From the playwright that brought you Educating Rita, comes a dramady musical that plays with class expectations, friendship and love. Splitting a self-imposed and societal self-fulfilling prophecy, Blood Brothers ends as it begins, opening the show with a dramatic murder.

John Walters 1988 cult classic Hairspray follows the queen-sized Tracy Turnblad and her bubble gum toting bestie as they seek out a spot on the Corny Collins dance show. Merging multiple musical genres and throwing all of the colours on the wall, Paul Kerryson’s charming direction is a slick and glossy showpiece compared to its rougher original.

Heavy-handed cockney accents, underhanded Nazi’s and an animated misanthropic lion are all a part of the undervalued magic surround Bedknobs and Broomsticks. In a musical that blends the practical visual effects of apprentice witch, Eglantine Price against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, the lite Mary Poppins production is a charmingly British but cheekier adaption of its overshadowing, Oscar-winning older sister.

Audiences can’t walk away from the ballad belting music that surrounds The Bodyguard, holding the 1992 romance thriller as the bestselling movie album of all time. It is the vehicle that catapulted Whitney Houston to screen stardom as the enigmatic Rachel Marron and possesses three Grammy’s including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for I Will Always Love You.