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Artist: Oliver
Genre: Theater
Background: The dreary confines of a workhouse outside London, Oliver Twist and the other orphans await their daily portion of gruel, while dreaming of Food, Glorious Food. The workhouse is run by Widow Corney and the parish beadle, Mr. Bumble. After the children have been served, young Oliver commits the unpardonable sin of approaching Mr. Bumble with the entreaty “Please sir, I want some more.” While deciding to expel young Oliver, Corney and Bumble find time to flirt, though (false) modesty demands that the widow protest I Shall Scream! Oliver is removed from the workhouse, led off by Bumble, who sings the haunting Boy For Sale. Walking through the streets of London, they arrive at the place of business of the undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry, to whom Oliver is “sold.” Mr. Sowerberry and his wife, Mrs. Sowerberry, sing the morbid That’s Your Funeral. Later, alone and frightened and surrounded by coffins, Oliver sings the plaintive Where Is Love? After a fistfight with the undertaker’s apprentice Noah Claypole, Oliver runs away the very next morning, and is picked up hungry and tired in the streets by the Artful Dodger who cheers him up with the song Consider Yourself. The Dodger leads him through crowded streets to Fagin's kitchen. The boys come in and Fagin himself appears and, with a mock solemn welcome to Oliver, sings You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two. Nancy, Bill Sikes's girl, and Bet arrive. The two of them, accompanied by the kids and Fagin, celebrate their way of life in It's a Fine Life. The next morning, Fagin sends the boys off on a pocket-picking expedition, Oliver among them. In a case of mistaken identity, Oliver is arrested without ever having picked a pocket.