Respected musician Andrew London reviews the Kāpiti Playhouse production of Oliver!, which has been performed at Kāpiti’s Southward Theatre.
Does any musical ever written have a more singalong-able song than Consider Yourself? Mind you, Food, Glorious Food and Oom-Pah-Pah wouldn’t be far behind.
Certainly, the capacity crowd at Southward relished every opportunity to join in when these much-loved musical gems arrived.
Composer Lionel Bart, whose adaptation of the Dickens novel debuted in 1960, would have been right chuffed to have heard his tunes so enthusiastically rendered and received.
The outstanding Katie Docherty as Nancy leads the charge with an ebullient and captivating Oom-Pah-Pah, and a show-stopping As Long as He Needs Me, deservedly reprised.