The one they're all waiting for, of course, is Les Miserables, but in the meantime Croft House Operatic Society have gone for what might most accurately be described as Les Miz Lite.
It's one of those shows that opened on Broadway a good decade ago but failed for whatever reason to find its way across the Atlantic, though fans of the Boublil and Schonberg style of musical will find plenty to enjoy in the music and lyrics of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton.
It's a new version of the old Baroness Orczy French Revolutionary romp, here directed with a generally lively pace though with rather too much attention to camp by Jeremy Tustin.
In the shadow of the guillotine, terrified aristocrats are rescued by unlikely hero Sir Percy Blakeney and his League of the Scarlet Pimpernel – Damien Ross and colleagues all failing to appreciate that extreme foppishness doesn't necessarily mean having to act like you're auditioning for a revival of La Cage Aux Folles.
Things really take off every time Sarah Buckley appears as unhappy heroine Marguerite – as well as displaying a keen theatrical sense, she has undoubtedly one of the biggest, most emotional and impressive voices in South Yorkshire and uses it to perfection as she belts out some of the evening's most powerful numbers.
And in her scenes with Richard Carlin's imposing, sombre Revolutionary agent Chauvelin – more shades of Les Miz in a character who could easily substitute for that show's Inspector Javert – she generates moments of genuine dramatic tension.
But this isn't the Victor Hugo epic and the night doesn't end in tragedy but with a good-natured triumph of good over evil and one final rousing chorus.
Now all Croft need is an audience to justify making their brave break with tradition.