The Playhouse, Cheltenham, has launched its spring season after an extremely successfully start to the New Year. “Our first production for 2009 was a new musical version of the classic story The Railway Children,” says theatre administrator Paul Scott, “and of the eight performances, four were sold out, with the matinee being completely booked out before Christmas. We had a lengthy list of people desperate for returns by the beginning of the production week!”
“Although we are only selling tickets at present for our spring season, we already know that our productions later in the year include the ever-popular West End comedy Art, a double-bill of Noel Coward with Relative Values and Blithe Spirit, The Hot Mikado and, in the run-up to Christmas, a stage version of the classic film It’s a Wonderful Life. Hopefully the trend started by The Railway Children will continue throughout 2009.”
The spring season lasts from February to early-May and with the top price seat for any show in the season costing just £10 (often with concessions available), a good night out at the theatre needn’t prove expensive.
February opens with a one-off performance of an Evening of Grimm Tales, with the members of Focus Youth Theatre bringing to life some of the famous fairy stories of the Brothers’ Grimm, while Rolling Stock Theatre Co – responsible for last-year’s sell-out production of Chess – return with The Best of Broadway, a revue of show-stopping numbers from 50-years of award-winning Broadway musicals.
March brings the annual One-Act Play Festival, with drama groups from around Gloucestershire trying to win their way through to the next stage of the competition. March also sees a production of Chekhov’s classic tragicomedy The Cherry Orchard, which includes two firsts: the theatre’s first Sunday night performance of a main house production, together with a special schools performance at an earlier timeslot.
In April, our Easter workshops will result in several performances of the rock-and-roll musical Return to the Forbidden Planet, while The Playhouse Company end the season with Godspell, the classic 1970s musical version of the Gospel of St Matthew.
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