- June 2021
Just when you thought that C*VID had wiped us out, CUMTS presents you with the gift of Gala. For one night only, CUMTS brings you an evening of pure musical theatre decadence. Dressed to the nines and accompanied by a full orchestra, the finest of Cambridge’s Musical Theatre Talent will be performing all of your favourite musical theatre classics alongside the latest Broadway hits, all dazzling with glitz and glamour…
- June 2021
Live Musical Theatre is back! Whether you’re a newcomer or a Finalist looking for their final chance to smash it on stage, The Spotlight is the perfect opportunity to belt one of your favourite musical theatre songs, whether that be a classic or something a bit more new!
This edition, with a return to live performance, will feature a LIVE AUDIENCE (omg) and also performers will have the exciting chance to workshop their songs (also in person) before the performance night with a Director and Musical Director! Such high quality performances with the glitz and glamour of a full stage with our brilliant Musical Director Alex accompanying, will make this event like no other!
- March 2021
Disgraced bank manager, Georgia Clooney, assembles a team of bank robbers to get revenge on his partner who framed her and cost her her job, the nefarious Police Chief Garfunkel. Georgia’s quest to best her evil ex-partner is complicated by the other members of her crew and the police that try to stop them. Georgia’s crew consists of a seasoned bank robber reliving his glory days, a big softie for muscle, his inept younger sister, a young woman trying to prove herself in a profession too often dominated by men and Matt, the police’s inside man who finds himself torn between which of the two causes is noble. This comedy explores the boundaries of ‘good’ in a contest between right and wrong with action, humour and romance. Along the way, a meta news anchorman serves as a narrator to hold our hand through the chaos and keep the musical moving. This musical is ultimately intended for the cast, crew and audience to have as much fun as possible, it does not take itself seriously and is designed to spread joy.
- February 2021
Musical theatre is back and better than ever! Whether you're a newcomer or a CUMTS veteran, The Spotlight offers performers a chance to take to the (virtual) stage and belt out one of their favourite musical theatre songs, whether that be a classic or something a bit more new!
A Live Call including all our Hosts and Performers, chatting and laughing the night away, and watching all the pre-prepared performances for the first time at the same time as our Live-Streaming Audience, these high quality performances in such a supportive and relaxed atmosphere will make this event like no other!
- February 2021
N.B. this show has been cancelled
‘Ships are safe in harbour. But that’s not what ships are for.’
Astrid has never set foot on solid ground: as the first and only child born in space, she faces her whole life on board the spaceship Mara. But when an asteroid strike decimates their oxygen supply, she and the crew of the ship must abandon the mission and return home before it’s too late.
From the award-winning, five-star writing team behind Rust and Life With You, this original musical explores what it means to know who you are. Set against the breathtaking and deadly backdrop of space, Astrid and the others travelling on the Mara grapple with life, friendship, and loss.
When it really matters, we risk everything to make it back to the only home we truly know: Earth.
- November 2020
Ordinary Days is a powerful musical depicting the lives of four New Yorkers finding through life and the city. An unlikely friendship is formed by an uptight grad student and an eccentric artist over a lost notebook and a lack of purpose. Meanwhile, a dysfunctional couple struggle to make ends meet as one wants to start afresh and the other desperately clings onto the past. Their lives intertwine through a vibrant and exciting score while the audience is taken on an adventure of self discovery by each character.
- October 2020
For TWO NIGHTS ONLY, the ADC will play host to a cabaret night like no other... CUMTS presents: The Spotlight!!
Watch in awe as ten of Cambridge's most talented musical theatre performers take to the new venue of the ADC STAGE to belt out a wide range of their favourite songs from the shows! In a term without Bar Nights (we know, we cried too), this is a completely unique chance to experience the staggering breadth of ability across all year groups and theatrical backgrounds. The phrase 'not to be missed' is often overused, but never has there been such an incredible and unexpected opportunity to add some much-needed MT levity to your life - why would you want to be anywhere else?
- June 2020
In this weird and Unprecedented Time of self-isolation and social distancing, CUMTS is here to bring you some joy and good news: Bar Nights are still here for you to enjoy!
That's right! Three times this (not) term time, we will be taking to 97.2 CamFM and the ADC Theatre YouTube Channel to provide you with a classic dose of musical theatre! You won't want to miss out.
This week, we sadly have to say goodbye to all those performers who are leaving Cambridge this year. They are picking some of their all time favourite musical songs and using them to sign off on their wonderful Cambridge Theatre careers. They will be missed!
- May 2020
In this weird and unprecedented time of self-isolation and social distancing, CUMTS is here to bring you some joy and good news: Bar Nights are still here for you to enjoy!
That's right! Three times this (not) term time, we will be taking to 97.2 CamFM and the ADC Theatre YouTube Channel to provide you with a classic dose of musical theatre! You won't want to miss out.
