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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.

WHEN
03 November 2011
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06 November 2011
WHERE
Ashburton Trust Event Centre

WHEN
10 September 2011
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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

WHEN
08 July 2011
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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

WHEN
28 May 2011
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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

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

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

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.

WHEN
21 August 2010
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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. .

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.

WHEN
19 June 2010
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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
WHEN
15 May 2010
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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
WHEN
14 May 2010
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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

WHEN
12 September 2009
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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

WHEN
22 August 2009
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29 August 2009
WHERE
NASDA Theatre

WHEN
06 June 2009
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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

WHEN
06 June 2009
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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


