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"Oliver" Auditions

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The Park Players & COGS will be holding auditions for “Oliver” 


@ Church of the Good Shepherd 


1576 Palisade Ave.

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Fort Lee NJ 07024


on Mon & Tues , October 8th & 9th @ 7-9:30 pm. 

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For more info call 201- 941-6030 or visit our web-site @ www.parkplayers.com.


“Oliver!”


Book, Music & Lyrics by Lionel Bart


Based on a Novel by Charles Dickens


Young Oliver is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the villain, Fagin, and his loyal apprentice, The Artful Dodger. Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver steals away with an unexpected treasure...a home and a family of his own.


Opened roles:


 





  • Oliver Twist, the protagonist of the story. He is a lonely orphan boy born in the workhouse.

  • Nancy, Bill Sikes's lover. She takes a liking to Oliver and treats him like her own child, but is eventually murdered for the steps she takes in behalf of him.

  • Mr. Brownlow, Oliver's grandfather, a kind man of wealth and breeding.

  • Bill Sikes, Nancy's brutal and abusive lover, a burglar and her eventual murderer.

  • The Artful Dodger, the cleverest of Fagin's pickpockets, he introduces Fagin to Oliver.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry, the insensitive couple who take in Oliver and use him in their funeral business.

  • Charlotte Sowerberry, the rude but also flirtatious daughter of the Sowerberrys.

  • Noah Claypole, The Sowerberrys' apprentice, he bullies Oliver about his mother and enjoys a flirtatious relationship with Charlotte.

  • Dr. Grimwig, foppish doctor and friend of Mr. Brownlow. He assesses Oliver's condition at the beginning of Act II, deeming him fit to go outside.

  • Bet, Nancy's friend [or younger sister, in some productions], one of Fagin's former pickpockets.

  • Charley Bates, one of Fagin's pickpockets. He is Dodger's sidekick.

  • Mrs. Bedwin , house-servant to Mr. Brownlow and caretaker of Oliver

  • Orphans & Fagin's Boys ( Boys & Girls )



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