Welcome To MCS Productions

MCS (Must Come See) Productions is a registered, non-profit organization committed to celebrating, promoting, supporting, encouraging and acknowledging the diverse talents and works of Trinidad and Tobago.
Vision

MCS (Must Come See) Productions has come together to produce professional works which reflect a love and belief in the power of the Arts.
Motto

Dream...beyond the confines of any limited capacity!

About

Background

The non-profit production company, MCS (Must Come See) Productions, was founded, in October 2005, on the twin aims of education and entertainment with a commitment to professionalism and excellence. An off-shoot of UWI’s resident choral ensemble; UWI Arts Chorale (UAC), the group sprung from the UAC’s efforts to expand the Chorale, giving further scope for performances in various genres.

Under the direction of company chairman Jessel Murray and company president Evette Graham, MCS Productions has, for the last fourteen years, become an independently functioning affiliate of the Chorale.

The intent behind the creation of MCS Productions is to provide forums through which any person interested in the Visual and Performing Arts would have the opportunity to become involved. Those involved will experience a professional production incorporating Music, Dance, Drama and Visual Arts.

In a world that undervalues the non-academic, it is our hope that participants can see a future in the field of the Visual and Performing Arts.

Impact and Achievements

Since 2005, the group has presented Broadway musicals which have created a now prolific niche forever transforming the face of Trinidad theatre. Being the only production house to consistently utilise live orchestra to partner its musicals, Must Come See Productions is considered the production company for Broadway.

Receiving fourteen (14) Cacique awards collectively in four years from the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago (NDATT), including Most Outstanding Production in 2007 for its productions Fiddler on the Roof (2006), Oliver! (2007), The Sound of Music (2008) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (2009), MCS Productions is an innovator in the genre.

The group’s productions spurred the debut use of light fixture backdrops (gobos) and the making of Trinidad’s first spinning set (Elton John and Tim Rice’s AIDA in 2010), and in 2011 MCSP debuted theatrical flying on the Queen’s Hall stage with its production of the modern Broadway classic Peter Pan.

As their focus is education, MCS Productions always tries to choose musicals with relevant social impact. Musicals like the Broadway-turned-movie sensation Hairspray (2012), Crazy for You – the NEW Gershwin Musical (2013) and many others, have provided such content.

This year, MCS Productions is proud to once again provide quality entertainment in Queen’s Hall in June 2018.

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West Side Story (2018) – “A modern-day Romeo and Juliet”

Crazy For You (2013) – “Arts saves a small town!”

Hairspray (2012) – “Healing racial divisions.”

Peter Pan (2011) – “Friendship and growing up.”

AIDA (2010) – “Sacrifice and making choices.”

Disney’s Beauty And The Beast (2009)-“Adventure and seeing beyond.”

The Sound Of Music (2008) – “A true story of courage!”

Oliver (2007) – “Satire on the maltreatment of children.”

The Fiddler on the Roof (2006) – “Straddling heritage and culture.”

Library

Hairspray is a satire of the injustices of parts of society during the 1960s and deals with themes of racial division and healing.The musical is set in 1962 (50 years ago) in Baltimore, Maryland where “pleasantly plump” teenager Tracy Turnblad has only one passion – to dance! Her upbeat personality and vivaciousness wins her a coveted spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show", and overnight she becomes a star. As the show progresses, Tracy wins hearts and rocks the social landscape with her turn-of-the-century ideas on camaraderie and equality for all.

A story of choices; putting the greater good before oneself. Magically transporting us from the Egyptian wing of a modern museum to the dunes of ancient Egypt, AIDA centres on the emotional struggle of Nubian Princess Aida who is captured and enslaved during an Egyptian raid. In becoming a trusted confidant of the Egyptian Princess Amneris, Aida catches the eye of Amneris' fiancé, the warrior Radames. When Aida’s father is captured, she is torn… she must make a choice… between loyalty to her country and that to her heart.

Fiddler on the Roof is an award winning epic set in Russia on the eve of the Russian Revolutionary Period; in the fictional town of Anatevka. It is here that Tevye, a milkman, lives with his wife and five daughters. Tevye attempts to straddle the dictates of his Jewish heritage and the larger Russian culture in getting his daughters married off using a Matchmaker. However, his three oldest daughters have much more modern ideas about love and each one takes her own path to get herself a husband.