A Christmas Carol
A Holiday Tale
by Charles Dickens
adapted and directed by Preston Lane
November 26 – December 24, 2010
Tonight changes everything.
Ebenezer Scrooge's last chance is one night and three spirits. It's a life-changing ride through past, present and future as he learns what it means to be human. Nineteen actors bring Dickens' classic Holiday tale to life in a dazzling new production brimming with bold acting, daring design and spine tingling special effects. Our new Holiday tradition for the Triad is a ghostly tale of Yule-tide cheer, gracious redemption and heart-warming hope for the whole family.
Running time: 90 minutes, with no intermission.
"You get the feeling that this is not just A Christmas Carol but THE Christmas Carol. You will be wowed and at the same time filled with wonder...at how Triad Stage makes it all seem new. It even feels like Dickens is there, somehow, watching, musing and, ultimately, applauding."
–Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
Click here to read the full review.
Triad Stage casts a new darkness on A Christmas Carol
YES! Weekly interviews Preston Lane and Scrooge himself, Gordon Joseph Weiss.
Read the full article from YES! Weekly here.
A Christmas Carol on 88.5 WFDD's Triad Arts Up Close
Triad Stage Director Preston Lane and actor Gordon Joseph Weiss share their take on A Christmas Carol and its lead character Ebenezer Scrooge. With host David Ford.
Listen to the interview podcast from 88.5 WFDD here.
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A Christmas Carol is presented as a special event and is not included in the Season Pass package. 2010-2011 single ticket prices apply. Passholders can purchase Flex Tickets at the special rate of $25 each if purchased in conjunction with a new or renewed 2010-2011 Season Pass.
CastEbenezer Scrooge
The Beggar Woman
Mrs. Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas
Present/Mrs. Dilber/Ensemble Bob Cratchit/Ensemble
Mr. Fezziwig/Old Joe/Ensemble
Jacob Marley/3rd Businessman/
Ensemble Ghost of Christmas Past/Hortence/
Charwoman/Ensemble Charity Woman/Belle/Edwina/
Young Wife Topper/Dick Wilkins/Undertaker/
1st Businessman/Ensemble Charity Man/Young Husband/
Ensemble Mrs. Cratchit/Ensemble
Fred/Young Scrooge/2nd
Businessman/Ensemble Tiny Tim/Ghost of Christmas Future/
Ensemble Child Scrooger/Peter Cratchit/
Ensemble Martha Cratchit/Ensemble
Belinda Cratchit/Want/Ensemble
Boy on the Street/
Ensemble Fan/Ensemble
Youngest Scrooge/Edward
Cratchit/Ignorance/Ensemble |
Creative TeamAdaptor & Director
Composer & Sound Designer
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Projection Designer
Dramaturg
Resident Vocal Coach
Resident Fight Director
Resident Movement Director
Choreographer
Casting Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
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Biographies
Cast
Creative Team
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Preston Lane (Artistic Director/Co-Founder, Adaptor & Director) is in his 10th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 30 productions. Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his third year as the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News: 2002 Top Ten Theatre List). As a playwright, his adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Sonoma Rep. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Ghosts are published by Playscripts Inc. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, Greensboro College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his BFA from NCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He blogs about theater on his blog: This Little World. |
| David E. Smith (Composer & Sound Designer) is director of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts theatre sound design program. David spent eight years with the Royal National Theatre in London, England. Triad Stage: The Glass Menagerie, Providence Gap, Picnic, Oleanna, Tartuffe, Ghosts, The Night of the Iguana, Bloody Blackbeard, The Little Foxes, Tobacco Road, Beautiful Star, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Streetcar Named Desire and Dracula. Regional: Arena Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre. Local: Paper Lantern Theatre Company and Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. | |
| Howard C. Jones (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Around the World in 80 Days, Ghosts, Picnic, The Night of the Iguana, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Tobacco Road, Hedda Gabler (recipient of a World Stage Design 2005 honor), August Snow, A Moon for the Misbegotten,The Matchmaker and A Streetcar Named Desire. Regional: Starlight Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Missouri Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, American Heartland Theatre and NC Shakespeare Festival. UNC School of the Arts faculty member since 1996. Prior to that, founder and owner of Cobalt Studios, an apprentice painting studio in upstate New York, working for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatres across the country. | |
| Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is in her 6th season as Resident Designer at Triad Stage. Favorite past productions include: Ghosts (USITT-SE Design Expo ‘09 award winner); The Night of the Iguana, Tobacco Road, Brother Wolf; and A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly). She has worked with UNCG Theatre, Peace College, Glimmerglass Opera, Firebrand Theory Theatre Co., The Lortel Theatre and Lisa Zinni of Broadway’s Rent. Kelsey is a founding member of Hand in The Fire Theater Company which recently presented a production of One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Collaborative. | |
| John Wolf (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 29 productions including the world premieres of Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Debunked, Beautiful Star and Providence Gap. In New York designs at Lion Theatre, Center Stage, Soho Rep, Gene Frankel Theatre, Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center. Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. University Theatre: UNCG, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Nebraska Opera. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNCG. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music. | |
