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Originally posted by Gattigap
Thanks. Fortunately, it appears that the Gaplet is the most level-headed among us.

Los Angeles Times:

• THEATER REVIEW
  South Bay's 'Oliver!' marshals its forces
  
  By Daryl H. Miller, Times Staff Writer
  
  Enrollment is booming at Fagin's school for pint-size pickpockets. A whopping 31 boys and girls scramble about the premises as Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities stages "Oliver!" They're part of a cast of 55, accompanied by an orchestra of 17. Big, big, big - that's the hallmark of this production, which impresses through sheer force of will even if its artistry is scattershot.
  
  Straight away, director-choreographer Jon Engstrom deploys the kids well by using their number to emphasize the conditions chronicled by Charles Dickens in his late-1830s serialized story "Oliver Twist," the basis for Lionel Bart's 1960 musical. The line seems never to end as orphans, dirt-smeared, clothes in tatters, trudge to their seats in a workhouse dining hall.

See? See? That's my dirt-smeared, tattered orphan in the endless line that he's talkin' about. It's all up from here, baybee.

Gattigap

Cool. It's time to start absconding with his earnings, so that he can emancipate at a young age and start working on his criminal record, like any true child star.