News about Lionel Bart

PATRICK MARMION: What is the greatest British musical of all time?The cascading Les Mis?The haunting Phantom?Or maybe the saucy, evergreen Rocky Horror Show?Matilda has been raking in cash for a dozen years in the West End, and Mamma Mia!We may never get out of our minds. And if you're thinking My Fair Lady or The Sound Of Music, you may want to wait until you find that they are in fact American. There is no competition for me, however. It's got to be Oliver!I'd take Lionel Bart's Sixties knees-up eight or even nine days a week. Everybody knows that it's a show chock full of pre-loaded ear-worms from the heart-melting Where Is Love to the Oom-Pah.