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McCarter's 'A Christmas Carol' Opens December 6
BELOVED FAMILY TRADITION RETURNS!
McCARTER THEATRE PRESENTS CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL
FEATURING GRAEME MALCOLM AS EBENEZER SCROOGE
AND TONY-NOMINEE JULYANA SOELISTYO AS MRS. DILBER
Princeton, NJ — McCarter Theatre Center’s production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has become a much loved holiday treat for families across the region. This heartwarming and powerfully honest adaptation by David Thompson of Dickens’ classic novel is a wonderful way to honor tradition while experience the joy and warmth of a holiday favorite. Directed by Michael Unger, A Christmas Carol runs December 6 through December 29. (Press opening: Thursday, December 12). The Production Sponsor is Bank of America. The Opening Night Sponsor is McCarter & English.
Ebenezer Scrooge is not a fan of Christmas, not one bit. He relentlessly “Bah, Humbugs" every glimmer of holiday happiness. Cheer is costly and good-will is bad for business. This Christmas, however, things are going to be a little different. Ebenezer experiences a change of heart while traveling through his past, present and future on Christmas Eve. Scrooge’s miraculous transformation opens his eyes and his heart to the things that are truly important.
A McCarter Theatre Center tradition, A Christmas Carol is a perfect excuse for all families to unplug from the usual hustle and bustle and enjoy a production called “a must-see” by The New York Times. Ever since its publication in 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has come to embody everything that is good and right about the human spirit not only during the holidays, but all throughout the year. Originally written in rebuttal of the squalid working conditions of child laborers in Industrial Age England, A Christmas Carol remains a timeless tale of redemption, hope, and love.
At the center of the production is Broadway veteran Graeme Malcolm as Ebenezer Scrooge. Returning for his fourth year, Mr. Malcolm’s turn as Dickens’ famous miser has been described by The Star Ledger as “one of the best Ebenezer Scrooge’s that McCarter has seen.” On December 19, Mr. Malcolm will celebrate his 100th performance in the role.
Boasting a long list of Broadway, regional and international credits, the cast of A Christmas Carol will include John Ahlin (Mr. Fezziwig/Old Joe), AJ Cedeno (Jacob Marley/Mr. Stocks), Kimiye Corwin (Lily/Belle), Ali Ewoldt (Fan/Solicitor #2), Zainab Jah (Ghost of Christmas Present), David Kenner (Young Scrooge/Mr. Bonds), January LaVoy (Mrs. Cratchit), James Ludwig (Fred/Schoolmaster/Undertaker), Julyana Soelistyo (Mrs. Dilber), Michele Tauber (Mrs. Fezziwig/ Laundress/Solicitor #1), and Baylen Thomas (Bob Cratchit)
This year’s Adult Ensemble will include Andrew Clark, Maclain Dassatti, Kim Dodson, Molly Emerson, Liz Fallon, Kory Geller, Adam Hyndman (2012 graduate of Princeton University), Bart Mather, Ashley Elizabeth Smith (three-time World Irish Step Dancing Champion), Sari Weinerman, and Timothy Wilson.
At the helm of this year’s holiday ghost tale is Director Michael Unger, who is returning for his 16th holiday season. About the story, Michael says, “The tools of Scrooge’s redemption, as with ours, lay around us, if we just know how to pick them up and use them.” Most recently, Michael directed the new, critically acclaimed play Two Point Oh at 59E59 Theaters. Prior to that he directed Seussical: The Musical with 84 children from Newton, CT and John Tartaglia as the Cat in the Hat. Michael also directed From Broadway With Love: A Benefit for Sandy Hook (televised on PBS) in which 700 volunteers, including many Broadway luminaries gathered to support the Sandy Hook community.
David Thompson, who skillfully wrote the adaption for the McCarter production, counts among his many credits the libretto for Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award nominated Scottsboro Boys (currently playing the Young Vic in London) and the new script adaptation for the current revival of Chicago, the longest running American musical in history.
The production welcomes back Musical Director Charles Sundquist, returning for his 23rd production of A Christmas Carol. The production also boasts a creative team that includes Tony Award winner Jess Goldstein (Costume Design), Stephen Strawbridge (Lighting Design), Tony Award winner Brian Ronan (Sound Design), Tony Award winner Michael Starobin (Composer), and Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford (choreographer). Set Designer Ming Cho Lee has designed nationally and internationally for 50 years for opera, dance, Broadway, and regional theater, and is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest national award given in the arts.
