Sherlock Holmes Case Christmas Carol

Expires:
November 30, 2026

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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 want to be considered for one specific part, by writing it in below ("Other").

Other

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

Location:

Valley Center Stage - 1060 Stilson Ave SE North Bend, WA 98045

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.

Male, 40-50 - Holmes’s dead arch‑enemy, the criminal mastermind known as the “Napoleon of Crime.”

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.

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,…