The Old Globe Presents “Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show”
The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for “Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show.” The Scrooge parody, set in San Diego, is based on “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, and is written by Gordon Greenberg (Globe’s “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” “Crime and Punishment: A Comedy and The Heart of Rock & Roll”) and Steve Rosen (Globe’s “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors; Crime and Punishment,” “A Comedy; The Other Josh Cohen”) and directed by Greenberg. The six-week limited engagement plays at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, through December 28.
It’s back! San Diego has another show in its Christmas stocking with this fast, funny, and highly theatrical reimagining of one of the most beloved holiday stories ever told. All the traditional elements of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” are intact—including the iconic ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future—but with a comic local twist. Audiences of all ages will cheer Ebenezer Scrooge’s rediscovery of the Christmas spirit in this riotous Dickens mash-up filled with music and laughter—all set in “wintery” San Diego.
“The hilarious ‘Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show’ returns to the Globe for its fifth year as we embrace the joy of the holidays in our city,” said Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “Our great friends Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen give us the gift of laughter in this loving and riotous Southern California retelling of Charles Dickens’s classic story. As every year, we welcome a cast of truly inventive and wildly imaginative actors, who lead us through this madcap story that in the end is as touching as it is funny. We can’t wait to welcome San Diego back to join Tiny Tim, three spooky spirits, and Scrooge himself in celebrating this most wonderful time of the year.”
The cast includes James Joseph O’Neil as Actor 5 (Ebenezer Scrooge), Josh Breckenridge as Actor 4 (Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Charles, Mr. Fezzi, etc.), Will Carlyon as Actor 1 (Fred, Young Scrooge, Medium Scrooge, Tiny Tim, etc.), Susana Cordón as Actor 2 (Prudence Saint, Lavinia, Ghost of Christmas Present, Archibald, etc.), and Jacque Wilke as Actor 3 (Gertrude Saint, Ghost of Christmas Past, Mrs. Cratchit, Jennie, etc.).
Tickets are now on sale at TheOldGlobe.org or by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623) and in person at The Old Globe’s Box Office in Balboa Park.
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