Musical miners in comedy THE GLEE CLUB at Oldham Coliseum

Photo credit: Marc Brenner

You can expect Brassed Off meets The Full Monty in Richard Cameron’s The Glee Club at Oldham Coliseum Theatre from 15-19 March, presented by Stockroom, Theatre by the Lake, Cast in Doncaster and Kiln Theatre.

The production is one of two shows coming to the Coliseum stage offering 2 For 1 Tickets as part of the National Lottery’s Love Your Local Theatre campaign.

In the summer of ’62, five hard-working, hard-drinking Doncaster miners, together with their church organist accompanist, are frantically preparing to wow the audience of a local gala concert with their sweet tones. This is The Glee Club, a group of unlikely singers, who though being established in the working men’s clubs, aren’t exactly known for being at the vanguard of a musical revolution. But both Britain and music are about to change … and so too are the lives of these six men, will anything ever be the same again.

Richard Cameron's raucous comedy, about friendship and divided loyalty in a rough and rugged world, features the romantic songs of the 1950's performed live on stage.

Director Kate Wasserberg says: “With incredible songs and boisterous humour, it [The Glee Club] is the bittersweet story of one boy's coming of age and the men he knew, held together by their love of music and each other. Stockroom is above all things a touring company and we can't wait to bring this play, about what unites us even when events threaten to tear us apart, to audiences.”

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