Wow - what an opportunity if Barry Humphries could not only star as Fagin, but also as Dame Edna Everage as Nancy! Of course, in this Fractured Fairy Tale version, Nancy (Edna) fights back Bill Sykes and gets a job with Oliver's grandfather as an English version of Fran Drescher's Nanny.
Of course, nowadays someone would start up a campaign against harassed villains (Bill Sykes being misunderstood, having a rotten childhood, etc.), as well as against Nancy for prostitution and being codependent, and it would fill up 3 screenfuls of ATC... |
