I'd Do Anything (song)

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title = I'd Do Anything
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comment = Introduced in the 1960 musical "Oliver!"


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writer = Lionel Bart
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published = 1960
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language = English
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performed_by = "I'd Do Anything" is a song performed by various characters in the 1960 British musical "Oliver!" and the 1968 film of the same name.

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The song is part of Act One of Oliver!, and is sung in Fagin's lair. It begins with spoken dialogue between Nancy and the Artful Dodger, soon leading into the song. Other characters who have lines in the song are Oliver, Fagin and Bet (Nancy's younger sister in the musical; her best friend in the 1968 film and in the original novel), with Fagin's Boys as chorus.

Dodger humorously starts pretending to be an upper-class citizen, along with Fagin, Oliver, Nancy, Bet, and the boys mocking high society.

In 1998, the song was sampled into American rapper Jay-Z's Anything as a bonus track on Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter.

BBC TV series

In 2007, the BBC announced a new reality television series "I'd Do Anything", named after the song, would begin in 2008 to search for a new, unknown lead to play Nancy and three young performers to play Oliver in a West End revival of "Oliver!".cite press release
title = BBC One announces its search for stars of Oliver!
publisher = BBC Entertainment
date = 2007-12-21
url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/12_december/21/oliver.shtml
accessdate = 2007-12-22 ]

ee also

*As Long as He Needs Me
*Consider Yourself
*Food Glorious Food
*Oliver! (song)
*Where Is Love?
*You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two‎

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