Welcome to Walmsley Church AODS
A multi-award winning theatre group based in Bolton, producing two quality musical shows a year.
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Forthcoming Shows
Feel-good musical comedy smash hit based on the 1992 film
Forthcoming Shows
Our next AKT production is the beloved story of a girl with special powers!
News headlines
WCAODS have once again had a MASSIVE number of nominations for the NODA North West District 5 awards presentation in February. In total, we landed TWENTY-TWO nominations for all our shows in 2024: Little Grimley, Beautiful, High School Musical Jr and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Good luck to all our nominees for February! Here are the nominations in full:
| Best Comedy Performance in a Drama | Steve Benson | Last Tango in Little Grimley/Last Panto in Little Grimley |
| Best Leading Female Character in a Musical | Catherine Hall | Beautiful |
| Best Comedy Performance in a Musical | Joe Connor | Beautiful |
| Best Supporting Female Character in a Musical | Vicki Wilson | Beautiful |
| Best Supporting Male Character in a Musical | Alan Moss | Beautiful |
| Best Youth Production | High School Musical Jr. | |
| Best Director of a Youth Production | Hannah Feakin & Bethany Bentham | High School Musical Jr. |
| Best Leading Male Character in a Youth Production | Matthew Shallicker | High School Musical Jr. |
| Best Leading Female Character in a Youth Production | Clara Bardsley | High School Musical Jr. |
| Best Supporting Female Character in a Youth Musical | Ellie Hogg | High School Musical Jr. |
| Best Supporting Female Character in a Youth Musical | Niamh Turner | High School Musical Jr. |
| Best Youth Ensemble | High School Musical Jr. | |
| Best Musical | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | |
| Best Director of a Musical | Nora Howcroft | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Musical Director of a Musical | Cath Hilton | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Choreographer of a Musical | Lara Syddall | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Staging of a Musical | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | |
| Best Leading Female Character in a Musical | Olivia O'Connell | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Leading Male Character in a Musical | Steve Benson | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Leading Male Character in a Musical | Joshua Clayton-Heal | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Supporting Female Character in a Musical | Lauren Carroll | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| Best Ensemble | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
Auditions will be held on Friday, 15th November from 7.30pm at Walmsley Parish Hall.
Audition pieces are on the Sister Act show page.
Amateur theatre in Bolton was celebrated in great style at the Annual BATS Dinner & Awards on Friday 30th August at the Last Drop Village. WCAODS had 15 nominations in various award categories and we were extremely proud that Catherine Hall won the award for Best Actress in a Musical for her outstanding portrayal of Carole King in Beautiful: the Carole King Musical.
Massive congratulations to Catherine and to all the nominees!
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