With over 100 productions under its belt, STOS has produced west end smashes, amateur premieres, and old favourites.
Click on each section heading below to see a brief description of the show, pictures and published crits from the local press.
Previous Shows
The Baker's Wife
The Baker's Wife is a musical romantic comedy - following the events in a small rural village following the arrival of a baker and his younger wife. Teacher, Mayor and Priest lead their supporters in the village through a time that seems turbulent in 1930's France.
This production took place at The Montgomery Theatre, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LG (not Kelham Island as previously advertised).
The show is by the renowned team of Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof; Rags) and Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Wicked). Mark Harris directs, and musical direction is by Andy Collis.
"When you live someplace where nothing changes year after year, a small event can be big - it can even change your life ..."
The Montgomery Theatre is in the city centre. The traditional style theatre is accessed by a large number of steps, and is therefore not fully accessible. Details on 0114 272 0142.
Book by Joseph Stein Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Based on the film "La Femme du Boulanger" by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of NEW YORK.
Buddy
Our 2007 production at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield was a musical celebration of the last three years of Buddy's life - during which time he became the world's top recording artist.
The show featured many of Buddy Holly's greatest hits including "Peggy Sue", "That'll be the Day", "Rave On", "Heartbeat" and many more!
With the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" and Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba", this dazzling extrazaganza will have the whole audience rocking and bopping in the aisles!
Directed by Susan McCormick; Musical Director Anna Wright; Choreography by Claire Harriott.
By arrangement with Alan Janes for Theatre Partners
Buddy - the Buddy Holly Story - written by Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson
Original Direction by Rob Bettinson
This amateur performance was presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd
Sweeney Todd
Sondheim's hugely accessible score treats this story of murder and passion - not to mention pies - with an emotional immediacy and comic flair. The murderous Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, whose victims were baked into pies by his friend Mrs. Lovett, seems an unlikely figure for musical treatment. But Sondheim's extraordinary imagination links the music and drama together so powerfully that an atmosphere of operatic achievement is in the air from the work's first thrilling chords. This production was performed in the heart of Kelham Island Industrial Museum's victorian quarter, adding a unique atmosphere to this musical thriller.
Directed by Keith Arrowsmith; Musical Director Andrew Griffiths; Choreography by Mark Harris.
The Pirates of Penzance
Sheffield Teachers’ Operatic Society made a swashbuckling return to the Lyceum Theatre following their critically acclaimed production of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK with a fresh take on Gilbert & Sullivan’s forever popular buccaneer adventure.
All hands were on deck for this updated version of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, which tells a sea story of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim witted young lovers and an eccentric modern Major-General.
A new version of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
Book by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Music by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Musical Adaptation by William Elliott
Directed by Susan McCormick; Musical Director Anna Wright; Choreography by Claire Harriott.
As presented on Broadway by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer. Directed by Wilford Leach, Choreography by Graciela Daniele.
This amateur production was presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd on behalf of Music Theater International of New York.
The Witches of Eastwick
Something a bit magical this year!
We are pleased to announce a very special production - a block buster of a show - the first northern flight of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK!
Spend Spend Spend
The award winning new musical Sepnd Spend Spend charts the comedy, the tragedy and the love story that is the legend of Viv Nicholson.
When the Castelford hairdresser won the football pools in the 1960s she vowed she would spend, spend spend! Told in flashback by Viv from the salon where she still works, the story, following Viv from a rauncy, restless 16 yera old, has humour, nostalgia and sentiment. With sharp, wity and often cheeky lyrics, the show emerges as both gritty urban legend and modern morality tale.
42nd Street
This high energy tap dancing musical sensation follows the story of Peggy Sawyer, an aspiring actress and dancer. Sawyer is recruited at the last minute to fill in for the injured, tyrannical stage diva Dorothy Brock as the star of a brand-new Broadway musical, produced by the Ziegfield-like Julian Marsh.
With show-stopping songs "We're in the Money", "Dames", "Shuffle off to Buffalo" and "42nd Street", prepare to be dazzled!
Copacabana
Her name was Lola ..." the unforgettable opening lyric of Barry Manilow's Grammy Award winning hit song, "Copacabana," is the inspiration for an exciting and passionate new musical. Copacabana is a tale of love and romance set at the heart of the swinging nightclub scene of the 1940's.
While creating the world's next big hit, Stephen, an aspiring songwriter, is carried back to and era when "music and passion were always the fashion" at the world famous Copacabana nightclub in New York City. In his dream, Lola Lamar, a hopeful showgirl, is launched on the path to stardom as a Copa Girl with the help of Tony Starr, a bartender with dreams of his own. Captivated by Lola's performance, the villainous Rico whisks her away to the Tropicana nightclub in Havana. From this exotic, distant new world, a tale of old-fashioned love, jealousy, and murder in the entangled lives of Lola, Tony and Rico unfolds.