Website Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
Live theatre, entertainment, and arts education
PRODUCTION TEAM
- Patrick Tierney – Director
- Aaron Kaplan – Music Director
- Johanna McKenzie Miller – Artistic Director
- Tiffany Gates – Executive Director
- Matthew D. Carney – Casting Director
- Mitzi Smith – Casting Associate
AUDITION APPOINTMENTS:
You may sign up for an appointment slot via Sign Up Genius HERE. If you are unable to obtain an appointment, we will accept walk-ins. Walk-ins will be seen on a first come, first scene basis. If you submitted a video via Actors Access, you do not need to attend the open call.
Material to Prepare:
A one-minute (32 bars or less) song cut from your book. Bring your sheet music in your key. Also bring your headshot and resume.
Time Commitment:
1st REHEARSAL* Saturday 1/3/2026. Rehearsals will be 1/3/26 - 1/14/26, 6p-10p on weekdays and 10a-4p on Saturday & Sunday. Friday 1/9 & Monday 1/12 are days off.
* Youth performers will have one additional rehearsal day in December 2025. The exact date and time are TBD.
Technical Rehearsals are Thursday 1/15 - Sunday 1/18. Thursday & Friday tech will be 6p-10p. Saturday & Sunday tech will be 12p-9p. Monday 1/19 is a day off.
Final Dress Rehearsal is Tuesday 1/20, 6p-10p
Week 1 Performances - WED 1/21 Preview 1 6p-11p, THU 1/22 Preview 2 6p-11p, FRI 1/23 Opening 7:30p, SAT 1/24 2p & 7:30p, SUN 1/25 2p
Week 2 Performances - THU 1/29 2p, FRI 1/30 7:30p, SAT 1/31 2p & 7:30p, SUN 2/1 2p
Week 3 Performances - THU 2/5 7:30p, FRI 2/6 7:30p, SAT 2/7 2p & 7:30p, SUN 2/8 CLOSING 2p
*YOUTH PERFORMERS will have one additional rehearsal day in December of 2025. The exact date and time is TBD.
Character Type/Restrictions:
All characters (with the exception of Oliver, Dodger, Fagin, and Nancy) will double as members of the ensemble.
OLIVER TWIST- (8-10 years old) Orphaned and abandoned from an upper-class family, Oliver ends up in the workhouse. He is innocent and good-hearted, with a strong spirit.
ARTFUL DOGER- (12-15 years old) The cleverest of Fagin's pickpockets, he introduces Fagin to Oliver. He is a good soul despite his “occupation.” Dodger is lively and self-assured.
FAGIN- (40+) A conniving career criminal and conman. He takes in homeless children and teaches them to pick pockets for him. A leader, a vagrant, a father, a teacher, a lost soul and an eccentric.
NANCY- (20s-30s) A graduate of Fagin's “school of thieves” and tragically involved in an abusive relationship with Bill Sikes. She is a career thief, hardened and streetwise beyond her years, but also intelligent, caring and good-hearted. She longs for a better life. A mother figure to Fagin's gang.
BILL SIKES- (30s) Perhaps the most infamous graduate from Fagin's gang. Nancy's brutal and abusive boyfriend.
BET- (18+ to play 15) One of Fagin's former pickpockets. She looks up to Nancy and is caring and good-natured.
MR. BUMBLE- (40+) The domineering Beadle (a minor official who carries out various civil, educational or ceremonial duties) who runs the workhouse. Pompous and self-absorbed, greedy and uncaring.
WIDOW CORNEY- (40+) The sharp-tongued, domineering matron of the workhouse. A widow, she will do anything to get Mr. Bumble’s attention.
MR. SOWERBERRY- (40+) The Undertaker. Lives up to his name. He is stingy and ruled by his wife. Slimy.
MRS. SOWERBERRY- (40+) The Undertaker's wife. She rules the roost and is stingy and mean-spirited.
MRS. BEDWIN- (30+) The Brownlow's housekeeper. She cares for everything and everyone and is wise and kind-hearted.
CHARLOTTE- (20s) The rude but also flirtatious daughter of the Sowerberrys.
NOAH CLAYPOLE- (20s) The Sowerberrys' apprentice, he bullies Oliver about his mother and enjoys a flirtatious relationship with Charlotte. A downright bully.
MR. BROWNLOW- (50s) A distinguished older gentleman of wealth.
DR. GRIMWIG- (30+) A silly doctor who thinks he knows more than he actually does.
OLD SALLY- (50+) A pauper with an important secret.
WORKHOUSE ORPHANS- (8-14 years old) Children who live and work as child labor at a workhouse. Dream of a better life. (Will double as town’s children.)
FAGIN’S PICKPOCKETS- (8-14 years old) Children who are loyal to Fagin and make the best of their lives of thievery in exchange for room and board and someone to call “family.”
To apply for this job please visit www.signupgenius.com.