- Year
- 2002
- When
- April 2002
- Type
- Musical
Synopsis
Oliver follows the life of young Oliver Twist from inconspicuous beginnings in the workhouse through apprenticeship to the unscrupulous undertaker Sowerberry before making his escape to seek his fortune in London. Here he falls in with the Artful Dodger and subsequently joins Fagin's den of pickpockets and petty thieves. Escape from this predicament and the clutches of the evil Bill Sikes involves Nancy (Sikes' girlfriend) and the kindly figure of Mr Brownlow. His adventures and scrapes along this journey are accompanied by a marvellously tuneful score full of songs many of which have now become standards in their own right.
From the company’s records
Other parts played by Colette Edwards, Liz Gilbert, Lydia Simpkiss, Alf Rai, Dorothy Copson and Roger Stokes.
The archive does not record the venue and the production team for this production.
Who made it
Cast
- Oliver Twist
- Mark Bayliss and Jack McEntee
- Fagin
- Greg Yates
- Artful Dodger
- Christopher Eastup and Andrew Gobsill
- Bill Sikes
- Tim Jones
- Nancy
- Vicki Hardy
- Bet
- Faye Wilson
- Mr Bumble
- Colin Hunt
- Mrs Corney
- Marina Bray
- Mr Brownlow
- John Arnold
- Mr Sowerberry
- John Wiley
- Mrs Sowerberry
- Ruth Lewis
- Charlotte
- Nikki Rai
- Noah Claypole
- Chris Wolverson
- Doctor Grimwig
- David Storey
- Mrs Bedwin
- Eileen Southall
- Old Sally
- Jackie Handley
- Charlie Bates
- Chris Lewis
- Bullseye
- Bomber
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Chorus21
Dorothy Copson, Jayne Crowther, Colette Edwards, Liz Gilbert, Sue Gilpin, Caroline Hammond, Ella Hickman, Sharon Johnson, Barbara King, Samantha King, Kate Osborne, Jenni Rullan, Lydia Simpkiss, Pat Small, Anne Stokes, Kay Whistance, Janice Wolverson, Mark Friedl, Trevor Law, Alf Rai, Roger Stokes
Children's chorus Team A (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday evening)16
John Harvey, Jamie Taylor, Ross Wilkinson, Emma Bond, Rachel Eskriett, Lindsey Grant, Kirsty Haldron, Jessica Handley, Sarah Malpass, Shana McLoughlan, Jemma Parocki, Amie Quinn, Abbie Rai, Megan Rai, Victoria Stone, Collene Webb
Children's chorus Team B (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday matinee)15
Sam Cottrell, Nathan Samuel, Simon Williams, Charlotte Bacon, Sarah Bickley, Jade Larkin, Paige Larkin, Felicity North, Jenny O'Sullivan, Jessica Richardson, Aimee Slatcher, Aisha State, Becky Turner, Sky Westwood, Stephanie Williams
Were you in it?
We would like to know more about Oliver!.
The record for this production is thinner than the show deserves. If you were in it, or you were in the audience, you may have something the archive does not.
Programmes, photographs, cuttings from the local paper, a cast list in somebody’s handwriting: all of it helps, and we will add it here.
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