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Christmas in the Park

WHEN
26 November 2011

WHERE
Hagley Park

Christmas in the Park

Coca Cola Christmas in the Park 2011 once again saw many of our students, past and present, taking the spotlight as soloists and of course, the fabulous onstage chorus.

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Cats

WHEN
03 November 2011 -
06 November 2011

WHERE
Ashburton Trust Event Centre

Cats

As the spectacular end to an unforgettable year,  Year 3 NASDA, supported by a full orchestra and students from the second
year present Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece.

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Mother Courage

WHEN
10 September 2011 -
15 September 2011

WHERE
NASDA Theatre, E Block, CPIT Madras St Campus

Mother Courage

In the interesting times in which we live cities and economic and political regimes seem to be falling about people’s ears.  Ways of making and distributing resources and what we determine as wealth are being questioned on a local and global

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Cloudstreet

WHEN
08 July 2011 -
15 July 2011

WHERE
NASDA Theatre, E Block, CPIT Madras St Campus

Cloudstreet

A play based on the novel by Australian writer Tim Winton, chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, in a suburb of Perth, over a period of twenty years, 1943-1963.  It was the recipien

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The Music Man

WHEN
28 May 2011 -
04 June 2011

WHERE
NASDA Theatre E Block

The Music Man

One of musical theatre's great shows, The Music Man was not only nominated for the Tony Awards in the same year as West Side Story, it won!  Replete with 76 Trombones, a host of other memorable numbers, a barbershop quartet and the antics of Harol

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Finale

WHEN
13 November 2010

WHERE
Isaac Theatre Royal

Finale

FINALE is a cabaret of the finest live performances from CPIT's week-long Creative festiv

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Curtains

WHEN
11 November 2010

WHERE
Isaac Theatre Royal

Curtains

Book by Rupert Holmes, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb.  Original book and concept by Peter Stone.  Additional
lyrics by John Kander and Rupert Holmes.  By arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Theatri

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CSO Presents: Bernstein and Sondheim Two of the Best

WHEN
02 October 2010

WHERE
Douglas Lilburn Auditorium, Christchurch Town Hall.

CSO Presents: Bernstein and Sondheim Two of the Best

These two brilliant composers are the focus of the second Musical Theatre showcase by CSO, under the baton of Richard Marrett.

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Play Upon Me

WHEN
21 August 2010 -
26 August 2010

WHERE
Rakaia Centre, CPIT City Campus, Madras St

Play Upon Me

Devised by Tony McCaffrey, Music by Hamish Oliver, Directed by Tony McCaffrey, Ross McKellar 

“You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery. .

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CSO Presents: Rodgers & Hammerstein A Tribute

WHEN
31 July 2010

WHERE
Douglas Lilburn Auditorium, Christchurch Town Hall

CSO Presents: Rodgers & Hammerstein A Tribute

If you love the overture from South Pacific and the countless other showstoppers by this genius duo, you’ll be lining up for CSO’s special tribute concert production.

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42nd Street

WHEN
19 June 2010 -
24 June 2010

WHERE
NASDA Theatre

42nd Street

Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Al Dubin, Book by Michael Stewart & Mark Bramble, Based on the Novel by Bradford Ropes, Original Direction and Dances by Gower Champion, Originally Produced on Broadway by David Merrick.  The use of all songs is

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Pass It On

WHEN
15 May 2010 -
20 May 2010

WHERE
NASDA Theatre

Pass It On

Written by Reneé 

Jeannie and Cliff, the two adolescents who joined the hunger march in ‘Wednesday to Come’, have grown up and ma

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Wednesday to Come

WHEN
14 May 2010 -
20 May 2010

WHERE
NASDA Studio One

Wednesday to Come

Written by Reneé

This powerful drama shows the effect of the 1930s depression on a family, facing unemployment and a personal crisis when the husband and father is

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Caucasian Chalk Circle

WHEN
12 September 2009 -
17 September 2009

WHERE
NASDA Studio One

Caucasian Chalk Circle

The ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ is a play within a play, set in a small village in Soviet Russia at the end of the Second World War.

The prologue deals with a dispute by two parties over a valley which was left abandoned by the Nazis

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Sideshow

WHEN
22 August 2009 -
29 August 2009

WHERE
NASDA Theatre

Sideshow

Bill Russell and Henry Krieger

Side Show is loosely based on the true story of Siamese twins, Violet and Daisy Hilton who became stars during the Depression.

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Revenge of the Amazons

WHEN
06 June 2009 -
11 June 2009

WHERE
NASDA Theatre

Revenge of the Amazons

Basically Revenge of the Amazons is a re-take on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream written by Jean Betts in Wellington in 1983 but set up against the world of 1970s Wellington.  It is directed by Tony McCaffrey and performed b

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The Bellbird

WHEN
06 June 2009 -
11 June 2009

WHERE
NASDA Studio One

The Bellbird

Performed by third year students and directed by Stephanie McKellar-Smith as part of a NASDA season of New Zealand plays.

Set in Marlborough in the late 1860s, ‘The Bellbird’ brings the worlds of Maori and Pakeha together in a ha

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Oklahoma!

WHEN
16 May 2009 -
21 May 2009

WHERE
NASDA Theatre

Oklahoma!

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Oklahoma! proved to be only the first of a series of artistically and financially successful musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein but none of their works has influenced the development o

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