Drayton Entertainment Production History

Drayton Entertainment is an award-winning, not-for-profit professional theatre company based in Southwestern Ontario operating seven venues across the province: the original Drayton Festival Theatre in Drayton, Huron Country Playhouse and Playhouse II in Grand Bend, King’s Wharf Theatre in Penetanguishene, Schoolhouse Theatre in St. Jacobs, St. Jacobs Country Playhouse in Waterloo, and Dunfield Theatre Cambridge in Cambridge.^[1]

The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of Drayton Entertainment since its inception in 1991.^[2]

2016 Season

• Mamma Mia!
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• It Runs In The Family
• Smokey Joe’s Café
• All Shook Up
• Legends ... of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Unnecessary Farce
• Footloose
• Sister Act
• Canadian Legends
• Anything Goes
• Unnecessary Farce
• Hilda’s Yard
• Aladdin: The Panto
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Anything Goes
• The Men’s Foursome
• The Ladies Foursome
• Marathon of Hope: The Musical
• Cinderella: The Panto
• Red Rock Diner

2015

• Aladdin: The Panto
• Anne of Green Gables
• Canadian Legends
• Chicago
• Footloose
• Hilda's Yard
• Irving Berlin's White Christmas
• Last Chance Romance
• Legends...of Rock 'n' Roll
• Looking
• Monty Python's Spamalot
• Sexy Laundry
• Snow White: The Panto
• The Crazy Time
• The Last Resort
• The Music Man
• The Odd Couple
• The Pirates of Penzance
• The Wizard of Oz

2014

• A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline - Conceived & Written by Dean Regan
• Boeing Boeing - By Marc Camoletti
• Broadway Heroes - Created & Performed by David Rogers
• Damn Yankees - Words & Music by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• Deathtrap - By Ira Levin
• Disney's The Little Mermaid - Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater Book by Doug Wright
• Footloose - Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford & Walter Bobbie
• Hollywood Sings - Created by David Hogan & David Rogers
• I’ll Be Back Before Midnight - By Peter Colley
• Legally Blonde - Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin
• Look, No Hans! - By John Chapman & Michael Pertwee
• Peter Pan - Written by Simon Aylin & Trudy Moffatt
• Run For Your Wife - By Ray Cooney
• Snow White: The Panto -
• Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific - Music by Richard Rodgers
• The Affections of May - By Norm Foster
• The Freddy Fusion Science Magic Show
• Twist and Shout: The British Invasion - Conceived, Written & Directed by Alex Mustakas
• Wichita Lineman - Conceived & Created by Leisa Way
• South Pacific
• Damn Yankees
• Twist and Shout: The British Invasion
• Les Misérables

2013

• Big Band Legends - Conceived & Directed by Alex Mustakas
• Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story - Book by Alan James
• Godspell - Book by John Michael Tebelak
• Johnny and June - Created by Chris McHarge & Colin Stewart
• Legends of Harmony - Conceived & Directed by Alex Mustakas
• Lend Me A Tenor - By Ken Ludwig
• The Love List - By Norm Foster
• Mary Poppins - A Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and Walt Disney Film
• Oliver! - Music, Lyrics & Book by Lionel Bart
• Peter Pan - Written by Simon Aylin & Trudy Moffatt
• The Songs of Sinatra - Conceived, Written & Directed by David Rogers
• Too Many Cooks - By Marcia Kash & Douglas E. Hughes
• Tuesdays With Morrie - By Jeffery Hatcher & Mitch Albom
• Sorry... I'm Canadian - Conceived & Directed by Alex Mustakas
• The Sound of Music - Music by Richard Rodgers
• Spamalot - Book & Lyrics by Eric Idle
• Weekend Comedy - By Sam Bobrick & Jeanne Bobrick
• White Christmas - Based upon the Paramount Pictures Film Written for the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama & Melvin Frank

2012

• The Sound of Music
• Perfect Wedding
• Johnny and June
• The Melville Boys
• Blue Suede Shoes: Memories of the King
• Murder at Oakwood Resort
• Murder at Fern Resort
• Harvey
• Perfect Wedding
• The Melville Boys
• Johnny and June
• The Wizard of Oz
• Big Band Legends
• Blue Suede Shoes: Memories of the King
• 9 To 5: The Musical
• Annie
• The Love List

2011

• Dance Legends
• Italian Funerals and Other Festive Occasions
• How the Other Half Loves
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Who’s Under Where?
• Blue Suede Shoes: Memories of the King
• Hairspray
• Blood Brothers
• Guys and Dolls
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Melville Boys
• Shear Madness
• Murder at the Best Western

