{"id":52,"date":"2013-05-21T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.215\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:09:04","slug":"company-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/company-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Company History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>WBOS Youtheatre &#8211; a history lesson&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Following the recruitment of children for the WBOS Adult production of \u201cOliver!\u201d in 1987,WBOS Youth Section was formed. Our extremely talented youth section perform a musical annually at the Garrick Theatre, Lichfield.<\/p>\n<p>Along with an annual variey concert in May at Sedgley, the Youtheatre continues to be the benchmark society for talented youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>This wonderful venture has resulted in countless youngsters going on to play leading roles in WBOS main productions. It has also produced a number of actors that now perform in the West End.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>&#8230; a little more about WBOS\u2026the older generation.<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Since 1938 the Adult Society, which was formed from a previous Company called the West Bromwich Operatic and Dramatic Society, has played in the Plaza Theatre, West Bromwich (until 1956); The Windsor, Bearwood (1958 &amp; 1959); Dudley Hippodrome (1960 \u2013 1964); The Kings Cinema, West Bromwich (1964 \u2013 1971); The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton (1973-1979) and The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (1980- 1995). In 1996 WBOS returned to The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton where it has now made it\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>As the Company\u2019s motto says &#8211; \u201cAn amateur company with professional standards\u201d, our aim has been to continue performing in professional theatres and to keep the standard of production as high as possible.<\/p>\n<p>They have performed a wide variety of shows over the years. From our first production of \u2018Maid of the Mountains\u2019, performances have included: \u2018The Merry Widow\u2019, \u2018Hello Dolly\u2019, \u2018My Fair Lady\u2019, \u2018Oliver!\u2019 and \u2018West Side Story\u2019. In recent years we have strived to keep abreast of current trends, which is reflected our productions of : \u2018Evita\u2019, \u2018Jesus Christ Superstar\u2019, \u2018Summer Holiday\u2019, \u2018Witches of Eastwick\u2019 and then\u00a0\u00a0 more recently our resounding artistic and financial successes of \u2018Full Monty\u2019 and \u2018La Cage Aux Folles\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our future productions page or the box office page for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBOS Youtheatre &#8211; a history lesson&#8230; Following the recruitment of children for the WBOS Adult production of \u201cOliver!\u201d in 1987,WBOS Youth Section was formed. Our extremely talented youth section perform a musical annually at the Garrick Theatre, Lichfield. Along with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/company-history\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content-sidebar-half-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbos.co.uk\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}