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stage preview Ensemble Theatre Company presents
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
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nsemble Theatre Company, Asheville’s newest professional theatre company, presents the mesmerizing one-man show Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, by Tom Mula. Andrew Hampton Livingston directs and Michael MacCauley stars in this darkly funny and deeply moving twist on the classic Dickens story. We know what happens to Scrooge, but what about his old business partner Michael MacCauley as Marley? Is Jacob Marley. he truly past
redemption, or does every person deserve a chance to change, to do better? In this funny and touching holiday play, see Jacob Marley’s heroic efforts to save Scrooge’s soul – and in the process, save his own. Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol played for two seasons at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. The show was nominated for four Joseph Jefferson Awards, and received an After Dark Award and the Goodman School of Drama’s Cunningham Prize for Playwriting. IF YOU Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol GO runs December 19-30, Wednesdays
through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for full-time students of all ages. Tickets are available through North Carolina Stage Company, at (828) 2390263, www.ncstage.org, or by visiting the theatre at 15 Stage Lane in Asheville.
HART PRESENTS
A Christmas Carol
2012-2013 SEASON Daniel Meyer, Music Director
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he Haywood Arts Regional Theater is getting ready to unveil what it hopes will become a holiday tradition for the region, a lavish production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas The set of A Christmas Carol under construction Carol.” Featuring an original script by Mark Jones, and an origiDelilah Jenkins, Tom Dewees, Madison nal score by Ann Rhymer Schwabland, the Garris, Ellery Neal, Jacob Hunt, Amy show is on tap to be a major spectacle with a Hunt, Mark Highsmith, Sherry G. Dewees, cast of forty and a nine piece orchestra. Set Trenton Fish, Anna Kate Hall, Roger construction began last January, and HART Magendie, Leah Hampton, Lindsay Salvati, plans to revive the show annually and add Aaron Hunt, Hannah Parrot, Andrea Cody, more to it each year. But the show is starting Isabelle Baldwin, Nat Neal, Brynna Sinyard. big, with smoke, fog and snow on the stage to add to the mystery. The ghosts are the stars of the story, IF and in this production they are envisioned YOU “A Christmas Carol” has as something truly special. Jacob Marley GO performances on December 7, 8, will appear like a floating octopus of chains 14, 15 at 7:30 p.m.; December 9 and money boxes, the ghost of Christmas and 16 at 3 p.m.; and December 15 at 2 past will appear clothed in twinkling lights, p.m. Tickets for evening performances are Christmas present will lead a mass of carolAdults, $20, Seniors $17, and Students $7. ers from scene to scene, and the ghost of Discounted tickets to matinees are Adults Christmas yet to come will fill the entire $16, Seniors $14, and Students $6. stage. A massive four poster bed will be Box Office Hours Monday-Saturday 1-5 Scrooges chariot taking him from place to p.m. For reservations contact the HART place, time to time. Box Office at (828) 456-6322 or go online HART’s cast includes: Steve Lloyd,San to www.harttheatre.com. Performing Arts Smith, John Winfield, David Evanoff, Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon Josh Merrell, Strother Stingley, Jack Ross, St. Waynesville, NC 28786.
Concerts take place in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
A Classical Christmas featuring Handel’s Messiah Sunday December 16 at 3pm
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A new Asheville symphonic Christmas tradition begins with the most beautiful music of the season. Daniel Meyer, conductor Jennifer Davison, soprano Deborah Domanski, mezzo soprano Scott Joiner, tenor Asheville Symphony Chorus Dr. Michael Lancaster, director SPONSOR
UPCOMING 2013 CONCERTS FEBRUARY 9, 2013
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto with Tchaikovsky Competition Winner Daniil Trifonov
MARCH 16, 2013
The American Four Seasons
APRIL 20, 2013
Mozart’s Requiem
MAY 11, 2013
Rite of Spring
FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION 828.254.7046 U www.ashevillesymphony.org Vol. 16, No. 4 — RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — December 2012 3