local radio station is now advertising a production of the musical "Oliver" which will be performed in November in the downtown area...ack...it will play and play..and the music sucks..
which brings up a point....why on earth make a musical out of that book? it was basically a sad tale, of exploitation, child labor, abuse, pedophilia of sorts..and murder of the horriblest type...Bill Sykes beating Nancy to death in that awful way.....to make a musical is downright disgusting..the book was not cheerful at all.. poor Oliver was only happy in bits and pieces..until the end..oo and kidnapping was included...every vile act against a child which could be done was basically covered in the book "Oliver Twist" except child hood rape..and maybe Charles Dickens was being politically correct in not mentioning it..the musical made The Artful Dodger cute...he wasn't cute..Fagin was a horror of a man...and of course Bill was evil incarnate..