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Oliver! | West End

Cameron Mackintosh presents a co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre

Book, Music and Lyrics by Lionel Bart
Freely adapted from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
New revision by Cameron Mackintosh

Sat 14 Dec 2024 - Sun 4 Oct 2026

About Oliver! | West End

This spectacular production of Lionel Bart’s iconic musical, fully reconceived by director and choreographer Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, which played to full houses at Chichester last summer, is now playing in the West End. To book, visit https://oliverthemusical.com/

5 Stars

Tunes, glorious tunes!

Mail on Sunday

5 Stars

Glorious

Daily Mail

4 Stars

A winner

The Times

4 Stars

Bottled joy: guaranteed to put a spring in your step.

The Telegraph

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. 

The cast includes Simon Lipkin (Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q) as Fagin, Ava Brennan (Hamilton, Top Boy) as Nancy, Aaron Sidwell (Henry VI, Wicked) as Bill Sikes, Billy Jenkins (Les Misérables, BBC’s Dodger) as the Artful Dodger and Philip Franks (The Rocky Horror Show, Witness for the Prosecution) as Mr Brownlow.

Produced and revised by Cameron Mackintosh,Oliver! is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne and co-directed by Jean-Pierre van der Spuy. Designed by Lez Brotherston, lighting design is by Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs, sound design by Adam Fisher, video design by George Reeve, original orchestrations by William David Brohn adapted by Stephen Metcalfe; music supervision is by Graham Hurman.

https://oliverthemusical.com/

Oliver! is the latest in a long line of Chichester's spectacular summer musicals to transfer to the West End. See them here first - sign up to our mailing list or become a member to be the first to hear about our next major musical in summer 2025.

Venue

Gielgud Theatre, London
Running time
Approximately 2 hours 40 minutes including an interval
Running time
Approximately 2 hours 40 minutes including an interval

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