In April 2016, Luxembourg's New World Theatre Club and Pirate Productions will be putting on a joint production of Oliver! at Kinneksbond in Mamer (from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 April), direced by Neil Johnson.
The casting was recently carried out and the main characters have now been announced.
Director Neil Johnson commented "The cast list of Oliver! is now complete. The production team had the unenviable task of choosing principals from a very talented group of people, amongest both the youth and adult actors who auditioned. Now comes the even harder part: rehearsals! We've decided to run youth rehearsals on Saturday afternoons (at the Altrimenti, after the NWTC Youth Group workshops), adult principals on Tuesday evenings (downstairs at the Culturando café) and adult chorus on Thursday evenings (at the Waldorf School). Mira Toth (Youth Choreographer) and Tara Donnell (Youth Director) are handling Saturdays, Philip Dutton (MD) and I are running Tuesdays and Allison Kingsburg (Adult Choreographer) and Philip are running Thursdays. This will change towards the end of the year when we start putting musical numbers and dialogue together in the various scenes."
He added a request "As you may know, the chief villain of the piece, one Bill Sikes, has a dog called Bullseye... If anyone owns a tough-looking canine (frankly, a possdle or Yorkshire Terrier won't cut it) and is prepared to have him/her brought on stage by Bill during one scene only (on a lead), could they please get in touch with me? He or she needs to look fairly threatening but have a placid nature (that's the dog, not the owner)".
Neil Johnson can be contacted by email: chair@pirates.lu.
Adult Principals
Bet: Celine Planata
Bill Sikes: Jeff Konter
Chairman: John Overstall
Fagin: Brian Parker
Dr Grimwig: Gavan Guilfoyle
Mr Bumble: Pat Weldon
Mr Sowerberry: Victor Bonanno
Mrs Bedwin: Kira Stewart
Mrs Sowerberry: Bernadette Alexander
Nancy: Ruth Gillen
Old Sally: Ann Overstall
Widow Corny: Beverley Atkinson
Mr Brownlow: Henry Wickens
Young Principals
Charlotte: Maija McGlynn
Dodger: Adam Guilfoyle
Noah: Jasper Frank
Oliver: Jack Guilfoyle
Oliver: Noam Golergant
Charley Bates: Issac Foran
The Chorus will be announced in January.
See www.nwtc.lu and www.pirateproductions.lu for details, including tickets for the shows.
