“Christmas carolOne Actor Plays Over 50 Roles, Including Potatoes,” will hit Broadway this coming holiday season.
The actor is Jefferson Mays, a Tony Award winner who has (like many) a lifelong passion for the Charles Dickens story and has honed it over the years. Premiered at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in 2018. In 2020, when the pandemic prevented in-person performances, he produced a version filmed at United Palace in Upper Manhattan.
The New York Times’ chief theater critic, Jesse Green, called Mays’ performance in the film “amazing” and saw the adaptation as “an opportunity to make what was already a classic story feel new.” At the same time, it’s an opportunity to make you feel like you should.” forever important.
The Broadway production will begin previews on November 8th and will open at the Nederlander Theater on November 21st. “A Christmas Carol” tends to have a short shelf life and this is due to end on her January 1st.
Maze is a gifted shape shifter. She won a Tony Award in 2004 for her solo exhibition “I Am My Own Wife” for which she played 35 roles, and another in 2014 for her 8 roles in the musical Her Comedy. It was nominated for a Tony Award. “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” (He was nominated again in 2017 for playing a Norwegian diplomat in the political drama “Oslo.”)
Mays is currently playing Mayor Singh in the extravagant revival of “The Music Man” on Broadway. He will leave the production this fall to prepare for “A Christmas Carol.”
With such memorable characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Four Ghosts (don’t forget Jacob Marley!), Dickens’ novels are widely staged and frequently adapted tales of redemption. is. His last version on Broadway was in 2019.
The new version was adapted by Mays and his wife, actor Susan Lyons, and Michael Arden, who will direct the production. The idea was conceived by Arden and Dane Lafley, the production’s scenery and costume designer. Produced by Hunter Arnold and Kayla Greenspan.