Lionel Bart’s iconic musical, Oliver!, will open in London

Lionel Bart’s iconic musical, Oliver!, absolutely reconceived with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, will open in London on the finish of the 12 months.

Oliver! will start performances at Gielgud Theatre on Saturday 14 December 2024. Precedence reserving begins on Friday 26 April – join at www.oliverthemusical.com with tickets on normal sale from Monday 29 April. The manufacturing runs at Chichester ComPetition Theatre from 8 July to 7 September.

The solid consists of Simon Lipkin (Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q) as Fagin, Shanay Holmes (Miss Saigon, The Bodyguard) as Nancy, Aaron Sidwell (Henry VI, Depraved) as Invoice Sikes, Billy Jenkins (Les Misérables, BBC’s Dodger) because the Suave Dodger and Philip Franks (The Rocky Horror Present, Witness for the Prosecution) as Mr Brownlow.

Freely tailored from Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver! tells the story of the orphaned Oliver Twist, who escapes the tough Victorian workhouse and takes refuge in London’s murky underworld with the wily gang chief Fagin and his group of resourceful pickpockets led by the Suave Dodger. He finds a buddy within the kind-hearted Nancy and when he’ s wrongly arrested for stealing, Oliver meets an sudden saviour; however is happiness actually inside his grasp?

With a sensational rating, together with Meals Superb Meals, Take into account Your self, You’ve Bought to Decide-a-Pocket or Two, I’d Do Something, Oom Pah Pah, As Lengthy As He Wants Me and plenty of extra, the Olivier, Tony and Oscar-winning masterpiece vividly brings to life Dickens’ ever-popular story of the boy who requested for extra.

Matthew Bourne is internationally famend for reinventing classics together with Swan Lake and Edward Scissorhands for his firm New Adventures, in addition to his Olivier Award-winning choreography for My Truthful Woman and Mary Poppins (which he co-directed and in addition earned him a Tony Award nomination for Greatest Choreography) and his latest acclaimed route and musical staging of Stephen Sondheim’s Outdated Buddies. The stellar artistic group consists of designer Lez Brotherston (Fiddler on the Roof, Me and My Woman, Flowers for Mrs Harris).