Oliver
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Oliver
Time: 1850 Place: London
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE:
Boys:
• Assorted, ragged, knee length pants and shirts
Mr. Bumble: (Fat, elderly Keeper of the Workhouse)
• Inverness coat with capelets, vest, knickers, colonial shirt with jabot, stockings and Bicorner hat
Mrs. Corney:
• Dark, plain cotton dress with apron and cap
Two Men's Attendants:
• Ragged shirts and pants
ACT ONE, SCENE 2 (Workhouse Parlor… Later into Street)
Mr. Bumble: Repeat
Mrs. Corney: Repeat
Oliver:
• Add jacket, hat, scarf…very ragged
ACT ONE, SCENE 3 (Undertaker's Parlor)
Mr. Sowerberry:
• Long, black frock coat, white shirt with tall wing collar and black bow tie, trousers
Mrs. Sowerberry:
• Black dress, apron and shawl
Oliver: Repeat
Mr. Bumble: Repeat
Charlotte:
• Rough dress, mob cap and apron
ACT ONE, SCENE 4:
Mr. Sowerberry: Repeat Scene 3
Mrs. Sowerberry: Repeat Scene 3
Charlotte: Repeat Scene 3
Oliver: Repeat Scene 3
Noah:
• Ragged jacket, shirt, knickers and stockings
ACT ONE, SCENE 5:
Oliver: Repeat
Artful Dodger:
• Rough jacket with tails, shirt, jabot and tie, pants approximately 4" too short
ACT ONE, SCENE 6:
Fagin (Tall, skinny, scraggly beard)
• Long black coat with many pockets inside, collarless shirt, pants, vest, fingerless gloves, flat, wide-brimmed black hat
Boys:
• Ragged, ill fitting period clothes, mufflers and hats
Oliver: Repeat
Dodger: Repeat
Nancy:
• Simple red dress ¾ length, low cut neckline, lavendar petticoat
Mr. Blownlow:
• Period tail coat, vest, pants and top hat
Bet:
• Unkempt simple dress, shawl and petticoat
Chorus:
• Various types of street vendor clothes and townspeople
ACT TWO, SCENE ONE (Inn of Three Cripples)
Chairman:
• Rough, unkempt clothing
Chorus:
• Various clothing of customers, waitress and low life people
Fagin: Repeat
Nancy: Repeat
Bet: Repeat
Bill Sikes:
• Rough, unkempt coat, vest, collarless shirt, pants, top hat
ACT TWO, SCENE TWO:
Oliver:
• Nightshirt (underdress boy's Eaton suit with hat)
Mrs. Bedwin:
• Housekeepers dress, apron and mob cap
Brownlow: Repeat
Dr. Grimwig:
• Frock coat, trousers, vest, shirt, top hat
Chorus:
Various vendor type costumes, newer and cleaner than previous to depict:
• Milk Maid
• Flower Seller
• Strawberry Seller
• Knife Grinder
• Song Seller
Also, various types of carnival people, well dressed wealthy people, a governess with young school girls, etc.
ACT TWO, SCENE THREE (Thieves' Kitchen)
Repeat of Act One, Scene 6
Oliver:
• Repeat of Act Two, Scene Two (Nightshirt)
ACT TWO, SCENE FOUR (Widow Corney's House)
Mrs. Corney:
• Repeat of Act One, Scene One - Add shawl and bonnet
Bumble:
• Colonial coat, vest, shirt, knickers
Old Sally:
• Ragged dress, shawl, apron and hat
ACT TWO, SCENE FIVE:
Brownlow: Repeat
Nancy: Repeat…add shawl and bonnet
Bedwin: Repeat
ACT TWO, SCENE SIX:
Magistrate:
Black robe
Oliver: Repeat
Brownlow: Repeat
Bow Street Runner:
• Period policeman uniform
ACT TWO, SCENE SEVEN (London Bridge)
Watchman:
Long Inverness coat, top hat, pants
Brownlow: Repeat, add cape
Nancy: Repeat
Bill Sikes: Repeat
Fagin: Repeat
Dodger: Repeat
Chorus: Various period costumes