This week, the theme is - rather fittingly - "Stuck Inside. This means that our performers will be choosing their songs for a variety of reasons: it may be a song that helped them through lockdown; it may be a song that they feel reflects their mood in recent times; they may even have created a parody of a song for the sake of bringing some positivity into this glum situation. No matter what the link to the theme, each song is going to be amazing. Don't miss out!
- March 2020
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
For the last one of the term, CUMTS are working in collaboration with Bread to bring you a Bar Night with entirely BME performers who will be singing all of their favourite songs from musical theatre. It going to be an amazing night so please don't miss out! Buy your tickets now!
- February 2020
Just when you thought the Christmas and New Year parties were over, CUMTS presents you with the gift of Gala. For one night and one night only, CUMTS brings you an evening of pure musical theatre decadence. Dressed to the nines and accompanied by a full orchestra, the finest of Cambridge's musical theatre talent will be performing all of your favourite musical theatre classics alongside the latest Broadway hits, all dazzling with glitz and glamour...
- February 2020
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This week is our first Bar Night of Lent term, and it's an absolutely classic theme: duets. The performers will be pairing up this week to bring a series of musical theatre songs to life. Expect romance, harmony, laughter and - most importantly - a wonderful wonderful night.
- February 2020
"The moment was suddenly over; a fleeting trick of the light. Who'd have thought, looking back, that this chance encounter would change my life?”
It's a freezing and rainy day when Elizabeth Day is finally persuaded to tell her story- the story of how she and Liam Moore met, fell in love, and fell apart, and of how their shared life influenced each other, and those around them. Life With You is a nostalgic and poignant piece, exploring how life goes on, even once the curtain falls on one stage and the rose-tinted memories fade.
Life With You is an original student musical. Featuring numbers from the tear-jerking 'Someplace Safe' to the uplifting 'Almost's Good Enough', this is not one to miss.
https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/review-life-with-you/
- February 2020
‘I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me, I’m not fit to sell anything else.’
Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s ‘My Fair Lady’ tells the compelling story the ‘education’ of a Miss Eliza Doolittle.
Doolittle is a fiery, intelligent young woman who works as a flower girl. She desires upward social mobility, but her strong East-End accent prevents it. She seeks the elocution lessons from a paternalistic professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, who gradually moulds her into his ideal of womanhood. Eliza finds herself battling oppressive ideals of femininity and class and is forced to re-evaluate her sense of self.
CUMT’s production is a compelling reinterpretation of the classic tale, with an exhilarating combination of physical theatre, ensemble multi-rolling, puppetry, and Loewe’s well-loved score.
- January 2020
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
The theme this week is a new and extremely exciting one: Female Composers. This means that our performers will be singing their favourite songs from musical theatre that are written by female composers in order to celebrate the Cambridge Female Composers Festival 2020!
- January 2020
In just 24 hours, CUMTS will create and perform a brand new musical. A theme will be announced to some of Cambridge's sparkiest new writers and composers, who will then put their heads together for 24 hours of creative madness. A troupe of CUMTS performers and musicians will be on hand to bring their work to life, in what will be a whirlwind celebration of new writing. There will be sleeplessness. There will be coffee. Who knows what the final product will be? All we know, is that it will be unmissable.
- November 2019
"But you've asked a simple question, and I've told you why. It wasn't on a dare or on a whim. It's hard to comprehend now that the reason why, was simply that I went along with him."
Relationships can be murder. In 1924, two wealthy Chicago University students abducted and murdered a young boy for no reason other than wanting to carry out ‘the perfect crime’. Thirty-four years later, the true motives were revealed. Stephen Dolginoff’s one-act musical brings real-life thrill killers and homosexual lovers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb to centre stage. It focuses on their dysfunctional romantic relationship, and how it eventually led to their imprisonment for ‘the crime of the century’. With a fast-paced narrative and captivating score, Thrill Me tells a story of obsession, sex and misguided philosophy.
- November 2019
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there’s is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member’s needs. Whether you’re into comedy or you’re a hopeless romantic, there’ll be something for you!
This week is the final Bar Night of the term! The theme is Miscast, which means that our performers will be performing all their favourite musical songs that they’d would never normally get to perform due to not being right for the character. It’s going to be a good one!
- November 2019
Derek Awards Best Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Shortlisted for Best Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019 by Broadway World and Musical Theatre Review
'When you leave here, everything else is going to be exactly the same. The only thing that’s changed is you.’
Based on personal experience, 'Rust' follows 20-year-old Evie over a month in rehab following a mental health crisis. Candid and sharp, the musical explores her relationships with the other patients, who range from a twenty-something alcoholic to a cynical, middle-aged drag queen. The audience joins them in the immensely difficult but inexpressibly worthwhile process of recovery and how it feels to realise that you still remember how to laugh.
