The Court House Players’ production of “Oliver!” will be performed at 7 o’clock tonight through Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday, in the Harry M. Ward Auditorium at Mathews High School.
Based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “Oliver Twist,” the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical, set in Victorian England, tells the story of Oliver, portrayed by Catherine King, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry (George Opie).
Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance among a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin (James King).
When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow (K.C. Woller), takes him in.
Fearing for the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes (Travis Brazil) and the sympathetic Nancy (Ashton Emerson) to kidnap Oliver back, threatening the boy’s chances of discovering the t...