Current Productions Playing in the Main Auditorium and Cowan Studio

Tue 01—Sat 05 May 2001 

CALAMITY JANE

Join heroine, Calamity Jane, as she “whip-crack-a-ways” on "The Deadwood Stage" through "The Black Hills of Dakota" to find her "Secret Love". All these and many more classic hit songs in this fun, gun-tooting, rollicking musical based on the Doris Day film

A Thistles Musical Theatre Company Production

Tickets: See MUSICAL PRICES

Thur 10—Sat 12 May 2001

THE RIDE DOWN MOUNT MORGAN

One of the most recent plays from the pen of currently the world's most famous playwright, Arthur Miller. Two women meet in a hospital ward, after each learns of a car accident which has seriously injured their husband. The two visitors, unknown to each other, soon realise that it is the same accident, and indeed, is the same man. Lyman Felt has been juggling two wives for nine years, and now is the time of reckoning, the situation is everything: Comedy if one thinks, tragedy if one feels! The result is an immensely satisfying evening's theatre.

A Redbridge Stage Company Production

Tickets: See PLAY PRICES

Sunday 13 May 2001

WITH LOVE FROM….

An evening of music and dance from classic composers such as Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin and Andrew Lloyd Webber married together with excerpts from plays and texts all reflecting the theme of love and relationships. Join us on a journey of the heart and enjoy some of the musical theatres most established and well known tunes. Featuring a host of KMT regulars.

A Sideshow Theatre Company Production

Tickets: £8.50 (Concessions  £7)

Thur 17—Sat 19 May 2001

LOOT

The McLeavy household is full of questions: Why has the head of the household retained the services of Fay, his late wife's sexy, dangerous nurse? What happened to her previous employers and just how did Fay help them to meet their end? Where is McLeavy’s reprobate son on the day of his mother’s funeral? Did he pull off that bank robbery—and where could he have hidden the money? If you miss this superb comedy, Detective Inspector Truscott will probably want a word with you!

A Vortex Theatre Company Production

Tickets: See PLAY PRICES

Tue 22—Sat 26 May 2001

TRIAL BY JURY/H.M.S. PINAFORE

Featuring some of the most memorable and wittiest of music and lyrics, these rank as two of the finest and funniest of the Gilbert& Sullivan operettas. Trial by Jury—Hijinks in a courtroom, as the “bride” sues for breach of promise; HMS Pinafore—A Story of secret love, mistaken identity and unswerving loyalty. Confusion, deceit and mayhem prevail. A Must for all music fans, young and old!

An Ilford Operatic & Dramatic Society Production

Tickets: See MUSICAL PRICES with Clubnight on Thursday—£7.75

Thur 31 May—Sat 2 June 2001

THE GOLDEN YEARS OF MUSIC HALL

Welcome back to the coruscatingly comedic concatenation of chorus and surfeit of sequinned splendiferousness with all your KMT favourites in a trip down memory lane. Get on a Bicycle Built for Two, get your Old Man to Follow the Van down to the Old Bull and Bush and sing along to the songs that will last forever!    

 A Redbridge Musical Guild Production

Tickets: All seats £7 (Concession £5.50)

Thur 07—Sat 09 June 2001

BUGSY MALONE

The lively talent of the children from Dawn Wenn Stage School present Bugsy Malone, a gangster musical set in New York, a world of Hoodlums, showgirls and dreamers. A world where you never see an adult, kids play every part. Bugsy Malone is totally unique, quite simply there has never been a show like
it.

 A Dawn Wenn Stage School Production

Tickets: See MUSICAL PRICES

Sun 10 June 2001

HAVEN HOUSE VARIETY

A Variety Show to raise funds for The Haven House Foundation who aim to open our local Children’s Hospice and Short Respite Care Centre at The White House, Woodford Green, in the autumn of this year. Children from The Palmerstone Stage School will be dancing alongside the Nostalgics Concert Party, a Barber Shop Quartet and other guests, for your entertainment. All profits will go to the Children’s Hospice.

Tickets: Matinee All Seats £6;  Evening All seats £8 (Concessions £7)

Thur 14 — Sat 16 June 2001

THE MEMORY OF WATER

The newly released Award winning West End comedy of a family reunion during which three sisters recall their childhood, but find that personal grievances have coloured their memories, which differ greatly and reveal festering resentments and glimpses of buried secrets!

