Oliver!

Oliver! is an English musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

It premiered in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long run, and successful long runs on Broadway, tours and revivals, after being brought to the US by producer David Merrick in 1963. It was made into a musical film in 1968. Major London revivals played from 1977–80, 1994–98, 2008–11 and on tour in the UK from 2011-13.

Background

Oliver! was the first musical adaptation of a famous Charles Dickens work to become a stage hit. There had been two previous Dickens musicals in the 1950s, both of them television adaptations of A Christmas Carol. The plot of Dickens' original novel is considerably simplified for the purposes of the musical, with Fagin being represented more as a comic character than as a villain, and large portions of the latter part of the story being completely left out. (It may well be that Bart based his musical on David Lean's film, rather than Dickens' book.) Although Dickens' novel has been called antisemitic in its portrayal of the Jew Fagin as evil, the production by Bart (himself a Jew) was more sympathetic and featured many Jewish actors in leading roles: Ron Moody (Ronald Moodnik), Georgia Brown (Lilian Klot), and Martin Horsey.

Oliver

Oliver is a given name. It is also used as a surname (see Oliver (surname)), in particular of a Scottish sept (see Oliver (Scottish surname)).

It may also refer to:

Places

  • Oliver, British Columbia, a small town in the Okanagan Valley; known as the Wine Capital of Canada
  • Oliver, Edmonton an urban neighborhood immediately west of downtown Edmonton, Alberta.
  • Oliver, California
  • Oliver, Georgia
  • Oliver, Indiana
  • Oliver, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood
  • Oliver, Nebraska
  • Oliver, Pennsylvania
  • Oliver, Wisconsin
  • Oliver Springs, Tennessee
  • Oliver Bridge, a railroad bridge that connects Oliver, Wisconsin with Duluth, Minnesota
  • Oliver Winery in Bloomington, Indiana
  • Oliver Township (disambiguation)
  • Business

  • The Oliver Corporation, a tractor manufacturer
  • The Oliver Typewriter Company, a typewriter manufacturer
  • Culture

    Film

  • Oliver Twist (film), a 1948 British film by David Lean based on Dickens' novel Oliver Twist
  • Oliver!, a musical based on Dickens' novel Oliver Twist
  • Oliver! (film), a 1968 musical film by Carol Reed based on the musical
  • Oliver! (song)

    Oliver! is the title song from the 1960s original West End and Broadway musical Oliver! and the 1968 film of the same name.

    Background

    The song begins with the workhouse boys and Mr. Bumble praying for the food they will receive and for a blessing of thankfulness. However, Oliver asks for more gruel and that makes Mr. Bumble and the Widow Corney very angry at him and they think of ways to punish him for his ingratitude and ask who he is. The punishment that Oliver is to receive, as stated in the song is that he is to be sent down a stairway without a bannister and to be fed cockroaches served in a canister or they would push Oliver up a chimney full of soot. Even the Board of Governors is stunned by Oliver's ingratitude and join in the song (but only in the West End productions). The punishment that the Board of Governors suggest is that Oliver should be imprisoned and put up for sale for apprenticeship, though their lyrics are cut from the Broadway version.



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    ! SOUNDTRACK LYRICS
    Oliver
    MR. BUMBLE
    For what you are about to receive
    May the Lord make you truly thankful.
    BOYS
    Amen!
    OLIVER
    (spoken) Please, Sir, I want some more.
    MR. BUMBLE
    (spoken) What?!
    OLIVER
    (spoken) Please, Sir, I want some... more.
    MR. BUMBLE
    (spoken) More!?
    WIDOW CORNEY
    Catch him!
    MR. BUMBLE
    Snatch him!
    WIDOW CORNEY
    Hold him!
    MR. BUMBLE
    Scold him!
    WIDOW CORNEY
    Pounce him!
    Trounce him!
    Pick him up and bounce him!
    MR. BUMBLE
    Wait!
    Before we put the lad to task
    May I be so curious as to ask
    His name?
    BOYS (whispering)
    O-li-ver.
    WIDOW CORNEY AND MR. BUMBLE
    Oliver! Oliver!
    MR. BUMBLE
    Never beofre has a boy wanted more!
    MR. BUMBLE AND WIDOW CORNEY
    Oliver! Oliver!
    WIDOW CORNEY
    Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store.
    MR. BUMBLE
    There's a dark, thin, winding stairway
    Without any bannister
    Which we'll throw him down, and feed him on
    Cockrouches served in a canister
    ALL
    Oliver! Oliver!
    MR. BUMBLE
    What will he do when he's turned black and blue?
    He will curse the day
    Somebody named him
    ALL
    O-li-ver!
    MR. BUMBLE
    Oliver! Oliver!
    Never before has a boy wanted more!
    Oliver! Oliver!
    WIDOW CORNEY
    Won't ask for more
    When he knows what's in store.
    MR. BUMBLE
    There's a sooty chimney
    Long overdue for a sweeping out
    Which we'll push him up,
    And one day next year with the rats he'll be creeping out.
    ALL
    Oliver! Oliver!
    MR. BUMBLE
    What will he do?
    In this terrible stew?
    He will rue the day somebody named him...
    ALL AND WIDOW CORNEY
    O-li-ver!
    GOVERNORS
    Oliver!
    Oliver!
    Never before has a boy asked for more
    Oliver!
    Oliver!
    CHAIRMAN
    Pray some decorum restore, I implore...
    Let us face this case, it's
    Unprecedented, quite utterly.
    GOVERNORS
    He's disgraced this place.
    LARGE GOVERNOR
    And encouraging others to swallow in gluttony.
    ALL
    Oliver!...Oliver!
    Lock him in gaol
    And then put him on sale,
    For the highest bid
    Glad to be rid
    Of
    O-li-ver!
    WIDOW CORNEY
    (spoken) Lock him up! Collect his belongings then bring him back to me
    when you've done. To bed, all of you!




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