Showcase 2007 was Romiley's 11th appearance at Showcase. ROS first appeared in 1995 with Anything Goes, and performing excerpts since then from shows such as Hot Mikado (1998), Les Miserables (2000), Miss Saigon (2002), Chicago (2003) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2005), as well as a tribute to Fred Astaire in 1999, Abba in 2004 and Showcase Showstoppers in 2006.

Showcase, for those who don't know, is a chance for amateur societies around Manchester to get together and put on short extracts from past, present and possibly even future shows, and at the same time, raise money for very worthy causes. It was founded in 1991 by the late Saunie Williams to raise money for St Ann's Hospice in Little Hulton. Since then, it has gone from strength to strength, running every year (except for an extended break in 2001) at the Free Trade Hall, the Palace Theatre, the Opera House and our new home from 2002, the Lowry Lyric theatre in Salford. Around £85,000 has been raised for charities such as the Brian Robson Scanner Appeal, Rainbow Family Trust, the British Red Cross, Breast Cancer Research, the Motor Neurone Disease Association, the Meningitis Trust and the Macmillan Nurses.

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