Casting

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Cast Size: Large (21 or more performers)
Cast Type: Children
Dance Requirements: Standard

Character Breakdown

Oliver Twist

A workhouse boy about 11 years of age. 

Gender: male
Age: 8 to 12
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Fagin

An elderly receiver - runs training academy for young pickpockets. 

Gender: male
Age: 50 to 70
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: A2
The Artful Dodger

Fagin's brightest pupil - an undersized 16. 

Gender: male
Age: 14 to 18
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Bill Sikes

A villian in his prime. 

Gender: male
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: D4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Nancy

23 years old - a graduate of Fagin's academy, and Bill's doxy. 

Gender: female
Age: 20 to 25
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Bet

A 15 year old lass in Fagin's establishment - idolises Nancy. 

Gender: female
Age: 14 to 18
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Mr. Bumble

A large and pompous Beadle of the workhouse. 

Gender: male
Age: 35 to 60
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: C3
Mrs. Corney

A sharp-tongued, domineering widow - the Workhouse Mistress. 

Gender: female
Age: 40 to 55
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Mr. Brownlow

An old gentleman of wealth and breeding. 

Gender: male
Age: 55 to 70
Mr. Sowerberry

The Undertaker.

Gender: male
Age: 45 to 60
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: C3
Mrs. Sowerberry

Mr. Sowerberry's wife and his overseer.

Gender: female
Age: 45 to 60
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Charlotte

The Sowerberry's sluttish young daughter. 

Gender: female
Age: 18 to 25
Noah Claypole

Mr. Sowerberry's pimply apprentice. 

Gender: male
Age: 18 to 25
Mr. Grimwig

A Doctor. 

Gender: male
Age: 30 to 50
Mrs. Bedwin

The Brownlow's Housekeeper. 

Gender: female
Age: 45 to 60
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: C4
Old Sally

A Pauper. 

Gender: female
Age: 50 to 70
Charley Bates

A boy in Fagin's establishment. 

Gender: male
Age: 10 to 18
Ensemble

Workhouse boys, workhouse assistants, bow streetrunners, street vendors and crowd, etc. 

Gender: any