The show is all set to delight Eastbourne audiences again during half-term week in May (from May 28), when EODS take to the stage.
The show is directed by James Bell who has himself appeared in four previous local productions of the musical so he
well knows the show and the Charles Dickens view of the darker side of Victorian London.
Asking for more food in the workhouse brings swift punishment for our young hero who is promptly sold and apprenticed to an undertaker, Mr Sowerberry.
Sowerberry (Gordon Ferguson) and his wife (Katherine Pymble) think that Oliver will look suitably sad in a funeral procession and they taunt the boy with the song, That's Your Funeral. But Oliver (Charlie Carr) is soon embroiled in new adventures when he meets Fagin and his gang.
Incidentally, the role of Mr Sowerberry in the original 1960 production was played by Barry Humphries (otherwise known today as Dame Edna Everage).
The show is on from May 28-31 with evening performances at 7.30pm and 2.30pm matinees on Thursday and Saturday.
Tickets cost £10/£12, call 01323 412000.
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