[AnAmericanMother]

In the Victorian Anglican church the beadle was a fairly important person - in effect a constable and in charge of charity. We meet him in Dickens, Mr. Bumble by name.

[Salvation]

I had forgotten about that.

[ShasheMac]

I have played both Mr. Bumble, the Beadle in “Oliver!” (the musical version of Oliver Twist ) and Beadle Bamford in “Sweeney Todd.” I used to tell friends that I was going to combine the two into a one-man show called appropriately… (apologies in advance)… Beadlemania.