sentences: "and the 1968 film of the same name, based on the 1838 novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in London's West End in 1960.t
  
  Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker.