Lionel Bart's Oliver! In this award-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, 9 year old orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin When Oliver's intended mark, Mr. Brownlow takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin's henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap him.