page_title: Menier Chocolate Factory
section_title: Productions
hierarchical_section_title: Menier Chocolate Factory / Productions
caption_attribution_description: English: Set of Forbidden Broadway from the Menier Chocolate Factory production in 2009.
context_page_description: The Menier Chocolate Factory is a 180-seat off-West End theatre, which comprises a restaurant, bar and rehearsal rooms.
  It is located in a former 1870s Menier Chocolate Company factory in Southwark Street, a major street in the London Borough of Southwark, central south London, England, some 2.5 km from the theatrical West End. The theatre stages plays and musicals, live music and stand-up comedy. According to the Evening Standard, it is "one of the most dynamic fringe venues in London".
context_section_description: 2005
  Murderer by Anthony Shaffer – 10 November 2004 to 22 January 2005.
  This Other England (2005) – a series of new writing from Paines Plough, including Philip Ridley's controversial Mercury Fur.
  Tick, Tick... Boom! by Jonathan Larson – 31 May to 28 August 2005.
  What We Did to Weinstein by Ryan Craig – 21 September to 12 November 2005.
  2006
  Sunday in the Park with George (November 2005), which won the 2005 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Design. It transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in May 2006, where it won five Olivier Awards. The production then transferred to Broadway in February 2008.
  Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson by Chris England April 2006
  The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown – 18 July to 30 September 2006.
  Jeremy Lion For Your Entertainment by Justin Edwards October 2006
  Little Shop of Horrors starring Sheridan Smith and Paul Keating (November 2006), which transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre and then to the New Ambassadors where it closed on 8 September 2007. UK tour in 2009.
  2007
  Total Eclipse by Christopher Hampton starring Daniel Evans 21 March – 20 May 2007
  Take Flight by Richard Maltby, David Shire and John Weidman July 2007
  Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber starring Roger Lloyd-Pack – 17 September to 28 November 2007 and then 6 December 2007 to 29 March 2008 at Trafalgar Studios.
  2008
  La Cage aux Folles (January – March 2008) A London revival, starring Philip Quast as Georges and Douglas Hodge as Albin/Zaza, opened on 8 January 2008 and played until 8 March, subsequently transferring to the West End from 20 October 2008, at the Playhouse Theatre.
  Maria Friedman Re-Arranged 19 March – 4 May 2008, subsequent transfer to Trafalgar Studios 27 November 2008 – 4 January 2009.
  The Common Pursuit starring James Dreyfus, Nigel Harman, Reece Shearsmith and Robert Portal (May – July 2008)
  They're Playing Our Song starring Connie Fisher and Alistair McGowan by Neil Simon, Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager 25 July – 28 September 2008
  The White Devil by John Webster 3 October – 15 November 2008
  2009
  A Little Night Music starring Hannah Waddingham, Alexander Hanson and Maureen Lipman, 20 November 2008 – 8 March 2009, subsequently transferring to the West End from 28 March 2009, at the Garrick Theatre.
  Rookery Nook by Ben Travers (16 April – 20 June 2009).
  Forbidden Broadway by Gerard Alessandrini – 25 June to 13 September 2009.
  Talent by Victoria Wood – 17 September to 14 November 2009.
  2010
  Sweet Charity starring Tamzin Outhwaite Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman and Lyrics by Dorothy Fields – 21 November 2009 to 7 March 2010.
  Hannah Waddingham Live at the Chocolate Factory – 16 to 20 March 2010
  The Willy Russell Season (in repertoire): Shirley Valentine starring Meera Syal and Educating Rita starring Larry Lamb and Laura Dos Santos – 26 March to 8 May 2010.
   Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart 7 July – 26 September 2010
  A Number by Caryl Churchill starring Samuel West and Timothy West September – November 2010
  2011
  The Invisible Man by Ken Hill 13 November 2010 – 13 February 2011
  Ruby Wax: Losing It 15 Feb – 19 March 2011 subsequent transfer to Duchess Theatre September 2011
  Smash! by Jack Rosenthal 24 March – 8 May 2011
  Road Show by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman – European Premiere June 2011
   Terrible Advice by Saul Rubinek starring Scott Bakula, Caroline Quentin, Andy Nyman, Sharon Horgan dir. Frank Oz- September 2011
  2012
  Pippin by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson – 22 November 2011 – 25 February 2012
  Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh – 2 March to 21 April 2012 subsequent transfer to Wyndham's Theatre May – September 2012 and UK Tour throughout 2013.
  Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein 30 May to 12 August 2012
  Without You by Anthony Rapp August 2012
  Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas starring Mathew Horne and Jane Asher 20 September – 10 Nov
  2013
  Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth 22 Nov – 9 March 2013.  Subsequent transfer to Harold Pinter Theatre 23 April – 27 July
  Proof by David Auburn starring Mariah Gale from March 2013 
caption: Forbidden Broadway in 2009
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