There’s nothing like a 170-year-old story to warm the cockles of the old heart during the Christmas season – especially when that story is Charles Dickens’ famous “A Christmas Carol.”
San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre has presented this story annually for some years itself. This year it’s called “Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big San Diego Christmas Show” and you can (and should) see it between now and Christmas Eve at The Old Globe’s Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.
The White’s in-the-round structure lends itself wonderfully to the crazy story of the cheap old geezer who “celebrates” the coming holiday with one single, solitary hard-boiled egg for dinner. Until, of course, his dead partner Jacob Marley dies and all those other crazy folks (and ghosts) show up to add to the rollicking goofiness of the Dickens story that ends by spreading wondrous good cheer everywhere.
Gordon Greenberg directs this version, which features five actors playing a total of some 17 characters, a huge age range and local interest script that even includes SNOW falling in San Diego. And wait till you see Scrooge on a scooter. There’s a twist you didn’t read in the original.
The original telling of this story was in 2019 (remember Covid?) and we’ve seen a version of it every year since.
The cast and production values are extremely high (not to mention often hilarious). Scrooge (Christopher Sieber*) is the only actor who only has to play one character, but you have to admit that guy really does have to work. And wait till you see that red and white bathing suit.
Don’t waste a minute more of your time. Grab the phone and get tickets now. And bring your friends.
““Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big San Diego Christmas Show” plays through Christmas Eve.
Playing schedule: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m.; Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m.
Tickets: (619) 234-5623 or Tickets@TheOldGlobe.org
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