{"id":3179,"date":"2021-11-29T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:50:37","slug":"theatre-charlottes-15th-annual-production-of-charles-dickenss-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2021\/11\/29\/theatre-charlottes-15th-annual-production-of-charles-dickenss-a-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Charlotte\u2019s 15th Annual Production of Charles Dickens\u2019s A Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The holiday season is all about reconnecting with the stories that we associate with the holidays.\u00a0 For Theatre Charlotte, this involves staging a production of Charles Dickens\u2019s A Christmas Carol.\u00a0 <\/em>Since 2006, Theatre Charlotte has brought Dickens\u2019s 1843 Christmas classic to the Queen City, and Theatre Charlotte is keeping this tradition alive.\u00a0 Directed by Jill Bloede, this year\u2019s production stars Hank West as Ebenezer Scrooge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were some difficult logistical issues that needed to be addressed in order to make this production a reality. Theatre Charlotte\u2019s home auditorium was damaged by a fire on December 28, 2020, and the building is still in the process of being repaired.  For this reason, Theatre Charlotte is staging all of the productions for its 94th<\/sup> season at various locations throughout the Charlotte area, which is why they are billing it as the Road Trip Season Tour.  The production of A Christmas <\/em>Carol will take place at The Halton Theatre at CPCC from December 16 through December 19.  Of course, the pandemic also presents logistical problems, and Theatre Charlotte is responding to this concern by requiring proof of vaccination or a recent COVID-19 test in order to attend this production.  For more information about Theatre Charlotte\u2019s production of A Christmas Carol, <\/em>please click on the following link:  https:\/\/www.simpletix.com\/e\/a-christmas-carol-tickets-75178<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theatre Charlotte\u2019s annual production of A Christmas Carol <\/em>has a special meaning for me, for it evokes one of my favorite childhood memories. Throughout my childhood, my father read aloud to my brother, sister, and me every night after we finished our homework.\u00a0 We had no television, so listening to Dad read was our main form of evening entertainment.\u00a0 One of my father\u2019s favorite authors was Charles Dickens, and he read to us a number of Dickens\u2019s novels.\u00a0 One Christmas Eve, he took Dickens\u2019s A Christmas Carol<\/em> off the shelf and read it to us.\u00a0 Mom didn\u2019t usually listen to Dad read aloud, but that night she joined us in the living room. The reading of A Christmas Carol<\/em> became an annual ritual.\u00a0 I still cherish the memory of our entire family sitting in the living room, gazing at our Christmas tree, and listening to Dad once again relate the story of Scrooge\u2019s reformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sharing of stories is one of the reasons the holiday season resonates with meaning for so many people, and one such story of Charles Dickens\u2019s A Christmas Carol.  <\/em>By staging a production of this classic tale every December, Theatre Charlotte has added something special to Storied Charlotte\u2019s holiday traditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The holiday season is all about reconnecting with the stories that we associate with the holidays.\u00a0 For Theatre Charlotte, this involves staging a production of Charles Dickens\u2019s A Christmas Carol.\u00a0 Since 2006, Theatre Charlotte has brought Dickens\u2019s 1843 Christmas classic to the Queen City, and Theatre Charlotte is keeping this tradition alive.\u00a0 Directed by Jill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storied-charlotte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}