Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Chatham Community Players' put on their biennial production of the musical based on Charles Dickens' holiday story.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Chatham Community Players bring some of Charles Dickens' most beloved characters to life in their biennial production of "A Christmas Carol" beginning Friday. The musical by Philip Wm. McKinley and Suzanne Buhrer features the author, Dickens himself, as the narrator and a character in the play who guides the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through a journey of discovery and wonder in Christmases past, present and future. Chris Furlong, the executive producer for the Chatham Community Players, said the story has become a traditional holiday activity within northern New Jersey. "While the script remains true to the original story, the playwright also pulled from letters that Dickens wrote to family and friends," Furlong wrote in a press …
Monday, December 5, 2011
Unique adaptation of Dickens’ classic re-imagined on Shakespeare Theatre stage.
The final production of the 2011 season is under way at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The good news is you have until the first day of 2012 to enjoy it. Rest assured, there’s plenty more good news to report about the Shakespeare Theatre production of “A Christmas Carol,” which opened Thursday and staged its press opening Saturday night in Madison. For starters, even if you saw Artistic Director Bonnie Monte’s 2007 take on Neil Bartlett’s clever and uniquely theatrical adaptation of the beloved Dickens’ classic, she’s held true to her pledge of a completely fresh staging. If you didn’t, then you’re really in for a treat. The most unusual aspect of Bartlett’s approach is to employ a small cast to play some 50 roles. This decision …
Monday, November 28, 2011
Taking a fresh approach to Bartlett's unique adaptation of Dickens’ classic.
After breaking box-office records with its last production, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” chances are good the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will finish the year on a high note as it stages Neil Bartlett’s unique adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” for the second time in five years. But artistic director Bonnie Monte promises that this show will be a “whole new redesign” of her 2007 production, which like “Mockingbird” was a big hit with critics and audiences in Madison. “When I did it originally I said I was not going to go back, because I’m not interested in remounts,” she said during a recent phone interview. “But there were a lot of people who kept saying, ‘please reconsider.’ I finally said I would do it again as long as everyone …