The production team also includes Jennifer Paulson Lee (Choreography Supervisor), Gillian Lane-Plescia (Dialect Coach), Charles Conwell (Stunt Advisor), Alison Cote (Stage Manager), and Cheryl Mintz (Supervising Stage Manager).
Performances of A Christmas Carol in McCarter’s Matthews Theatre are Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, and Sundays at 1:00 pm and 5:30 pm. Additional performances are Monday, December 23 at 7:30 pm and Tuesday, December 24 at noon and 4:00 pm, with post holiday performances on Thursday, December 26 at 7:30 pm, Friday, December 27 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, Saturday at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, and Sunday December 29 at 1:00 p.m.
Tickets to A Christmas Carol start at $20, and may be purchased by calling the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office at (609) 258-2787 or online at www.mccarter.org or in person at the McCarter Ticket Office, located at 91 University Place in Princeton. .
Book your holiday party at McCarter and enjoy A Christmas Carol with family and friends or business clients. Groups of six or more save and receive premium seating! For more information, call the Group Services Office at (609) 258-6526 or email groups@mccarter.org .
McCarter provides Barrier-Free Access for patrons using wheelchairs, walkers, canes, or crutches. Ample doorways and convenient curb cuts provide easy wheelchair accessibility. Specially equipped restrooms are on the lobby level. Please inform the sales office of your needs at the time of ticket purchase.
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
McCarter Theatre offers a variety of events in conjunction with the performance, as well as special services for patrons who have visual and audio impairments. (There is no additional charge for these services) The dates for these programs and events are as follows:
ASL (American Sign Language) Interpreted Performance: Saturday, December 14 at 2:00 pm
Each ASL performance is preceded by a brief introduction given by professional interpreters. To ensure optimal seating locations for viewing of both the interpreters and the stage, please indicate that you or members of your party will be using this service at the time of ticket purchase.
Audio Described Performance: Saturday, December 14 at 2:00 pm
Audio Described Performances are for the benefit of patrons who are blind or visually impaired. Without interfering with the dialogue, McCarter’s staff of trained audio describers provides a live, objective, and succinct description of the action and visual elements of the play, heard by participating patrons through an ear piece attached to a pocket-sized FM radio.
Open-Captioned Performance: Sunday, December 15 at 1:00 pm
This program offers another option for hearing impaired patrons by allowing the audience to view spoken dialogue on a caption unit located near the stage. The dialogue scrolls across an easily visible screen so that patrons can follow what is said onstage.
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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Friday, December 6 – 7:30pm
Saturday, December 7 – 7:30pm
Sunday, December 8 – 1pm & 5:30pm
Thursday, December 12 – 7:30pm
Friday, December 13 – 7:30pm
Saturday, December 14 – 2pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 15 – 1pm & 5:30pm
Thursday, December 19 – 7:30pm
Friday, December 20 – 7:30pm
Saturday, December 21 – 1pm & 5:30pm
Sunday, December 22 – 1pm & 5:30pm
Monday, December 23 – 7:30pm
Tuesday, December 24 – 12 & 4pm
Thursday, December 26 – 7:30pm
Friday, December 27 – 2pm & 7:30pm
Saturday, December 28 – 2pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 29 – 1pm
CAST BIOS
John Ahlin (Mr. Fezziwig/Old Joe) Broadway: Waiting for Godot, Journey’s End (2007 Tony Award Best Revival), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Voices in the Dark, One Mo’ Time, Whoopee!, and Macbeth. Off-Broadway: Orson Welles in Austin Pendleton’s Orson Shadow and BH Barry’s Treasure Island. Regional: Pittsburgh Public, CENTERSTAGE, George Street Playhouse, Two River, Old Globe, Goodman, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, and Goodspeed Opera. John has appeared as Falstaff nine times, most recently in Henry IV Part One at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Film/TV: Law and Order: SVU (multiple episodes), Third Watch, As the World Turns, The Education of Max Bickford, and the upcoming Coen Brothers’ movie Inside Llewyn Davis.
