Oliver! is heading back to the stage in a major new production coming to Chichester Festival Theatre this summer 2024.
Billed as spectacular new production, Lionel Bart’s iconic musical has been fully re-conceived and revised for Chichester by director and choreographer Matthew Bourne and producer Cameron Mackintosh.
The cast includes Simon Lipkin (Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q) as Fagin, Shanay Holmes (Miss Saigon, The Bodyguard) as Nancy, Aaron Sidwell (Henry VI, Wicked) as Bill Sikes, Billy Jenkins (Les Misérables, BBC’s Dodger) as the Artful Dodger and Philip Franks (The Rocky Horror Show, Witness for the Prosecution) as Mr Brownlow.
With a sensational score, including Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two, I’d Do Anything, Oom Pah Pah, As Long As He Needs Me and many more, this Olivier, Tony and Oscar-winning musical masterpiece vividly brings to life Dickens’ ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more.
Joining Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne in the creative team are: co-director Jean-Pierre van der Spuy; designer Lez Brotherston; musical supervisor and conductor Graham Hurman; lighting designers Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs; sound designer Adam Fisher; video designer George Reeve; original orchestrations William David Brohn; orchestral adaptation Stephen Metcalfe; casting directors Felicity French CDG and Paul Wooller CDG; children’s casting director Verity Naughton CDG.
Oliver! is produced in association with Cameron Mackintosh, and is widely tipped for a West End run.
Cameron Mackintosh’s past productions of Oliver! include Sam Mendes’ acclaimed reinvention of the show in 1994 at the London Palladium, choreographed by Matthew Bourne, and starring Jonathan Pryce and Sally Dexter; and Rupert Goold’s 2009 production at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane co-directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, based on Sam Mendes’ 1994 staging, and starring Rowan Atkinson and Jodie Prenger.
Oliver! will run from 8 July to 7 September 2024 at Chichester Festival Theatre.
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