Name: Oliver!
Start: 2024-07-08 19:30:00
End: 2024-07-08 21:30:00
Location: Chichester Festival Theatre

This spectacular new production of Lionel Barts iconic musical has been reconceived especially for CFT by director and choreographer Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh and promises to be one of the most unforgettable shows ever at the Festival Theatre.

The orphaned Oliver escapes the harsh Victorian workhouse and takes refuge in Londons murky underworld with the wily gang leader Fagin and his team of resourceful pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger. He finds a friend in the kind-hearted Nancy and when hes wrongly arrested for stealing, Oliver meets an unexpected saviour; but is happiness truly within his grasp?With a sensational score, including Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, Youve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two, Id Do Anything, Oom Pah Pah, As Long As He Needs Me and many more, the Olivier, Tony and Oscar-winning masterpiece vividly brings to life Dickens ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more.Matthew Bourne is internationally renowned for reinventing classics including Swan Lake and Edward Scissorhands for his company New Adventures, as well as his Olivier Award-winning choreography for My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins (which he co-directed and also earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Choreography) and his recent acclaimed direction and musical staging of Stephen Sondheims Old Friends. The stellar creative team includes designer Lez Brotherston (Fiddler on the Roof, Me and My Girl, Flowers for Mrs Harris).

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 Misrables, BBCs Dodger) as the Artful Dodger and Philip Franks (The Rocky Horror Show, Witness for the Prosecution) as Mr Brownlow.

Oliver! is a Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre production.

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