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Oliver! is a stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens . It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre , southwest London in 1960 before opening in the West End , where it enjoyed a record-breaking long run.
Oliver! was the last G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was the last movie musical to win the award, until Chicago in 2002 (there have been other musicals nominated such as Hello, Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, All That Jazz, Beauty and the Beast and Moulin Rouge!).
Best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!, Bart was described by Andrew Lloyd Webber as "the father of the modern British musical". [1] [2] [3] In 1963 he won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for Oliver!, and the 1968 film version of the musical won a total of 6 Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best ...
Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show, a reprise is sung by Mr. Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin. In the 1968 Columbia Pictures musical film version of Oliver!, "Where
The song is part of Act One of Oliver!, and is sung in Fagin's lair.It begins with spoken dialogue between Nancy and the Artful Dodger, soon leading into the song.Other characters who have lines in the song are Oliver, Fagin and Bet (Nancy's younger sister in the musical; her best friend in the 1968 film and in the original novel), with Fagin's Boys as chorus.
A parody of the song titled "Conceive of Yourself" appears in the 2nd season of the 2020 reboot of Animaniacs, in the episode "Wakkiver Twist: Part 2", which itself is a parody of Oliver! Part of the song is sung by Detective Charles Boyle (portrayed by Joe Lo Truglio) in the season 1 episode of Brooklyn 99 titled "M.E. Time."
There, Oliver becomes entangled in the lives of Felix's mother Elspeth (Rosamund Pike), father James (Richard E. Grant), sister Venetia (Alison Oliver) and cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe).
Oliver joins the gang under the care of the Dodger on his first pickpocketing mission. It precedes The Robbery - the last scene in Act I. [1] [2] The lyrics for this song in the stage musical differ somewhat from those in the 1968 film: in the musical Fagin tells the boys "You can go but bring back plenty of pocket handkerchiefs. And you should ...