Kerry Ellis confirms she'll star as Nancy in Oliver

Remember that thread about Sister Act on the Broadway board that, errrr, how shall I put it, errrr, raised a few eyebrows here?

Well, now there's one on Oliver...

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1007675&dt=12&boardid=1

i really don't get it...what are they arguing towards over there? she's too old, she's too good, she's not good enough, she should do something better, doing nothing at all, she's boring, oliver is boring. blah blah blah! ugh. i think she'll be ace in the role, noone can deny she hasn't got an amazing voice, and it'll give her the change she needs. hell two years in Wicked must push anyone onto the edge! good luck to her...i'll certainly go see her!

tickets on you

Sam the tickets are on you... what do you think your student loan is for :p

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I hope this brings something out in Ms Ellis... as great as she can be, she bloody loves to take it easy on stage, giving dull, lacklustre performances. For the most part of her run of Elphaba, she seemed averse to holding notes during midweek performances, makiing her Defying Gravity a resounding anti-climax. That's all well and good for a show like Wicked... still relatively new, for the majority of people who go, it'll be their first time so they don't know any better. For a lumbering, modern classic of a show like Oliver, there are certain songs people look out for, with As Long As He Needs Me being one of them. Kerry's really going to have to push herself to consistently do that song justice. Does she have what it takes?