"OLIVER"

SSAOS Junior 1987 production

• Music, Book and Lyrics by Lionel Bart
  

• SSAOS Junior Production at The South Tyneside College Theatre, South Shields 27th April, 1987 - 2nd May, 1987

• First produced in London in 1960

Much of Dickens's "Oliver Twist" was sugered up in the neatly fillited re-making of the novel into a musical. Fagin became the loveable rogue, his band of thieves was transformed into a pack of dancing imps, and the bunch of starving orphans dreamed of food in an uncharacteristic sweet way. But Lionel Bart didn't pull back all his punches and produced an effective love story between East End Nancy, the tart who befriended Oliver and her bullying man, Bill Sykes.

It was this love story that produced the evocative torch song for Nancy -  'As Long as He Needs Me'. Anther strong emotional song was that of little Oliver sighing sadly 'Where is Love?'. Even the rumbustrious 'Consider Yourself (at Home)' by the Artful Doger  has you thinking - does the young inocent deserve this? 

The show is packed with good singable tunes, Nancy's pub song 'Oom-pah-pah' and Fagin's character songs 'You've got to Pick a Pocket or Two', 'Be Back Soon', and 'Reviewing the Situation'. You cn't fail to leave the foyer after the show without humming one of this plethora of musical hits.

Cast

Jonathan Codling, John Darvell, Karen Murray, Peter Clark, Lisa Roach, Chris Markwick, Helyn Wright, Stephen Oran, Neil Park, Louise Rea, Clare Lewis, Dale Meeks, Philip Meeks, Chris Smith, Irene Green, Paul Milburn, Marie Short, Neil Hogarth, Darren Carr, Andrew Clemens, John hayden, Craig Rawlings, John Scroggins, Tony Wilson, Julie Hunter, Andrea hutchinson, Ingred HagemanNatalie Burke, Gillian Manson, Joanne McTavy, Kay Riley, Elaine Simpson, karen Stothart, Paul Mills, David Morton, Chris Urwin.

The Cast of "OLIVER"

See also the Junior Production of "OLIVER" in 1997 and the Senior prod. in 2002

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