The archive
Every production since 1930
The company gave its first performance, Pearl the Fishermaid, at the Wesleyan Schools in Willenhall on 18 March 1930. Everything it has staged since is on this page, along with the two runs of years when it could not perform at all.
- Productions
- 95
- The whole record
- 1930 to 2027
- Musicals
- 87
- NODA West Midlands wins
- 3
The full list
Everything the company has staged, 1930 to 2027.
2020s
6 productions
- 2020
- 2021
2020 to 2021
The coronavirus pandemic
Theatres across the country went dark. The company returned in 2022 with Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
2010s
17 productions
- 2019Sister Act
- 2018Half a Sixpence
- 2018Now That's What I Call Entertainment 2018Concert
- 2017Anything Goes
- 2017WMTC ConcertConcert
- 2016Me and My Girl
- 2016WMTC ConcertConcert
- 2015Crazy For You
- 2015Dick WhittingtonPantomime
- 2015Magic of the MusicalsConcert
- 2014Thoroughly Modern MillieNODA winner
- 2013AladdinPantomimeNODA winner
- 2013Calamity Jane
- 2012Wizard of Oz
- 2011Godspell
- 2011Mother GoosePantomime
- 2010Pirates of Penzance
1940s
3 productions
- 1939
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945
- 1946
1939 to 1946
The Second World War
The Arcadians in 1938 was the last production before the war. The company did not stage another until Viktoria and her Hussar in 1947, by which time it had moved from the Wesleyan Schools to Willenhall Baths.
What this list is, and what it is not
The titles and the years are the solid part of the record, kept by the company itself and by the people who wrote its history. The detail thins the further back you go. Of the 95 productions listed here, 21 have a synopsis, 23 have a cast list and 7 have a review that somebody kept.
Nothing on these pages has been filled in with a good guess. Where a production page says the cast is not recorded, it means exactly that, and it usually means the programme is sitting in somebody’s loft rather than in the company’s files.
If you were in one of these shows, or your mother was, or you have a programme, a photograph or a cutting from the local paper, that is the missing half of this archive.
Help us fill the gaps