Festive Cast Interviews + Bonus Timelapse: A Christmas Carol 2023
November 10, 2023
What’s your favorite thing about the Holiday season? What excites you about being part of a theatrical Holiday tradition? Let’s hear from the cast of A Christmas Carol 2023!
Bonus Timelapse! Watch Scenic Charge Artist Gerald B. Browning and his team paint the Christmas Carol set. It took them three days, but you can watch it in 2 minutes.
The Cratchit family is the beating heart of A Christmas Carol. Let’s hear what the actors who play them have to say about the Holiday season and what this time of year means to them.
This year’s Christmas Carol features two casts with different child actors playing Tiny Tim and Little Fan/Martha Cratchit. To wit: a second Cratchits interview featuring Ami “AJ” Matthews and Izumi Huff, sharing their holiday traditions.
Actor Terry Edward Moore* returns to Harlequin to play Ebenezer Scrooge for the third time. (You can’t argue with perfection.) Find out why he loves coming back to this role year after year, and what new holiday traditions he will be starting this year!
Actors Teri Lee Thomas, playing the Ghost of Christmas Present, and Scott C. Brown, playing Jacob Marley, talk about playing “Godlike,” iconic characters and their Christmas traditions.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL runs November 24 – December 24, 2023 at the State Theater in downtown Olympia, WA. Adapted and directed from the original Charles Dickens novel by Artistic Director Aaron Lamb. Starring Terry Edward Moore*, Teri Lee Thomas, Samantha Chung, Nathan Rice, Scott C. Brown, Xander Layden, Victoria Austin, Izumi Huff, Zoey Matthews, Larry “LJ” Bevan, and Ami “AJ” Matthews.
Hailed as the greatest ghost story ever told, we evolve Artistic Director Aaron Lamb’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s timeless story of transformation, absolution, and grace, with new designs and effects for 2023. It's fresh yet familiar, like all your favorite Holiday traditions. Start your Yuletide season with some theatre magic.
Jimmy Ulvenes’s work will be displayed in the State Theater Lobby throughout the run of A Christmas Carol.
An Artist Reception to welcome Mr. Ulvenes to Harlequin will take place on Wednesday, November 22 from 5:30 – 6:30 pm in the State Theater Lobby. All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served.