About Oliver!

DoItBig Productions (DIB) makes it Delaware debut.  DIB brings Oliver! to the Salesianum Theater with a cast of 64 actors and a live orchestra. 


DIB has been bringing musical theatre to stages in NJ, MD and now DE for nineteen years. Performances including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Sound of Music, and Les Miserables have  reached over 20,000 audience members in that time. DIB is a community
theatre company dedicated to providing quality productions, as well as being a theatrical education prep forum for children and young adults.

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About The Department

Dear DoItBig Patrons:

The mission of DoItBig (DIB) Productions is to encourage our home school students to use the power of theatre to affect the world beyond the physical stage.

This performance of Oliver! is allowing us to demonstrate action where there is need. One of our actors and her sister suffer from POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)/Dysautonomia, estimated to impact 1out of 100 teenagers. POTS can cause lightheadness, fainting, tachycardia, chest pains, shortness of breath, GI upset, shaking, exercise intolerance, temperature sensitivity and more. While POTS predominantly impacts young women who look healthy on the outside, researchers compare the disability seen in POTS to the disability seen in conditions like COPD and congestive heart failure.

Recently, the funding for the POTS program at a nearby medical facility has been cut. This medical team has dedicated their careers to educating physicians about this condition, advancing research, and caring for these girls and so many others. This family now faces a six month to three year wait time to get into other programs, and will need to travel a significant distance to get there.

This family has shared that their involvement with DIB is a blessing to them, since they are limited in their physical abilities, but longing for community involvement and self-expression. DoItBig is blessed by this family's active and passionate role in bringing live theatre to the stage.

The message of Oliver! is that even in the midst of all that is terrible in this world, change can be made through love, honesty, and hope, even for those in the most dire situation.

We hope that you will consider making a donation to help this family with the considerable expense of living with this debilitating chronic condition. Contributions may be placed in the bucket at the concession stand.

Thank you for joining us and supporting DoItBig in our mission to both share excellent theatre with our patrons and model a loving, supportive community to our young actors.

Sincerely,

Leslie McManus

Director

DoItBig Productions