Windermere School's Oliver musical opens tonight

With the opening night of Oliver,a MUSICAL extravaganza hits Windermere School this evening, the senior school’s Christmas theatre production.

Female students Phoebe Gillard and Evie Plumb played,Oliver and the Artful Dodger,joined on stage by over 50 student cast members performing the original 1960s script still used in the West End.

To bring a real energy to musical favourites Food Glorious Food the school’s orchestra will play live during the performance.

Head of music and production director Les Williams said: “It’s a great family production that everyone will enjoy. The students are really fired up for the opening night. We’re using the original script by Lionel Bart and had to buy the rights to perform it so it’s certainly one of our bigger productions.”

Fagin will be played by Year 13 pupil Ryan Matthews, Bill Sykes by Year 13’s Matthew Jarvis and Nancy will be played by Jennifer Slack in Year 12.

The musical starts at 7pm and there will be performances tomorrow Friday December 10 and Saturday December 11 at the school’s Crampton Hall, Windermere.