Oliver
The curtain opens on the sinister interior of the workhouse with a bare dining table, center stage, where the boys will sit. Looming above two curving stairways glows the legend "God Is Love" in rough letters. The door is opened and the boys file to the table and sing Food, Glorious Food. After wolfing down their meagre gruel, the hapless Oliver approaches imperious Bumble with the now famous entreaty; "Please sir, I want some more," prompting accusations of ingratitude. He is instantly led off by Bumble who sings the haunting Boy for Sale. Eventually Oliver is "sold" to the undertaker Mr. Sowerberry.
Horribly abused at Sowerberry’s Oliver runs away the very next morning, and is picked up hungry and tired in the streets by the Artful Dodger who cheers him up with Consider Yourself. The Dodger leads him through crowded streets to Fagin's lair of pickpockets and Fagin himself appears to sing the fantastic You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two. Unfortunately he is falsely arrested the very next day, though upon his acquittal a rich old gentleman takes him home for food and rest. Fearful lest Oliver give away their set-up, Fagin and Sykes dispatch Nancy to get Oliver back.
The moment he sets foot outside his benefactor's house, Oliver is seized and dragged off by Nancy to Fagin's, but not before Fagin, all alone in his lair, considers going straight in Reviewing the Situation. Nancy, regretting her part in the capture of Oliver, plans to return him to his benefactor at night on London Bridge. Fearful of Sykes, she reprises As Long as He Needs Me after which Sikes catches and kills her. He grabs Oliver and, after a chase, is himself shot dead. Oliver is restored to his benefactor and Fagin, now without boys, home and money, reprises Reviewing the Situation, joined at the end by the ever-resourceful Artful Dodger.