The rest of the cast includes William Tangradi as a wonderfully unctuous devious Fagan. Wily, oily and cunning, he almost slitters across the stage. Eric Kurzenberger is a delightfully touching Artful Dodger. Shaun Brian Hayes is a sinister, menacing, physically imposing Bill Sykes. In a grand and a dramatic touch, his entrance is foretold by his towering black shadow.
Actors run up and down the aisles.
They disappear and reappear from trap doors. His tableaux are magical and so visual that they become panoramas of Victorian England. Will Neuert's three-tiered set is ominous, moody, atmospheric and brilliant. The mechanics of the scene changes are almost magical. Choreographer Karen Cleighton has given the dancers pizazz and oomph.