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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol

Expires: November 30, 2026
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About the Project

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol by John Longenbaugh. A dramatic comedy set on Christmas Eve 1894 combining Doyle’s Holmes with the structure of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. All roles are gender flexible.

This show will involve some doubling of parts, with some actors playing a combination of principle and supporting characters. Please indicate the kinds of roles for which you'd like to be considered. Please let us know if you'd only like to be considered for one specific part, by writing it in below ("Other").

Submission Instructions

Please complete the Audition Form: Sherlock Holmes
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Audition Requirements

Please arrive at 5:45 to complete an audition form.
Please expect to be called for up to three hours for auditions (let us know if you must leave early!)
Please make sure you can make all performance dates, and indicate any conflicts with rehearsal schedule (exact days and times to be determined)

Rehearsals: Read-throughs will take place in late October, with full rehearsals beginning first week of November. Rehearsals are held at Valley Center Stage, 6 days a week, with one weekend day rehearsal, and weekday evening rehearsals. Please list any conflicts you might have in the month of November.

Performances: Thursdays through Sunday, opening December 4th (Friday) 7:30pm
December 5th (Saturday) 7:30pm
December 6th (Sunday) 2:00pm

December 10th (Thursday) 7:30pm
December 11th (Friday) 7:30pm
December 12th (Saturday) 7:30pm
December 13th (Sunday) 2:00pm

December 17th (Thursday) 7:30pm
December 18th (Friday) 7:30pm
December 19th (Saturday) 7:30pm
December 20th (Sunday) 2:00pm

Audition Dates

Sunday, September 20th - 5:45pm start time

Sides or Script Location

Auditions will be by sides only. You won't need to perform a monologues. Sides will be provided via email the week before the audition.

Contact

Contact: Christopher Clark
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Pay Details

Pay Rate: -
Pay Type: None
Audition Type: Theatre

Geography

Locality: Local to Puget Sound
Location: Valley Center Stage - 1060 Stilson Ave SE North Bend, WA 98045
North Bend
, WA

Character Breakdown

Sherlock Holmes
Male, 30-50 - The brilliant consulting detective, now bitter, isolated and bored with crime-solving.
Dr. John Watson
Male, 30-50 - Holmes’s physician friend, former flatmate and chronicler.
Mrs. Hudson
Female, 40-65 - Holmes’s long-suffering Baker Street landlady. Practical, intelligent and genuinely affectionate toward both Holmes and Watson.
Becky
Female, 20s - A spirited young actress from Cornwall and Holmes’s youthful love.
Professor James Moriarty
Male, 40-50 - Holmes’s dead arch-enemy, the criminal mastermind known as the “Napoleon of Crime.”
Young Holmes
Male, 20s - Holmes as seen in memories of his childhood and youth. Precocious, emotionally guarded and already developing the observational brilliance that will define him.
Inspector Lestrade
Male, 40-60 - Scotland Yard detective. Earnest, conventional and considerably less perceptive than Holmes, though not malicious. His limitations help show how badly London still needs Holmes.
First Spirit / Ghost of Christmas Past
Female, 35-60 - A compassionate supernatural guide dressed like a Crimean War nurse. She takes Holmes into his childhood and youth and presses him to confront grief, loneliness and lost love.
Violet Holmes
Female, 30-45 - Sherlock’s mother, heard in childhood memory.
William Holmes
Male, 40-55 - Sherlock’s father.
Mycroft Holmes
Male, 20s - Sherlock’s brilliant older brother, seen as an Oxford student. Witty, indolent and already tending toward the famously sedentary Mycroft of later life.
Second Spirit / Ghost of Christmas Present
Male, 35-45 - A flamboyant, bohemian spirit who looks strikingly like Oscar Wilde, complete with green suit and absinthe. Witty and irreverent.
Garrison
Male, 25-35 - A young Scotland Yard officer with considerably better instincts than Lestrade. He idolizes Holmes and is trying to prevent an innocent man from being convicted.
Uncle Tim
Male, 55-70 - Genial, humane and Christmas-loving, he listens as Watson admits how much Holmes really means to him.
Eli
Male, 10-16 - One of Holmes’s Baker Street Irregulars. A street boy desperate for Holmes’s help after Wiggins is arrested. Young, vulnerable and loyal.
Topper
Male, 20-30 - An older or more authoritative Baker Street Irregular trying to hold the gang together in Wiggins’s absence.
Third Spirit / Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Gender-flexible, ageless - The dark, largely silent final spirit. A shadowy, funeral-like presence who shows Holmes the terrible consequences of continuing his present course.
Man of the City #1
Male, 40-65 - A prosperous, callous London gentleman seen in Holmes’s possible future.
Man of the City #2
Male, 40-65 - Another comfortable City gentleman. Equally shallow and indifferent.
Wiggins
Male, 30-40 - Former leader of the Baker Street Irregulars.
Toff
Male, 20-35 - A fashionable upper-class young man.
Toff’s Girl
Female, 20-35 - The Toff’s female companion, caught with him during Wiggins’s robbery.
Albert
Male, 18-30 - A British enlisted soldier during the Christmas Truce of 1914. Thoughtful and increasingly troubled by the morality of the war.
Old Garrison
Male, 45-55 - Garrison twenty years later, now a British Army major on the Western Front. Still remembers Holmes and retains the moral seriousness he displayed as a young detective.
German Soldier
Male, 18-30 - A young German soldier who crosses No Man’s Land during the 1914 Christmas Truce carrying sausages as gifts.
Head Nurse
Female, 40-60 - Head of a Women’s Hospital Unit in Holmes’s possible 1914 future.
General
Male, 45-65 - A senior British officer in the future. Cheerful, complacent and eager to exploit the Professor’s increasingly horrific inventions.
Russell
Female, 20-30 - A young female intelligence secretary. Efficient and somewhat more human than her superiors.
The Professor
Male, 60 - A man who has abandoned his moral purpose and turned his efforts toward creating weapons of mass killing.