Oliver! The originals
Lionel Bart's Oliver! opened at the New Theatre in London on 30 June 1960. Keith Hamshere (left) was the original Oliver, and Martin Horsey (right) was an exuberant Artful Dodger. I met them when I was a teenage reporter doing a feature article about the show – hence the signed photo (in fountain pen, no less!)
Others in the original cast were Ron Moody (Fagin), Georgia Brown (Nancy), Barry Humphries (yes – him!) as Mr Sowerberry, and Paul Whitsun-Jones (Mr Bumble). Among the workhouse boys were Stephen Marriott (who was later to find fame in the Small Faces and Humble Pie), and Tony Robinson, who was to become Blackadder's Baldrick and now potters around archaeological sites with TV cameras in tow.
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Oliver! The originals
Lionel Bart's Oliver! opened at the New Theatre in London on 30 June 1960. Keith Hamshere (left) was the original Oliver, and Martin Horsey (right) was an exuberant Artful Dodger. I met them when I was a teenage reporter doing a feature article about the show – hence the signed photo (in fountain pen, no less!)
Others in the original cast were Ron Moody (Fagin), Georgia Brown (Nancy), Barry Humphries (yes – him!) as Mr Sowerberry, and Paul Whitsun-Jones (Mr Bumble). Among the workhouse boys were Stephen Marriott (who was later to find fame in the Small Faces and Humble Pie), and Tony Robinson, who was to become Blackadder's Baldrick and now potters around archaeological sites with TV cameras in tow.
See also here