D'Arranged Marriage is a one man show with something for everyone: characters that will make you laugh until you cry, a few Bollywood-style song and dance routines and a wickedly funny look at Indian culture and life in New Zealand.
D'Arranged Marriage is the story of Sanjay Gupta, the New Zealand born son of Indian immigrants Manhur and Pushpa. 29 year-old Sanjay lives at home, works in his father's corner shop, dreams of a career in stand-up comedy, and strenuously avoids the issue of an arranged marriage. His nagging parents finally get the better of him, but to his surprise, he discovers that Neenu, the prospective bride, is the one!
Unfortunately, complications (and hilarity) ensue... Adding to Sanjay's trials and tribulations are Dilip, a gimpy uncle who yearns for the perfect Indian woman; the smooth-talking, sleazy playboy Rundeep; and Mr. Dave Patel, Johnny Walker (and the British Empire's) best friend, who is Sanjay's potential father-in-law.
With all 8 characters performed by one versatile actor, you have the funniest parody of Indian family life since Bend it Like Beckham, and what critics have dubbed a "roller coaster ride to laughsville." Performed in 7 countries over 200 times, D'Arranged Marriage is a proven international and critical success.
The Deep End is an improvised comedy show where the actors take your suggestions and use them to create scenes. It's theatre on the spot- dangerous, thrilling and often hilarious!
Each monthly show will have a new theme and a cast comprised of different actors from our skilled Nelson crew, plus the occasional surprise visiting actor, so come back each month to see your favourites and be wowed by the endless ways in which the intrepid crew can invent one-off sketches, songs and stories!
"...top rate improvisational comedy... as clever as any I've watched... fresh, witty and unexpected." -Nelson Mail
"In the dance of life Sylvia has two left feet, but Karpovsky has arrived to tutor her in hope and grace."
Helen Moulder and Sir Jon Trimmer reprise their award-winning performance of Meeting Karpovsky, an extraordinary theatre work full of humour, delight, drama and surprise.
Years ago, Sylvia travelled the world and its greatest ballet theatres; now she lives alone in a house filled with photographs of her favourite dancer and boxes of her daughter's unwanted possessions. Sylvia knows all the dances and has all the moves in her head, but is afraid to step out. Then one day the great dancer Alexander Karpovsky appears and begins to teach the stumbling Sylvia to dance...and to live.
Created by Helen Moulder, Sue Rider and Jon Trimmer with music by Tchaikovsky, Weber, Stravinsky, Adam and Bach. Don't miss this rare chance to see two of New Zealand's finest performers.
A governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children.
But nothing is as it seems. In a house full of secrets, are they alone?
What does the governess see? What do the children see?
As ghostly visions intrude, she vows to protect the children. Whatever the cost.
The Turn of the Screw is performed by arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty. Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc New York.
The Deep End is an improvised comedy show where the actors take your suggestions and use them to create scenes. It's theatre on the spot- dangerous, thrilling and often hilarious! Each monthly show will have a new theme and a cast comprised of different actors from our skilled Nelson crew, plus the occasional surprise visiting actor, so come back each month to see your favourites and be wowed by the endless ways in which the intrepid crew can invent one-off sketches, songs and stories!
"...top rate improvisational comedy... as clever as any I've watched... fresh, witty and unexpected." -Nelson Mail
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!"
THE DEEP END
Nelson’s IMPROVISED COMEDY SHOW at the Theatre Royal.
Take a team of intrepid improvisors, plunge them into a whirlpool of audience suggestions and see if they sink or swim!
TAKE THE PLUNGE! You’re in for a great night of comedy in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway?
Dive into The Deep End!
Seen by over 22 million people worldwide
"The show you will never forget"
Daily Mail
"Joyous! I love this show"
Sunday Express
BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY tours New Zealand in March and April 2015, taking in 21 venues around the country.
Experience the drama, passion and excitement as a cast of phenomenally talented actors and musicians tell Buddy Holly's story, from his meteoric rise to fame, to his final legendary performance at The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
Featuring two terrific hours of the greatest songs ever written, including That'll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, Johnny B. Goode, Raining In My Heart, Everyday, Shout and many many more, this show is just Peggy Sue-perb!
With the Big Bopper's Chantilly Lace and Ritchie Valens' La Bamba completing a stellar musical line-up, BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY is a not to be missed evening of family entertainment.
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.
After a sell out run in July, "Next to Normal", a 3 Tony award winning musical written by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, will be revived at the Suter Theatre during mental health awareness week. The musical will be performed by teens from Nelson's own Off Broadway Performing Arts School.
"I'm seldom lost for words but this outstanding, hard hitting production left me stunned...The Pulitzer prize winning musical opens in a kitchen where a mother waits for her teenage son in the early morning. Nothing unusual there but cracks soon show in the veneer of ordinariness as lives in parallel generations unravel... This PG 13 performance is real, confronting, no-holds-barred stuff that's also sensitive and ultimately uplifting... The raw intensity and emotion from the *four is palpable...The standing ovation reflected the triumph of how they made it speak to us." Judith Paviell, Nelson Mail July 5, 2014.
*four is in reference to Nelson teens: Georgia Chapple, Natalie Davies, Nick Erasmuson, and Myer van Gosliga.
A musical about depression may sound like a weird mix, but "this is the musical we want to perform," says the students. "we see it as important to share, especially in our culture - sweeping big feelings under the carpet is dangerous and we want to say that no one is alone... we feel that we barely scratched the surface with the first run, meaning there are so many more people in our community to reach - we need to perform 5 more shows."
They certainly are not alone as the community had such an overwhelming response to the production that Next to Normal is on again for a second run.
Directed by Tami Mansfield, at The Suter Theatre, and thanks to some support from NMDHB and Health Action Trust.
