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#28

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

Oh thanks for posting the reviews, i was gonna post em as per usual early hours of this morning but fell asleep lol
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#32

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

i will happily watch it from further back.......the car park lol

I hate Annie and Oliver, they should be chained together and thrown to the sharks
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#38

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

Well, thankfully for you then, the planned West End season of 'Annie' this Summer has been shelved. I can only think that when Charles Strouse saw the current production with Ruth Madoc a few months ago he wasn't taken by it.
#42

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

For those who have seen this new production in previews.
Does this portrait of Lionel Bart, that appears over the company during the finale, appear at every performance or was it a one off for last nights opening?

Updated On: 1/15/09 at 10:08 AM

#44

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

'Mr Atkinson is not the only rocket of the night. Jodie Prenger, who won the part of the doomed, decent Nancy in a primetime BBC1 talent show, stands up to the test like a sturdy galleon. She swings her big hips and heaves her all into the role'.

Quentin Letts - Daily Mail
#45

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

'Jodie Prenger as Nancy on the strength of TV's I'd Do Anything competition. The good news is that she acquits herself extremely well'.

Michael Billington - The Guardian
#46

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

'And did Jodie Prenger, who won the role of Nancy in one of those deplorably sadistic television contests, justify her choice? I must admit she did. Initially she struck me as parading, posturing, performing rather than acting, but she went on to prove herself a tough, coarse, credible presence with a big, robust voice — and that’s all that is needed'.

Benedict Nightingale - The Times
#47

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

'Perhaps no one could resist the lure of Jodie Prenger, the girl who fought it out in BBC1’s I’d Do Anything and secured the role of the put-upon Nancy. With a blasting foghorn of a voice and a physique that looked almost big and firm enough to cause Burn Gorman’s superbly ominous, thuggish threat of a Bill Sikes to think twice about violence, Prenger duly melted and belted out that anthem for masochistic, battered women everywhere As Long As He Needs Me'.
#49

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

"For those who have seen this new production in previews.
Does this portrait of Lionel Bart, that appears over the company during the finale, appear at every performance or was it a one off for last nights opening? "

Mama i dont recall seeing it.


#50

re: 'Oliver!' -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 14th Jan 2009.

'The difference is crucial in exposing the shallowness of the acting, particularly in respect of I’d Do Anything winner Jodie Prenger as Nancy. She looks in good shape in her red dress and piled up hair, but her voice, while true, is simply not strong enough for the rigours of six performances a week (she has Wednesday and Thursday nights off) and her stage presence is crudely one-dimensional'.

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