Well done to Jack Cooling who is off to Manchester Metropolitan University to study Events Management! He goes on September 17th, the day after our show closes! All the very best for your studies Jack.

It is with very great sadness that LAOS announce that much-loved member, Carl Bateson passed away on Thursday, 20th April. Carl joined LAOS in 2012 for our production of Pirates of Penzance which he said was his favourite show. Happy talking to anyone and everyone Carl was a very popular member right from the start.

Sadly after some months of ill health he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015 and because of major surgery had to pull out of LAOS’ production of West Side Story in March 2015 but returned for Sweet Charity! Ever one to make light of his illness, he told unsuspecting people on holiday and in the dressing rooms that his impressive scar from the surgery was the result of a shark bite !

Unfortunately the cancer returned and Carl had more chemotherapy in 2016, but ever-determined to work for others, he arranged a charity fund-raising night in conjunction with LAOS in September 2016 which raised over £2,000 for the two cancer charities Cancer Research and Hope Against Cancer.

He will be very sadly missed by all his friends at LAOS, in the Loughborough theatre world and beyond.

LAOS are proud to announce that our September 2016 production of Little Shop of Horrors has been nominated for BEST MUSICAL at the 2017 Noda Awards!

https://www.noda.org.uk/events/reports/little_shop_of_horrors_58

Wednesday night’s performance of Rock Of Ages took it’s toll on one of LAOS’s principal performers who unfortunately took the phrase “break a leg” a little further than is usually intended. Lianne O’Connor (playing the part of City Planner, Regina) managed to break her foot whilst dancing on stage early in act two.

Undeterred by this dramatic incident she totally rocked & rolled her way back on to stage in a wheel chair Thursday night and was just as amazing as ever!! To quote one happy show-goer “You would never have known she wasn’t meant to be in a wheelchair”.  What a pro!!

We wish you a very speedy recovery!! (And maybe you could find a slightly less theatrical way of getting out of wearing turquoise lyrca next time?!)

Rock of Ages is a “brilliant show with a brilliant cast”

The musical left me, and I’m sure many others, singing 1980s rock songs all the way home.

Rock of Ages will make you wish “you wish you were born in a different era”.

LEATHER boots, crimped hair and plenty of eyeliner… LAOS took to the stage with Rock of Ages last night and the group hit all the right notes…..

READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE

Sherrie   Cazz Lander

Drew   Dale Collington

Stacee Jaxx   David Burton

Lonny   Chris Wilson

Dennis   Richard York

Hertz   Mark Chinnery

Franz   James Highton

Justice   Natasha Bryan

Regina   Leanne O’Connor

Waitress #1   Becky Bakewell

Joey Primo/Male Rocker   George Stackhouse

Mother   Natalie Littlewood

Father   John Smith

Mayor   Adrian Dobson

Constance   Nikita Collington

Ja’Keith   Ollie Lewin

Producer #1   Kev Clarke

Sleazy Producer   Naomi Giglio

Her PA   Claudia Peach

Even Sleazier Producer   Adrian Dobson

His PA   Natalie Littlewood

Candi   Ian Dean

Protester #2   Natalie Littlewood

Protester #3   Gemma Baxter

Strippers

Gemma Baxter

Cassie Briggs

Mel Swift

Nikita Collington

Effie

Allison C

Principal Dancers 

Becky       Ian

Allison     Ollie

Grace       Adrian G

Effie

Linda

Nikita

Mel

Cassie

Gemma

Little Shop Of Horrors draws amazing reviews.  Read them here!

more congratulations to member John Smith and his partner Donna Richardson who had a beautiful baby girl, Amelia Mary, on Wednesday, 31st August.

Best wishes to our Chairman, Natalie Littlewood, who spent several days in hospital recently following a spinal injury, but thankfully is now well on the road to recovery and says she intends to be “fighting fit” for our next show, Rock Of Ages.