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http://musicaltheatrereview.com/rust-edinburgh-festival-fringe-thespace-venue-45/
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https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/rust/741686
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https://www.thenationalstudent.com/Fringe/2019-08-23/fringe_review_rust_the_musical_thespace.html
- November 2019
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there’s is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member’s needs. Whether you’re into comedy or you’re a hopeless romantic, there’ll be something for you!
This week, the theme is Movies and TV, which means that our performers will be performing all their favourite songs from musicals that have hit the big screen!
- November 2019
"If you can't be famous, be infamous". Chicago, the winner of 6 Tony awards and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, is a story of seduction, murder, and showbiz. Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who maliciously murders her on-the-side lover. Desperate to avoid conviction, she fools the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to transform her crime into fame.
A tale full of corruption, murder and deception. Oh, and all that jazz.
- October 2019
You’ve heard of Mel and Sue, Fry and Laurie, Mitchell and Webb. You know Danny and Sandy, Elphaba and Glinda, the Sherman brothers. But what happens when the world of comedy collides with all things musical theatre?
It’s time to send in the clowns. Come down to the ADC for one night only to see what happens when Cambridge’s finest comedians team up with the best musical performers to create a unique, feel-good, hilarious evening of laughter and song, hosted by Cambridge Footlights Harriet Fisher and Will Owen.
In this show, anything goes! But one thing’s for certain: you’ll want to be in the room where it happens...
- October 2019
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there’s is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member’s needs. Whether you’re into comedy or you’re a hopeless romantic, there’ll be something for you!
- August 2019
'When you leave here, everything else is going to be exactly the same. The only thing that’s changed is you.’
Based on personal experience, 'Rust' follows 20-year-old Evie over a month in rehab following a mental health crisis. Candid and sharp, the musical explores her relationships with the other patients, who range from a twenty-something alcoholic to a cynical, middle-aged drag queen. The audience joins them in the immensely difficult but inexpressibly worthwhile process of recovery and how it feels to realise that you still remember how to laugh.
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Derek Awards Best Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Shortlisted for Best Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019 by Broadway World and Musical Theatre Review
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http://musicaltheatrereview.com/rust-edinburgh-festival-fringe-thespace-venue-45/
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https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/rust/741686
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https://www.thenationalstudent.com/Fringe/2019-08-23/fringe_review_rust_the_musical_thespace.html
- August 2019
Grab your bag-for-life, stick your pound-shaped keyrings into the trolley, and step inside The Supermarket™© for a freshly-baked musical treat.
Take a walk around [caution: wet floors ahead] and say hello to twice-divorced Vicki from checkout 6, thrice-divorced Nicki from checkout 7, and not forgetting the mysterious Karen, who lurks in the pet supply aisle, eating all the cat food. Every day in The Supermarket™© is harmoniously humdrum, until an unexpected crisis ripples turbulently across the shop floor. Can the employees save their beloved store? Who will come out on top? Does Karen even work here? The stakes are high, and the steaks are highly priced.
‘Unexpected item in the Bagging Area’ is an original comedy-musical from Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society (SiX, Hot Gay Time Machine) by Laurence T-Stannard and Cambridge Footlights Jamie Bisping and Amaya Holman. Get ready for an absurd hour of hilarious songs, heart-warming characters and some taste-the-difference hummus that is dangerously close to its expiry date.
Expect chuckles. Expect brioche. Expect the unexpected (item in the bagging area).
- June 2019
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society once more presents one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers, singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, accompanied by a live band, and with plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening!
It's the last Bar Night of the academic year! I know, I know, I'm sobbing too but don't get your tissues out just yet because we have a bumper, jam packed, totally B R I L L I A N T line up for you this evening. Maybe Meg will manage to get the PRS form in on time? Or maybe Michael will step out from behind the piano to mark the end of an era of bad jokes and disorganisation? Who knows? Who cares! Just book your tickets for one last party in the ADC Bar before Arthur does a much better job at organising them next year.
- May 2019
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society once more presents one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers, singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, accompanied by a live band, and with plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening!
- May 2019
"I picked up your shirts today - I don't know why. I think about you every minute. It's like I can still feel you."
Ghost: The Musical is a story about the timelessness of love, based on the (1990) hit film starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Sam and Molly are out late one night, when they are approached by a mugger. A struggle breaks out leaving Sam shot dead on the street. Sam is then trapped as a ghost between this world and the next, unable to leave Molly who is left in grave danger. With the help of a phony psychic Oda Mae Brown, Sam tries to communicate with Molly in order to protect her.
Featuring smash hits such as With You and the Righteous Brother’s classic Unchained Melody, Ghost: The Musical asks you to question the power of love after death.
