Fall 2024: A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol
Performances
Nov. 15, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 16, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Nov. 22, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 23, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
All performances held at Downtown United Presbyterian Church (DPC).
Synopsis
A Christmas Carol is one of the most resonant stories ever written in the English language, and its by-now-mythic tale of loss and redemption is to some degree affecting in every version ever done, from Mickey Mouse or the Muppets to the original book and, of course, in innumerable stage versions.
This play is no powerful psychodrama, but rather a light-hearted blending of two forms of Victorian storytelling which I love. Not a parody or a tongue-in-cheek knockoff, it's a festive holiday show with all the drama of the Dickens original and all the buoyant spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan — an excuse for a jolly old Christmas party in the best Victorian fashion.
After all, if there's one thing that Dickens stood for, and that Gilbert & Sullivan embodied, it's good, clean fun. Merry Christmas, everybody!
Director: Morena Heyden
Music Director: Emily Mills
Producers: Suzanne Bell, Kathy Moore, Charles Palella
Cast
- The Balladeer (A Wandering Minstrel)
- Regan Welkey
- Ebenezer Scrooge (A Greedy Banker)
- Albert Young Jr.
- Bob Cratchit (Scrooge's Clerk)
- David Raymond
- Tiny Tim Cratchit (Cratchit's Son)
- Rebecca Nigro
- Fred Hanscom (Scrooge's Impoverished Nephew)
- Cameron Liedmann
- Miss Kindheart (A Philanthropist)
- Rebecca Brink
- Miss Goodman (Another Philanthropist)
- Regan Welkey
- The Ghost of Marley (A Greedy Banker, Now Deceased)
- Wayne Vander Byl
- Ghost of Samuel (A Single Gentleman, Now Deceased))
- Mark Figura
- Ghost of Christmas Past (A Spectral Visitation)
- Rebecca Nigro
- Ghost of Christmas Present (A Spectral Visitation)
- Amanda Lobaugh
- Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (A Spectral Visitation)
- Carla Cogliandro
- Old Fezziwig (A Benevolent Merchant)
- Wayne Vander Byl
- Mrs. Fezziwig (Wife of a Benevolent Merchant)
- Kathy Moore
- Belle (A Memory)
- Rachel Lockhart
- Young Scrooge (A Future Greedy Banker):
- Skye Kelley
- Young Marley (A Future Deceased Greedy Banker)
- Tristan Berlet
- Titus Burton (A Future Benevolent Merchant)
- Jeffery Snarr
- Dora Lincoln (Fred Hanscom's Fiancee)
- Julie Kittel-Moseley
- Arthur/Edwin (Party Guests)
- Larry Kiser
- Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's Wife)
- Regan Welkey
- Belinda Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's Daughter)
- Rachel Lockhart
- Peter Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's Second Son)
- Noah Gottlieb
- Uncle Tim Hazlitt (Emily Cratchit's Uncle)
- Mark Figura
- Aunt Eadie (Emily's Uncle's Wife)
- Laurel Schneiderman
- Gossip (A Citizen of London)
- Jeffery Snarr
- Gossip (A Citizen of London)
- Tristan Berlet
- Gossip (A Citizen of London)
- Julie Kittel-Moseley
- Gossip (A Citizen of London)
- Tamara Kelley
- Cheapside Jackie (A Child of the Streets)
- Tamara Kelley
- The Narrator (A Jolly Old Soul)
- Amanda Lobaugh
Chorus
Terry Benedict, Steven Howe, Don Kelley, Marshall Kelley, Jordu Kelly-Sutliff, Sara Reitschky, Sarah Scarpulla, Martin Schneiderman, Mamie Smith, Clara Weinert
Orchestra
- Clarinet
- Suzanne Bell
- Flute
- Karen Seidel
Crew
- Costume Managers
- Ben Hale, Amanda Lobaugh
- Publicity
- Charles Palella
- Program Design
- Suzanne Bell