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May 4, 2023 · By Jesse Green. May 4, 2023. Oliver! Though the orphan boys at the workhouse are beaten regularly and fed only gruel, the sign looming above them reads “God Is Love.”. That grim irony ...
Aug 6, 2017 · Aug 6. Aug 6 Food Glorious Food - A Broadway Musical Meal. Mark Robinson. Music That Makes Me Dance. I must be hungry today, as all I can seem to think about are showtunes that make references to food. It started out with "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver!and escalated into a full-on party in my head of songs that celebrate eating.
Food, glorious food! Eat right through the menu. Just loosen your belt Two inches and then you Work up a new appetite. In this interlude -- Then food, Once again, food Fabulous food, Glorious food. Food, glorious food! Don't care what it looks like -- Burned! Underdone! Crude! Don't care what the cook's like. Just thinking of growing fat -- Our ...
The show is an adaptation of the famous Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist; it opened in the West End in 1960, and on the big screen (directed by Carol Reed) in 1968. "Food, Glorious Food" is the opening number, and is based on the famous scene in the book where a half-starved Oliver Twist has the temerity to ask for more gruel.
