lionel bart wrote the music and lyrics for oliver.
who wrote the music and lyrics for oliver?
lionel bart
lionel bart (1 august 1930 – 3 april 1999) was a british writer and composer of pop music and musicals. he wrote tommy steele's "rock with the caveman", which became the first british pop song to break into the american top 40, and was the sole creator of the musical "oliver!" (1960). with "oliver!" and his work alongside theatre director joan littlewood at theatre royal, stratford east, he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the british musical theatre scene after an era when american musicals had dominated the west end. best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for "oliver!", he was described by andrew lloyd webber as "the father of the modern british musical". 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 picture. some of his other compositions include the theme song to the james bond film "from russia with love", and the songs "living doll" by cliff richard, "far away" by shirley bassey, "do you mind?" (recorded by both anthony newley and andy williams), "big time" (a 1961 cover by jack jones of his "fings ain't wot they used t'be" show tune), "easy going me" by adam faith, "always you and me" by russ conway, and several songs recorded by tommy steele ("a handful of songs", "butterfingers" and "little white bull"). by the mid 1960s he was as well known for his outlandish lifestyle, his celebrity friends, his excesses, and his parties as he was for his work.
lionel bart
oliver meets autistic teenager brooke hathaway (talia grant) and develops an instant attraction with the two seemingly hitting it off at the bean coffee shop. brooke later comes to watch oliver play but after he underperforms, buster takes him to the changing rooms at the football academy to berate him for being distracted today. he puts his hand on oliver's knee inappropriately but this is witnessed secretly by brooke. oliver feels uncomfortable with buster doing this to him and he rushes out of the football academy to get away from buster. oliver and mandy run into brooke the next day with nancy osborne (jessica fox) and mandy teases that oliver likes brooke. brooke then responds that oliver is gay as she misinterpreted what she saw between buster and oliver yesterday with brooke unaware that buster is actually grooming oliver. oliver then shouts at brooke causing her to have a breakdown after oliver leaves. when he returns home, mandy tries to get oliver to open up to her but before he can say anything, they are interrupted by a drunken luke. oliver starts berating his father and stepmother before storming out of the house upset. oliver then talks to buster alone in the football academy changing rooms as he didn't know who else to turn to. buster then manipulates the vulnerable teen by saying to oliver that he can make him a star footballer with buster's coaching skills as long as he does everything that he's told. he then places his hand on oliver's knee inappropriately once again. he then asks oliver if he understands or not. oliver then tells him that he does understand before buster shuts the door behind them to continue his abuse of the vulnerable poor youngster. when buster is trying to raise money for tony hutchinson and diane hutchinson's gravely four-year-old daughter dee dee hutchinson for dee dee to go to disneyland paris and is asking local businesses to donate, he bumps into oliver in the village and see's oliver alone and goes up to him and asks him if he wants to help him to raise the money and oliver agrees to help him. after they've raised enough money for dee dee, buster gives oliver a mobile phone and tells oliver to text him at any time about anything. buster then tells him not to tell anyone else about it and oliver agrees.
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