- 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.
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
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
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
http://musicaltheatrereview.com/rust-edinburgh-festival-fringe-thespace-venue-45/
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/rust/741686
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
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!
👑🌹👑🌹👑🌹👑🌹👑🌹
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.
- October 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!
- October 2018
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!
The freshers of 2018-19 take to the stage this time to kick off our year of Musical Theatre Bar Nights!
- August 2018
‘Your mum’s just died, would it hurt you to act like it?’
Lucy is young, fresh-faced and feeling lucky. She also just lost her mother. Propelled by a whirlwind of contingency, she is sent to live with her estranged father, ‘good-looker, Lothario and long-time lad’ Ricky Pense, a reality-TV personality who found infamy through his somewhat problematic dating show, The Pense Project.
Thrust into a new world of TV, celebrity and artifice to which her father’s career is central, Lucy struggles to retain her integrity, the very thing threatened by the screenwriters and editors who seek to capture it. Not to mention the sardonic Viv, her father’s cut-throat PA for whom performance is profit.
Coping with loss is never easy, but when that loss is televised for national consumption and the lines between life and Live! are blurred, it can be hard to hold on to how you really feel.
LUCKY is a new musical about reality tv and the performance of emotion.
- May 2018
A night of musical theatre like no other to round off another fantastic year. It's like one of our ever-popular bar nights, only bigger and better! There will be solos, duets, group numbers, and a chance to say goodbye to any leaving CUMTS.
Complete with Corpus Pub, it's guaranteed to be an entertaining night for all!
- March 2018
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...
- February 2018
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 2018
"And all you have to do is squeeze your little finger.
Ease your little finger - you can change the world."
A darkly humorous blend of fiction and history, conspiracy and truth, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins depicts the disturbing lives of the nine individuals who have attempted to or successfully assassinated American Presidents.
Feeling betrayed by the broken promises of their ideal nation, they decide to strike out against its ultimate symbol: the President. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, the rules of time and place are bent as these disillusioned misfits meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the 'American Dream'.
This funny yet bleak "revusical" combines lyrical ingenuity with multiple musical styles to explore the perverse motivations and characters behind these history-defining acts.
- February 2018
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!
- January 2018
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!
The theme for this Bar Night is 'Miscast', which will give our performers an opportunity to perform songs by characters who they will never get to play. Expect women singing about being men, expect beautiful people singing about being ugly, expect mature students singing about being at school, expect privileged white men singing about their oppressions - what's not to like?!
- January 2018
The finest of Cambridge's musical theatre talent join forces to create an original musical... in just 24 hours! Creative teams are given a theme for a musical, and each team write, compose and rehearse a song over the 24 hour period. The result is an eclectic and brand-spanking new show, and a spectacular celebration of new writing!
- December 2017
For one merry night only the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society presents 12 Days of Christmas! Let your Christmas countdown begin with a cabaret night of chart-topping festive tunes, comedy and cheer, performed by Cambridge’s finest musical theatre talent. Come rock around the Christmas tree with CUMTS to celebrate the end of term and the beginning of the holidays!
- November 2017
DRAGTIME: XXXMAS Show
Cambridge's most wholesome and only Drag Collective are coming to the ADC for one night only! With dancing, singing, lipsyncing and everything inbetween, join us for our most ambitious and varied performance to date. Kings, Queens, and inbetweens!
- November 2017
Following the success of last year's BME bar night, we're back!
Join us for an evening fabulous musical theatre tunes, performed and accompanied by the finest of Cambridge's BME talent.
- November 2017
Katherine Murphy, Larry Carson and George Fairley served the American army in Afghanistan.
Now, Katherine Murphy is dead. George is in prison, accused of her rape but unable to face his memories of that day. Larry is decorated for heroism, but is increasingly cold to his wife and daughter.
As politicians try to manipulate the three veterans for their own purposes and their memories and mental health become tangled with lies, the facts become increasingly difficult to find – and we begin to wonder whether the truth as we know it is really the truth that we wish to believe in.
‘The Glass Cage’, an original musical from composer Noah Fram, breaks down what we think we know, forcing us to question our own belief in a concrete reality whilst challenging the assumptions and struggles of a woman in the military, the institutional wrongs exerted on both serving and ex-service men and women, the trauma of war and sexual assault, and the nature of memory.
- November 2017
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!
- October–November 2017
"Wherever we go
Whatever we do
We're gonna go through it together"
'Gypsy' follows ultimate showbiz mother Madam Rose as she desperately tries to force her two daughters, June and Louise, into a life of Vaudeville. Even as Vaudeville is dying in 20s America, Rose is determined that her kids will be stars of the Orpheum circuit -- just so long as she can convince everyone that they are no older than 9.
When June abandons the act to become an actress in her own right, Rose forces the less talented Louise to take her spot, desperate that one of her children should be a star. Rose finds herself in a theatre world which is caught between drab Vaudeville and sleazy burlesque, but how far is she willing to go to make her daughter the star she dreamed of?
'Gypsy' is a story about love, motherhood, ambition and drive, all brought together by Styne's phenomenal score and Sondheim's lyrical wit.
- October 2017
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!
- October 2017
Nervous about auditions? No idea what to expect or what to prepare? Or simply wanting to brush up on your audition technique? Get some hands-on practice with CUMTS at our first ever AUDITION WORKSHOP !
The workshop will give you an overview of how auditions are normally run, and help you make sure you perform your absolute best in them. It will be run by two CUMTS alumni, Ellie Coote and Joe Beighton, both now pursuing careers in the industry.
Ellie has recently been working as an Assistant Director on NYMT's production of 'Imaginary', and on '35mm' at the Other Palace.
Joe is an ex-CUMTS President currently studying at Mountview on the Musical Direction course, and MDd countless productions during his time at Cambridge.
This workshop is open to all, no matter your experience, and we'd particularly encourage Freshers to come and try it out whether you've sung before or not!
- October 2017
Divorced, beheaded, live in concert!
The six wives of Henry VIII are back ...performing their highly-anticipated show as the world-famous girl-group, SIX! Ripped from the pages of stuffy history books, this newly written musical has all the sass and sparkle of a 21st century pop concert performed by history’s most misunderstood women.
With a live band and heaps of high-energy choreography, let SIX sing you through the hook-ups and heartbreaks hidden behind Henry - this is a punchy, herstoric retelling of events that will blow away the cobwebs!
After a sold out Edinburgh Fringe run, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society's original musical returns to the ADC. Get ready for a combination of some of the best writing, musical, acting, technical and creative talent in Cambridge!
