OLIVER

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