ADC Theatre: Shows

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra presents
Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday 7th February
£6/£5

Cambridge's premier vehicle for promoting and performing jazz in the University and beyond returns to the ADC for one night only. They have won gold awards in UK-wide big band competitions and have collaborated with world-famous musicians, composers and arrangers such as Mark Nightingale, Gareth Lockrane, Steve Waterman, Issie Barratt and Mike Gibbs. The band regularly tours abroad, having played in top venues such as the Casa del Jazz in Rome, the Budapest Jazz Club, and the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival.

CUMTS presents
Bereavement: The Musical
Jeff Carpenter and Máirín O'Hagan
Wednesday 8th February - Saturday 11th February
Wed £5/£4, Thu-Sat £6/£5

Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it.

In this brand-new comedy musical, the big secret about bereavement is revealed: no-one really knows what they should be doing. Curtain up and spotlight on six characters as they blunder through bereavement’s funny little cabaret, trying to make sense of grief and the unexpected extras it throws up. But once you’ve survived the barrage of tasteless funerals; needless guilt; ‘helpful’ advice and useless clichés, is anyone any the wiser about what it really means to lose someone? Following the success of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Jet Set Go! and Jerry Springer the Opera, CUMTS is proud to present its first new-writing musical.

From the writers of The Orphanarium of Erthing Worthing (*****, The Tab), A Children's Guide to the Birth of Christ (“Fantastic” TCS) and the ADC/Footlights Pantomime: Treasure Island (*****, Varsity), this musical promises to teach you nothing at all.

CUMTS presents
Some Enchanted Evening: One Night at the Musicals
Tuesday 21st February
£6/£5

Following a year of exceptional musical theatre, CUMTS is proud to present its Gala Night of songs from the musicals. Prepare to be dazzled by some of the brightest and best of Cambridge's musical theatre talent. Whether you love the big showstoppers, or the heartfelt ballads, we can guarantee that there will be something to entertain you at this one night extravaganza!

Cadenza presents
Cadenza
Tuesday 6th March
£6/£5

Cadenza are the British champions of a cappella and Cambridge’s premier mixed a cappella group. They performed on Broadway in 2011 and are now back on the ADC stage for one night only, with outstanding soloists, magnetic harmonies and the best in what cheesy choreography has to offer.

A brand new, exclusive show, packed full of the best arrangements of all your favourite tunes. With a completely original and never-heard-before set, Cadenza are back and are ready to take Glee to a whole new level - this is a night not to be missed!

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents
Footloose
Book by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie, music by Tom Snow, Jim Steinman and Kenny Loggins
Tuesday 13th March - Saturday 24th March
Mon, Tue, Wed & Mat £10/£8, Thu-Sat £12/£10

City boy Ren is forced to move from Chicago to the small southern town of Bomont, where he experiences a considerable culture shock.

A few years before, a tragic accident killed five teenagers causing local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore to place a ban on dancing and rock music. With his rebellious spirit and love for dance Ren challenges the status quo, attracting the attention of the minister’s troubled but beautiful daughter Ariel.

Will Ren succeed in bringing some life back to this repressed town?

With a cast and crew of Cambridge’s finest musical theatre talent and songs such as the title-track, “Holding Out for a Hero” and “Let’s Hear it for the Boy”, this show guarantees to have you dancing in the aisles and kicking off your Sunday shoes.

The Pied Pipers presents
The Sound of Music
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Tuesday 3rd April - Sunday 8th April
Tue-Wed £10/£8, Thu-Sat £12/£10

A captain with seven children – what’s so fearsome about that?

In 1930s Austria a rebellious young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the widower Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess to teach his seven children, Maria is given the job. She is initially met with hostility, but her kindness, understanding and sense of fun soon draws them together and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives, including the Captain's. When the German invasion threatens all of them, can they be saved by the sound of music?

The company that recently brought you ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Honk’ is delighted to present the Sound of Music - the perfect family show for Easter time.

Singing nuns, mischievous children, and a song about a goatherd – what could be better?