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Cast Size: Medium (11 to 20 performers), Large (21 or more performers), Flexible Cast Size
Cast Type: Trained Dancers, Trained Singers, Strong/Large Chorus, Star Vehicle Male, Star Vehicle Female, Older Roles, Mainly Men, Ensemble Cast
Dance Requirements: Standard
Character Breakdown
Nicely-Nicely Johnson
Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan's loyal friend and lackey.
Gender: male
Age:
30 to 45
Vocal range top: Bb4
Vocal range bottom: Db3
Benny Southstreet
Nathan's right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan's best interest at heart.
Gender: male
Age:
30 to 45
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: Db3
Sarah Brown
A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.
Gender: female
Age:
20 to 30
Vocal range top: G#5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Arvide Abernathy
The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah's loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her.
Gender: male
Age:
50 to 65
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: D3
Harry The Horse
A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan's craps game and backs his cheating, but is also a man of his word in the gambling community.
Gender: male
Age:
35 to 55
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Lt. Brannigan
A New York police officer who is on to Nathan's illegal craps games and is dead-set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.
Gender: male
Age:
40 to 55
Nathan Detroit
A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Gender: male
Age:
35 to 45
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: D3
Miss Adelaide
Nathan's fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Gender: female
Age:
25 to 35
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Sky Masterson
A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
Gender: male
Age:
35 to 45
Vocal range top: Eb4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Big Jule
A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.
Gender: male
Age:
30 to 50
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Ensemble
Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers
Rusty Charlie
Small-time gambler, part of Nathan Detroit's crew.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: Db3