The new shows now on sale include Lionel Bart‘s sensational musical Oliver!, directed by Daniel Evans following the hugely successful My Fair Lady. You will also be able to book for Thriller Live, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Northern Ballet’s A Christmas Carol and Slava’s Snow Show, which will come to the Lyceum later this year.

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Written by Tim Firth, the award-winning writer of Calendar Girls and brought to life by a talented cast of six and a five-piece band, This Is My Family is a funny and moving musical about the ‘holiday of a lifetime’ that 13 year old Nicky wins for her charmingly dysfunctional family.

Siân Phillips , recently nominated for an Olivier award for her role in Cabaret , makes her Sheffield Theatres debut as fearsome but loveable grandmother, May, alongside Rachel Lumberg , who returns to the theatre following the hugely successful national tour of The Full Monty, to play free-spirited aunt Siân. Young talents Evelyn Hoskins (Misfits) and Terence Keeley (Beauty Queen of Leenane, Young Vic) play teenager Nicky and sulky 17 year old brother, Matt, with Clare Burt (London Road, Sunday In The Park With George, National Theatre) as barely-coping mum, Yvonne and Bill Champion (Intimate Exchanges, A Chorus of Disapproval, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) as DIY-mad dad, Steve.

Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director Daniel Evans will direct this new production, his second musical, which follows in the huge success of the critically-acclaimed My Fair Lady.

Director Daniel Evans said: ‘I am so thrilled to be premiering this new musical by Tim Firth in Sheffield this summer. From the moment I heard the first chord played on the piano, I knew I wanted to direct it at the Crucible. I hadn’t heard anything like it before. The music, lyrics and dialogue all come from Tim, and that’s a rare thing. The characters feel so recognisable and offer a refreshingly honest and funny portrayal of modern family life, to which I think everyone will be able to relate. We have been working on the production for over eighteen months and I’m excited to be working with such a brilliant cast and talented musicians to bring Tim’s vision to the stage.’

Joining the Creative Team alongside Daniel Evans are Designer Richard Kent (Macbeth), Musical Director Caroline Humphris, Lighting Designer David Plater (Macbeth) and Sound Designer Nick Greenhill (Cinderella).

This Is My Family is being supported by local law firm, Hill Dickinson, who are funding new writing and projects at Sheffield Theatres.

Tickets for This Is My Family are on sale now from Sheffield Theatres’ Box Office, priced from £10.00. Call 0114 249 6000 or visit sheffieldtheatres.co.uk to book.

On stage from Friday 29 November 2013 to Saturday 25 January 2014 , Sheffield Theatres is looking for two boys, with a playing age of eleven, to share the lead role of Oliver, and two boys with a playing age of 14 to 15, to play cheeky Cockney pickpocket, the Artful Dodger. The company is also looking for boys and girls, aged from seven to 14 to play a variety of parts as members of the ensemble.

These roles are a fantastic opportunity for children interested in performing to be part of a professional production on a massive scale, getting the chance to work with professional actors, directors and industry professionals.

Open auditions will take place in Sheffield on Saturday 1 June between 10.00am – 6.00pm at the Lyceum Theatre. The audition will be a group session where all participants will be taught a song and asked to sing individually, as well as dance. The audition panel will consist of Director Daniel Evans, Choreographer Alistair David and Musical Director Jonathan Gill. Successful auditionees will be called back for a second audition on Sunday 9 June between 10.00am – 6.00pm at the theatre where they will work on an extract of the script and a song.

Children who wish to audition must be between the ages of 7 and 15. Successful auditionees, living within an hour’s drive of Sheffield, must be available throughout the entire rehearsal and production period in Sheffield from Monday 21 October 2013 – Saturday 25 January 2014.

If you are interested in auditioning, please download the registration form on this page to the left and return to oliverauditions@sheffieldtheatres.co.uk.

On Thursday 16 May at 7.30pm the dress rehearsal of The History Boys will be open to the public. Tickets for the performance will go on sale from the Box Office counter at 10.00am tomorrow morning (Thursday) priced only £1.00* per ticket.

Tickets will be limited to 4 per person and can only be purchased through in-person booking.

*Please note: All bookings made at the Box Office (excluding cash) are subject to a £1.50 transaction fee.

