Our 2027 production
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Tuesday 7th–Saturday 11th September 2027
Bristol Hippodrome
Established in Bristol, 1934
One musical a year, on the biggest stage in the South West
BLOC Productions is an amateur musical theatre company staging one show a year at the Bristol Hippodrome, every year since 1956. We are the only non-professional company that performs there.
The aim is professional-quality musical theatre at a price local audiences can afford, performed and produced entirely by non-professionals — on stage, in the pit, in wardrobe and in the technical teams behind them. Every show is staged full scale, with a large live orchestra.
In 2025 Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International made us one of only eleven companies in the country licensed to stage an amateur premiere of the full version of Les Misérables, for the show’s fortieth anniversary. Years before that we were the first company offered the rights to Evita.
Performers audition each spring, and the company needs backstage crew, wardrobe and production team all year round — more about getting involved.
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News from the company
2026We Will Rock You
2025Les Misérables
2023A Christmas Carol
2022Elf – The Musical
2018Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
2017My Fair LadyThe archive
Ninety years of shows
Every production the company has staged, from the first in 1934 to the one currently in rehearsal, listed by decade.
Get involved
How do I join?
Everyone who performs with BLOC has auditioned for their place. We look for strong singers, confident movers and actors who can hold a stage.
Auditions are held each spring for that year’s show. Tell us you are interested and you will be the first to hear when the details are announced.
There is as much to do off the stage as on it. Backstage crew, wardrobe, props and the production team behind a show of this scale are all volunteer roles, and we are looking for people all year round.