A Wanstead Players Production

Tickets: See PLAY PRICES

Wed 20 — Sat 23 June 2001

THE HOT MIKADO

Ever wondered what Gilbert and Sullivan’s work would have been like if they had been writing in America in the Forties? Well, here’s your chance to find out! Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” meets Swing, Gospel and Big Band Jazz in this energetic update of a timeless classic. The cast have swapped their kimonos for zoot-suits and trilbys to bring you this exciting, fast-paced song and dance spectacular

A CADOS Production

Tickets: See MUSICAL PRICES

Sun 24 Jun 2001 

FAIRLOP BRASS

A lively programme of music from hit stage musicals including some by Andrew Lloyd Webber and from the Big Screen with well known tunes from James Bond, Brassed Off, The Battle of Britain and many more.

Tickets: £6.50 (Concessions £5)

Thurs 28 — Sat 30 June 2001

SAILOR, BEWARE!

Shirley Hornett is getting married. Albert Tufnell, is the lucky chap ably supported by his shipmate, Carnoustie. Unfortunately, Albert has yet to meet Emma, the mother-in-law from hell. This hilarious family comedy launched
Peggy Mount on the West End Stage in the 1950’s 

A Big Splash Theatre Company Production

Tickets: See PLAY PRICES

Sun 1 July 2001

THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra has an unrivalled reputation for it’s stylish performances of the great show band music of the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. In it’s twenty five years of touring it has delighted audiences from Hamburg to Hong Kong

Tickets: £11.50 (Theatre Club Members £10)

Wed 4 — Thur 5 July 2001

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HOP

Can you remember Seeing the Alligator Later, how many little girls were sitting in the back seat with Fred and rocking around the clock? Then this is definitely your kind of show. Including many of the Rock ’n’ Roll classics as well as the ballads and sob songs of the 50s, that wonderful era when hair gel was called Brylcreme, and we knew which twin had the Toni! If you’re too young to remember all this, come along and see how your mum and dad used to do it!

A Palmerstone Production

Tickets: £8 (Concessions £6)

Fri 6—Sat 7 July 2001

A TRIBUTE TO THE STARS

Another extravaganza from the Palmerstone Stage School. The cast ranges from two years old to adult.  This show is not to be missed with it's beautiful costumes, amazing talent, and sheer enthusiasm.

A Palmerstone Production

Tickets: £8 (Concessions £6)

Sun 8 July 2001

MR JOLSON’S RAGTIME MINSTRELS

A song, dance and laughter show with the talented girls and boys from the Jennifer Haley Stage School.

Tickets: All seats £8.75

Thur 12 — Sat 14 July 2001

MISERY

Best– selling novelist, Paul Sheldon is on his way to Colorado to write another of his romantic novels; his car goes off the road in a blizzard and he awakens in the dilapidated farmhouse of his “number one fan”, the schizophrenic Annie, who insists she will nurse him better. When she discovers that his new book will not feature Paul's heroine, Misery Chastaine, Annie withholds his pain relief and humiliates Paul, who is forced to write anew chapter every day, just to stay alive. This stunning adaptation of the Stephen King classic has all the tension of the original and retains the ability to make the audience gasp in horror and laugh at the same time 

A WOADS Production

Tickets: See PLAY PRICES

 

Thurs 28– Sat 30 June 2001

TO MEET OSCAR WILDE

“To meet Oscar Wilde” was printed on invitations for Victorian soirées. In this fascinating play we see the great British Playwright Oscar Wilde giving a dissertation on his life at a lecture is Paris in 1899. He is supported by his friends Lord Evelyn and Penelope Dyall, an actress. The audience is taken on a journey through Wilde’s life from childhood to the day he is released from prison 

A Consenting Adults Production              Tickets: £4 (Concessions £3)

The Cowan Studio is on the first floor and has no disabled access

 

PLAY PRICES:
All seats £6.25 (Concessions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Matinee £4.50)
CLUBSAVER: £5.25 if paying a week or more in advance.
CLUBMAT - “Two for One” Offer: Buy tickets for any PLAY MATINEE at £6.25 and have the equivalent number FREE for another PLAY MATINEE.  (Max 4 tickets per show)

MUSICAL PRICES:
Evenings - All seats £9.75 Matinee - All seats £7.00
Opening night (preview) - All seats £7.00.
CLUBSAVER: £8.75 if paying a week or more in advance.
Please note, some productions offer extra discounts on CLUB NIGHTS, these are shown along with the show description.

 

Last Updated - 19th June 2001

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