Past Shows

Performed at Blackburn Theatre, Prestfelde School, London Road, on November 23 2019, Backwards Broadway was a one-night only performance that left audiences truly entertained. Featuring beloved show tunes, but with a fresh perspective. Gender and ages were reversed and there were fun twists on classic and modern song favourites. Award-winning!

SMTC found itself ahead of a trend when we staged Jesus Christ Superstar in June 2019. Just before our run, news was been released of a 50th anniversary superstar tour of the rock opera in the USA. While the original Jesus Christ Superstar was set in the 1970s we brought

Based on the smash-hit movie, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT was a heartwarming, uplifting adventure of three friends, Tick, Bernadette and Adam, a glamorous Sydney-based performing trio who agree to take their show to the middle of the Australian outback. They hop aboard a battered old bus (nicknamed Priscilla) searching

Lionel Bart’s Oliver is without doubt one of the most popular (large cast) bits of Musical Theatre available to societies; and what a gift. In the right hands this show is a great fun singalong show that is so well known it is in all our psyches. Dickens draws

Shrewsbury Amateur Operatic Society, as we were known originally, was founded by a local singing teacher called Madame Rina Robinson. Some of her pupils made up the cast of the first production, Gilbert & Sullivan’s 'The Gondoliers', in April-May 1923, and the rapturous applause that filled the