For 124 years Peterborough Operatic and Dramatic Society have been producing award winning shows to the Peterborough Area. See below for a full list of all of our musicals and plays, as well as a few cast testimonials of what its like to be in a PODS show.
Little Shop of Horrors
“On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own. The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence and this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places”.
Featuring well-known songs such as ‘Suddenly Seymour’ and ‘Somewhere That’s Green’, join Seymour, Audrey, Mr Mushnik and the rest of Skid Row for this charmingly tongue-in-cheek musical. But be careful, ‘Ya Never Know’ what’s in store!
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Autumn 2024
Oliver!
Spring 2024
Consider yourself at home with Lionel Bart’s classic musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece.
The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver escapes from his mistreated life to find his fortune in London. Here he finds the friendship of Jack Dawkins, otherwise known as The Artful Dodger, who takes him under his wing under the leadership of Fagin and his gang. With the well known iconic songs including “Food Glorious Food”, “I’d Do Anything” and “Oom Pah-Pah” you are bound to be tapping your feet as you see the classic film come to life.
Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit is set at the house of writer Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth. One evening Charles invites his friends to attend a seance at his house hosted by the local eccentric medium Madame Arcati, intending to gather character inspiration for his latest book. Despite initially thinking the seance has been a failure, it soon becomes clear that this was not the case when the spirit of Charles’ ex-wife comes to visit, for only Charles to see.
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Autumn 2023
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Sister Act
Spring 2023
Sister Act is a joyful musical based on the 1992 film of the same name. With music from 8 time Tony and Oscar winner Alan Menken (Newsies, Beauty and the Beast) Sister Act was nominated for 5 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
We follow nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier as she is placed in protective custody in the one place she is sure to be safe... a convent! Whilst finding herself at odds with the strict Mother Superior she uses her singing talents to uplift the choir and inspire her sisters. Bringing new life into the church, will she take it too far and blow her cover?
25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee
Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing)
isn’t everything.... This hilarious show focuses on the trials and tribulations of 6 quirky pre-teens vying for the chance to win their local spelling competition and go on to represent Putnam County at Nationals.
We’re buzzing for the Bee and you should be too... So if you know your FANDANGOS from your FIDALGOS and your KINNIKINNICKS from your KINNEYMARGLES, this is the
show for you!
Autumn 2022
Shrek The Musical
Spring 2022
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek....” And so begins
the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey
alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue.
Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen
other misfits, and you’ve got a spectacular production that turns the world of
fairytale upside down in an all-singing, all-dancing, must-see musical comedy.
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical
is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs and a
side-splitting story guaranteed to delight audiences of all ages!
Elf; The Musical
Elf the musical follows the heart-warming story of Buddy, a young orphan who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is transported to the North Pole. The would-be elf is raised, unaware that he is actually a human until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa's permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father and discover his true identity. Faced with the harsh realities that his father is on the naughty list and his half-brother doesn't even believe in Santa, Buddy is determined to win over his new family and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas.
Winter 2021
Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang
Autumn 2019
An eccentric inventor, Caractacus Potts, sets about restoring an old race car from a scrap heap with the help of his children, Jeremy and Jemima. But they soon discover the car has magical properties and can both take to the seas and the skies. Trouble brews however once the evil Baron Bomburst spots and desires the magic car for himself and Caractacus and the children must join forces with Truly Scrumptious and batty Grandpa to fight for their fine four-fended friend that’s become one of the family, all in between escaping the clutches of the villainous child catcher.
The Producers
A failed producer and an accountant... what could go wrong? Upon the massive failings of Max Bialystock's last show, he recruits sad account Leopold Bloom for a new production. This time though it's designed to fail! An eccentric director, former Nazi, Swedish secretary, and a bunch of grannies all come together to put a show on about... Hitler.
This Mel Brooks comedy musical is wildly inappropriate, odd, and all together an absolute night to remember.
Spring 2019
The Vicar of Dibley
Autumn 2018
Based on the famed British television show, the play of The Vicar of Dibley sold out audiences in the autumn of 2018 at the Key Theatre studio.
