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Oliver!
6 Jun 2012
Impressively staged if sometimes trivial production of Lionel Bart's musical
Lionel Bart’s phenomenally successful musical was always a kind of Dickens-lite, the composer jettisoning much of the source novel’s gritty social commentary and satire in favour of glossy set pieces and a slightly cloying ‘lor’ love us’ attitude.
Oliver! set for run at Edinburgh Playhouse
23 May 2012
Cameron Mackintosh-produced epic featuring original Lionel Bart score
‘Cameron Mackintosh doesn’t do small,’ announces Brian Conley, his warm grin a lifetime away from the Fagin character he depicts in the Scots impressario’s successful revival of Oliver! TV star Conley’s acclaimed turns in Jolson and Hairspray suggest a…
Brian Conley to play Fagin in Oliver!
15 May 2012
The new Cameron Mackintosh production is stopping at Edinburgh's Playhouse
‘Cameron Mackintosh doesn’t do small,’ announces Brian Conley, his warm grin a lifetime away from the Fagin character he depicts in the Scots impressario’s successful revival of Oliver!. TV star Conley’s acclaimed turns in Jolson and Hairspray suggest a…
