We lay our scene in the colony of Port Victory sometime in the 1850s. It’s 15 years after the events of Oliver Twist and, through unlikely circumstances, Jack Dawkins has become a decorated ...

I’m here for a behind-the-scenes preview of Leeds Playhouse ... musical is adapted from the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. It tells the story of young orphan Oliver, born into ...

the musical inspired by "Oliver Twist." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM ... SIMON: There's a very vivid scene in which young Jacob sees a man hanged for being a thief, and his mother wants him to see it.