2023 Encores! Oliver!

I'm very curious to see what they do with the Encores! Oliver! next year. As far as I know, Cameron Mackintosh holds the rights - is this correct? Since 1994, he has been reproducing the Sam Mendes production from the Palladium during that decade, updated by Rupert Goold in 2009... I know there have been other regional revivals in the UK since then that have had different directors/designs/concepts. I'm curious what the Encores! production will look like, and who will be in it. Any thoughts/hopes? Fagin and Nancy are famous roles in the canon. Will they go with obvious casting or outside the box choices? I would hope for an established Broadway belter star for Nancy.

I'm on of many people who would love to see Danny Burstein play Fagin.

If Some Like It Hot is still running then, Borle won't be available.

Danny would be terrific.

FYI, it's important that Fagin is played by a Jewish man.

Georgeanddot2 said: "FYI, it's important that Fagin is played by a Jewish man."



FYI, no, it really isn't.

IronMan said: "The "creepy Dame Edna guy," or Barry Humphries, was the original Mr Sowerberry in London."

^This! I can't quite see him as Fagin, but would love to see him in this somehow (not that he would ever have any reason to take a bit part in something like this, but just dreaming of a fun little throwback or homage to the original).