16th - 18th April

Studio Theatre, mac

Lionel Bart's musical version of Dickens' classic featured an early performance from (Tom) Arthur Darvill who graduated from RADA and starred in the award-winning 'Terre Haute' which premiered in Edinburgh before transferring to The Trafalgar Studios, London. Arthur then went straight into 'Swimming with Sharks' at The Vaudeville, London with Christian Slater. The Artful Dodger was played by Craig Painting who became a stalwart of mac Productions, notably playing 'Pinocchio' in Christmas 2006. Birmingham schoolchildren may also be interested to know that Mr Paul Merrell, formerly Head of Drama at Five Ways, now at Bromsgrove School also featured in Fagin's gang.