2024 Senior School Musical Programme

Somerset College PAST PRODUCTIONS 1983 Trial by Jury by W.S. Gilbert and A. Sullivan 1984 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Words and Music by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 1986 HMS Pinafore by W.S. Gilbert and A. Sullivan 1987 Salad Days by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade 1988 Bye Bye Birdie by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams 1989 The Boyfriend by Sandy Wilson 1990 Fiddler on the Roof Book by Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick 1991 My Fair Lady by Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe 1992 Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert and A. Sullivan 1993 Barnum Music, Lyrics and Book by Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble 1994 Anything Goes by Cole Porter 1998 Mame Book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman 1999 Guys and Dolls Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser, Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows 2000 Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton by arrangement with Warner / Chappell Music 2001 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser, Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert 2002 Titanic Book by Peter Hallmann, Original Music by James Holmes, Lyrics by Peter Hallmann and James Holmes 2003 Hood Book, Music and Lyrics by Andy Brown and Steve Willliamson 2004 West Side Story Book on a conception of Jerome Robbins, Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 2005 Barry Manilow’s Copacabana A New Musical Comedy, Music by Barry Manilow, Lyrics by Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman, Book by Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman 2006 Seussical Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Co-Conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle, based on the Works of Dr. Seuss 2007 Les Miserables A Musical by Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, original French Text by Alain Boublil and Jean Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton, original orchestrations by John Cameron 2008 Grease Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Amateur production by special arrangement with Dominie Pty Ltd 2009 Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler from an Adaptation by Christopher Bond, Originally Directed by Harold Prince, Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards 2010 Jekyll and Hyde Conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn, Book and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, Music by Frank Wildhorn, Orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg, Arrangements by Jason Howland 2011 Eurobeat Almost Eurovision Book by Craig Christie, Music and Lyrics by Craig Christie and Andrew Patterson 1995 Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus 1996 Evita, the Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 1997 Leader of the Pack by Ellie Greenwich and Friends