Oliver!

Challenges with this production included limited rehearsal time. This show was completed with a four-week schedule versus the normal six-week period. Many first-time cast members had never participated in a Class Act production, so additional instruction was required. Due to numerous conflicts, the crew was rotated.

The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.