Listen: OLIVER! 2024 London Cast Recording Now Streaming

The new 2024 cast recording from the London company of Oliver! is now available on CD and digital. Recorded in front of live audiences at Chichester Festival Theatre last year, this is the first time that Lionel Bart’s irresistible musical masterpiece has been presented in Dolby Atmos immersive audio, beautifully capturing the sensational score in full surround-sound and including the iconic songs “Food, Glorious Food”, “Consider Yourself”, “You’ve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two”, “I’d Do Anything”, “Oom Pah Pah”, “As Long As He Needs Me” and many more. Listen to it below!

Oliver! has been fully reconceived by Cameron Mackintosh with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, and is presented in association with Chichester Festival Theatre, where the production’s run as part of their 2024 Summer Season was the biggest success in the theatre’s history. The West End production is currently playing at the Gielgud Theatre.

The full cast of Oliver! in the West End includes Simon Lipkin (Fagin), Shanay Holmes (Nancy), Aaron Sidwell (Bill Sikes), Billy Jenkins (Artful Dodger), Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Mr. Bumble), Katy Secombe (Widow Corney), Stephen Matthews (Mr. Sowerberry/Dr. Grimwig), Jamie Birkett (Mrs. Sowerberry/Mrs. Bedwin), Philip Franks (Mr. Brownlow), and Billy Byers (Alternate Artful Dodger).

The role of Oliver Twist is played by Cian Eagle-Service, Raphael Korniets, Jack Philpott and Odo Rowntree-Bailly. More incredibly talented young performers for the roles of Oliver and Dodger for later in the run will be announced in due course.

Forming the young adult cast are Callum Hudson (Noah Claypole), Isabelle Methven (Bet), Lochlan White (Charley Bates) and Harry Cross (Dandy). The ensemble members/swings are Rachael Archer, Tegan Bannister, Adam Boardman, Lois Craig, Stephen John Davis, Bethany Huckle, Ebony Jonelle, Bethan Keens (Charlotte), Danny Lane, Peter Nash, Josh Patel-Foster, Sam Peggs, Jasmine Sakyiama, Wendy Somerville (Old Sally), Charlie Stripp, Leah Vassell and Matthew Whennell-Clark.

Following a nationwide search where hundreds of children from all around the country came to London to audition, the younger roles in Fagin’s gang are shared by Toba Agbelusi, Zoe Akinyosade, Ben Birch, Preston Cropp, Kylan Michael Denis, Sebastian Elton, Liam Findlay, Rudy Gibson, Stanley Guy, George Hamblin, Lily Hanna, Sammy Jones, Grace King, Jonny Niland, Hugo Pechey, Alex Prior, Teddy Probets, William Skinner, Ethan Sokontwe, Dylan Xavier and Aaron Zhao.

Lionel Bart’s musical masterpiece, freely adapted from Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver! tells the story of the orphaned Oliver Twist, who escapes the harsh Victorian workhouse and takes refuge in London’s murky underworld with the wily gang leader Fagin and his team of resourceful pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger. He finds a friend in the kind-hearted Nancy and when he’ s wrongly arrested for stealing, Oliver meets an unexpected saviour; but is happiness truly within his grasp?

Produced and revised by Cameron Mackintosh, Oliver! is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne and co-directed by Jean-Pierre Van Der Spuy. Designed by Lez Brotherston, lighting design is by Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs, sound design by Adam Fisher, video design by George Reeve, new orchestrations by Stephen Metcalfe based on the original by William David Brohn; music supervision is by Graham Hurman. Oliver! is a Cameron Mackintosh in association with Chichester Festival Theatre production.

Photo Credit: Johan Persson