Gielgud; Southwark Playhouse, London Lionel Bart's great musical is a gift for Matthew Bourne; a nifty reworking of Shaw's comedy would surely have pleased him; and a fresh start for Welsh theatre Oom-pah-pah! Plenty of that " with enough emphasis on Fagin as a surrogate papa to suggest a pun in this most boisterous of numbers. Oliver! is, after all, a show about families, lost, restored and invented. Yet there is al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM on January 19, 2025