December 8 - 22, 2024
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Adaption by Steve Wargo with Musical Arrangements by Dianne Adams MacDowell
Directed By Steven Maler with Musical Direction By Dan Rodriguez
Journey back to Victorian England and experience Dickens’ heart-warming classic story brought to brilliant life! Commonwealth Shakespeare Company brings a dazzling new production of Dickens’ timeless tale to Boston’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. Ebenezer Scrooge (Will Lyman, voice of Frontline and “The Most Interesting Man in the World”; CSC’s King Lear), the infamous miser, is shown the error of his ways and reformed by spirits in one transformative night, discovering the true meaning of the holiday season.
In this spectacular adaptation of the iconic tale by award-winning writer/director Steve Wargo, Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ is infused with carols from Dickens’ era in lush arrangements by Dianne Adams MacDowell (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Starmites). Directed by CSC’s Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler and Music Directed by Dan Rodriguez, this new holiday tradition is sure to bring joy to audiences of all ages!
Foundational support for Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ is generously provided by Christy and Jay Cashman and the Poduska Family Foundation.
SEE THY WORDS: All performances are Open Captioned. Captions powered by CCTheater™, from AccessTech, LLC (www.getaccesstech.com)
Ticketing for Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ will be processed through The Emerson Cutler Majestic Box Office.
The Box Office is open during performances only starting 2 hours prior to the performance. Tickets for events at the Majestic can be purchased at the Emerson Paramount Center Box Office located at 559 Washington Street during regular business hours.
IN PERSON SERVICE AT THE PARAMOUNT BOX OFFICE
THU-SAT: 12PM-6PM
SUN & MON: Closed
PHONE AND EMAIL HOURS
TUE-SAT: 12PM-6PM
SUN & MON: Closed
617.824.8400
Please be wary of third party sellers. The only authorized sellers for this production are the Emerson Box Office and BosTix (ArtsBoston).
Groups of 10 or more can receive a 10% discount. Contact the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre Box Office at 617.824.8400 or tickets@emersontheatres.org to book tickets for your group. A 20% non-refundable deposit is required to hold your seats. Balance will be due two weeks prior to the performance.
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Will Lyman – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: King Lear, Claudius, Prospero, Brutus. Off Broadway: Man in Snow, The Passion of Dracula, The Novelist, The Grinding Machine. The Huntington: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, All My Sons, Dead End. New Repertory Theatre: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Dollhouse, The Clean House, The Ice-Breaker. The Nora@Central Square Theater: Operation Epsilon, Equus. Boston Playwrights’ Theatre: Windowmen, The Oil Thief, King of the Jews. Gamm Theatre: Celebration. Film: “Little Children,” “Mystic River,” “The Siege,” “A Perfect Murder,” “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” “The Arborist,” and “Mother/Android.” TV: “Commander-in-Chief,” “Threat Matrix,” “Hull High,” “Crossbow,” and long-time narrator of public affairs program “Frontline” (PBS). Awards: multiple Elliot Norton and IRNE awards, Howard Keel Award for service to the Screen Actors Guild.
Steven Maler is the Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC). At CSC he has been directing Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common productions since 1996, including Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Othello, The Comedy Of Errors, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Henry V, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet. Other CSC works include his critically acclaimed production of Naomi Wallace’s adaptation of William Wharton’s novel Birdy, Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, the world premiere of Jake Broder’s Our American Hamlet, and the world premiere of Robert Brustein’s The Last Will. In collaboration with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, he directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring the Overture and Incidental Music of Felix Mendelssohn, as well as concert stagings of The Boys from Syracuse and Kiss Me Kate at Boston’s iconic Hatch Shell. For CSC he has also directed one-night-only readings of iconic plays featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Blair Brown, Tony Shalhoub, Brooke Adams, Leslie Uggams, David Morse, and Jeffrey Donovan among others. He conceived and directed Shakespeare at Fenway, an evening of Shakespeare scenes performed at Boston’s iconic Fenway Park, featuring Mike O’Malley, Neal McDonough, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, Kerry O’Malley, Seth Gilliam, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Max Von Essen, Christian Coulson, Jason Butler Harner, and many others.
In collaboration with Google, he adapted and directed a first of its kind sixty minute virtual reality film of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, entitled Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit, starring Jack Cutmore-Scott, Jay O. Sanders, Brooke Adams, and Faran Tahir. It is currently available for viewing on Boston public media producer GBH’s YouTube channel; for more information, visit www.wgbh.org/hamlet360.
Outside of CSC, he directed Maria, Regina D’Inghilterra for Odyssey Opera, Péter Eötvös’ operatic treatment of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (U.S. Premiere) and Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face for Opera Boston, The Turn of the Screw at New Repertory Theatre, Santaland Diaries and Chay Yew’s Porcelain at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Top Girls and Weldon Rising at Coyote Theatre, and The L.A. Plays by Han Ong at A.R.T. His New York City credits include the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Without You, written by and starring Anthony Rapp. The production has been seen in Boston, Edinburgh, Toronto, London, and Seoul.
He received the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, as well as for Best Production for Twelfth Night and All’s Well That Ends Well; Outstanding Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Best Production, SubUrbia; Best Solo Performance, John Kuntz’s Starf***ers (which also won Best Solo Performance Award at New York International Fringe Festival). His feature film “The Autumn Heart,” starring Tyne Daly and Ally Sheedy was in the Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.