| Roles for Boys |
| Tom Sawyer - (age 14-19) - (Baritone I/TenorII A2-A4) |
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Tom is a mischievous boy with an active imagination who spends most of the show getting himself, and often his friends, into and out of trouble. Despite his mischief, Tom has a good heart and a strong moral conscience. As the show progresses, he begins to take more seriously the responsibilities of his role as a leader among his schoolfellows. |
| Huckleberry Finn - (age 14-19) - (Baritone I/TenorII C3-A4) |
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Huck lives on the margins of society because, as the son of the town drunk, he is pretty much an orphan. He sleeps where he pleases, provided that nobody chases him off, and he eats when he pleases, provided that he can find a morsel. No one requires him to attend school or church, bathe, or dress respectably. It is understandable, if not expected, that Huck smokes and swears. Years of having to fend for himself have invested Huck with a solid common sense and a practical competence that complement Tom’s dreamy idealism and fantastical approach to reality |
| Sidney Sawyer - (age 12-16) |
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Tom’s half-brother. Sid is a goody-goody who enjoys getting Tom into trouble. He is mean-spirited but presents a superficial show of model behavior. He is thus the opposite of Tom, who is warmhearted but behaves badly |
| Ben Rogers - (age 14-19) |
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One of Tom’s friends, whom Tom persuades to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence. |
| Joe Harper - (age 14-19) |
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Tom’s “bosom friend” and frequent playmate. Joe is a typical best friend, Twain refers to Joe and Tom as “two souls with but a single thought.” |
| George Bellamy - (age 14-19) |
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One of Tom’s friends, whom Tom persuades to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence. |
| Lyle Bellamy - (age 14-19) |
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One of Tom’s friends, whom Tom persuades to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence. |
| Alfred Temple - (age 14-19) |
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One of Tom’s friends, whom Tom persuades to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence. | |
| Roles for Girls |
| Becky Thatcher - (age 14-19) (Soprano - B3-F#5) |
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Judge Thatcher’s pretty, yellow-haired daughter. From almost the minute she moves to town, Becky is the “Adored Unknown” who stirs Tom’s lively romantic sensibility. Naïve at first, Becky soon matches Tom as a romantic strategist, and the two go to great lengths to make each other jealous. |
| Amy Lawrence - (age 14-19) |
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Tom’s former love. Tom abandons Amy when Becky Thatcher comes to town. |
| Lucy Harper - (age 14-19) |
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One of Amy's Friends who is always looking for a boyfriend |
| Sabina Temple - (age 14-19) |
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One of Amy's Friends. |
| Susie Rogers- (age 14-19) |
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One of Amy's Friends. | |
| Roles for Men |
| Judge Thatcher - (age 35-60) (Baritone I/TenorII A2-E4) |
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Becky’s father, the county judge. A local celebrity, Judge Thatcher inspires the respect of all the townspeople. He takes responsibility for issues affecting the community as a whole, |
| Lanyard Bellamy (Mayor & Prosecutor) - (age 35-60) |
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A good man but self important and full of bluster |
| Lemuel Dobbins (Schoolmaster) - (age 40-60) |
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Mr. Dobbins had ambitions to be a medical doctor. but life gave him some hard turns and he become a heavy drinker and the butt of schoolboy pranks. |
| Reverend Joshua Sprague - (age 35-55) (Baritone I/TenorII E3-E4) |
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The minister of the town church. |
| Injun Joe - (age 30-50) (Baritone I/TenorII G2-F4) |
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Injun Joe is the villain of the story and a force of evil in St. Petersburg. He is an angry, vengeful, amoral man who thinks nothing of robbing Hoss Williams's grave, killing Dr. Robinson, stealing gold, or threatening old widows and young boys. |
| Muff Potter - (age 35-60) |
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A hapless drunk and friend of Injun Joe. Potter’s naïve trust eventually pushes Tom’s conscience to the breaking point, compelling Tom to tell the truth at Potter’s trial about who actually committed the murder. |
| Doc Robinson - (age 35-60) (Baritone I/TenorII G3-F4) |
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A respected local physician. Dr. Robinson shows his more sordid side on the night of his murder: he hires Injun Joe and Muff Potter to dig up Hoss Williams’s grave because he wants to use the corpse for medical experiments. |
| Pap - (age 40-55) |
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Huck's abusive, alcoholic, broke father | |
| Roles for Women |
| Aunt Polly - (age 35-55) (E3-E5) |
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The sister of Tom and Sid's dead mother, Aunt Polly has taken in both boys to live with her. Aunt Polly loves Tom but is both exasperated and amused by him. She is always shaking her head and wringing her hands over his behavior, but her soft heart prevents her from punishing him very strictly. |
| Widow Douglas - (age 50-80) (Alto Bb3-A4) |
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A pious and good-hearted woman of St. Petersburg, the Widow Douglas takes Huck Finn into her home with the intention of "civilizing" him. |
| Sereny Harper - (age 40-55) |
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A pious and good-hearted woman of St. Petersburg |
| Jessica Rogers - (age 40-55) |
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A pious and good-hearted woman of St. Petersburg |
| Naomi Temple - (age 40-55) |
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A pious and good-hearted woman of St. Petersburg |
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Sally Bellamy - (age 40-55) |
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A pious and good-hearted woman of St. Petersburg |
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