St Peter’s Church will be staging three performances of the musical ‘Hopes & Dreams’ on Friday 5th July, Saturday 6th July and Sunday 7th July 2019.  The musical was written by Paul Field in 1998 and was enormously successful at the time.  It features ‘The Millennium Prayer’: the words of the Lord’s Prayer set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne which was recorded by Cliff Richard and gave him a number one hit single.

St Peter’s has staged the musical twice before; originally in November 2002 in Stanley Community Centre and again in April 2011 to celebrate 10 years since our move from the old church to our new building. Even more than 20 years after it was written, the music is still so powerful that we felt it was time to revisit it, and stage it again for a new audience.

The whole musical is based on the Lord’s Prayer, and uses the themes of creation, forgiveness, temptation among others as the inspiration for the songs, poems, dances and drama. We have a brilliant team of people busy rehearsing for the performances in the summer. Details of ticket sales will be released nearer the time.