From UK Tours to homegrown productions, South Wales audiences continued to enjoy much in the way of musicals during 2019.
Family favourites such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Nativity! delighted audiences of all ages, while a UK tour of Club Tropicana allowed fans to enjoy an 80s style soundtrack of old favourites. New productions of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar showed that the classics could still deliver over 50 years on from initial theatrical presentations.
Club Tropicana ended its UK Tour with a week long run at Wales Millennium Centre in August.
Club Tropicana
UK Tour, Wales Millennium Centre. Cardiff
August 2019
Better than the 80s were the first time around
The musical Hair celebrated with a 50th anniversary tour and a visit to Cardiff’s New Theatre.
Hair
UK Tour, New Theatre, Cardiff
April 2019
Despite some of its trippier moments (including its infamous nude scene at the end of act one), Hair still carries some important messages.
Family Musical Nativity! came to Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre in November 2019
Nativity!
UK Tour, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff,
November 2019
The mix is breath-taking, and the message that every child is talented and special is always at the core.
Centrestage Cymru presented Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Newport’s Dolman Theatre
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Centrestage Cymru, Dolman Theatre, Newport
November 2019
…Praise undoubtedly should go to the technical team for creating one of the most iconic moments in local theatre history as the car takes flight!
Everyman Theatre concluded their 2019 open air season with a presentation of Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Everyman Theatre, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
July 2019
Immersive and absorbing in style and presentation, Jesus Christ Superstar opens with young people rioting on the streets of Palestine as they battle armed police to the sound of Rob Thorne Jr’s electrifying musical arrangements