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Lionel Bart s wonderful musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic was the first London stage musical to be transplanted to Broadway with the same kind of sensation it received in Britain-- something that is now common in these post-Cats/Les Miserables times. Although no one from this British cast ever became enormously famous (future Monkee Davy Jones was in the second Broadway cast)--and Sir Carol Reed s film version receives all the critical accolades--this remains the better recording, featuring all the songs cut from the film, while excluding the film s musical interludes that simply seem annoying without the visuals. Just compare Bruce Brochnik to the film s Mark Lester in the title role. Or Clive Revill to Ron Moody s Fagin. Or any of the principals, for that matter--and the differences are remarkable. --Bill Holdship