Oliver - April 2002


CAST LIST

 OLIVER TWIST - Mark Bayliss & Jack McEntee
FAGIN - Greg Yates
ARTFUL DODGER - Christopher Eastup & Andrew Gobsill
BILL SlKES - 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 CLAYIPOLE - Chris Wolverson
DOCTOR GRIMWIG - David Storey
MRS BEDWIN - Eileen Southall
OLD SALLY - Jackie Handley
CHARLIE BATES - Chris Lewis
BULLSEYE - Bomber

Other parts played by Colette Edwards, Liz. Gilbert, Lydia Simpkiss, Alf Rai, Dorothy Copson and Roger Stokes

CHORUS:

Dorothy Copson, Jayne Crowther, Colette Edwards, Liz. Gilbert, Sue Gilpin, Caroline Hammond, Ella Hickman, Sharon Johnson, Barbara King, Samantha King, Kate Osbome, 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)

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

Team B (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday Matinee)

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

STORY OF THE SHOW

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.