Video exclusive: Sheffield dogs hit Bullseye at Oliver! auditions
Sheffield Theatres has auditioned for three dogs to star in the company’s production of Lionel Bart’s multi award-winning masterpiece Oliver!, which takes to the Crucible stage from Friday 29 November 2013 to Saturday 25 January 2014.
Based upon the children’s novel by Charles Dickens, Oliver! follows the story of an orphan who runs away from a workhouse and falls in with a gang of boys trained to be pickpockets by gang leader, Fagin, and includes well-known songs such as Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, Oom-Pah-Pah and As Long As He Needs Me.
This new staging will be directed by Artistic Director Daniel Evans and will be his third musical for the company, following critically-acclaimed productions of My Fair Lady and This Is My Family.
The Yorkshire Post was granted exclusive backstage access to the dog auditions at the Crucible. Click on the video to see how they went.