Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre review: this darker take on the classic musical is all killer no filler

The score of Oliver! is all killer, no filler, from Food Glorious Food to Consider Yourself to I’d Do Anything. It’s boggling to think that the witty book, wildly diverse music and earworm lyrics all came from Bart, the son of working-class Galician Jewish refugees, still in his twenties when he wrote it.