Dallas Escorts: Theater review: Oliver!
The character of Nancy is not your typical musical theatre ingénue. Nancy has obviously lived on and off the street most of her life and she currently lives with the abusive Bill Sykes, whom she loves wholly and completely despite his physical and verbal abuse. We are told that she once worked as a thief for Fagin and I believe in Dickens’ novel she is even written as having worked as a prostitute for a time. However, Nancy’s spunk and maternal instincts towards Oliver make her a heroine just like any other. Rachel Joy Robertson nails this role. She’s bawdy and unladylike at times, such as during her rousing number “Oom Pah Pah” at the beginning of the second act, but she is also a vulnerable woman desperately in love, which she shows off in “As Long As He Needs Me,” a song that Robertson completely knocks out of the park. She uses a mixture of soft, gentle tones at the beginning and soars to a …
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