 18-strong cast will star former Shortland Street actress Geraldine Brophy, much-loved baritone Tim Beveridge, Tizane McEvoy who starred as Maria Elena in Buddy and Bronwyn Turei, from Go Girls.
The original Broadway production enjoyed immense critical and box-office success, became the second-longest running Broadway musical to that point (behind Rodgers and Hammerstein's earlier Oklahoma!), and has remained popular ever since.
Several of its songs, including "Bali Ha'i", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair", "Some Enchanted Evening", "There Is Nothing Like a Dame", "Happy Talk", "Younger Than Springtime" and "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy", have become popular standards.
Off Broadway productions presents the show that changed Broadway forever!
This acclaimed rock musical features music and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson and is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera, La Boheme. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side. Witness the unforgettable story of a group of young artists learning to survive, falling in love, finding their voices and living for today!
Rent is suitable for audiences of 13 years plus.
Banish those 'summer's gone' blues with this foot-tapping offering from the Nelson Civic Choir. Accompanied by talented local instrumentalists, the choir celebrates the hits from classic Broadway shows: Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, Lady be Good, Wizard of Oz, Whistle down the Wind, Spamalot, and plenty more... From 'Strike up the Band' all the way through to 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life', they guarantee to have you jigging in your seat and singing along.
The programme is conducted by the experienced musical director Chris Lukies. The Nelson Civic Choir is accompanied on the piano by Miyuki Jones, and by an invited group of instrumental players.
Items include: Fascinating Rhythm, Everything's Coming up Roses, I've got you under my Skin, On a Clear Day, Nella Fantasia and many more of your favourite melodies.
This is a Fundraising Concert to launch Natalie on her path to a career in Musical Theatre.
Special Guests:
Jane Winter
Trudi Wilson
Keryn Kelso
Nelson Youth Theatre is delighted to present Hairspray - The Broadway Musical - winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical!
Move over Nelson! Tracy Turnblad, the girl with the big hair is on her way!
Come and enjoy this exuberant, energetic and colourful show! Hairspray will delight audiences by sweeping them away to 1960's Baltimore where change is in the air! Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show". Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger than life adolescent manage to vanquish the programme's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love without messing her hair?
With catchy songs and sparkling choreography, this show is a dazzling recreation of the fun that was the '60s. As The New York Times says, "If life were everything it should be, it would be more like Hairspray. It's irresistible!"
Nelson Musical Theatre presents a new production of Oh What a Lovely War to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
The landmark satirical musical is an entertaining and exuberant ride through the ironies and tragedies of the First World War.
A madcap orchestra of musicians, dancers, singers and clowns will come armed with sketches songs and stories for your entertainment. Sombre buffoonery and musical ingenuity collides with the bawdy, tough humour of the squaddies on the front line to take you on an incredible journey across Europe. From the misplaced optimism of the British home front to the blood-soaked fields of Flanders, the story is told through a fantastic collection of irreverent and poignant songs including well known favourites 'Pack Up Your Troubles', 'Keep The Home Fires Burning' and 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'.
Created in 1963 by the maverick director Joan Littlewood and her revolutionary company Theatre Workshop, Oh What A Lovely War is a truly original portrait of the conflict that changed the shape of our world forever.
Join NYT at Richmond Library from 12.30 to 1pm Tues April 22 for a special excerpt of the show.
The Producers tells the story of a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer, Max Bialystock, and accountant,
Leo Bloom, who concoct a scheme to raise thousands of dollars from backers and then put on a flop of a show and keep the cash. Only one problem
– the show is a HUGE HIT!
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! will tour New Zealand in August and September with an all star cast.
Since its premiere on Broadway in 1943, OKLAHOMA! has been a box-office smash and is now considered the birth of the modern musical. It’s fabulous cast, set and costumes are certain to have audiences throughout New Zealand reliving their youth as well as thrilling new ones with a story that has become one of the greatest classics of all time.
OKLAHOMA! will play in 19 cities starting on 16th August. See below for dates and booking details.
The annual SOUNDSTAGE variety concert is here again this year and we are taking you on a 2 hour magical journey through the Four Seasons of the year.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of the year embraced into our Four seasons of SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER.
Be prepared to be captured by the magical experience as the SOUNDSTAGE students pass through each of our four Seasons in performing Songs and items that express the changes each of the Seasons bring.
Expect a fast paced variety show featuring musical theatre, pop , rock and jazz numbers performed by singers , guitarists, tap dancers , actors, dancers and multi talented musical theatre performers.
