Lionel Bart's 'roaring' rewrite of Dickens gets 23 curtain calls at the New Theatre, June 30 1960When Lionel Bart took on Charles Dickens, he had no plans to be reverential. After all, this was a man who, unsatisfied with his real surname, Begleiter, had changed it on a whim after passing the London hospital St Bartholomew's on a bus. At 29, he had already written hit songs for Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard, and co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM on April 16, 2017