AJ Cedeno (Jacob Marley/Mr. Stocks) is thrilled to be making his McCarter Theatre debut. Recent credits: Strawberry & Chocolate (U.S. Premiere); The Radiant (Red Fern Theatre); March Madness (Abingdon Theatre); Inherit the Wind, Huck Finn, Emma, Angels in America (Cleveland Playhouse); Shakespeare’s R&J (Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland; International Shakespeare Festival, Germany). Film/TV: Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, Someone Else, The Good Wife, Elementary, Smash, One Life to Live. Training: MFA Acting Program Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Playhouse, BA University of Notre Dame.
Kimiye Corwin (Lily/Belle) is elated to be back again for McCarter's A Christmas Carol! Off-Broadway: Wasted: An Historical Burlesque (Ars Nova). Regional: Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, nominated for a Kevin Kline Award for the role of Ophelia), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Syracuse Stage), Now Circa Then (Theatreworks Silicon Valley), Snow Falling on Cedars (Hartford Stage). TV: One Life to Live, Michael J. Fox Show. Film: Five Dances. Kimiye also danced with the José Limón Dance company for five years. Training: BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School, MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity.
Ali Ewoldt (Fan/Mrs. Bonds) Ali comes to McCarter directly from playing Luisa in The Fantasticks off-Broadway. She made her Broadway debut as Cosette in the revival of Les Miserables and recently played Maria on the 1st National Broadway Tour of West Side Story directed by David Saint and the late Arthur Laurents. Other credits: The King and I (Tuptim, Atlanta TOTS directed by Baayork Lee), Les Miserables (Cosette, Broadway National Tour), West Side Story (Maria, The Muny, PCLO, International Tour), Disney's Aladdin (Jasmine), concerts at The Town Hall, Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center), and Carnegie Hall. Film/TV: Yield (Leviathan Lab), Michael J. Fox Show. Ali is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. BA in Psychology: Yale University.
Zainab Jah (Ghost of Christmas Present) McCarter: Prudence, The Convert (also at Goodman and CTG). Recent theater credits: Titania/Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Helen Of Troy, Trojan Women (Classical Theatre Of Harlem); Josephine, Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse); A Doll’s House (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Eclipsed (Yale Rep); Tranced (Merrimack Rep); Hamida, In Darfur (The Public Theatre/NYSF); Reagan, King Lear; Peter Sellars’ Children Of Herakles European Tour. Film/TV: principal roles in Dinner Rush with Danny Aiello and Law & Order SVU. Awards include the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Featured Actress in a Play (The Convert); San Francisco Bay Area Critics’ Circle Outstanding Performance, Female Featured Role (Ruined).
David Kenner (Young Scrooge/Mr. Bonds) McCarter: A Christmas Carol. Theater credits: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); The Prophet Muhammad: A Musical, Help Yourself (Williamstown); RED (Capitol Rep); Old Wicked Songs (BRT); Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Pride & Prejudice (Pennsylvania Shakespeare); The Overwhelming (Hangar Theatre); Good Boys, An Infinite Ache (Stages Rep). Film: Excuse Me for Living, Follow the Leader. BFA from SHSU. MFA from NYU Graduate Acting.
January LaVoy (Mrs. Cratchit) Broadway: ENRON. Off-Broadway: Two Trains Running, Home (Signature Theatre); Wings (Second Stage); Coraline (MCC). Regional: Joe Turner's Come & Gone (Mark Taper Forum); Good People, Piano Lesson (Pittsburgh Public); What I Learned in Paris (Alliance); A Streetcar Named Desire, Lobby Hero, Merchant of Venice (Denver Center); Measure for Measure (Shakespeare NJ); world premieres at City Theatre, Wilma Theatre, and CATF. Film: War of the Worlds, High Ground. TV: Blue Bloods, Law & Order (classic, CI and SVU), 3 lbs., Guiding Light, All My Children, and Noelle Ortiz-Stubbs on One Life to Live. Voiceover: national campaigns including Revlon, Dannon, and Obama for America, and dozens of audiobooks.
