Some limited special effects were made use of during MLTJ performances, including notably splurge guns during 'Bugsy Malone', indoor fireworks during 'Santa Claus: The Musical' and a flying sequence during 'Peter Pan'.
[citation needed] The company now rehearse at Toft House Middlesbrough but use The Scout Hut ( Tollesby Road ) for weekly workshops.
Middlesbrough Youth Theatre was affiliated with MLT Ltd., which was born in 1930, and whose productions, although sometimes directed by professionals, were performed almost always by amateurs.
The company occupied this stage for twenty-seven years, until in 1945 a new theatre was proposed using money from the Building Fund.
Complications meant that, as well as the cost rising to three times the original estimate, the Middlesbrough Theatre did not open until 1957.