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Oliver!
Victorian London

Costume Plot
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
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