2010

• On Golden Pond Cagney!
• Cowgirls
• Guys and Dolls
• Separate Beds
• Sweet Charity
• Country Legends
• Cagney!
• Dance Legends
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• On Gold Pond
• See How They Run
• Tap Dogs
• High School Musical
• County Spelling Bee
• Twelve Angry Men
• Peter Pan

2009

• Country Legends
• The Odd Couple
• Blue Champagne
• See How They Run
• Brigadoon
• 2 Pianos 4 Hands
• Oliver!
• Camelot
• Evita
• High School Musical
• The Odd Couple
• Moon Over Buffalo
• Country Legends
• Caught in the Act II: Repeat Offenders
• Judy & David’s Pig Mania
• Me and My Girl
• The Heiress
• Robin Hood

2008

• The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom
• The Mousetrap
• The Drawer Boy
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
• Steel Magnolias
• Legends
• I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
• My Fair Lady
• Sorry… I’m Canadian
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Swing!
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• One for the Pot
• Cinderella
• Forever Plaid

2007

• Cash On Delivery
• Jasper Station
• The Ladies of Broadway
• Funny Money
• Man of La Mancha
• Mom’s The Word
• Cats
• The Last Resort
• Miss Saigon
• Legends
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
• Caught In The Act
• Legends
• Judy & David’s GoldiRocks
• Crazy for You
• The Christmas Show
• The Foursome
• Dads: The Musical

2006

• Anne of Green Gables
• Not Now Darling
• Sorry…I’m Canadian
• Twist and Shout: The British Invasion
• The Foursome
• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
• Lost In Yonkers
• Give My Regards To Broadway
• Nunsense
• Dial M For Murder
• Cotton Patch Gospel
• Cats
• Corpse
• Aladdin

2005

• Oklahoma!
• Lost In Yonkers
• The Last Resort
• The World Goes Round
• Oklahoma!
• Cotton Patch Gospel
• Corpse
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
• The Mikado
• 42nd Street
• Give My Regards To Broadway
• Twist and Shout: The British Invasion
• Beauty and the Beast
• Lend Me A Tenor

2004

• 42nd Street
• The Cemetery Club
• Tons of Money
• Moments To Remember
• Fiddler on the Roof
• A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline
• The Secret Garden
• Swing!
• The Cemetery Club
• Moments To Remember
• Man of La Mancha
• Leader of the Pack
• It Runs In The Family

2003

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Caught In The Net
• Canadian Toonie
• Vaudeville!
• Big River
• Over The River and Through The Woods
• Carousel
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
• Joseph …Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Moments To Remember
• A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline
• Triple Espresso

2002

• Anything Goes
• Give My Regards To Broadway
• Shear Madness
• Joseph … Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Move Over, Mrs. Markham
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Pirates of Penzance
• Weekend Comedy
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
• Canadian Loonie

2001

• Little Me
• A Bit Between The Teeth
• No Sex Please, We’re British
• Evita
• Dads: The Musical
• The Music Man
• You’ll Get Used To It: The War Show
• It Runs In The Family
• The Boyfriend
• Swingtime Canteen
• Forever Plaid

2000

• Vaudeville!
• Over The River and Through The Woods
• Damn Yankees
• The Rainmaker
• Lend Me A Tenor
• It Runs In The Family
• The King and I
• Double-Double
• No Sex Please, We’re British
• On Golden Pond
• Crazy For You
• Forever Plaid
• A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline

1999

• Don’t Dress for Dinner
• Bye Bye Broadway
• The Nerd
• Dames at Sea
• Me and My Girl
• Shear Madness
• The Affections of May

1998

• Show Stoppers!
• A Bedfull of Foreigners
• The Wild Guys
• Blood Brothers

1997

• The Sunshine Boys
• Run For Your Wife
• Romance/Romance
• A Flea In Her Ear

1996

• She Loves Me
• Bending the Bows
• Opening Night
• You’ll Get Used To It: The War Show

1995

• Big River
• Out of Order
• Dads: The Musical

1994

• Swing!
• The Affections of May
• Nunsense

1993

• Me and My Girl
• It Runs In The Family
• Lend Me A Tenor

1992

• Hurray for Hollywood!
• Move Over, Mrs. Markham
• The Mikado

1991

• Vaudeville!
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Pirates of Penzance

References

External links

• Drayton Entertainment

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