Programme 1983 – Oliver

OLIVER

CIVIC THEATRE, WAIPUKURAU
CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY COLLEGE
July 6, 7, 8, 9 1983

MICHELLE ANDERSON plays Nancy in this production. This is her first major part for the school but she has appeared in competition work throughout New Zealand. Michelle also teaches speech.

GEOFFREY GIBSON as Bill Sykes. This also is Geoffrey’s first major role for the school. He was a Rotary exchange student to Australia during “West Side Story” last year.

IRA HOPKINSON as Oliver. He is a third former this year and alternates in the part with Jeffrey Strang.

DARREN MACKAY plays Fagin in Oliver. Darren appeared last year as Tony in “West Side Story” and in 1981 in the school production of “Unman, Wittering and Zigo”.

STUART McCLEARY as The Artful Dodger. He also appeared in “West Side Story” as Diesal.

JEFFREY STRANG as Oliver. He is a third former this year and alternates in the part with Ira Hopkinson.

CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY COLLEGE

presents

OLIVER

Directed by BARRY PEDERSEN

CAST
(In order of appearance)

Oliver   IRA HOPKINSON or JEFFREY STRANG
Workhouse boys & Fagin’s Gang   HAYDON APPLETON-SEYMOUR
WENDY BIRDSALL
ROSIE BISHOP
WAYNE COLES
DARLENE HANSEN
SEAN HANSEN
KANE LACEY
KAREN MIDDELBERG
ANNA QUINN
KIM SAVAGE
MICHAEL WATSON
Mr Bumble  DENNIS BETHELL
Widow Corney   JOANNE LOGAN
Mr Sowerberry   BYRON APPLETON-SEYMOUR
Mrs Sowerberry   BETH DAVIDSON
Charlotte   ZOE TITLEY
Noah Claypole   CHRIS ELLMERS
The Artful Dodger   STUART McCLEARY
Londoners   JUDY ARMSTRONG
LOUISE BETHELL
SHARYN BRASELL
BERNICE COLLINS
JENNIE COOPER
SALLY EWEN
FIONA FLEMING
ANDREW FLETCHER
DAVID FRANKLIN
SHAREE FRASER
JEANETTE HOPKINSON
SUSAN PETERSEN
MARTINE SEYMOUR
JOANNE STEVENSON
BRONWYN STRETTON
ROBERT TAYLOR
KAREN THOMSEN
THERESE McSHARREY
Fagin   DARREN MACKAY
Nancy   MICHELLE ANDERSON
Bet   LLANNE [LEANNE] MARTIN
Mr Brownlow   CHRIS DUTHIE
Bill Sykes   GEOFFREY GIBSON
Mrs Bedwin   LOUISE JENSEN
Dr. Grimwig   RICHARD JOHNSON
Old Sally   CATHERINE ANDERSON

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ACT I

Scene One – THE WORKHOUSE
Scene Two – THE WIDOW’S PARLOUR
(a few minutes later)
Scene Three – THE UNDERTAKER’S PARLOUR
(the next day)
Scene Four – THE UNDERTAKER’S PARLOUR
(the following morning)
Scene Five – PADDINGTON GREEN
(that afternoon)
Scene Six – THE THIEVE’S KITCHEN
(that night)
INTERVAL (15 minutes)

ACT II

Scene One – THE THREE CRIPPLES PUBLIC HOUSE
(the next night)
Scene Two – MR BROWNLOW’S HOUSE
(the next morning)
Scene Three – THE THIEVE’S KITCHEN
(later in the morning)
Scene Four – the WIDOW’S PARLOUR
(A few days later)
Scene Five – MR BROWNLOW’S HOUSE
(that afternoon)
Scene Six – LONDON BRIDGE
(that night)

The action takes place in the East End of London during 1898 over a period of two weeks.

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT I
Food Glorious Food   OLIVER AND THE BOYS
Oliver   MR BUMBLE, WIDOW CORNEY
I Shall Scream   WIDOW CORNEY, MR BUMBLE
Boy For Sale   MR BUMBLE
That’s Your Funeral   MR SOWERBERRY MRS SOWERBERRY MR BUMBLE
Where Is Love   OLIVER
Consider Yourself   THE ARTFUL DODGER, OLIVER, THE COMPANY
Pick A Pocket Or Two   FAGIN AND THE BOYS
It’s A Fine Life   FAGIN, NANCY, BET AND THE BOYS
I’d Do Anything   THE ARTFUL DODGER, NANCY, OLIVER, FAGIN, BET AND THE BOYS
Be Back Soon   FAGIN, THE ARTFUL DODGER AND THE BOYS

ACT II
Oom-Pah-Pah   NANCY AND THE COMPANY
My Name   BILL SYKES
As Long As He Needs Me   NANCY
Where Is Love   MRS BEDWIN
Who Will Buy   OLIVER, STREET CRIERS AND THE COMPANY
It’s A Fine Life (Reprise)   NANCY, BILL SYKES, FAGIN, THE ARTFUL DODGER
Reviewing The Situation   FAGIN
Oliver (Reprise)   WIDOW CORNEY, MR BUMBLE
As Long As He Needs Me (Reprise)   NANCY
Reviewing The Situation (Reprise)   FAGIN
Finale   The Company

PRODUCTION PERSONNEL

Stage Manager   IAN PATTERSON
Back Stage Crewe  GRAEME BAYLISS
DAVID HENDERSON
LAWRENCE POTTER
TIM WATSON
Business Manager   COLIN MOORE
Front of House Manager   RAY MILLER
Choreography   SUE CRARER
Lighting   EUAN HARVEY
SIMON JARVIS
JOHN REI5IMA
WILLIAM TAYLOR
Make-up   SARAH BREAKWELL
KATHERYN JONASSEN
CATHERINE PHILLIPS
ELIZABETH REID
GAEL STEVENSON
PAMELA STEVENSON
Costumes   SALLY EWEN
Properties   SUSAN FLYNN
ROBERT TAYLOR
Set Construction   DAVE FLETCHER
PETER HARDING
DON WHITFIELD
Photography   SYD KING
Poster Design   LISA TOBIN
Printing   ALASTAIR MELVIN
DON STEVENSON
Prompt   JULIA FLEMING

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ORCHESTRA

Piano   JOYCE HAYDON
Clarinets   CALLUM APPLETON-SEYMOUR
MATTHEW JUDD
STUART WHITNEY
Drums   ROGER FRANKLIN
Flutes   MICHELLE ANDERSON
SUSAN FLETCHER
Guitar   GEORGE PETERS
Violin 1   ROSALINE BEALE
Violin 2   DENISE ROWLEY
KERRI STEVENSON

Oliver, an orphan, is in a workhouse. Because the boys are starved and beaten Oliver has the temerity to ‘ask for more’. He is thrown out of the workhouse and sold to Mr Sowerberry as an undertaker’s mute.

He escapes from the tyrannical household and walks to London to seek food and lodging.

He meets the Artful Dodger who befriends him and is soon introduced to Fagin and his evil ways.

Oliver goes on his first assignment but is caught.

In Act 2, Oliver has been taken in by Mr Brownlow but when he runs a message for him is captured again by Nancy and Sykes.

Later Nancy confesses to Mr Brownlow that it was she who was responsible for Oliver’s detainment.

Mr Brownlow seeks Nancy’s aid in getting Oliver back. Nancy does this but her action leads the play to its dramatic end.

Autographs

The College is indebted to all those who have lent properties or helped in any way to make this production possible and in particular Graham’s Bookshop for their booking facilities and also the Hastings Light Opera Company for making costumes available.

OLIVER