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'Christmas Carol'

Walter Wright as The Ghost of Christmas Present and Real Carpentier as Ebenezer Scrooge. Courtesy photo.

 

 

'Christmas 

Carol' starts

Dec. 5

PUTNAM ó Thereís a chill in the air and weíve even seen some snow - the holidays are here! This year The Theatre of Northeastern Connecticut at the Bradley Playhouse invites you to revisit Scrooge and Marley and all their ghostly friends, as it presents the perennial favorite A Christmas Carol. The show opens Dec. 5 and runs for three weekends.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 7, 14 and 21. Tickets are $17 for adults and $14 for seniors and students. The Bradley Playhouse is located at 30 Front Street (Route 44) in Putnam, CT.  

All seats are reserved. Reservations may be made with a major credit card online at www.thebradleyplayhouse.org or by calling 860-928-7887. 

Tickets may be purchased at the theater box office, either before the performance or at the door. 

The TNECT production is co-directed by Kathleen Atwood and Scott Guerin, with Annette Hebard providing choreography. Ebenezer Scrooge is played by Real Carpentier and Jim Douglas appears as Marley.  The Ghost of Christmas Past is Maya Summiel, The Ghost of Christmas Present is Walter Wright and Kevin Fazzina plays The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The Cratchit family, led by Roy Simmons playing Bob Cratchit and Liz Eklund as Mrs. Cratchit, includes Matthew Carpentier, Sydney Dubitsky, Lauren Langelier, Brooke Boisvert, Anna Carpentier and AJ Soares as Tiny Tim.

As always, at this time of year, the Bradley requests that theater goers keep those less fortunate in their hearts and minds. After all, this is the true meaning of Christmas.  Nonperishable food items and warm hats, gloves, mittens and scarves contributed by patrons will be donated to Daily Bread and the Putnam Family Resource Center. Anyone who brings these items to the theater, will be entered in a raffle to win a copy of The Annotated Christmas Carol.    

First produced in 1995, this yearís production of A Christmas Carol is adapted from Charles Dickensí novel by Romulus Linney.  

When Mr. Linney was asked to create a new adaptation of the classic story, he did not remember reading the book nor seeing any of the numerous stage versions.  He said ìI vowed to stick to the bones of the story as closely as I could to take the evolution of Scrooge seriously, and to try and find, as he goes, the child within him that slowly emerges from his ordeal to such bountiful happiness.î