MIDWEEK Wednesday, May 24, 2017 11 EVENTS&LEISURE It’s the word for fixing communitybites Oliver! A Worle theatre group will gets involved with a gang of take over The Playhouse next pickpockets while on the cars and slick hairstyles week to bring the hit show streets of London. Oliver! to a Weston crowd. Audiences can expect to sing It is time to sling your black along to well-known songs such leather or pink silk jacket over Worle Operatic and Drama as Food Glorious Food, your shoulder and mutter Society (WODS) will perform Consider Yourself and I’d Do ‘Grease is the word’ as the T Birds Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, based on Anything. and the Pink Ladies will fill the the Charles Dickens’ classic Performances will be at Bristol Hippodrome next month. Oliver Twist, from June 1-3. 7.30pm each evening, plus a WODS will be putting their 2.30pm matinee on June 3. All the fun of a 1950s own spin on the show, bringing all-American high school will get famous characters such as Tickets, priced from £1617 for audiences on their feet, dancing Fagin, Bill Sykes, Nancy and adults or £58 for a family ticket, and singing along to the famous the Artful Dodger to life. are available by calling 01934 songs of one of the world’s Danielle Oliver is an orphan who runs 645544 or via www. favourite musicals, Grease. Hope, Tom away from the workhouse and theplayhouse.co.uk The star-studded cast includes Parker and global pop icon Jimmy Osmond, Louisa The Wanted singer Tom Parker Lytton in Paradise Lost and former EastEnders actor Grease. Louisa Lytton. Picture: PAUL Grease opened on Broadway in COLTAS A one-man staging of the epic the Battersea Arts Centre in 1972 but it was the 1978 smash hit poem Paradise Lost will be London in 2015, before being movie, starring John Travolta the test of time. Danny and will be joined by performed at the Theatre shown at the Edinburgh Fringe and Olivia Newton-John, which Jimmy Osmond, who will play Danielle Hope, who won the Tropicana on Tuesday. Festival, and was shortlisted propelled the musical into Teen Angel, began performing BBC’s Over The Rainbow talent for a Total Theatre Award in universal notoriety. with his brothers at the tender show, as Sandy. John Milton’s story of creation the innovation and The original high-school age of three and enjoyed Louisa Lytton, best known for will be told through theatre, experimentation category. musical tells the love story of worldwide success with their playing Ruby Allen in comedy, dance and movement, Paradise Lost, consisting of Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko, band The Osmonds, before going EastEnders, will play Rizzo. with one man playing all the 10 books with more than 10,000 and what life at Rydell High on to have a multi-award-winning Grease will be at The Bristol characters in every scene. lines of verse, was written in School is like for their respective solo career. Hippodrome, in St Augustines The show, by production 1667. gangs, the sassy Pink Ladies and In 1972, Jimmy became the Parade, from June 5-10. There will company Lost Dog, explores Paradise Lost will be shown the grease-monkey T Birds. youngest person ever to top the be performances at 7.30pm from the idea God created at the Theatre Tropicana, in But it is the memorable songs UK charts with the Christmas June 5-8, 5.30pm and 8.30pm on everything because he was Marine Parade, on Tuesday at You’re The One That I Want, number one Long Haired Lover June 9, and 5pm and 8.30pm on terrified of doing nothing – but 7.30pm. Grease Is The Word, Summer From Liverpool, which was also June 10. he finds things fall a little Nights, Hopelessly Devoted to the biggest-selling single of the short of perfection along the Tickets, priced £10, are You, Sandy and Greased year. Tickets, priced £2151.50, are way. available from www. 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