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Casting
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Cast Size: Large (21 or more performers)
Cast Type: BIPOC Roles
Dance Requirements: Standard
Character Breakdown
Ben Rumson
A likeable old miner and founder of the newly gold-struck town of Rumson, a place soon over populated with hopeful prospectors. He misses his departed wife, Elisa, and has a 16 year old daughter, Jennifer.
Gender: male
Age: 45 to 65
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G2
Jennifer Rumson
Ben's spitfire 16 year old daughter. As the only female inhabitant during the origin of Rumson, she is sent to school back east. Before leaving, she falls in love with a handsome young miner, Julio Valveras. Determined, she promises to reunite with Julio after school.
Gender: female
Age: 16 to 18
Vocal range top: C#5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Julio Valveras
A handsome, young miner of Mexican descent. Follows the gold and and falls in love with Jennifer.
Gender: male
Age: 18 to 25
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: Bb2
Steve Bullnack
A miner in Rumson.
Gender: male
Age: 25 to 45
Vocal range top: D4
Vocal range bottom: C3
Jake Whippany
A banjo-playing miner in his thirties. Runs a popular music hall in Rumson.
Gender: male
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: C3
Elizabeth Woodling
A beautiful Mormon wife of Jacob Woodling and newly arrived to Rumson.
Gender: female
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: E4
Sarah Woodling
A second wife of Jacob Woodling, pompous and patronizing.
Gender: female
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Jacob Woodling
A Mormon man in his thirties with two wives when he arrives to Rumson.
Gender: male
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: D4
Vocal range bottom: C3
Cherry Jourdel
The French accented leader of Cherry and her Fandango girls. In her twenties with a mature air nabout her.
Gender: female
Age: 20 to 30
Ensemble Men
Miners and prospectors. A wide variety of men.
Gender: male
Ensemble Women
The eventual women that inhabit Rumson, primarily Cherry's Fandango Girls.
Gender: female