James Ludwig (Fred/Schoolmaster/Undertaker) James is thrilled to return “home for Christmas” to McCarter! James is the co-host and producer of the wildly popular series The Happy Hour Guys. Broadway: Spamalot (original company), Little Shop of Horrors. Off-Broadway: Blue Man Group, De La Guarda, Bubbly Black Girl…,john & jen (original company). Regional: Raisin Cycle at Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, also George Street, Guthrie, Arena Stage, and Ford’s, to name a few. Film/TV: Lipstick Jungle, Ghost Town, Law & Order, and Chappelle’s Show. James owns his own production company, Back40 Films, and has written screenplays and teleplays for A Face in the Rock, The Perfect Pitch, and The Happy Hour Guys.
Graeme Malcolm (Ebenezer Scrooge) McCarter: A Christmas Carol, Translations, Betrayal. Broadway: Equus, Translations, Aida, The King and I, M. Butterfly (1st National). Off-Broadway: Mary Broome (The Mint), A Dangerous Personality (Perry Street), Oroonoko (TFANA), Macbeth (NYSF), The Learning Curve (Beckett), Hapgood (LCT), Aristocrats & Prin (MTC). Regional: Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage); Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations (Arena); Romeo and Juliet, Safe in Hell, Pentecost (Yale Rep); Under Milk Wood (Hartford); Travesties (Long Wharf); Y2K (ATL). Film/TV: The Blacklist, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order, Whoopi, Mr. Halpern & Mr. Johnson, The Extra Man, National Treasure, Everything’s Jake, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, The Eden Myth. Narrator of over 300 Audio Books.
Julyana Soelistyo (Mrs. Dilber) McCarter: The Tempest (Emily Mann, dir.). Broadway: Golden Child (Outer Critics' Circle and Tony nominations, Drama League Award, Clarence Derwent Award). Off-Broadway: Seven with Meryl Streep (Julie Taymor, dir.), The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center), On The Town (City Center), Marina in Pericles (BAM – Bartlett Sher, dir.). Also The Public, Signature Theater, Kennedy Center, Yale Rep, and Seattle Children's Theater. International: Wild Swans (The Young Vic-London), Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Heracles (Bottrop, Rome, Paris- Peter Sellars, dir.). Film: Bringing Out The Dead (Martin Scorsese), Earthly Possessions (James Lapine), Ariel in The Tempest with Christopher Plummer.
Michele Tauber (Mrs. Fezziwig/Mrs. Stocks/Laundress) recently workshopped her one woman show, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln, at Theatre 40 in LA and premiered it at The Townsend Center at West Georgia University. New York: The Charity That Began at Home (The Mint); The Heiress (Roundtable Ensemble); A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble); The Rivals, MacBeth, A Comedy of Errors (The Acting Company). Regional: See How They Run (Barrington Stage); The Fox on the Fairway (Gulfshore Playhouse); Hay Fever (R.E.P. at Univ. Of DE); House of Blue Leaves (Two River); also NJ Rep; Passage Theatre; Alabama, Pennsylvania and Texas Shakespeare Festivals; Syracuse Stage; Cleveland Playhouse; Olney Theatre Center. TV: Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Kate & Allie, The Street. Michele received her MFA from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware.
Baylen Thomas (Bob Cratchit) Broadway: Merchant of Venice, Arcadia, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Coast of Utopia, After the Fall, Henry IV, King Lear, Proof. Off-Broadway: Twelfth Night, From Up Here, Chaucer in Rome. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre DC, Merrimack Rep, Old Globe, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film: The Beaver, The Namesake. TV: The Good Wife, Unforgettable, Rubicon, Life on Mars, Law and Order. MFA: USD/Old Globe.
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Celebrate the Holidays at MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre with Four December Events
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Starring in "Twas the Night Before Christmas" arclockwise from top left, Ken Ambs of Newtown, Pa., Diane Wargo of Ewing, Emma Behrens of East Windsor and MaryRose Brendel of Cranbury
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Mercer County Community College To Host Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Trenton Campus Jan. 21
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Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Mercer County Sponsored the LIGHTS Program
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Pictured right Lara Wellerstein, Director of Prevention Services at JFCS and Jaime Goldschmidt, Americorps Volunteer organizing the toys by age group.
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Two Versions of the Cherished Holiday Story of “The Nutcracker” Come To MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre in December
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