Cameron MacKintosh on Oliver! and his success with musicals

Times Online: "Just as the West End producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh is saying that he has no regrets about not having children, a huge high noise flies out from behind a closed door. It is keening but melodic and bears the unmistakable stamp of Fagin's boys. Almost half a century after the first production of Oliver!, it seems to freeze for eternity the condition of canny childhood. “Consider yourself one of the family,” they sing."