Until 2007, Magnormos predominantly presented readings of musicals, and these included Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night, Mel Brooks' Archy & Mehitabel, Craig Christie's Water into Wine and Peter Pinne's A Bunch of Ratbags.
include Mary Bryant (Nick Enright/David King), Life's A Circus (Anthony Costanzo), Love Equals (Craig Christie/Kristin Keam), Flora the Red Menace (John Kander/Fred Ebb/David Thompson) and The Thing About Men (Joe DiPietro/Jimmy Roberts).
[4] Members of the Broadway company (Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff and Michael Berresse) flew to Melbourne to see the production and conduct a question and answer session.
In 2013 the company staged a commercial season of flowerchildren – the mamas and papas story and a Stephen Schwartz Triptych in September featuring Godspell, Pippin and Children of Eden, with the composer himself in attendance.
Other productions include an orchestral concert of Kevin Purcell and Victor Kazan's Rebecca – the Musical'and workshops of new musicals Flowerchildren (Peter Fitzpatrick) and Better Than Broadway (Melvyn Morrow, David Mitchell, Ray Cook).
Many Australian musical theatre stars have appeared on the Magnormos stage including Toni Lamond, Tony Sheldon, Nancye Hayes, Silvie Paladino, Anne Wood, Terence Donovan, Michael Cormick, Robert Grubb, Shaun Murphy, Sally Bourne, Jane Badler, Matt Hetherington, Chelsea Plumley, Casey Donovan, Jessica Featherby and many more.