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From Robin Hood to Golda Meir: why the lost works of Lionel Bart need reappraising

Poison arrow: James Booth and Barbara Windsor in Bart s Twang!!
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What did Lionel Bart, the composer who gave the world Oliver!, have to say – or, perhaps more to the point, want people to sing – about Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister between 1969 and 1974?
The question arises because Thursday evening sees Maureen Lipman sing the title number of a “lost” musical by Bart, Next Year in Jerusalem. The song is a soothing lullaby – childlike melody and lyrics mingling sorrow at a life fraught with danger with a yearning for freedom (think Hamilton’s Dear Theodosia or a weepie by Abba) – imparted by Meir’s mother as she contemplates the threat of a pogrom in Kiev. ....

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From Oliver! to Golda… new life for long-lost Lionel Bart musical

From Oliver! to Golda… new life for long-lost Lionel Bart musical
Vanessa Thorpe
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Photograph: Ronald Grant
The self-taught musical genius Lionel Bart was the Londoner who first successfully challenged the long-established dominance of Broadway shows. When he launched
Oliver! on the West End in 1960 it took first Britain and then America by storm, breaking records and becoming a classic of musical theatre and then a beloved film. But Bart never reached such commercial heights again, despite his talent.
Now music from the lost show once set to relaunch Bart’s career as he struggled with ill health and debt is to be performed for the public for the first time. ....

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