The first audiences returned to the historic theatre earlier this month with a night-time concert of musical theatre favourites in You and I with Rachael Beck and Michael Cormick, but this week it's all about a younger audience.

On Thursday The Midnight Gang ride in to town for two performances.

The play, based on the best-selling novel by famed children's author David Walliams, is on a regional tour throughout Victoria.

It tells the story of Tom, 12, who finds himself lonely and lost in the children's ward of St Crook's Hospital, away from his family and at the mercy of an evil matron.

Each night at midnight, Tom and his fellow patients The Midnight Gang go on a series of amazing journeys as they turn the hospital into the places they've always wanted to go and make dreams come true.

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The team behind the show know exactly what goes in to engaging and successful theatre for young people, having also been part of the popular 13-, 26-, 52-, 78- and 91-Storey Treehouse productions and bringing several of Walliams' other books Mr Stink and Billionaire Boy to life on stage.

The 91-Storey Treehouse, the latest instalment of plays adapted by Richard Tulloch from the books by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.

The Midnight Gang is on Thursday April 1 at 12.30pm and 6pm at Her Majesty's Theatre. Tickets are available here

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