FINE ARTS PRESENTS "SCROOGE" NOV. 29-30
This
Christmas season, Angelina College Theater will re-create a holiday
classic from 1934, the radio broadcast of “Scrooge” adapted by Dailey
Paskman from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. "Scrooge" will be
performed in the Temple Theater Nov. 29 and 30 at 6 p.m. Tickets are
$5.00 for adults and $4.00 for seniors and children. All seats are
reserved.
Guest Director Don Glenn has staged this adaptation as a live radio
broadcast, complete with narrators, chorus, and an on-stage sound
effects crew. The narrators, carolers, and sound effects people will
play dual roles: each one portrays a 1930s “radio personality”
performing in a live “broadcast” of “Scrooge”. The audience will be the
“Studio Audience” of yesteryear, seeing all the action while the
listeners at home only heard the dialogue. Paskman’s original Scrooge
was Lionel Barrymore, whose portrayal of the title character came to
epitomize the Christmas season for millions of Americans for nearly
twenty years. In spite of the fact that the radio audience couldn’t see
him, Barrymore always broadcast in full stage makeup, complete with
costume, looking like the essence of the nasty old miser.
This excellent adaptation of Dickens' beloved story has all the humor
and spirit of the Christmas season. The narrators take us along each
scene as the characters speak, linking all of the scenes as the story
unfolds. The play is framed musically by a choir of young people who are
in character as the Carolers. They sing Christmas carols to bridge the
connecting scenes, and serve as background to the words of the
Narrators.
Garland Buffalo will play the irascible Ebenezer Scrooge. Other cast
members are: Narrator and Caroler – Jessica Poland as Jessica “Funny
Girl” Bryce; Narrator and Sound Effects Crew Leader - Casey Lilley as
Johnny Broadway; Narrator and Children’s Ensemble Leader - Retha Powers
as Retha Dimples; Carolers – Sarah Jackson and Nancy McClelland; Sound
Effects Crew – Helen Barden and Danyelle McClain; Bob Cractchit – Cody
Hall; Mrs. Cratchit – Amy Hupp; Tiny Tim – Dustin Hupp; Emily Cratchit –
Danyelle McClain; Scrooge’s nephew Fred – Jared Hardy; Marley – Sharon
Buffalo; Ghost of Christmas Past – Clay Hall; Ghost of Christmas Present
– Courtney Gaither; Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come – Regina Pierson; Mr.
Fezziwig – Cameron Jones; Mrs. Fezziwig – Sonia Jacobo; Dick, a Fezziwig
apprentice – Noel Proctor; Molly, Young Scrooge’s girlfriend – Jade
Wilson; Young Ebenezer – Taz Powers; Boy Ebenezer – Kasey Jobe; Children
– Kasey Jobe, Kyrstin Jobe, Taz Powers, and Jade Wilson.
Call the Temple Theater Box Office at 936-633-5454 between 12:00 p.m. -
5:30 p.m. Monday – Friday to reserve your seats for this family-friendly
Holiday performance. For other information about the show, call the
Angelina College Fine Arts Division at 936-633-5233.
