Oliver!
Written by Jennifer Lee
Wednesday 19th February @ 7:15pm
Thursday 20th February @ 2.15pm & 7:15pm
Friday 21st February @ 7:15pm
Saturday 22nd February @ 2:15pm & 7:15pm
Halifax Light Opera Juniors
- Main Stage Production
The spectacular Halifax Light Opera Society Juniors are set to perform Lionel Bart’s iconic musical, ‘Oliver!’, at The Halifax Playhouse as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations.
The orphaned Oliver escapes the harsh Victorian workhouse and takes refuge in London’s 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 he’s 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, 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, the Olivier, Tony and Oscar-winning masterpiece vividly brings to life Dickens’ ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more.
True to Dickens’ novel, the script contains some mild and discriminatory language reflective of the period; depictions of violence towards men, women and children including gunshots; and themes of poverty, hunger and crime in Victorian society.
