Show r I I A r I 1 fl I I M THE ARTFUL DODGER Brad apparently did not dodge fast enough as Fagin David Jones and Bill Sikes Chris Wardell Warded Lr J come to a showdown The hero of our plays play Oliver Bill Linton himself is an innocent bystander j i. i i n Oliver is is' coming OliverI Oliver I the big British blockbuster musical hit based on Charles Dickens's famous Oliver Twist about an appealing appealing appealing ap ap- ap- ap pealing orphan boys boy's adventures in Victorian London's underworld is coming to the Uintah High School theatre March 29 30 31 and April 1 1 Curtain time is pm p.m. This presentation will not only include Include in include In- In clude the shows show's abundant songs that have become popular favorites via the origin original casts cast's record-album record and many on radio and Dickens's compelling tale of the work-house work boy who became a pickpocket-but pickpocket also the spectacular scenic effects representing represent representing t ting London's acrid underworld of the nineteenth century TilE THE BOUNDING HOUNDING talents of one man Lionel Bart supplied the book the music music and the lyrics that turned Dick Js s poignant story into this eld ni ig rt is the Englishman who at the turn of the began to redress the balance by which American musical comedies had dominated the stages of both London and New York ever since Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma 1 I in 1943 When Oliver took New York by storm early in 1963 Bart had no less than three musical hits running simultaneously in London Bart transformed the grim elements of Dickens's tale into light entertainment entertainment entertainment en en- with only minor adjustments adjustments adjustments ad ad- here and there The scenes of squalor painted by the novelist show up in the musical as a tavern for rowdy revelry the bleak workhouse where orphans are penned l i 6 YA CHRIS Bill Sikes Wardell J THE ARTFUL DODGER Brad Fagin FaginS S David Jones welcome Oliver Bill Linton to the fold of Victorian Victorian Vic Vic- torian London's grimy underworld set to music and hilarity up and starved becomes the site for a chorus of ragamuffins beating spoons in empty gruel dishes to belt out a arousing arousing arousing rousing paean to Food Glorious Food and Fagins Fagin's lair is changed from froma a sinister out hide of a villainous leech into a tales tale's ogres ogre's den Fagin himself turns out in the musical to be a lovable old scalawag a comically eccentric miser instructing his jungle city juveniles in their trade with a topsy song Youve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two Bill Linton Oliver will be seen in the musicals musical's appealing title role of the fate-buffeted fate orphan boy David Jones as Fagin the droll professor of pick pick- who tells his urchin-pupils urchin to Shut up and Drink yer gin Shara Hacking as the spirited and sultry Nancy with the opportunity to sing the shows show's famous torch-song torch As s L Long ng AsHe As II He lie Needs Me and Chris Wardell as as th the Bill Sikes she is attached to 1 1 Brad will portray the i cocky Artful Dodger Rick Allred Mr 1 Bumble the work house beadle Trecia Abegglen Mrs Corney his collaborator in under-feeding under orphans orphans or or- Wells Hall and Carolyn Hales Mr and Mrs the spiteful family of undertakers to whom the quaking Oliver is briefly apprenticed and Chuck Toone the wealthy Mr Brownlow NOT TilE THE LEAST important part of the cast will be the shows show's full barrel-full of scampering portraying kids-portraying at first the denizens of the work-house work later Fagins Fagin's apt pupils at thievery Corey Grua is directing Oliver Reed Hansen is conducting its rich melodic score and the drama department department depart depart- ment meat is designing the productions production's scenery that ranges from the grim work-house work to sunlit London streets from the undertakers undertaker's macabre place of business to Fagins Fagin's school-room school for thieves from a lit dim-lit underworld tavern to the Thames embankment where Bill Sikes is finally cornered C i fir If f I It If t r i t n i I I t A III iI J TEACHERS PARENTS and students conversed during teacher parent-teacher conference March 3 at I f y IY y- y f ir i 1 i r f I p 0 h g T I lA Ji 4 w i i I THIS 10 TALL snowman welcomes visitors to the Sadie McConkie Me- Me Conkie ranch in Dry Fork Canyon the Uintah High School Teachers reported that parent turn-out turn was better than usual |