The Calumet Players
Present:
“OLIVER” the musical
Oliver! is a stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before opening in the West End, where it enjoyed a record-breaking long run. Oliver! ran on Broadway, after being brought to the U.S. by producer David Merrick in 1963. Major London revivals played from 1977 to 1980, 1994 to 1998, 2008 to 2011 and on tour in the UK from 2011 to 2013. Additionally, its 1968 film adaptation, directed by Carol Reed, won six Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Oliver! received thousands of performances in British schools, becoming one of the most popular school musicals.[1] In 1963 Lionel Bart received the Tony Award for Best Original Score. Many songs are well known to the public, such as “Food, Glorious Food“, “Consider Yourself” and “I’d Do Anything“.[2]
Background
Oliver! was the first musical adaptation of a famous Charles Dickens work to become a stage hit. There had been two previous Dickens musicals in the 1950s, both of them television adaptations of A Christmas Carol. The plot of Dickens’s original novel is considerably simplified for the purposes of the musical, with Fagin being represented more as a comic character than as a villain, and large portions of the latter part of the story being completely left out. Although Dickens’s novel has been called antisemitic in its portrayal of the Jewish Fagin as evil, the production by Bart (himself Jewish) was more sympathetic and featured many Jewish actors in leading roles: Ron Moody (Ronald Moodnick), Georgia Brown (Lilian Klot), and Martin Horsey.[3]
Showtimes:
- Thu – Sept 18th @ 7:30pm
- Fri – Sept 19th @ 7:30pm
- Sat – Sept 20th @ 7:30pm
- Fri – Sept 26th @ 7:30pm
- Sat – Sept 27th @ 7:30pm
- Sun – Sept 28th @ 2:00pm (matinee)
Tickets:
$18 – Seniors & Students $20 – Adults
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