| Nicholas Hussong (Projection Designer)Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; MainStage: The Glass Menagerie (2010), Providence Gap (2010), Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow (2010), and Around the World in 80 Days (2010). UpStage Cabaret: An Evening of Southern DIScomfort (2010), The Santaland Diaries (2008-2010) and Mad at Miles (2009). Chicago Regional: Production Manager for three Joseph Jefferson-nominated productions at American Theatre Company: The People’s Temple, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, and Speech and Debate. | |
| Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate and Resident Dramaturg, and a former Theater and Advanced Placement English teacher. Regional: Assistant to the Director of five shows at Triad Stage, Assistant Director of Oleanna at An Appalachian Summer Festival, Director of One Flea Spare, the first play by the Hand in Fire Theater Company produced in collaboration with Elsewhere Collaborative. Education: UNC Greensboro, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, England and an Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History. | |
| Christine Morris (Resident Vocal Coach) Triad Stage coaching includes Educating Rita, The Glass Menagerie, Around the World in 80 Days, Picnic, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Doubt, Tobacco Road, The Night of the Iguana, The Little Foxes; elsewhere: A Thousand Clowns (starring Tom Selleck) and Kudzu (musical based on Doug Marlette’s comic strip, with The Red Clay Ramblers) and numerous other gigs for regional and university theatre and video/audio projects. She is on the performance faculty at UNCG and also an actor, appearing most recently as Cordie Grindstaff in Providence Gap. Her professional memberships include Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). | |
| Jim Wren (Resident Fight Director) has staged the violence for over a dozen Triad Stage productions including the battles in Bloody Blackbeard, the fantastical fights in Brother Wolf, and the general behavior of the Lesters in Tobacco Road. Education: MFA, University of Florida. Jim is Performance Program Coordinator for the UNCG Department of Theatre, and is a two time recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence. | |
| Denise Gabriel (Resident Movement Director) Triad Stage: The Glass Menagerie, Providence Gap. She was the Resident Movement Director with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for six seasons where her credits include: Coriolanus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Christmas Carol, Gee’s Bend, Crowns, Steel Magnolias and The Count of Monte Cristo. Regional credits: The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe); King Lear (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Romeo and Juliet (Clarence Brown Theater); and The Working Theater, NY. International credits: Shanghai Theatre Academy (China); Salzburg Seminar at Schloss Leoploidron (Austria); and Artscape Theatre Centre and Dance for All (Cape Town, South Africa). Ms. Gabriel has taught in numerous universities across the country for over 25 years, is a Founding Board Member of American Theatre for Movement Educators and is presently a faculty member of the UNCG Theatre Department. | |
| Donna Baldwin-Bradby (Choreographer) is Adjunct Professor and Director of Marketing and Publicity for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at North Carolina A&T State University. Donna earned a BFA in Professional Theatre from NC A&T and an MFA in Arts Management from Virginia Tech. She has directed, choreographed and performed for professional, community and educational theatres locally and regionally. Donna appeared in Crowns at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, directed Eubie! at NC A&T. For Triad Stage, she was the director for Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, From the Mississippi Delta and The Old Settler, choreographer for Das Barbecü, ballroom dancing coach for ‘MASTER HAROLD’…and the boys, and movement coach for The Matchmaker and The Diary of Anne Frank. Most recently she directed productions of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth in Triad Stage’s Upstage Cabaret, at The National Black Theatre Festival and at North Carolina A&T State University. | |
| Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: Rooms; Jacques Brel; Six Dance Lessons; The Thing About Men; Showtune; I Sing; Urinetown; Say Goodnight, Gracie; The Bilbao Effect; The Crow Mill; Lost and Found. Regional: Penguin Rep, Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: The Woman, In the Family, Offspring, Made for Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Headspace. Other: Hats. Tours: “Barney”, “Curious George”, “Kidz Bop”. Consultant for National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2004-08), Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing. | |
| Sandra M. Kroll* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage debut. Off Broadway: Good Ol Girls (White Sands Entertainment). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin, The Glass Menagerie, School for Scandal (New Harmony Theatre); Scapin (Shakespeare & Company); Talley & Son, The Rimers of Eldritch (Eclipse Theatre); Soundtrack City: Chicago (Viaduct Theatre); Footloose (Carousel Dinner Theatre); Danton’s Death (directed by Dominique Serrand); Pericles, Prince of Tyre (directed by Andrei Belgrader). Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. | |
| Kelsey Daye Lutz* (Assistant Stage Manager) Triad Stage: ASM, A Beautiful Star (2006 and 2007). Off-Broadway: ASM, The Cocktail Party (TACT). Regional: SM intern, Hard Weather Boating Party, Shipwrecked, A Raisin in the Sun, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents (Actors Theatre of Louisville). BFA Technical Production, University of North Carolina Greensboro. |
*Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
