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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre.

In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story.

Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land.

A non-professional production by ELODS

We will be discovering the history and work of legendary COLE PORTER. From his musicals Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, High Society and more, we will be learning songs from Cole Porter’s songbook including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Anything Goes, Let’s Do It, You’re the Top, Blow Gabriel Blow, It’s De-lovely, Friendship, Why Can’t You Behave and True Love.

Cole Porter was a brilliant American composer and lyricist known for his witty lyrics, sophisticated melodies, and glamorous lifestyle. Born in 1891 in Indiana, he defied his wealthy family’s expectations by pursuing music. Fascinatingly, Porter wrote both the music and lyrics for his songs—something rare in musical theatre—and many of his tunes became enduring standards of the Great American Songbook.

Join us for a morning of pure class!  Held in the Alex Wilding Room.  Lyrics provided.  18 years+     10.30am – 1pm

Gypsy – A Musical Fable

Potters Bar Theatre Company are excited to bring one of the greatest musicals of all time, Gypsy to the stage.

Inspired by the memoirs of burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy tells the story of “Mama” Rose, an ambitious stage mother fighting to get her two daughters into the lime light on a dying vaudeville circuit. At its heart is the tense, funny, and emotionally challenging relationship between the characters as they navigate life.

The musical with a book by Arthur Laurents with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim features the songs “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” and “Let Me Entertain You” and explores the struggles of performers and the harsh realities of the entertainment industry. Gypsy is one of the defining works of the Golden Age of musical theatre.

Content warnings: mature themes, emotional abuse and depictions of stripping.

This is a non-professional production from PBTC.

Green Room Productions return with the musical comedy All Shook Up, featuring the songs of Elvis Presley®.

Inspired by Twelfth Night and other Shakespeare comedies, All Shook Up is a hip-swivelling, lip-curling story of romance, rebellion, and rock n’ roll, filled with laughs, love and disguises.

Get ready to shake things up! It’s 1955 and, in a square little town in a square little state, life is thrown into a frenzy with the arrival of a leather-jacketed young man who rides from town to town on his motorcycle, with a guitar on his back, blue suede shoes on his feet, and a song in his heart.

Repressed by their conservative mayor, the townsfolk begin to come alive once more under the influence of this charismatic visitor. Lovers meet, woo, pursue, and more, all in one zany night that will change the town forever.

BSL Interpreted Performance – 7.30pm performance on Saturday 8 November 2025. For booking information the BSL interpreter will be on the left hand side of the auditorium as you face the stage i.e. in front of seats 17 to 24.

DIRECT FROM LONDON’S WEST END The first national tour of the greatest musicals of all time performed by a sensational live band and character singers, giant screen with Sing-along lyrics make this the must see show of 2025!

MAMMA MIA, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, DIRTY DANCING, LES MIS, PHANTOM, ROCKY HORROR, MARY POPPINS, OLIVER, WE WILL ROCK YOU and many more!

***** ‘Best Night Ever ‘ – What’s On

***** ‘Electrifying ‘ – Time Out

***** ‘ Every Musical Theatre Fans Dream Come True ‘ – Musical Theatre Live

***** ‘ Never Experienced Anything Like This Before ‘ – West End Wilma

Beyond the Barricade, the UK’s longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour, is back for 2025. Join the cast for two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, featuring the songs that have made audiences return over and over again for more than 25 years. Enjoy numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, The Lion King, Blood Brothers, Miss Saigon, Hamilton and many others, climaxing with a spectacular finale from, of course, Les Misérables!

The concert tour will feature Andy Reiss, David Fawcett, Katie Leeming and Sarah Ryan who have all played principal roles in both the West End and UK Tours of Les Misérables, together with a live band who capture the feel of the original orchestrations of the chosen musicals.

To this day every musical note is still played and sung live – very rare indeed. Beyond the Barricade gives musical theatre songs a bold concert format treatment – but with the conviction and intention to deliver the material as if the audience are watching the original performance.