The much loved Vicar returns in this play to live out some of the most famous scenes from the show, and of course hilarity ensues.
1901 - Iolanthe
1902 - Yeoman of the Guard
1903 - The Gondoliers
1904 - The Mikado
1905 - Merrie England
1906 - Patience
1907 - Yeoman of the Guard
1908 - Haddon Hall
1909 - The Pirates of Penzance
1910 - Utopia Limited
1911 - The Emerald Isle
1912 - Ruddigore
1913 - Les Cloches de Corneville
1914 - Princess Ida
1915 - H.M.S Pinafore
1920 - The Gondoliers
1921 - Yeoman of the Guard
1922 - The Mikado
1923 - Merrie England
1924 - Iolanthe
1925 - Les Cloches de Corneville
1926 - Princess Ida
1927 - Tom Jones
1928 - The Duchess of Danzig
1929 - Yeoman of the Guard
1930 - A Country Girl
1931 - The Vagabond King
1932 - Floradora
1933 -- Merrie England
1934 - The Quaker Girl
1935 - The Desert Song
1936 - The New Moon
1937 - Rose Marie
1938 - Good Night Vienna
1939 - Wild Violets
1946 - The Vagabond King
1947 - Katinka
1948 - The Three Musketeers
1949 - Bitter Sweet
1950 - Maid of the Mountains
1951 - The New Moon
1952 - Viktoria and her Hussar
1953 - The Dancing Years
1954 - Song of Norway
1955 - King’s Rhapsody
1956 - Wild Violets
1957 - Wedding in Paris
1958 - Glamorous Night
1999 - The Music Man
2000 - Half a Sixpence
2000 - The Sound of Music
2001 - South Pacific
2002 - Anything Goes
2003 - Fiddler on the Roof
2004 - Me and My Girl
2005 - Jesus Christ Superstar
2006 - 42nd Street
2007 - Kiss Me Kate
2008 - Show Boat
2009 - Titanic The Musical
2010 - Oklahoma!
2011 - My Fair Lady
2012 - Hot Mikado
2013 - Annie Get Your Gun
2013 - Stepping Out (play)
2014 - The Witches of Eastwick
2014 - Habeus Corpus (play)
2015 - The Addams Family
2015 - Abigail’s Party (play)
2016 - Hairspray
2016 - The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (play)
2017 - 9 to 5
2018 - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
2018 - The Vicar Of Dibley (play)
2019 - The Producers (Mar)
2019 - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Oct)
2021 - Elf The Musical
2022 - Shrek The Musical
2022 - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2023 - Sister Act The Musical
2023 - Blithe Spirit (Play)
2024 - Oliver!
2024 - Little Shop of Horrors
1959 - The Merry Widow
1960 - Carousel
1961 - The Lisbon Story
1962 - The Quaker Girl
1963 - Flower Drum Song
1964 - West Side Story
1965 - White Horse Inn
1966 - The Belle of New York
1967 - Oklahoma!
1968 - Orpheus in the Underworld
1968 - My Fair Lady (Nov)
1969 - The Dancing Years
1970 - The Merry Widow (Feb)
1970 - The Sound of Music (Oct)
1971 - The Student Prince
1972 - Song of Norway (May)
1972 - Fiddler on the Roof (Oct)
1973 - Oliver!
1973 - La Vie Parisienne
1974 - South Pacific
1975 - Show Boat
1976 - The Great Waltz
1977 - King’s Rhapsody
1978 - My Fair Lady
1979 - Carousel
1980 - The Vagabond King
1980 - The Sound of Music
1981 - South Pacific
1982 - Fiddler on the Roof
1983 - Bless the Bride
1984 - Annie Get Your Gun
1985 - The Merry Widow
1986 - Show Boat
1987 - Perchance to Dream
1988 - Half a Sixpence
1989 - Oliver!
1990 - Brigadoon
1990 - ‘90 Glorious Years’
1991 - My Fair Lady
1992 - The Most Happy Fella
1992 - ‘Showtime ‘92’
1993 - The King and I
1994 - Guys and Dolls
1995 - Oklahoma!
1995 - Magical Musicals
1996 - Kismet
1997 - Carousel
1998 - The Merry Widow