Book & Lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin. Music & Lyrics by Dave Stewart & Glen Ballard. Based on the Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin. Original West End Production Produced by Colin Ingram, David Garfinkle, Adam Silberman, Land Line Productions, Donovan Mannato, Michael Edwards / Carole Winter. "Unchained Melody" written by Hy Zaret and Alex North, courtesy of Unchained Melody Publishing LLC. Orchestrations by David Abbinanti. Ghost: The Musical is presented through special arrangement with and all authorised performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW), 122-124 Regent Street, 5th Floor, London W1B 5SA. www.theatricalrights.co.uk
- March 2019
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society is pleased to present once more one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers, accompanied by a live band, and with plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening!
Half of the songs are going to be pre-1965 musical theatre classics, and half of them are going to be brand-spanking new, original compositions! Come along and listen to some never-before-heard bangers, because next time you hear them, you'll have to pay £80 for a ticket in the West End.
- February 2019
Just when you thought the Christmas and New Year parties were over, CUMTS presents you with the gift of Gala. For just two nights, CUMTS brings you an evening of pure musical theatre decadence. Dressed to the nines and accompanied by a full orchestra, the finest of Cambridge's musical theatre talent will be performing all of your favourite musical theatre classics alongside the latest Broadway hits, all dazzling with glitz and glamour...
- February 2019
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society is pleased to present once more one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers, singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, accompanied by a live band, and with plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening!
This week's theme - DUETS!
- February 2019
“But - strangely enough – you were right, Mr Nowack! – when you’d guessed I’d never met the man I was waiting for. He was just someone who’d been writing letters to me – such glorious letters.”
Set in a 1930's Budapest parfumerie, She Loves Me is a hilarious, heart-warming and Olivier Award winning musical that follows the love lives of its various employees.
Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack have not once seen eye to eye, with almost nothing in common except the fact that both have been writing anonymous love letters to a romantic stranger they met through a lonely-hearts ad. But when a date is finally set and identities are to be revealed, the two may find that true love is not without its surprises.
She Loves Me is an enchanting evening of love and laughter, based on the 1937 play Parfumerie that similarly inspired famous film classics such as Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around The Corner and Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail.
- February 2019
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society is pleased to present once more one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers, singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, accompanied by a live band, and with plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening!
Watch performers sing songs from roles they wouldn't usually be able to play e.g. have you ever wanted to play Cosette but have the Phantom's range? Or have you ever wanted to play Matilda but realise that unfortunately, you are no longer a child and have very real adult responsibilities and can you stop look at my bank statement mum really yes I use Deliveroo a lot LET ME LIVE!
- January 2019
In just 24 hours, CUMTS will create and perform a brand new musical. A theme will be announced to some of Cambridge's sparkiest new writers and composers, who will then put their heads together for 24 hours of creative madness. A troupe of CUMTS performers and musicians will be on hand to bring their work to life, in what will be a whirlwind celebration of new writing. There will be sleeplessness. There will be coffee. Who knows what the final product will be? All we know, is that it will be unmissable.
- November 2018
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society once more presents one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers, singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, accompanied by a live band, and with plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening!
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This week’s theme is PRINCES AND PRINCESSES (!!!) so grab a crown and borrow a gown as things are about to get royal! Our host for this week is the wonderful, Jasmin Thien.
Tickets!
https://www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/musical/musical-theatre-bar-nights/booking?id=266135&spektrix_bounce=true
- October–November 2018
“I want to do what I love as much as I can and as long as I can. But at least now - I’m doing it for me. Who are you doing it for?”
Synopsis
With its blend of powerful vocals, high-energy choreography, and amusing and poignant vignettes, A Chorus Line is a stunning musical celebrating the talented and dedicated performers of the Broadway chorus. The show depicts the final gruelling round of auditions for a new Broadway musical, and for seventeen dancers, this is the life-changing opportunity they have worked towards for their entire career. A Chorus Line is a powerful metaphor for human ambition, revealing the truth of the glamorous yet competitive world of show-business, and what happens when you put everything on the line in pursuit of a dream. Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic score features such classics as What I Did for Love, The Music and the Mirror, and the spectacular finale: One (Singular Sensation). Based on true stories of the struggles of performers wanting to make it big on the Broadway stage, A Chorus Line has become an instantly recognisable classic, with the original production winning no fewer than nine Tony Awards.
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society presents A Chorus Line
This production of A Chorus Line enjoyed an unprecedented sell-out run of six performances at the ADC Theatre between Tuesday 30th October and Saturday 3rd November 2019.
Acknowledgements
A Chorus Line was conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. Book by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante. Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Edward Kleban. Co-choreographed by Bob Avian. Original Broadway production produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer, in association with Plum Productions, Inc. By arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Limited of New York.
