Stage to PageFrom the Archives: Look Back at the 1984 Broadway Revival of Oliver! Starring Patti LuPone and Ron MoodyThe short-lived revival opened April 29, 1984, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
By
Adam Hetrick
April 29, 2019
The 1963 Broadway hit Oliver! has been revived just once on Broadway, in a short-lived 1984 production starring Ron Moody as Fagin and Patti LuPone as Nancy.
Cameron Mackintosh produced the revival, staged by the show’s original director—Peter Coe—that opened April 29, 1984, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, where it shuttered two weeks later on May 13.
Set in a 1947 Provincetown beach house, the play unfolds over one sultry night as Tennessee Williams and a young Marlon Brando craft A Streetcar Named Desire together.