Following on from the success of the critically-acclaimed My Fair Lady, Oliver! will take to the Crucible stage from Friday 29 November 2013 to Saturday 25 January 2014 , twenty years on from Sheffield Theatres’ last production of the musical. This new staging will be directed by Artistic Director Daniel Evans , his third musical for the company, following My Fair Lady and This Is My Family, which opens next month.

Based upon the children’s novel by Charles Dickens, Oliver! follows the story of an orphan who runs away from a workhouse and falls in with a gang of boys trained to be pickpockets by gang leader, Fagin.

Joining the Creative Team alongside Daniel Evans are Designer Peter McKintosh (Me and My Girl), Choreographer Alistair David (My Fair Lady), Musical Director Jonathan Gill, Lighting Designer Howard Harrison (Me and My Girl) and Sound Designer Simon Baker (My Fair Lady).

Four new shows are also announced today that will tour to the Lyceum Theatre this autumn. Thriller Live brings to life the sensational dancing and distinctive sound of Michael and the Jackson 5 from Monday 21 – Saturday 26 October, followed by Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Tue 29 October – Sat 2 November), the feel-good international hit sensation, starring Noel Sullivan (Hear Say).

Later in the month, Northern Ballet return with their heart-warming and hugely popular adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, A Christmas Carol (Tue 5 – Sat 9 November) and the festivities continue with Slava’s Snow Show from Wednesday 20 – Sunday 24 November; a funny, poignant and spectacular show for all the family.

Artistic Director Daniel Evans said today: ‘I’m so excited to be bringing Lionel Bart’s Oliver! to the Crucible Stage. Dickens’ boldness of characterisation and Bart’s music hall score combine to make an intoxicating piece of music theatre. We’ll be working with sixty talented children from the city region alongside a cast of 22 professional actors and 15 musicians. So, I hope we can continue to make Sheffield Theatres the place to be at Christmas!’

These shows go on sale to members on Saturday 18 May and to the public on Saturday 25 May from 10.00am. For more details and to book tickets call the Box Office on 0114 249 6000 or visit sheffieldtheatres.co.uk.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers will present Sheffield Theatres’ production at the Noel Coward Theatre from Thursday 20 February 2014 for sixteen weeks, until Saturday 14 June 2014. All tickets for the previews will be at 1990s prices – with a top price of £29.50. After its London premiere, tickets will start at just £9.50, with no premium seats.

In 1997, a British film about six out-of-work Sheffield steelworkers under the shadow of Thatcher’s government, who had nothing to lose, took the world by storm taking $256 million worldwide and becoming one of the most successful British films ever made. And now the boys are back, live on stage, only this time, for them, it really has to be….THE FULL MONTY.

Yorkshire born Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar winning writer of the film, has gone back to Sheffield where it all started to rediscover the men, the women, the heartache and the hilarity of a city on the dole.

The production will star original cast members, Kenny Doughty (Gaz), Craig Gazey (Lomper), Simon Rouse (Gerald), Keiran O’Brien (Guy), Roger Morlidge (Dave) and Sidney Cole (Horse). Completing the company are Scott Anson, Tracy Brabin, Caroline Carver, Eamonn Fleming, Elaine Glover, Rachel Lumberg and Ian Mercer.

Based on the Fox Searchlight Pictures Motion Picture,the production will also feature the iconic songs from the film by Donna Summer, Hot Chocolate and Tom Jones.

This is Simon Beaufoy ’s first work for the theatre. His screen credits include the BAFTA Award-winning The Full Monty,127 Hours, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Slumdog Millionaire, for which he won an Oscar.

Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs, ahead of This is My Family, a new musical comedy by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls), which he directs at the Studio Theatre later this season.

Design is by Robert Jones, whose recent credits include Calendar Girls, Much Ado About Nothing starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant, Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company & BBC TWO) and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal Court, West End and Broadway).

Choreography is by Steven Hoggett (Black Watch), lighting by Tim Lutkin, music and sound by Ben and Max Ringham (Democracy) with casting by Sarah Bird.

Audiences will be able to see The Full Monty for one more date in Yorkshire before it enters the West End, when it visits the Grand Theatre & Opera House Leeds, from Monday 6 May – Saturday 18 May.

The Full Monty is a co-production between Sheffield Theatres and David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, the multi-award winning producers of Art, Brief Encounter, God of Carnage and Calendar Girls. They will collaborate again this autumn on Kay Mellor‘s A Passionate Woman, which opens at the Lyceum Theatre in September.