BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series

[Mattbrain]

BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#1

Posted: 12/22/07 at 2:46pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23886

Why?

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#2

Posted: 12/22/07 at 2:51pm

Sweet merciful God, please smite Andrew Lloyd Webber! That is all I want for Christmas.`

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[Rosalind]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#2

Posted: 12/22/07 at 2:52pm

I wish they would just do a revival without a tv show...seriously.

"Just remembering you've had an 'and' when you're back to 'or' Makes the or mean more, than it did before..."

[neddyfrank2]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#4

Posted: 12/22/07 at 3:02pm

But this one has a twist - they are also looking for a Nancy! ALW has really tricked us this time.

[nitsua]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#5

Posted: 12/22/07 at 3:05pm

Yet we Americans did that with Grease: You're the One That I Want!

"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere

[singingwendy]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#6

Posted: 12/22/07 at 3:10pm

wow..what's caused the sudden resurgence in interest in the show? Along with this, there are 3 theatres in my area that are producing "Oliver!" as part of their seasons this year!

[JulianHookbucks]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#7

Posted: 12/22/07 at 3:42pm

"Yet we Americans did that with Grease: You're the One That I Want!"

Because the Brits did it first!

that's a really big mic...

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#8

Posted: 12/22/07 at 4:34pm

It's like we're all 6.

"Why did you do it?"
"The Brits did it."

He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

[jewishboy]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#9

Posted: 12/22/07 at 4:46pm

I'm cool with finding boys to play Oliver through a TV show, but I'm very sadden by the fact they are also looking for Nancy, especially after Mackintosh produced a revival about 12 years ago with the incomparable Sally Dexter as Nancy.

[EponineThenardier]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#10

Posted: 12/22/07 at 6:34pm

You all know they're doing this with Spamalot across the pond too, right? To find the new Lady of the Lake.


Search for the Diva

[BustopherPhantom]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#11

Posted: 12/22/07 at 6:51pm

(siiiiggggghhhhh)

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[philly03]

re: BBC & Webber Search for 'Oliver!' in Next Audition TV Series#12

Posted: 12/23/07 at 12:46am

My guess is because I think I heard Cameron Mackintosh say in an interview it's his favourite show. And it was actually his production that got Boublil into musical theatre (or was it Shonberg?) Nonetheless, I'm not a big fan myself.