The Webb School Company Players are presenting “A Christmas Carol – A Live Radio Play” in the Black Box Theater in the Lundin Fine Arts Center on Nov. 9-11 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 12 at 2:30 p.m. The production is open to the public. Reservations are required. Click here for tickets. General admission is $15. For more information, call 931-389-5703.
“A Christmas Carol” was first published in 1843. Despite the fact it contained lavishly colored illustrations and was expensive to produce, the price was capped to make it more affordable for readers. Thedickensmuseum.com
Written by Charles Dickens, it was adapted for the stage by James Egan, with music by Rick Rhodes - a six-time Emmy Award Winner – and lyrics by Vivian Rhodes - television writer and published novelist. It will be performed as a live radio play.
As Dickens has described his lead character, Ebenezer Scrooge as “a squeezing, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner, hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. His best and only friend in all the world, Jacob Marley, a kindred spirit if ever there was one, was seven years dead.”
He is visited by the ghost of Marley, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Future, and Yet to Come. In the adventures of one evening with Marley and the spirits, Scrooge has a good long look at his life’s choices and is thereby transformed.
Webb’s actors play many parts to fulfill the story of a 95-minute performance with one intermission.
The cast includes:
WINSTON A. DUGDALE
SCROOGE, ONE MAN
CADEN WILLIAMS
YOUNG SCROOGES, ONE MAN, FRED, JONATHAN, ROBERT, DEN OF THIEVES RAP
RAY ZHANG
STORYTELLER, MARLEY, CRATCHIT, FEZZIWIG
ANNE MARIE FLORIDA
FIRST SPIRIT / PAST, MEMORIES, PETER, ELIZABETH, DEN OF THIEVES RAP, GENTLEWOMAN 1, YOUNG LADY
CHARLOTTE TOY
BELLE, FAYE, FAN, MARTHA (Alternate), IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
SCOUT HARDING
2ND SPIRIT / PRESENT, ONE MAN, DICK, DEN OF THIEVES RAP, SCHOOL MASTER,
GENTLE WOMAN 3, CHILD, TURKEY BOY
STORYTELLER
MARY LANE TAYLOR
MARTHA, 2nd GENTLE WOMAN, PIANO, SILENT NIGHT, STORYTELLER
KYLIE SINGER
3RD SPIRIT / FUTURE, WANT, MARY, CATHERINE, OTHER CHILD, STORYTELLER
TRYNNA ATWOOD
2ND WOMAN, MRS. FEZZIWIG, MRS. CRATCHIT
SOPHIA BAIN
MRS. POCKETT, TINY TIM, IGNORANCE
NATALIA FRONT
BELINDA, PARTY GUEST, 1ST WOMAN, CHILD, WHAT CHILD IS THIS
CADENCE GARCIA
SMALL CHILD
CHRISTMAS 1939
W.E.B.B. RADIO - 1870 ON THE DIAL
Staff and students at The Webb School are not charged, but reservations are required for admittance. Curtain is at 7 p.m. Empty seats at 6:55 p.m. will be given to those on the waiting list for each evening. Late seating can be accommodated only in the first 10 minutes providing seats are available.
Park and enter The Lundin Fine Arts Center via the front lobby entrance. If you require handicap access and seating, please call ahead at least 24 hours.