Daily Dialogue — January 27, 2013

Oliver: Please, Sir, I want some more.
Bumble: What?!
Oliver: Please, Sir… I want some… more?
Bumble: More?!!!

— Oliver! (1968), screenplay by Vernon Harris, based on the musical by Lionel Bart, and the novel by Charles Dickens

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is answering children’s questions, suggested by @BillieJeanVK. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Pasternak.

Trivia: Amazingly, the composer of this highly respected score, Lionel Bart, could not read music himself. From his earliest days in theater, he would sing his melodies to a trained pianist, who would then set the tunes down on sheet music and orchestrate them.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from Teddy: “Here’s one of literature’s most famous answers to a child’s question.” 

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